Illuminating Apparatus

Kind of Apparatus:

Intensity in Candles:

Name of Maker:

Year Made:

Marks and Number:

Order of Apparatus:

Inside Diameter:

Light Characteristic:

Time of revolution:

Flash interval:

Duration of flash:

Arc of each fixed part:

Number of panels:

Number of flash panels:

Arc of each:

Number of elements in
central drum:

Number of prisms above
central drum:

Number of prisms below
central drum:

Does Apparatus revolve?:

Is there a Revolving Belt:

Revolving panels:

How is flash produced:

Num of Vertical elements panel:

Fixed lens covered:

Pedestal:

Service Table:

Draft Tube description:

Lighthouse Inspection Reports Database

Point Sur Light Station - 1907

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Barbier & Fenestre, Paris

1887

BF / 84 (on door of pedestal)

1st

flashing alternately red & white

4 minutes

15 sec (btwn begin of 1 flash to begin of next)

5 sec.

22.5

17 for white & 19 for red

yes

Cylindrical cast iron with 4 doors, 3 of which have glass in them for viewing the revolving mechanism.

Cast iron with flat track 2' dia for vert. wheels upon which lens revolves & center col. supporting floor & lamp in lens. Col. is 11" dia & forms lower bearing for horizontal friction wheels.

Cast iron tube, 8 5/8" outside dia. 11" long & having a flange on upper end bolted on top of spider frame of lantern, forms upper bearing for friction wheels on top of lens. From upper end, 5" sheet iron draft tube ext. up thru lens shelter & 7" below crown.

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