US807173A - Guard attachment for chandeliers. - Google Patents

Description

' No. 807,173. PATENTED DEC. 12, 1905.

V. J. JANSER & H. MEYER. GUARD ATTACHMENT FOR GHANDELIERS.

APPLICATION FILED IBB. 24,1905.

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IINITED STATES PATENT OFFICE...

VICTOR J. J ANSER AND HENRY MEYER, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSA- CHUSETTS.

GUARD ATTACHMENT FOR CHANDELIERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 1905.

Application filed February 24, 1905. Serial No. 247,108.

delier or gas-light and which serve to prevent the smoke and heat from the gas light or lights from blackening or otherwise injuriously affecting the ceiling above the chandelier.

A particular object of this invention is to provide supporting appliances for the gasligh't guards or canopies which permit the positioning of the guards in anyproper radial adjustment to accord with the location of the burners, more or less, as the case may be, outwardly beyond the central line of the depending gas-pipe.

Other objects of the invention are to the end of securing simplicity of construction,

practicability and convenience in setting up, durability, and-the capability of compactly arranging the parts for stowage or transportatlon.

The invention consists in the constructions and combination of parts hereinafter described, and set forth in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a chandelier having the present improved gas-light guards combined therewith. Fig. 2 is a plan view and partial section showing the primary support for the guard carrying rods as constructed for a three-light chandelier and showing one of the guard-carrying rods. Fig. 3 is a side view of one of the guard-carrying rods.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the views.

In the drawings, A represents a chandelier comprising the depending gas-pipe B and having at its lower end the radiating branch pipes C (1, provided, as usual, with the gasburners D D and globes E E therefor.

Gr represents a primary support for the rods F E, which carry at their outer ends the guards or canopies J to have positions suitably'above and directly over the gas-light.

-As shown in the form of its most extensive construction, the said support G is made in the form of a sleeve comprising the section a and a second section 64 hinge-connected at b, one of said sections having a tongue-shaped extremity d to match into an endwise-opening recess f in the other section, said matching parts being vertically perforated to receive therethrough the locking-ping. The sectionally-constructed sleeve has radial screwthreaded openings therethr'ough, through which are screw-engaged the threaded shanks or members j, which have formed as one therewith or attached thereto the straight tubular extensions k, open at their outer ends. The straight portions of the rods F have engagements telescopically with the tubular extensions Zc, so that either inward or outward movements of such rods will bring the canopyguards J to their proper positions directly over the burner.

As shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the ends of the rods F are split, as indicated at m, the portions at either side of the cleft being normally deflected or spread, as more particularly shown in Fig. 3, and thereby adapted on the contraction of the spread portions in their entrance into the tube 70 to develop a frictional reaction for the adjustable confinement in the tubular extensions of the guard-carrying rods, it being manifest that this frictional engagement is such as to not only maintain the rods against undue endwise movements, but keeps them from rotational movements, whereby the guards J would be improperly tilted.

The threaded extremities of the studs (of which there are atleast three, although four thereof might be provided for substantially similar eifects) protrude beyond the inner wall of the sleeve in the engagement of the appliance with and about the depending gas-pipe B and bind against such pipe at different sides thereof, serving as the supporting means for the sleeve and the parts carried thereby. The extensions of the always sufliciently long shanks of the studs entirely through and'beyond the inner wall of the sleeve make it practicable, as clearly understood in Fig. 2, to make the appliances with the sleeves as large or larger than the largest gas-pipes and render them applicable as well on very small as on medium or the largest gas-pipes in use, and thus the practical value of the present improved device largely depends on its applica-,

bility as well on a quarter-inch drop-pipe as on one of an inch or approximately the size of the round opening within the sleeve.

As apparent, the guardsJ and their carrying-rods may be easily drawn out from the tubular extensions 70, which latter may be disconnected from the sleeve, and the sleeve on being disconnected from the pipe may, with the parts j is and F J, be compactly disposed in a box or package for stowage in a store or for transportation.

It is to be especially stated that by making the stud j serve the double purpose of a universally-applicable confinement means for the sleeve relatively to the drop-pipe and also as parts comprised in the supporting means for the guards J, an attachment is produced in which the components are reduced to a minimum, with corresponding advantages both to the manufacturer, to point of cheapness of construction, and to the user because of simplicity and lessened liability to derangement in use.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an appliance of the character described, a sleeve or ring made in hinge-connected sections, provided with means for locking the sleeve-sections in their closed relations, and formed with three or more holes radially therethrough, three or more studs having threaded shanks screw engaged through said radial holes and protruding beyond the inner wall of the sleeve to assume engagements with the depending chandelier gas-pipe to secure the appliance to said pipe, at different points therearound, and said studs being provided with tubular extensions, and rods, endwise adjustable in said tubular extensions and carrying guards or canopies at their outer ends.

2. In an appliance of the character described, in combination, a sleeve or ring made in hingeconnected sections and provided with means for locking the sections closed, and constructed wi h three or more screw-threaded holes therethrough, a corresponding number of studs having threaded shanks screw-engaged through said radial holes, and protruding beyond the inner wall of the sleeve for engagement with variably-sized chandelier-pipes to secure the appliance to said pipes said studs having the outwardly-open axial sockets, tubular arms having their inner ends engaged in said sockets, and the rods frictionally engaged, and endwise adjustable, in said tubes and having gas-light guards at their outer ends.

3. In an appliance of the character described, a supporting-ring comprising a plurality of movably-connected segments, and means to secure said segments together, said segments being formed with a plurality of radially-disposed threaded openings extending entirely therethrough, a plurality of radiating studs, each of which is formed with a threaded end engaging one of said openings and projecting within the segmental ring to impinge against a pipe to secure the appliance in position thereon, the outer end of eachstud being formed with an axial socket, arms rigidly mounted in the sockets and shields on the arms.

Signed by us at Springfield, Massachusetts, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

VIC. J. J ANSER. HENRY MEYER.

Witnesses:

WM. S. BELLows, G. R. DRISOOLL.

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