US1117131A - Lamp-shade. - Google Patents

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wi/bne/weo [gzzw v? W. R. GREEN. LAMP SHADE. APPLICATION FILED FEB.11, 1914.

Patented N 0v. 10, 1914 8] moan D01. WILLARD R GREE nuirnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLARD R. GREEN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO WALLACE NOVELTY COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YOB'K LAMP-SHADE.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be, it known that I, WILLARD R. Gunner, a citizen of the United States, reslding 1n the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Lamp-Shades, oi

which the following is a specification.

tion, efficient in operation, and which can be readily placed upon and removed from the lamp. \Vith this object in View I provide a pair of connected loops, the loops being at an angle to the connecting portion with the shade proper connected to said connecting portion, and the loops adapted to engage the bulb at opposite sides. .The shade support is preferably made of a'-r es1l1ent yielding material, such a s wire, with the loops in the form of a coil tla spiral spring with the connecting portio, eye for the insertion of fe v or rivet to connect the shade propert am.

In the drawing accompanying and form ing a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side elevation of an, ipcandescent electric light bulb with an enilio nent of my 1111- proved shade applied thereto. F1g. 2 1s a view looking at the end of an electric lamp bulb with my improved shade applied there-' to and adjusted to a position at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the lamp. ig. 3 is a perspective view of the shade looking at the bottom; and Fig. 4 is a sectional detail view to illustrate the manner of connecting the support to the shade.

Similar characters of reference designate like parts throughout the difl'erent views of the drawing.

My improved shade is particularly adapted for use in connection with incandescent electric lamp bulbs connected to a portable stand in which the lamp may stand in a perpendicular position or at any desired angle to the perpendicular, and in Fig. 1, I have shown in full lines my improved shade applied to such a lamp 5 when in a perpendicular position to extend over the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 10, 1914.

Application filed February 11, 1914. Serial N 0. 817,985.

top of the lamp and deflect the light rays downward.

The embodiment of my invention illustrated consists'of a shade proper or deflector 6, in the present instance dome or semicircular in shape. In the position illus trated the bottom of the shade is at'right angles to the longitudinal axis of the lam and as stated itmay be adjusted to any esired angle to and about the longitudinal axis of the lamp. For this purpose I provide a sup ort for the shade consisting of a pa1r of oops 7, 8 to engage at opposite sides of the lamp so that a bulbed portion of the lamp projects through loops, the loops being at an angle to and inte ral with a connecting portion, as at 9, and y means of which it is connected to the shade pro er or deflector. These loops are constructed of a suitable yielding or resilient material, preferably of spring wire, and are in the nature of a coil of a s iral spring, and while onlya single coil is slibwn one or more coils maybe used. Should only a single coil be I used the ends of the coil overlap and such ends spaced apart from the ad acent wire strand, as clearly shown at 10 and 11 in of the shade, this nut being, of ornamental shape to enhance the appearance of the shade. The shade is clamped at the edges of the opening between the eye formed in the connecting portion of the loops and said nut. While I have shown-the shade support connected through the medium of the screw 13 and nut 14, it will be obvious that the support may be riveted to the shade- In practice when the shade is removed from the bulb the loops, 7, 8 stand substantially at right angles to the connecting portion 9, with the ends of the coils separated from the adjacent strand of wire, as clearly shown in. Fig. 3. To apply the shade to the bull) the supporting loops are pushed on to the bulb causing the loops to spread or spring laterally, the bottom portion of the metal firmly clasping the bulb, and the ends of the wire coils having less inherent resiliency Will readily adjust themselves to the shape of the bulb, with the result that the entire circular area of the loop will be in firm engagement with the lamp bulb, and will remain in firm engagement With the bulb no matter to What angle or inclination it may be adjusted to the longitudinal axis of the lamp, Whether at an angle as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, or at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the lamp as shown in Fig. 2, and the shade When adjusted in such angular position. may also be adjusted about the longitudinal axis of the lamp. To remove the shade it is only necessary to grasp the shade by the nut 14 and pull it oil "from the bulb.

Havingthus described my invention, I claim:

1. The combination With a shade for incandescent lamps, 01 a support for said shade comprising a strand of material formed with a coil at each end, said strand being bent so that the coils are at an angle to the portion extending between and connecting the coils, and the support connected to the shade substantially centrally thereof by the portion extending between the coils, whereby the coils are adapted to engage a lamp at opposite sides to permit of the adjustment of the support and shade on the lamp to any angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the lamp and about thelongitudinal axis of the lamp.

2. The combination with a shade for incandescent lamps, oi a support therefor comprising a strand of wire 'the ends of which are bent at right angles and formed into resilient loops to engage at opposite sides of the lamp, and the portion between the loops formed with a loop for the enside, said coils adapted to engage opposite sides of the bulb at its greatest diameter and being of such size that portions of the bulb project through said. coils and substantially all portions of the coils yieldingly engage with the bulb, and said support connected to the shade by the portion extending between the coils.

a. The combination With a shade for an incandescent lamp, of means to yieldingly support the shade upon the lamp bulb to permit oi adjustment of the shade to any angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the lamp and about the longitudinal axis of the lamp, comprising a pair of connected spirally wound resilient wire coils, said coils being substantially at right angles to the connecting portion thereof, an eye formed in the connecting portion, a screw to pass through said eye and an opening in the shade, and a nut to have screw threaded connection with said screw outside of the shade WILLARD R, GREEN.

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