US764396A - Lamp. - Google Patents

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No. 764,396. PATENTED JULY 5, 1904. B. E. TAYLOR & c. P. LEONARD.

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PATENT OFFICE.

EDVV ARD EVERETT TAYLOR, OF AMESBURY, AND CLARENCE PELEG LEONARD, OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTITS, ASSIGNORS TO GRAY & DAVIS, @F AMESBURY, MASSACHUSETTS.

LAMP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 764,396, dated July 5, 1904.

Application filed December 29, 1903. Serial No. 187,028. (No model.)

T on whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD EVERETT, TAYLOR, residing at Amesbury, 1n the county of Essex, and CLAnENon PnLne LEONARD, re-

, is a specification.

The object of our invention is the production of a lamp designed. for use in connection W1l'1l1 automoblles and other vehicles which shall present an artistic and ornamental appearance, be comprised of few parts and some.

of the parts easily removable, which shall be comparatively cheap in first cost and easy to manufacture, whichshall have a plain exter-: nal surface whereby it may be easily cleaned and polished, and which withal shall constitute a superior means for performing the functions of a perfect lamp.

With this end in view our invention conslsts in certain novelties of construction and -combinations. of parts hereinafter set forth and claimed.

vThe accompanying drawings illustrate an example of the physical embodiment of our invention constructed according to the best mode we have so far devised for the practical application of the principle.

Figure 1 is a top plan view. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a rear end view in elevation. Fig. 4 is a bottom plan View. Fig. 5 is a detail of the means for holding the frusto-conical reflector. Fig. 6 shows the means for uniting the ends of the ring which holds the lens.

The lamp is shaped substantially like a bullet, being conoidal in appearance, and is comprised of three main parts-a shell or body A, frusto-conoidal in shape; the rear portion B, attached to the body portion by the hinge C and fastening device D and constituting the apex portion; and the front portion E, secured to the body portion by hinge F and fastening means Gr and supporting a lens, as shown.

The numeral 1 designates an opening at the top of the main body portion; 2, a shield located. above and a slight dlstance from the opening, so as to leave a space between the shield and the body portion for the exit of the gases of combustion; 3, rivets and washers which secure the shield to the body; 4, a lining of asbestos or other suitable material secured to the inner surface of the shield; 4:, a wind-deflector located in front of the shield; 5, a series of holes beneath the deflector; 6, means for supporting the lamp consisting of perforated projecting castings located at the sides of the body portion; 7, the base of each casting which engages the inner surface of the body portion and projects through ahole in the side thereof, the said casting being brazed or soldered to the wall of the body; 8,

-a semiglobular gas-chamber secured to the lower surface of the body; 9, a perforated tubular stem for connection with a gas-generator; lO, a nipple with an opening and having a removable threaded cap; 11, the burner; 12, a tube or duct extending from the burner downwardly into the gas-chamber and approximately to the center of the same; 13, a

frusto-conical reflector; 14, the reverselyturned front edge of the reflector; 15, clips soldered at one end to the body portion ofthe lamp and at the other end bent over to engage the surface of the reflector and to hold it in place, as shown in Fig. 5; 16, two series of holes through the body portion between the gas-chamber and the front edge thereof and through which air passes to the burner, and 17 represents holes in the rear of the gas-chamber.

Referring to the rear hinged apex portion B of the lamp, 18 designates the concave-convex rellector; 19, a series of holes at thebottorn and in the rear of the reflector, and 20 a series of holes at the top arranged to allow air to circulate through the space at the rear of the reflector and reduce the temperature of the same.

Referring to the front portion E, the numeral 21 designates the flanged edge of the same; 22, the lens; 23, a ring concave-convex in cross-section which holds the lens and GeV is itself held by the flared edge 21, which it a encircles; 24, perforated lugs at the meeting ends of the ring, and 25 is a screw which clamps the ring upon the lens and about the flanged edge of the front portion of the lamp.

It will be observed that the lamp is very simple in construction and that parts thereof can with facility be replaced when necessary. The ends of ring 23 may easily be disconnected when a new lens is to replace a broken one, the frusto-conical reflector may be removed by manipulating the clips 15, and the gas-chamber may be cleaned by the removal of the threaded cap.

The circulation of the air through the body of the lamp to supply oxygen for combustion and to discharge the products of combustion is provided for by the holes through the body of the lamp and the large opening at the top, as will readily be understood. The deflector 4: performs the function of directing the air so that it will pass above the shield.

From the foregoing specific description it becomes obvious that we have produced a lamp which fulfils all the conditions set forth as the purpose of our invention which is ornamental, artistic, of a pleasing shape to the eye, which presents a plain external surface whereby it may be easily cleaned and polished, and which possesses other and desirable characteristics of construction constitut ing the same a superior means for the purposes intended.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is i l. A vehicle-lamp comprising a frusto-conoidal-shaped shell forming a body portion having an opening at its top, a gas-chamber at tached directly to the shell and provided with a tubular stem for connection with a gas-generator, a gas tube or duct extending from the chamber into the shell, a burner connected with said tube or duct, a shield spaced apart from the shell and covering the opening in the top, a wind-deflector attached to the shell in front ofthe shield, a frusto-conical reflector arranged in front of the burner, a lens located in front of the reflector and hinged to the shell, an apex portion hinged to the body of the shell in the rear of the burner, a concavo-convex reflector arranged in the hinged portion of the shell, and the rear top and bottom of the shell being provided with a series of perforations for the circulation of air.

2. A vehicle-lamp comprising a frusto-conoidal-shaped shell forming a body portion and havingan opening at the top, a shield spaced apart from the shell, directly attached thereto, and covering the said opening at the top,

an illuminating-burner secured to a tubular stem adapted for connection with a gas-generator, an apex portion made separate from and secured to the rear end of the shell forming the body portion, a concavo-convex reflector located in the rear of the burner, and a lens hinged to the front of the shell.

3. A vehicle-lamp comprising a frusto-conoidal-shaped shell having a hinged apex, a concavo-convex reflector located in the apex,a lens hinged to the front of the shell, an illuminating-burner, a frusto-conoidal reflector back of the lens, and a shield spaced apart from the shell and covering an opening in the lens hinged to the front of the shell, a gas-v chamber attached directly to the shell, an illuminating-burner in communication with the gas-chamber, a frusto-conical reflector back of the lens. and a shield spaced apart from the shell and covering an opening in the top of the shell.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD EVERETT TAYLOR. CLARENCE PELEG LEONARD.

Witnessesz' J. ALBERT DAvIs, A. P. LANE.

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