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Northern Lights, Inc.

Peter C Benjamin

Edward R Masters

Guntram Jordan

A collapsible lantern includes a housing and a chimney telescopically moveable within the housing between a retracted and an extended position. The chimney includes a ring at the top and the bottom made of a high temperature-resistant thermoplastic which is adhesively affixed to the transparent chimney with a thixotropic paste. The transparency about the chimney is unimpeded by elongated retaining elements to hold the rings with the tubular transparent chimney. The chimney can be selectively extended, retracted or interlocked or released from the housing by interacting features on the lower ring and the internal surface of the housing.

Lantern

A cylindrical glass globe is supported by an annular rigid plastic coupling member which seats and locks onto the top portion of a tubular rigid plastic housing. A fuel source in the form of a container of liquid fuel mounted on a bottom adaptor or a candle supported within a rigid casing by a compression spring, is supported within the housing by a rigid plastic base removably secured to the bottom of the housing. The globe and coupling member are inverted as a unit after being removed from the housing, and the globe is inserted into the housing around the fuel source for storage and protection of the globe. A bail-type handle connects a pair of strips slidably supported by the housing.

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Santa Barbara, CA, United States of America

Peter C Benjamin