US1046238A

US1046238A - Lighting-fixture.

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Publication number: US1046238A
Application number: US61124511A
Authority: US
Inventors: Frederick W Wakefield
Original assignee: F W WAKEFIELD BRASS Co
Current assignee: F W WAKEFIELD BRASS Co
Priority date: 1911-02-27
Filing date: 1911-02-27
Publication date: 1912-12-03
Anticipated expiration: 1929-12-03

Description

Patented Dec. 3, 1912.

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LIGHTING FIXTURE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.27, 1911.

F. W. WAKEFIELD.

LIGHTING FIXTURE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB."27, 1911.

Patented Dec. .3, 1912.

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WITNESSE FREDERICK W. WAKEFIELD, OF VERMILION, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE F. W. WAKE- FIELD BRASS COMPANY, OF VERMILION, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

LIGHTING-FIXTURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 3, 1912.

Application filed February 27, 1911. Serial No. 611,245.

to lighting fixtures, and its particular obect is the provision of, a socket inclosure for electric fixtures, which may be manufactured with great economy and which will serve not only as an ornamental inclosure for a socket, but also as a shade holder. Other objects of the invention will appear from the following description.

To the accomplishment of these and related objects, said invention, then, consists of the means hereinafter fully described and particularly pointedout in the claims.

The annexed drawings and the following description set forth in detail certain mechanism. embodying my invention, such disclosed means constituting, however, but one of the various mechanical forms in which the principle of the invention may be used.

In said annexed drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of a fixture equipped with a socket inclosure embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the socket inclosure; Fig. 3 is a central vertical section of a modified form of socket inclosure in assembled relation to a shade, and Figs. 4 and 5 are side elevations illustrating modi fied forms of one part of the socket inclosure.

Having regard only to Figs. 1 and 2, any usual type of fixture arm is indicatedat 1, and from the arm 1 is supported a pipe 2 for inclosing the lead wires, the pipe 2 in turn supporting the ordinary key socket 3. It is to the inclosure for. this socket 3 that the present invention particularly relates. In the present instance, the inclosure comprises a member 4 provided with a plurality of sides, the member4 and the sides being formed into anydesired ornamental shape.

'Tlie member 4 and the sides of the inclosure are preferably stamped from sheet metal, usually brass, and the member 4 withany desired number of arms may be. stamped zontal direction to engage the to from a single. sheet so that the member and all of its arms are integral, after which the arms are bent down to form the inclosure.

A preferable construction, however, is that,

illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, in which the member 4 is stamped with two integral arms 5, while two separate arms 6 are detachably secured to the member 4 by means, for instance, of screws 7. By manufacturing the inclosure in this manner, very obviously a more economic utilization of the metal sheet from which the member' and its arms are stamped is bad. One or more of the sides of the inclosure are formed with an opening 8 through which, in the assembled condition of parts, the key 9 of the socket extends.

The inclosure formed by'the member with its sides is also made, by the present invention, to perform the functions of a shade holder. To this end, each of the sides is provided with means to engage the interior of the neck of a shade 12, and with means for also engaging the exterior of such heck. These shade engaging meansmay be formed in different ways, several of which have been illustrated. j

' In Fig. 1, strips 10 are stamped in each of the sides, and these are then bent down so that when a shade is inserted into'the bottom of the inclosure the strips 10' engage the interior of the neck of the shade, 'while screws 11,

threaded in the respective sides, engage the exterior of the neck and thus the shade is securely held between the strips 10 and'the screws 11.

In Fig. 3 is shown an inclosure of somewhat different form comprising a similar member 13 with sides 14 generally similar to the sides 5 and 6 of Fig. 1. They differ from those sides, however, in having strips 15 stamped in them and then bent down to engage the interior of the neck of a shade 12, while strips 16 are in turn stamped from strips 15 and are bent outwardly in a horiof the shade. Strips 17 are also stamped in the respective sides and are bent inwardly to engage the exterior of the neck.

Fig. 4 illustrates aremov'able side 18 of the inclosure having a strip 19 stamped therein to engage the interior of a shade, and having a strip 20 stamped therein and so bent as to engage .the exterior of the shade.

Fig. 5 illustrates a side 21 of still another form having a strip 22 similar to that of 19 in Fig. 4, and with a strip 23 functioning as does the strip 20 in Fig. 4, but bent"somewhat differently.

The economy with which any of these forms of inclosure. may be manufactured should be obvious. Whatever form of shade attaching means is embodied in the sides of the in'closure, the inclosure forms an ornamentalsocket inclosure or husk which, at

the same time, serves the purpose of a shade holder. In the preferred form, certain of the sides of the. inclosure are detachable, so that even after the fixture is completely assembled one of the sides may be removed with the result/that access is easily had to the socket for wiring or removing it. Furthermore, the opening in one or more of the sides allows the key of the socket to protrude so .that the switch is as easily operable as though the socket were not inclosed at all. 'In attaching a shade to the holder,

if thefformshown in Fig. 1 be used, it is only necessary to hold the shade against the strips and tighten the screws. In the other forms shown, it is only necessary to insert the shade with a little force, as obviously the sides and the strips stamped therein are in some degree resilient, and together, op-

erate as a spring holder, that is, the outer strips give until the shadeis completely inserted and then spring against the shade holding it securely against the inner strips. The resiliency of the complete inclosure also allows it to freely expand under the expansive force of the shade as the latter be comes heated and thereby obviates breakage of the shade. It is finally to be noted that although what has been termed-the member 4 is illustrated as being flat, it may obviously be made of any ornamental-form, and also the inclosure may be round or of any other shape instead of being square as illustrated, without. departing from the principle of the Invention. g

Other modes of applying the principle of myinvention'may be employed instead of the one explained,'change being made as regards the mechanism herein disclosed, provided the means stated by any of the following claims or the. equivalent of such stated means be employed.

. I therefore particularly point out and distinctly claim as my invent1on:

1. In a device of the character described,

a socket inclosure, comprising a member said detachable sides being provided with meansfor resiliently gripping the neck of a shade.

- 3. In a device of the character described, a socket inclosure, comprising a member provided with a plurality of sides formed of sheet metal, said sides having strips stamped therein. and bent inwardly to engage the interior of the neck of a shade and having other strips stamped therein and bent to engage the exterior of said neck.

4;. In a device of the'character'described,

a socket inclosure, comprising asheet metal member provided with a'plurality of sides formed integrally therewith, and with one or. more sheet metal sides detachably secured thereto, said sides having strips stamped therein and bent inwardly to engage the interior of the neck of a shade and having other strips stamped therein and bent-to engage the exterior of said neck.

' 5. In a device of the character described, a socket inclosure, comprisinga sheet metal member provided with a plurality of sides formed integrally therewith, and with one ormore sheet metal sides detachably secured thereto, said sides having strips stamped therein and bent inwardly to engage the interior of the neck .of a shade and having other strips stamped therein and bent to engage the exterior of said neck, one of the sides being formedwith an opening through a which the key of a socket may extend.

- 6. In a device of the character described, a socket inclosure, comprising a member provided with a plurality of sides said sides being adapted to engage both the interior and exterior of the neck of a shade.

Signedby me this 21st day of February, 1911.

FREDERICK w. WAKEFIELD.

Attested by- GERALD L. BASIL,

.CLARENGE WALPER.