US1758660A - Gasoline-service-station globe and support therefor - Google Patents

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May 13, 1930. E. A. GlLLlNDER 1,758,660

GASOLINE SERVICE STATION GLOBE AND SUPPORT THEREFOR I Filed Jan. 30, 1926 I INVENTOR:

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Patented May 13, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE EDGAR A. GILLINDER, F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO GILLINDER & SONS, INC., OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYL- VANIA GASOLINE-SERVICE-STATION GLOBE AND SUPPORT THEREFOR Application filed January 30, 1926. Serial No. 85,068.

My invention relates to a novel manner of rigidly and durably supporting in position a gasoline service station globe whereby the liability of the lower neck portion of the globe becoming fractured or loosened from its support is reduced to a minimum. Gasoline service station globes of this general character are approximately two feet in diameter and are generally superimposed in inverted position upon the upright casing which surrounds the gasoline dispensing mechanism, and being supported from a reduced neck at the bottom of the globe, there has heretofore been considerable difiiculty in fixedly and properly sustaining said lower neck with respect to its support, since a high wind acting upon the upper exposed cylindrical surface of the globe will tend to vibrate the latter more or less, and in a short time there is a liability of fracturing the lower portion of the globe or its neck at or near its point of support. In addition, in the globes of the prior art, the set screws employed have been screwed directly against the lower neck portion, which in practice tends frequently to fracture the same.

In order to obviate the foregoing disadvantages, I mould the globe in such a way that an integral annular bead is formed upon the lower neck thereof at a point below the junction of the neck with the globe and simultaneously therewith I mould or form upon the pendant portion of the neck between said annular bead and the bottom terminal of the neck, a series of integral external screw threads, so that the gasoline service globe, the pendant neck, the annular bead and the screw threads are all formed of glass and integral or in one piece, thus constituting a novel article of manufacture.

In addition, I provide a novel construction of a metallic coupling member, having internal threads, whose pitch conforms to the integral external glass threads of the pendant neck of the globe, said coupling being provided with a bottom terminal tapering wall against which the set screws of the supporting means are adapted to contact.

By the foregoing construction the relatively heavy inverted gasoline station globe has its integral lower exteriorly threaded neck portion screwed into direct engagement with the corresponding interiorly threaded wall of the metal coupling until the integral annular bead of the glass neck contacts with the top of the metallic coupling, whereupon a rigid, durable and effective connection is formed between the glass neck of the globe and the metallic coupling, the latter being supported in any suitable manner upon the top of the standard or casing, which incloses the gasoline dispensing mechanism.

It further consists of other novel features of advantage and construction, all as will be hereinafter set forth and pointed out in the claim.

For the purpose of illustrating my invention I have shown in the accompanying drawing forms thereof which are at present preferred by me, since they will give in practice satisfactory and reliable results, although it is to be understood that the various instrumentalities of which my invention consists can be variously arranged and organized and that my invention is not limited to the precise arrangement and organization of these instrumentalities as herein shown and described.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a gasoline service station globe and a coupling therefor, embodying my invention.

Figure 2 represents on an enlarged scale a vertical section on line 22 Figure 1.

Figure 3 represents on an enlarged scale, a perspective view of the metallic coupling seen at the lower portion of Figures 1 and 2.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures. Referring to the drawings 1 designates a hollow gasoline service station globe the same being supported in in verted position and having formed integral with the lower portion thereof, a reduced neck 2 which is provided with an integral annular bead 3, below which is the eXteriorly threaded portion 4, it being apparent that said parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 are cast or moulded out of glass integral or in one piece.

5 designates a metallic coupling employed, the same comprising the vertical wall or portion 6 having the interiorly threaded portion 7 whose threads conform to the threads 4 of the glass, the construction being such that when the metallic coupling is assembled with respect to the glass threads, the top 8 of said coupling will contact with the bottom of the annular glass bead 3. The lower foot or base portion 9 of the coupling 5 is conical in shape or provided with a wall which converges upwardly and against this wall 9 contact the set screws which retain the cou pling and its adjuncts in assembled position upon the top of the standard or casing of the gasoline pump.

The globe 1 may be of any usual or conventional construction being hollow and adapted to be illuminated from within, while the outer surface thereof is provided with any emblems or insignia as is customary, to designate the name of the service station.

It will be seen that by making the globe 1, the neck 2, the annular bead 3 and the threaded portion 4 integral, the cost of production is reduced to a minimum, and my novel collocation of the integral glass threads 4 with the metallic threads 7 of the coupling 5 results in a support for the globe which is durable and effective and permits the globe to be placed in the desired position and assembled within a very short space of time.

Furthermore in my novel construction there are no set screws having their ends bearing on the glass at any point, since said set screws bear only on the inclined wall 9 of the metallic coupling, and the tightening of the same thereon has no effect on the glass or the threaded neck of the globe.

It will now be apparent that I have de vised a novel and useful gasoline service station globe and support therefor which embodies the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the invention and the above description, and while I have, in the present instance, shown and described a preferred embodiment thereof which will give in practice satisfactory and reliable results, it is to be understood that such embodiment is susceptible of modification in various particulars without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desired to secure by Letters Patent is In a device of the character stated, a gasoline service station device comprising a globular glass member, an annular portion 2 formed integral with and depending from said globular member, an annular bead at the bottom of said portion 2, a pendant externally threaded neck formed integral with said member 2, and an internally threaded metallic collar adapted to engage said neck, said collar having an internal, bottom portion abutting against the lower edge of said neck

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