US1079290A - Pedestal indirect-electric-lighting fixture. - Google Patents

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1,079,290, Patented Nov. 18, 1913.

rmmcx W. man, 0? HACKENBACK, NEW JERSEY.

PEDESTAL IHDIRECT-E LECTRIG-LIGHTING FIXTURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 18, 1913.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Fnmmiucx W..Em mnn, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Hackensack, in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pedestal Indirect Electric Lighting Fixtures, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to indirect electric lightin fixtures, supported from the base.

- An 0 eat of m invention is to provide an ellicient fighting xture adapted for installation on the floor in the center of rooms, or on tables or other articles of furniture, for throwing li ht upward to the ceiling for reflected distribution from the ceiling, to serve general useful illuminating purposes and to surround the light with a flower receptacle to screen the light from view.

Another object of my invention is to construct a substantial fixture at a minimum cost and to combine a flower receptacle with the fixture.

Another object of my invention is to so ion the details of the fixture that it may he manufactured with standard shop equipment.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings in which the details of structure and other features are shown.

Figure 1 is a side view of my fixture showing a construction suitable for a self contained floor fixture. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross section of Fig. 1, the chief parts being shown on a larger scale.

'1, is a pedestal in the form of a shaft, with an enlarged flaring floor stand base. uiountin the pedestal is a bowl, 2. The bowl an pedestal are preferably made separate to facilitate both manufacture and shipment.

Hat and coat racks, 3, are attached to the pedestal, 1, at a convenient height and cane or umbrella rack chains, 4, are'attached to the edestal at a lower convenient height.

ithin the bowl, 2, a ring shaped flower receptacle, 5, shown in Fig. 2, is inserted, flowers, 6, are indicated growing in this receptacle and depending over the rim of the bowl. This placement of flowers near an electric light stimulates their growth and therefore makes it possible to keep them in positions where sunlight does not reach hem.

pedestal, 1, has a recess, 7,

The base of the in its lower centra portion within which is Surcontained a junction box, 8. At the junction box, 8, electric wires, 9, are indicated, which may communicate with a source of current. The junction box, 8, is secured to the lower end of an upwardly extending conduit, 10, which serves the double purpose of conducting the wires upwardly and lending mechanical strength to the pedestal, 1, by forming a stiff core for it.

At an upper extended portion, 11, of the pedestal, 1, it enters a recess in'the bottom of bowl, 2, for the purpose of centering the bowl, making a neat joint and concealing an iron plate, 12. The plate, 12 is made in the form of a disk with a central upward extension, 13, this plate 12 has a hole in the center and is tapped for attachment to the conduit, 10, and also for attachment to a lamp socket, 14, thus the wires, 9, may emerge from the conduit, 10, pass through the plate, 12, and into the lamp socket, 14. The plate 12, at its flat portion makes ossible a secure attachment to the bowf 2. Screws, bolts or other approved devices may be used to secure the bowl, 2, to the plate 12.

In the socket 14 is placed the lamp, 15, and the diffusive reflector, 16, is also attached to the socket, 14.

Havin what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. An indirect electric illuminating fixture, composed of a pedestal surmounted by a bowl, having within same a ring shaped flower receptacle, an electric lam within a reflector mounted in the center 0 the bowl, an iron disk rigidly attached to the upper end of a conduit for forming attachment to the bowl, lamp and reflector, a downward extension of the conduit, through the pedesthus described my invention,

tal, strengthening same, and a junction box I attached to the lower end of the conduit within the base of the pedestal.

2. A decorative indirect electric illuminating fixture, com d of a pedestal surmounted by a bow having w1thin same a ring shaped flower receptacle, an electric lamp and a reflector for same, in the center of the bowl, mounted at the upper end of an electric conduit which extends downwardly through the pedestal, strengthening same, and a 1unction box attached to the lower end of the conduit within the base of the pedestal.

3. In an indirect illuminating fixture, a pedestal surmounted by a member, recessed and desi ed to contain a flower receptacle, a conduit within the pedestal and an attachment device at the u per end of the conduit to hold the recesse member.

4. In an indirect illuminating fixture, a relatively tall slender pedestal surmounted by a. recessed member, a li ht in the recess and means includin a ower receptacle within the edge of t e recess to screen the light from horizontal distribution, a conduit within the pedestal and an attachment device at the u per end of theconduit to hold the recessed member.

5. In a lighting fixture, a bowl, a source of light centra ly located therein, a flower receptacle within the bowl to screen the light horizontally and provided with an aperture through which the light may shine upwardlly.

6. n a li hting fixture, a source of light an opaque owl containing said light and limiting its illumination to an upward direction, and a flower receptacle disposed within the rim of said bowl.

7. In a lighting fixture, a source of light and means including an encirclin flower receptacle for limiting the direct il umination from said light to an upward direction.

8. In a lighting fixture, a source of light and means including an encircling flower receptacle for screening the light from distribution in a horizontal direction.

9. In a lighting fixture a relativelytall slender pedestal, surmounted by a source of light, and means, including an encircling flower receptacle, for screening the light.

from horizontal distribution.

FREDERICK W. EMMER.

Witnesses:

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WILLIAM D. STAIB.

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