US229054A

US229054A - rogers

Info

Publication number: US229054A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1880-06-22
Anticipated expiration: 1897-06-22

Description

w. s. R OG'ERS'. Signal Lantern.

No. 229,054. Patented June 22,1880.

Win emrew.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WINFIELD SCOTT ROGERS, OF RICHMOND, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- .HALF OF HIS RIGHT TO SMITH FRANCIS, OF SAME PLACE.

SIGNAL-LANTERN.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 229,054, dated June 22, 1880.

Application filed June 16, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, W. Soo'r'r Roenns, of Richmond, in the county of Wayne and State of Indiana, have invented a' new and useful Improvement in Signal-Lanterns, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in constructing an ordinary lantern and providing means, hereinafter described, and specifically pointed out in the claims, so that it can be made to produce lights of different colors, thus doing away with the necessity of having to depend on regularlyconstructed colored lanterns when wishing to signal, one lantern doing the work of several.

In the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, Figure l is a front elevation, partly in section, showing the lantern with bulls-eye magnifying-glass attached and ways for the introduction of plates of differentcolored glass. Fig.2 is an elevation, partly in section, showing the bulls-eye and colored glass plate when held clear of the bulls-eye. Fig. 3 is an elevation, showing one of the colored plates.

The same letters are employed in all the figures in the indication of identical parts.

A is an ordinary lantern, the guard B of which is cut away to admit of the placing of the bulls-eye magnifying-glass O, which is held in a shade or frame, 0, attached at the top to the guard D and at the bottom to the pin D. This frame 0 is flanged on its edges, as shown at O to form ways for the coloredglass plates E, formedwith a rim, E, and pro vided with a stem, F, bent as distinctly shown.

By raising the top of the lantern G, plates of different colors may be placed in the ways, which drop down and rest upon the pin D, directly behind the bulls-eye and between it and the lamp. If it is desired to show a white light, one of the colored plates being in the ways, it is pushed up clear of the bulls eye, and held in that position by the bend in the stem F engaging the pin D.

The advantages of my invention are- First, it forms the double purpose of an ordinary lantern and a single lantern.

Second, it obviates the necessity of having two or more regularly-constructed colored lanterns. It is a saving of oil, anda man always has his colored lights if he wishes to signal.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a hand-lantern having a plain glass globe, the combination of a wire frame surrounding the same and a colored signal-glass attached at one side of the globe to the wire frame, substantially as described.

2. The combination, snbstantiallyas before set forth, of the plain glass globe, the wire guard, and the bulls-eye or magnifying-glass.

3. The combination, substantially as before set forth, of the plain glass globe, the wire guard, the bulls-eye or magnifying-glass, and the colored glass.

4. The combination, substantially as befor set forth, of the plain glass globe and the col ored glass, adapted to be supported on the lantern-frame exterior to the said globe.

5. The combination, substantially as before set forth, of the plain glass globe, the colored glass, and the shade adapted to hide the colored glass.

6. The combination, substantially as before set forth, of the plain glass globe, the bulls eye or magnifying-glass, the shade, and the adjustable colored glass.

7. The combination, substantially as before set forth, of the plain glass globe, the shade provided with guideways, the colored glass adapted to slide in said guideways, and the stop-pin beyond the end of the shade.

8. The combination, substantially as before set forth, of the plain glass globe, the openended shade provided with guideways, the hinged top of the lantern, and the stop-pin below the lower end of the shade.

9. The combination, substantially as before set forth,of the plain glass globe, the shade, the colored glass provided with a prop-handle, and the stop-pin below the lower end of the shade.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WINFIELD SCOTT ROGERS.

Witnesses I H. J. HAYWARD, JOHN HOWARTH.