US323625A - Chandelier - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

B. P. BARNES.

GHANDELER.

No. 323,625, Patented Aug. 4, 1885.

UNITED, STATES PATENT @Erica RAYMOND F. BARNES, OF BROOKLYN, NEV YORK.

CHANDELIER.

SPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 323,625, dated August 4, 1885a l Application filed February 24, 1885. (Xo model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, RAYMOND F. BARNES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Chandeliers, of which the following is a specication, reference being had to the drawings accompanying and forming a part of the saine.

My invention is an improvement in chandeliers, but since the said improvements relate more especially to chandeliers for supporting incandescent electric lamps, or such as are known as electroliers,77 I have illustrated them as applied to such a devi Broadly stated, my invention consists in a lamp-holder adapted for use either as a droplight or as a stand or desk lamp,which is connected with the main portion of the chandelier by a flexible cable or tube, as the case may require, and containing a reel or equivalent device for taking np the cable or tube,where by the lamp and holder may be used, at any desired elevation with reference to the chandelier with which it is connected or used, as a stand-lamp upon a desk or table.

In carrying out my invention I employ a hollow casing with a base, by means of which it may be placed in an upright position upon a table, and to said casing` I attach suitable arms or a frame for carrying the lamp and permitting the saine to be reversed in position. "Within the casing I provide a springactuatcd reel, upon which is wound a stout cable containing the insulated wires. This cable is carried out through the base and connected to the chandelier, the wires being carried up through the casing below the vertical tube or support and connected with the wires within the chandelier. The base of the lampholder is made in such form that when held up against the casing of the chandelier by the connecting-cord it presents the appearance of a single fixture. The reel is provided with sonic form oi' locking device, by which the lamp may be held at any desired elevation as a drop-light, or which will prevent the cord from being wound up when a suiiicient length has been reeled off to permit the holder to be used as a stand-lamp. Y

XVhile I prefer to place the reel within the lamp-holder, it is obvious that without material change it could be placed within the casing of the chandelier.

The particular device by which my invention is best carried into effect is illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

Figure lis a side elevation of a portion of a chandelier with my improvements applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section or" the lower portion of the chandelier, the lampholder, and parts of the lamp supporting frame. Fig. 3 is a sectional detail ot' one of the joints of the lamp-frame. Fig. Li is a side view of the same, and Fig. is a sectional view of the spring-reel.

A designates a chandelier or similar supporthaving one or more arms, B, carrying incandescent lamps.

The interior tube, C, containing the wires, supports the body of the chandelier audits lateral branches O,which extend from a chain ber, D. From this chamber extends also a short tube, E. Through the lateral tubes the conducting-wires are carried in the usual inanner, and a two-wire cable, F, orstout flexible cord containing two insulated conductors, is carried up into the tube E, where it is properly secured and its wires connected with the conductors c. A casing, G, surrounds the tubes C, C, and E, as is usual in such chandeliers.

H is a inet-al casing provided with a base, K. XVithin the casing is a reel, L, with which is combined a volute spring, S, a ratchetwheel, h, and a springpawl, Z, pivoted to the casing, and controlled by a pin, h', extending through the casing. Around this reel the flexible cord or cable F is wound, its end being rinly secured to the shaft or to one 0i' the Hanges of the reel, and its insulated wires being electrically connected with bands of metal ff, carried by the shaft, but insulated from the saine.

Above the reel L two guide-rollers, lli, are placed,andthe cord Fis passed between these, so that it is held in proper position for supporting the lamp-holder vertically, and is properly reeled when the lamp-holder is raised or lowered.

To the end of casing H is secured the branching` frame N, formed of metal tubes bent in any suitable manner. To the ends of these tubes is joined the bow O, also formed IOO of a tube, and to the middle joint of this is secured a lamp-socketand a shade, l?. Y

Springs m m bear upon the insulated metal rings f on the shaft of the reel L, and from these insulated wires are run through the arms N and bow O to the lamp supported thereby. In this way a path for the current from the wires in the chandclierto the lamp is provided for, whatever may be the position of the lamp-holder. The bow O is united to the arms Nby any form of joint that permits l[he bow to be turned a half-revolution with.- out disturbing the electrical connections. A simple form of joint is shown in Figs. 3 and 4., in which a projection from a knob, o, on the bow O turns in a socket formed on a similar knob, o', at the end of arm N. A tooth,p, on one member of the joint enters notches in the other and holds the bow in either of the two positions shown in Fig. 1. The arms N act as springs, having sufficient force to retain the bow in the position in which it may be set.

