The PETROMAX Multi-Fuel Lantern 

"PETROMAX" lanterns were designed and developed by Adolf & Max Graetz, who were appointed managing directors of their family business (Ehrich & Graetz) in 1889. From their efforts arose the most powerful & reliable lanterns in the world. Petromax lanterns run on a variety of fuels.... kerosene, alcohol-based fuels, mineral spirits, citronella oil, gasoline, diesel oil, & almost every flammable fuel available on the market. The first lanterns developed, named Petromax, were used by the German army before and during World War Two. The military significance of a lantern that would burn all liquid fuels from diesel oil to gasoline made the lantern very useful. Also developed were heaters and stoves. These three items gave the German army the benefit of heat, light and a way to prepare food with the use of any liquid fuel available. The German army and many other military services including NATO forces still use the same product line of the original company. All of the lanterns, stoves and heaters used today, by the general public world wide, are known to be reliable and easy to repair. With the use of kerosene as the fuel of choice, this lantern has a problem free life of decades if a little tender loving care is bestowed upon it. Gas Mantles are used in Petromax Lanterns for lighting and heating purpose. The light intensity of Gas Mantles is either defined in LUX or CANDLE POWER, shortly abbreviated, as C.P. Gas Mantles are available from 100 C.P. to 1000 C.P. However the most popularly used are 300-400 C.P. and 400-500 C.P. We are in this line of manufacturing gas mantles since 1960 and we are the registered trademark owners of the popular brands like Kanhaiya Gas Mantles, Cow, Four Square and Rahi Gas Mantles to our credit widely being used in India and abroad. We do and we can tailor make Gas Mantle in any Candle Power. 

For more information contact:

ILYAS MAKANI

YUSUF PRODUCTS

17/D, Memonwada Road, Mumbai: 400 003. India.

Phones: (91)(22) 23454698, 23723564, 23774610.

Fax: (91)(22) 23746242.  gasmantle@indiatimes.com

We are also manufacturing chemicals like Calcium Chloride, Zinc Chloirde, Ammonium Chloride and PCM used in cell site shelters.  We are also importing Yttrium Nitrate and Zinc Dust. For more details please visit http://www.mubychem.com/

Few facts about gas mantles: 

A gas mantle is a device that gives off considerable light when heated. the name refers to its original power source, existing gaslights which filled the streets of europe and north america in the late 19th century, mantle referring to the way it hung above the flame. Gas mantles are used in kerosene lamps in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, India. The gas mantle was one of the many inventions of Auer Von Welsbach, a chemist who studied rare earth elements in the 1880s. His first process used a mixture of 60 percent magnesium oxide, 20 percent lanthanum oxide and 20 percent yttrium oxide which he called actinophor. to produce a mantle guncotton is impregnated with the mixture and then heated; the cotton burns away leaving a solid (but fragile) mesh of ash. These original mantles gave off a green-tinted light and were not very successful, and his first company formed to sell them failed in 1889. A new mixture of 99 percent thorium oxide and 1 percent cerium oxide gave off a much "whiter" light, and after introducing it commercially in 1892 & it quickly spread throughout europe. The gas mantle remained an important part of street lighting until the widespread introduction of electric lighting in the early 1900s. A mantle is basically a small sock made of silk or asbestos. Asbestos can withstand high temperatures, but is also toxic. Silk-based mantles are extremely brittle once first burned, and must be replaced frequently. Thorium is radioactive, and pure thorium becomes more radioactive as it ages owing to its decay products. It should be handled with care. Owing to concerns about the radioactivity of thorium, alternatives are now used in some countries, but these are more expensive and less efficient. As an alternative a mixture of Yttrium Nitrate and Europium Nitrate is used to make non-radioactive gas mantles. Though studies conducted by the members of Indian Gas Mantle Manufacturers Association in Northern Parts of India have shown that use of thorium based gas mantle is not a health hazard due to negligible amount of Thorium content in each gas mantle. The negligible Thorium content also make it non hazardous to environment as well. We are one of the few successful gas mantles manufacturers in india having a popular brand image in northern states of rural india.

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