US627704A - Hood for bicycle-lamps. - Google Patents

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No. 627,704. Patented June 27, I899. E. A. P'AULI. H000 FOB BICYCLE LAMPS.

(Application filed Jan. 19,1889.)

(No Nodal.)

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UNITED STATES EMIL A. PAULI, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF FOUR-FIFTI'IS TO JOHN.

PATENT OFFICE.

HEIVITT, ORLANDO S. GAUCH, DAVID J. IVILSON', AND CHARLES T. BLACK- FORI), OF SAME PLACE.

HOOD FOR BICYCLEY- LAM PS.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 627,704, dated June 27, 1899.

Application filed January 19, 1899. Serial No. 702,678. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL A. PAULI, a citizenof theUnited States, residing in Chicago, in the county'of Cook and State of Illinois,

have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hoods for Bicycle-Lamps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in bicycle-lamps.

It is frequently the case that bicyclers have occasion while riding-to look sidewise either to guard against accidents, as at street intersections, or to note objects of interest they may be passing. As the lamps are now con- 5 structed they cannot do this without stopping and turning either the machine orthe front wheel in the direction they desire to look, or

they must detach the lamp from the machine,

or they must turn the entire lamp in or relaac tive to the supporting-bracket.

My object in this invention is to provide a construction of lamp which will enable the rider to easily and instantly throw the rays of light to either side of his course without slacking his speed or changing the direction of movement or detaching the lamp; and I accomplish this result by the construction set forth below and shown in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of my improved lamp. Fig. 2 is a plan of the lamp, and Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

In said drawings, A represents the body of the lamp; B, the burner; C, the reflector; D,

the lens or glass, and E the chimney. The

reflector, glass, and chimney form what is usually denominated the hood, as they surround the burner and protect the flame of the lamp from air-currents, and in this instance they are supported upon the burner in such manner as will permit them to be turned to either side at will, so as to throw the rays of light correspondingly. The preferable con struction of the support is that shown, and consists of wings F F, attached to the outside of the reflector and shaped to the burner, as shown at Fig. 3, and'also clamped thereto by the screw G. The hood should befrictionally held with sufficient firmness to insure its remaining in any position to which it may be adjusted by the rider. The attachment of the hood is also such as to permit. its very quick and ready removal by avertical movement, the wings slipping along and off the burner-tube when a lifting power is exerted upon the hood. I claim p 1. A bicycle-lamp having its hood adj ustably and frictionally held to the lamp, whereby the operator by simply turning the hood is enabled to throw the light to either side of his path instantly and at will, substantially as specified.

2. A bicycle lamp having its hood swiveled upon and frictionally held to the lamp, and also removable from the lamp by a vertical lifting movement, substantially as specified.

EMIL A. PAULI.

Witnesses:

L. E. CURTIS, H. M.- MUNDAY.

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