US598435A - Ceiling-protector - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

H. M. PAUL. CEILING PROTECTOR.

No. 598,435. V PatentedV Feb. 1,l898.

HERBERT M. PAUL, OF I-IERKIMER, NEW YORK.

CEILING-PROTECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 598,435, dated February 1, 18918.

Application filed Juno 12, 1 89 7.

.T @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT M. PAUL,v of Herkimer, in the county of Herkimer and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ceiling-Protectors; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to'make and use the same. 4

This invention relates to improvements in ceiling-protectors, and has for its object to provide a device which will not only afford protection to the ceiling against smoke and heat, but will at the same time serve as-a diffuser of the heat generated by the name of the lamp beneath.

My device is exceedingly simple and cheap of manufacture and can be made of highly ornamental design and appearance, at the same time fully serving its purpose.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of my improved ceiling-protector. Fig. 2 is a central transverse sectional view. Fig. 3 is an inverted plan view.

In the construction of my device I form of tin, sheet metal, copper, or any other suitable sheet metal an obtuse conical top portion 1, having fixed therein and depending from its center a metal hook 2, the shank of said hook passing through the portion l and being fashioned above the same into a staple or ring 3. I next provide, secured in a depending position adjacent to the edge of portion 1, an annular band 4:, which may, if desired, be ornamented by perforated gures or otherwise. Within the space encircled within this band and approximately midway between the center and the band I provide another annular band 5, having its upper edge secured to and depending from the under surface of portion l. Within the lastnamed annular space I erect a plurality of vertical partitions 6, extending from the band 5 to nearly the center of the portion 1, from which depends a hook 2. I thus create a plurality of segmental spaces '7, at the same Serial No. 640,483. (No model.)

,time multiplying the area of the metal sursurface, aording no surface for radiation beyond that existing in the area of the lower surface 0f said device. In myimproved protector, however, by the use of depending an nular bands 4 and 5 and the segmental par titions 6 the area for radiation is greatly mul tiplied, and so much of the heat generated by the lamps and absorded by the protector is more quickly diffused by radiation..

My improved protector is adapted to be hung from the ceiling over a lampstand, or may form part of such stand, the lamp-bracket to be beneath the protector, in which case it should be somewhat elevated beyond the top of the lamp-chimney.

Having thus described my invention and its use, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv l. A ceiling-protector against the smoke and heat of lamps, consisting of an obtuse conical portion adapted to be suspended by a staple 'or otherwise from a wall or ceiling over a lamp,said conical portion being provided with a depending outer annular band, an inner annular band, and a plurality of vertical partitions extending inwardly from said inner band dividing said inner portions into segmental areas, substantially as described.

2. In an improved ceiling-protector, the combination with a body portion consisting of an obtuse conical cap, of a depending annular band secured to the under surface and adjacent to the outer edge portion, and an inner annular band secured in a similar manl ner, a plurality of vertical radial partitions dividing the inner circular area, and a central depending hook secured to said conical portion, all substantially as shown and described.

3. As a new article of manufacture the herein-described ceiling-protector consisting of an obtuse conical sheet-metal body portion, a vertical shank projected through its center, having its upper end formed into'a body portion all as herein shown and de- Io staple or ring and its lower end into a supscribed.

porting lamp-hook, an annular band depend- In testimony whereof I have signed this ing from the under surface of said body porspecication in the presence of two subscribtion adjacent to the edge thereof, an inner ing witnesses.

smaller depending band similarly secured to HERBERT M. PAUL. the body portion, and a plurality of radial par- Witnesses:

ttions extending inwardly from the smaller FRANK SPOHN,

band to a point adjacent to the center of the FRANK G. WHITE.

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