US2102422A - Support for lamps - Google Patents

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Filed April 12, 1937 INVENTOR //9X 1 9655,

ATTORN Y5 Patented Dec. 14, 1937 UNlTED STATES PTENT SUPPORT FOR LAMPS Max Lager, New York, N. Y.

Application April 12, 1937, Serial No. 136,358

2 Claims. (Cl. 240-52) This invention t s to improvements in from the intermediate portion thereof and these lamps especially adapted for use in bcudoirs and ds are Co e ted o t e bushings I2 in t e o has particular reference to a supporting struc- W g mannere end is placed p the ture for the lam bushing IE on the cap 9 with a washer I6 of An object of the invention is to provide an larger diameter than the bushing interposed beirnproved support for lamps which is of simple, ween the latter and said end; and e fastening practicable and inexpensive construction, and screw I? is then extended through an opening in wherein the removable end members of the body said end and threaded into the bushing to pivof the lamp are connected by said support in such y ect t e Strep It to said l With the manner that the elements can be readily aslamp I mounted in its socket I B, one end of the 10 sembled and taken apart. body 5 may now be inserted into the cap 9, and, The above and other objects will appear more with the strap I3 extending longitudinally of the clearly from the following detailed description body, the cap 8 is mounted upon the other end of when taken in connection with the accompanying said body. The bushing I2 of the latter cap also drawing which illustrates preferred embodiments has a fastening screw l3 threaded therein with 15 of the inventive idea. a washer I9, similar to the washer I6, resting In the drawing: upon said bushing. When placing the cap 8 in Figure 1 is a plan view, partly broken away and position, it is turned circumferentially until the shown in section, of a lamp and its support conscrew I8 is aligned with a slot in the adjacent 20 structed in accordance with the invention. end I5 of the strap so that the shank of the 20 Figure 2 is a similar view showing the elements screw will enter said slot when the cap is moved of the lamp and support in partly assembled posiinwardly upon the end of the body 5. The screws tions. I1 and it may then be tightened to securely con- Figure 3 is an end elevation of the lamp and nect the caps 8 and 9 with the body 5 theresupport as shown in Figure 1, and between and, if desired, said screws may be of 25 Figure 4 is a similar view of a slightly modified such length that when the same are tightened form of support. the inner ends thereof will engage the reduced The support of the present invention is parends 6 of the body and prevent any shifting in a ticularly applicable to lamps such as may be used rotatory direction.

in boudoirs for attachment to bedsteads and To mount the lamp upon a suitable support, 30 other similar supports and, as shown, the lamp such as indicated at 2|, the strap i3, as shown in includes an elongated cylindrical body 5 the ends Figures 1 and 3, has secured thereto at the ends O Which are p and Slightly reduced in diof its intermediate portion a pair of angular, ina e er. Th y 5 y e o s u ent glass serting U-shaped brackets 22 the side arms of and fluted for decorative p p ses a is p e which are adapted to receive the support 2| thereto receive the e n aso e of light I such as an between and in one of the arms of each bracket a incandescent lamp. headed clamping screw 23 is threaded so that the When the lamp is ass mb t e Open ends of head of the screw will engage the back of the supe y 5 are Closed y removable end members port to clamp the device in position. When thus 8 and 9 in the form of metallic ps of cup s pe disposed, the intermediate portion of the strap 40 fitting over the reduced ends 6 of the body and I3 will rest against the support and, by reason onto the a ja m n p n h r Th of the olfset ends it and 15 of said strap the cap 9 has a socket I0 therein in which the lamp body of the lamp will be spaced from said sup- 7 is mounted t e usua ehd p oject port, thus providing a clearance which will prefrom the end 0f the p is a Switch it Of 0011- vent contact of the heads of the screws I1 and ventional construction by means of which said 3 it t adjacent urface of th support 2|,

la p y e turned f and f As shown in Figure i, the strap I3 has secured T e l p end t means 0f attachment to thereto in any preferred manner one end of a the l p elements W111 w be descrlbedcurved bracket 24 which may be covered with a Sa d pp is utilized to interconnect the rubber sleeve or tubing 25 to protect the surface 50 caps 3 and 5 and, for this purpose, the latter are of t support upon which t 1mm) may be provided with internally threaded bushings 2 ext d,

tending from the peripheral portions thereof. A Wh t i claimed is: connecting member I 3 in the form of an elon- 1. In a lamp, the combination of a light pergated metallic strap has its ends I4 and I5 oiiset abl body adapted, to enclose a source f light, 55

removable end caps for said body, a' connecting 7 member joining said end caps and having its ends offset from the intermediate portion thereof, with one of said ends'provided with a slot open at the adjacent extremity of said connecting member, means to secure the other end of said connecting member to one of said caps, a

fastener'ext ending' through the slot in the first I close a source of light, end caps fitting over the ends of said body to close the same, bushings fasteners therefrom.

protruding from 'said 'end caps, a connecting strap for said end caps having offset ends one of I which has an opening and the other a slot, a fastener extending through said opening and adjacent cap and into the bushing carried thereby,

another fastener extending through the slot in the other end of said strap and into the bushing of the second cap, said fasteners and strap cooperating to maintain said capsin position on the ends of said body, and'brackets on said strap for mounting'the lanip in position on a support, the intermediate portion of said strap engaging said support to space said body and MAX LAGER.

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