BriteLyt Inc. has a significant experience-base of nearly fifteen years in the design, invention and manufacture of lanterns and stoves,( heating, cooking and lighting). We have over 48 Years of Technical Experience with BriteLyt and Petromax- type products!

God, Chief Adviser

    He is the Alpha & the Omega (the beginning & the end).  Without Him, how
lost we would be.

George E. Draper, Jr.
  Vice President/Chief Technical Advisor

George E. Draper, Jr., New Port Richey, Florida has been instrumental in the design & development of the BriteLyt-Petromax lanterns, due to his expertise & creative innovations of this unique lantern system.Born in Tampa, Florida, and avid fisherman, George has used these products, since childhood.

As a former employee of Lockheed-Martin, Pinellas, Dept. of Energy, (formerly known as General Electric Aerospace), George was in the position to fulfill his life-long goal of creating the first distributorship of the Fourth generation of Petromax products.

Due to his expertise in this field, and his efforts to manufacture the lantern, to its original capacity, BriteLyt, Inc. was rewarded & honored, by the German distributor, and, thereby, declared the "Fifth Generation" of the Petromax products.

Julia D. Nugent Draper
  President/CEO

Julia "Diana" Draper, New Port Richey, Florida was the founder of BriteLyt, Inc., and maintains extensive experience in many areas of business management, and manufacturing operations.

Born in Pollock, Louisiana (Bob Community), she has strived, and successfully fulfilled her life-long dream, of establishing a company that is based on high quality and excellent customer service.

As a mother of two (2), she is adamant in respect to teaching proper safety measures, in the use of fuels. She has been successful in regards to assisting in creating a more-effective product, as well as devices, which allow handicapped persons easier operation of the lanterns.

Strong family values, faith, and assistance from her childhood mentors, has allowed her the unique opportunity of meeting and forming long-term alliances with people, of all nations, around the world.

Andy Stokes
  Advisory Board Member

The Stokes Consulting Group:

Dr. Charles (Andy) Stokes, Naples, Florida holds a Doctorate in chemical engineering from MIT and has been an assistant and adjunct professor at both MIT and the University of Pittsburgh. Andy which specializes in scaling up technology from laboratory to the plant. He is also interested in environmental controls, especially air pollution and energy conversion.

After receiving his B.S. from Florida he went to M.I.T. and earned a doctor of science degree. He taught at M.I.T. from 1940 to 1945, then went to Cabot Corp. as Director or Research.

Ten years later Andy became Vice President and Technical Director for Texas Butadiene and Chemical Corp., and in 1960 he went to Cities Service as VP for Technology and Planning.

In 1969 he stepped out on his own with his consulting group in Naples, Florida. He has won many awards including the Engineer of the Year award in 1977 from the Central Jersey Engineering Council and in 1984-85 from the Calusa Chapter of the Florida Engineering Society, and Outstanding Alumnus of the Year for 1990 from the UF Chemical Engineering Department.

He served as Director of AIChE from 1955-58 and was elected a Fellow in 1973.

He has been Chief Technology Officer at various large corporations and has acted as a consultant to many, including Bayer, Methanex, FluorDaniel, Dupont, and Cabot. More on Andy  Also visit this page

John Kegg

 Outdoors Survival and High Altitude Product Testing / Advisor

John Kegg is an avid outdoorsman, hunter, ex logger, back country survivalist and cross country Wilderness hiker. He has hiked and survived all forms of weather conditions in the South Fork Mountains, Southern Cascades and The Sierra Nevada’s.

John is a certified paralegal who's interest in the lanterns and stoves and their safe use in outdoors conditions and in cabins and homes. John's expertise in the safe use and repair of all types of lanterns and camp stoves has been beneficial in providing proper lighting and safety instructions for those who live in extreme conditions (altitude/temperature).

BriteLyt Inc. has been honored with John’s wisdom and expertise in survival methods, his pushing our products to find out their limitations and performance in the field under camping to extreme conditions, this coupled to his unbridled passion for safe in home use of these products in emergency situations has made his input beneficial to BriteLyt.

His knowledge has been crucial in proving that survival is possible without harming our environment and he has a strong commitment to the preservation of the rural way of life and the intelligent and safe use of our forests and wilderness areas.

Expertise is the key, as we offer generations of knowledge in the proper use and care of these fine products (500CP Lantern output in BTU's approx: 9,500 to 11,000 per hour) The "generations" are: Petromax, Aida, Hipolito, Geniol, and BriteLyt-Petromax This is in sequence of progression of models All these lanterns are not of the same build, and quality, BriteLyt is build to a higher safety tested quality.

BriteLyt Consulting Group: E Mail us for info call 727-856-9245 or go to Our Contact page

Let us help you manufacturer Methanol/Ethanol all Alcohol products for your company , Jet engines, Electric Power plant generators, Home ranges, Autos (Cars Trucks ext.),  Barbeque Grill's and more.  Heat -Light- and Cook.

Don't be fooled by cheap imitations!! The BriteLyt-Petromax lantern is the fifth (5th) generation of the "Original", Petromax products. Backed by FOUR (4) U.S. Patents!!

Our PATENTED Lantern System (Patent 6,439,223), is designed as originally intended, for MULTI-FUEL use, and with your safety in mind Owned and operated by the founder of the original distributor of Petromax lanterns, to such companies as Cabela's and Lehman's Most lanterns sold by such companies, are for "kerosene use" only.

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