US1168553A - Electric shade-holder. - Google Patents

Description

N. S. RICHMOND & R. W. PAIN.

ELECTRIC SHADE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 3,1914.

Patented Jan. 18, 1916.

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Application filcd June 3, 1914. I Serial No. 842,609.

To all whom it may concern Be it, known that we, NORMAN S. RIGH- MOND and ROBERT W. am, citizens of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electric Shade-l-lolders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in electric shade holders and has for its object to provide a new and. improved device of this description.

The invention is illustrated in the accolapanying drawings, wherein-- Figure l is a view in part section show ing the one form of holder in position on the lamp socket; Fig. 2 is a plan. view of the shade holder illustrated in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a view of the shade holder illustrated in Fig. 2 as seen from beneath; Fig. 4: is a view of one of the socket engaging parts of the shade holder.

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several figures.

In the construction illustrated, the shade holder is made up of the upper part 1, which is in the form of an annulus and which surrounds the lower end of the lamp socket 2 when the shade is in position. This upper part is connected by connecting pieces 3 with the shade holding part 4:. The shade holding part a is provided with the socket engaging pieces 5, which are pret erably integral therewith and constitute spring fingers and are downwardly bent as illustrated. The ends of these socket engaging pieces 5 engage the upper face of a projection 6 on the socket. The socket engaging pieces 5 are preferably curved at the ends where they engage the socket so as to conform with the contour of the socket. The shade 7 may be attached to theshade holding part 4 in any desired manner as by, means of the screws 8. The socket engaging pieces 5 and the pieces 3 are preferably provided with ribs 9 which give them greater rigidity. In placing the shade holder in position it is only necessary to push it over the lower end of the socket whereupon the engaging parts 5 spring out to permit them to pass the projection 6 on the socket and then spring back toward the socket and engage the upper face of said projection, thus holding the shade holder in position. The part 1 of the shade holder preferably engages an enlarged portion 10 of the socket and the shade holder is there fore received between the enlarged portion 10 and the projection 6 and fits between said parts and is held between them against longitudinal movement but is free to rotate on the lamp socket so that the shade may be moved about the socket to secure any desired adjustment. It will be seen that the shade holder is therefore held against tipping or otherwise taking a position which is not symmetrical with the socket, and it will further be seen that all shade holders on a series of sockets will always take the same relative position with relation to their respective sockets. 'It will further be seen that the shade holder is placed in position quickly, it only being necessary to give it and the socket a relative movement, and that there are no screws or other fastening devices required to hold the shade holder in position. When it is desired to remove the said holder, it is only necessaryto place a screw-driver or other rigid piece between one of the parts 5 and the socket and pry said part outwardly, whereupon the lamp shade holder can be easily pulled from the socket.

In assembling the devices the shades may be attached to the shade holders before the shade holders are connected with the sock ets. The shade holding part 4, the socket engaging parts 5 and the connecting parts 3 are preferably stamped from one piece of material.

It will be noted that in this construction there is a cylindrical part into which the end of the shade is received, there being connected therewith means for engaging the shade and also a series of separated projecting socket engaging parts projecting from the top of the cylindrical portion, the socket engaging parts having their free ends bent toward the lamp end of the socket.

These socket engaging parts are spring parts and slide past the projection 6 and then snap in so that the ends thereof engage the projection. These bent ends are below the upper end of the shade and have their attachment to the cylindrical part 4 at a considerable distance from the socket.

It will therefore be seen that any pressure than the length of the socket engaging parts.

. Copies of this patent may be obtained for It will further be seen that the projections 3 project from thecylinder ina direction opposite to that of the parts 5, and that the upper end f the shade and the'upper end, of the cylindrical part 4: are, intermediate the projection 6 and the enlarged por tion 10 on the socket,

e claim:

1. A shade holder for electric lamp sockets, comprising a cylindrical portion into which the end of the shade projects,shade V engaging means connected therewith, a series of separated inwardly projecting socket engaging parts pro ectlng from said cylindrical portion and having their free ends ets, comprising a cylindrical portion into which the end of the shade projects, shade engaging means connected therewith, a S8- ries of separated inwardlyprojecting socket engaging parts projecting from said cylin drical portionand'having their free ends bent toward the lamp end of the socket, said socket engaging parts adapted to slide past and engage a projection on the socket when the shade holder is placed in position, and a second seriesof separated inwardly projecting parts bent in an opposite direction to the said socket engaging parts, and an annulus to which said second series of projecting parts are connected, the upper end of said cylindrical portion being intermediate the ends of said socket engaging parts and said second series of separated inwardly projecting parts.

Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 28th day of May, 1914.

NORMAN S. RICHMOND. ROBERT W. PAIN. Witnesses:

L. M. EISZNER, GENEVA HIRTH.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. i

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