A pin, T, is passed through the axial line of each joint, and around this the conductingwire is wound in a loose spiral, so that the bow may be turned without injuring the wire. The bow should be prevented from turning more than one-half a revolution, for which purpose any convenient form of stop may be nsed-such as a knob, t, on the frame N, that projects into the path of the bow O or any projecting part thereof'.

XVhen the lamp is to be used as a droplight, the bow,with its lamp and shade, is set as in Fig. 2, and the holder raised until the base K comes in contact with the casing of the chandelier. In this position it is held by the pawl l. Thclamp may also be suspended at any other desired elevation by the cord, it being only necessary to depress the pin It until the lamp is raised or lowered to the proper point. If the lamp is to be used as a standlamp, the bow is turned over,as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, and a sufficient length of cord drawn out to permit the holder being reversed and placed on a table or desk.

The device as a whole may be made after innumerable ornamental designs, or the holder with reversible lamp may be applied to any of the existing forms of gas or electric lamp brackets now in use.

I do not confine myself to any special form of holder or chandelier, norto the means herein specifically described for winding the cord or forming the joints between movable portions of the lamp-holding frame, though I claim these specifically as parts of my invention, they forming the best and most practicable means ol' which I am at present aware for carrying out the invention.

What I claim is l. The combination, with achandelier, of a lamp-holder adapted to be used inan upright or inverted position, ashade for the lamp carried by the holder, arranged to be fixed or held above the lamp in either position of the holder, a iexible connection between the holder and thechandelier, and a reel for the flexible connecting-cord or its equivalent, as set forth.

2. The combination, with a chandelier containing electric wires, of an electric-lamp holder and reversible lamp and shade supported thereby, a flexible cord containing insulated conductors and connecting the chalidelier and the lamp-holder, a reel for taking up the exible cord, and connections from the conductors in the cord to the wires ot' the lamp, as set forth.

3. The combination, with a chandelier containing electric wires, of an electric -lamp holder and reversible lamp and shade supported thereby, a flexible cord containing insulated conductors and connecting the chandelier and the lamp-holder, a reel within the lampholder, upon which the cord is wound, and electrical connections from the conductors in the cord to the conductors of the lamp, as herein set forth.

4. The combination, with a chandelier containing electric wires, of a reversible electriclamp holder and reversible lamp and shade supported thereby, a flexible two-wire cable connecting the lamp-holder with the chandelier,a reel within the lamp-holder, upon which the cable is wound, and inclosed electrical connections from the conductors of the cable to those of the lamp, as described. Y

5. The combination, with a chandelier containing electric wires, of a reversible lampholder and reversible lamp and `shade supported thereby, a flexible two-wire cable connecting thelampholder with the chandelier, a spring-actuated reel and locking-pawl within the lamp-holder, upon which the cable is wound, and electrical connections from the conductors of the cable to those of the lamp, as set forth.

G. A reversible lamp-holder for incandescent lamps, consisting of a casing connected by a iiexible cable with a chandelier and containing a reel upon which said cord is wound, in combination with hollow arms supporting a reversible lamp and shade and containing the circuit-wires, all as set forth. j

7. A reversible holder for incandescent lamps, consisting of a easing and supporting base connected by a flexible cable with a chandelier, and containing a spring-actuated reel and locking-pawl, in combination with hollow arms, a bow-shaped tube carrying an incandescent lamp and shade, joined to said arms in such manner as to permit the lamp to be reversed in position, and electrical connections from the wires in the cable to the conductors of the lamp, as herein set forth.

S. The combination, with casing H and base K, the spring-actuated reel and locking-pawl IOO IIO'

IZO

contained in said casing, and the flexible cable Wound around the reel and connected to a chandelier containing electric wires, of the branching frame or arms N, the bow O, carrying an incandescent lamp and shade pivoted to the arms N, means for retaining the bow in given positions, and electric conduct- M-md the base K, adapted to fit against the ors extending through the bow O and arms casing of the chandelier, or to support the N, and connecting the conductors ofthe cable holder when placed in an upright position` with those of the lamp, as herein set forth. on a stand.

5 9. The combination, with a chandelier con- In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set 15 taining electric Wires, of a lamp-holcler carmy hand this 20th day of February, 1885. rying a reversible electric lmnp and formed RAYMOND F. BARNES. with :t casing, H, containing a spring-actu Vlitnessee: ated reel and flexible cable connecting the XV. FRISBY,

1o holder with the chandelier, the guide-rollers F. E. HARTLEY.

Images