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A. L. BARON 8v J. F. HAFFEY.

LANTERN.

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ALFRED L. BARON AND JAMES F. HAFFEY, OF TIFFIN, OHIO; SAID IIAFFEY ASSIGNOR TO SAID BARON.

LANTERN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 597,254, dated January 11, 1898. Application filed March 8, 1897. erial No. 626,490. (No model.)

To (0Z5 whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that we, ALFRED L. BARON and J AMES F. HAFFEY, of Tilfin, in the county of Seneca, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lanterns, of which the following is a complete specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention relates particularly to tubular lanterns of the type shown, for example, in Patent No. 345,100, issued July 6, 1886, to Alfred L. Baron and William T. Enter; and it has for itsobject specific improvements in means for confining the globe and globe-supporting mechanism in the depressed position.

The subject-matter of our invention herein described is generically described and claimed in our concurrent application.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a side elevation of a lantern embodying our improvements, showing the globe in the elevated position. Fig. II is a view of the same, showing the globe in the depressed position. Fig. III is a view of a portion of the upper partof the lantern, taken at right angles to Fig. I. Fig. IV is a similar view taken at right angles to Fig. II.

Referring to the figures on the drawings, 1 indicates the base, 2 the air-tubes, and 3 the canopy, of a tubular lantern of any ordinary or preferred construction.

1 indicates the burner; 5, the globe-supporting plate; 6, the globe, and 7 the globeretaining members thereof secured to the upper part of the globe in fixed relations to the canopy.

The globe-supporting plate 5 is normally supported in the elevated position, as by arms 9, pivoted to the tubes, respectively, and actuated, as by springs 10, substantially in the manner described in the patent above referred to.

The canopy 3, as illustrated, is movably secured around the tube 11, which depends from the tubes 2 at their juncture above the burner 4. It is held in the horizontal position and movably secured within fixed limits to the tube, as by means of a hood 13.

All the parts above described are, as illustrated, of well-known construction, or they may be of any preferred construction.

Our present invention consists of a baillike handle 14, bent on opposite sides, as indicated at 15, to form, in connection with stapics or loops 16, secured to the opposite tubes 2 of the lantern, a simple form of hinge.

Below the compound bends 15, respectively, the ends of the handle extend to form cams 17. They are provided with oppositely-en tending horizontally-disposed terminals 18, which, riding against the rim 19 of the can opy 3, serve to actuate the canopy, globe, and globe-retaining mechanism against the force of the springs 10.

The handle 14 is upon its opposite sides, a little above the tubes 16, bent, as indicated at 20, so as to bring the top 21 of the handle in line with the tubes 2 when the handle is in the globe-depressingposition.

The object of shaping the handle as described is to bring its top directly across the center of the hood 13, so that it may engage therewith and be held in fined position thereby, a notch 22 in the top of the hood being provided for engaging and holding the handle.

The handle may be manipulated by catching it between the thumb and forefinger at a point somewhat removed from the tube 11 and hood 13, the bends 20'of the handle being located at about the proper place for manipulating the handle.

What We claim is-- 1. In a tubular lantern, the combination with its burner, tubes, globe, globe-supportin g mechanism, including a canopy, and guiding-hood upon the canopy, of a canopy-actuating handle, pivotaily connected to one of the tubes, and means of engagement between the handle and the hood for securing the former in a fixed position, substantially as set forth.

2. In a tubular lantern, the combination with its burner, tubes, globe, globe-supporting mechanism, including a canopy, and a notched guiding-hood upon the canopy, of a handle pivoted to the opposite tubes above the canopy, and adapted through movement upon its pivots, to engage with the notch in the tube, and a canopy-depressing mechanism operatively connecting the handle and canopy, substantially as set forth.

In testimony of all which we have hereunto subscribed our names.

ALFRED L. BARON. JAMES F. HAFFEY. Witnesses:

HARRY TAGGART, JNO. K. Ross.

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