US817914A - Lantern. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTBD APR. 1'7, 1906.

J. H. HILL. LANTERN.

APPLIGATION FILED Nov. e. 1905.

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JAMES H. HILL, OF ROCHESTER, NEW

LANTERN & STAMPING COMPANY, OF ROCHESTER,

YORK, ASSIGNOR TO DEFIANCE NEW YORK.

LANTERN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. .April 1'7, 1906.

Application filed November 6,1905. SerialNo. 286.068.

To all whom, it 11i/ay concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES H. HILL, a resident of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain.

new and useful Improvements in Lanterns; 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 pertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to lanterns, and has for its object to simplify and cheapen the upper parts of the lantern-frame, to facilitate the assemblage of such parts, and increase their efliciency.

The invention consists in the construction hereinafter described and pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a vertical central section of the improved lantern-top. Fig. 2 is a partial view of a split ring, the ends of said ring being separated to show their form. i

Numeral 1 denotes a cap supported upon posts 2, rising from the upper edge of a capsupporting globe ring extension or split ring 3, the tips of the posts entering slots in the cap and bent, as at 4X. This ring is connected by tongues 4 with the upper part of a globe-ring 5. To facilitate this connection, as well as to cheapen the cost of manufacture, the globe-ring has formed integrally therewith a circumferential shoulder terminating in an inwardly-inclined ange 6 approximately of frusto-conical form. This is provided at its junction with the integral horizontal shoulder with slots 7 to receive the tongues 4, which in practice are bent, as indicated, after they have been entered in the slots. These slots 7 may be made each a little longer than the width of a tongue. The flange 6 is made integral with the globe-ring and furnishes a seat or support both for the split ring and a flanged spring-holding ring to be described.

8 denotes a loose flanged ring, L-shaped in cross -section, in which is seated a coiled spring 9, which ring coniines the lower coil of the spring and is held in place thereby. This flanged ring acts to guide air upwardly and past or away from the tube-openings in the tube-ring 9a, which latter ring is connected to the lantern-base by air-tubes in the usual manner. The flanged air-ring 8 is in operative position whatever the situation of the air-tubes, and no circumferential adjustment is required, as in prior constructions, and no soldering is required to fix this ring, which is a wind-guard as well as spring-holder.

The split ring 3 is cut away between the tongues 4 to provide air-passages 10, whereby the inductive effect of a transverse air-current under the cap will cause an infiow through openings 11 in the base of the tube-ring without injuriously affecting the flow through the tubes or the escape of gases from the globe.

The ends of the split ring 3 are provided, one of them with a tongue 12 and the other with tongues 13 and 14, substantially as shown, whereby when said ends are joined with the tongue 12 on the inside of one end and the other tongues on the inside of the opposite end the ring is complete and noncompressible.v Upon withdrawing tongue 13 from within the opposite ring. end and allowing it to play freely on the outside the upper end of the ring 3 can be compressed and reduced in diameter. The globe-ring 5 and split ring 3 are first connected by means of the tongues 4 and slots 7. The upper end of ring 3 being compressed, as before described, the ring 8 is passed down over it and the spring seated therein. The tube-ring is next placed in position, the upper end of the split ring being still suitably compressed. The free ends of the latter ring can then be interlocked by means of the several tongues 12, 13, and 14. In this situation the upper edge of the tube-ring rests under the bead 15, formed on the split ring. This bead serves to stiffen the upper end of said ring and forms a base for the outset portions 16 of the posts 2, which impart rigidity to said posts.

By the described construction the cap-supporting globe-ring extension requires no soldering or riveting. It can be compressed to facilitate assemblage or disassociation of the connected parts and it can be locked in rigid form for normal uses.

What I claim is- 1. In a lantern-top, the globe-ring, combined with an extension consisting of a separate split compressible extension-ring comprising means integral therewith for fixing the ring ends together.

2. In a lantern-top, the globe-ring, com- IOO bined with a separate extension comprising a split ring, said ring being compressible to facilitate assemblage therewith of other rings and devices to connect the ends ofthe ring to make it incompressible in use.

3. In a lantern-top, the globe-rin combined with an extension consisting o' a separate oompressible split extension-ring comprising means integral therewith for iiXing the ring ends together, said ring having air-passages 10 at the bottom incommunicationwith air-passages 1l ofthe tube-ring.

4. In a lantern-top, the globe-ring, combined with a separate extension comprising a split ring having tongues to connect its ends, and with a tube-ring, said globe-ring having an inwardly-inclined integral top provided with slots for said tongues, a spring-holding ring, and a spring, said spring-holding ring being loosely seated on the @lobe-ring and the split ring provided with devices detachably connecting it to said globe-ring.

5. The combination of the globe-ring having the inner integral inclined flange, the loose spring-holding ring seated on the globering at the foot of its inclined ange, and the detachable split globe-ring extension.

6. The combination of the tube-ring and tubes, the globe-ring terminating in a plane below the mouth of said tubes, the split-ring extension of the globe-ring, means for detachabl'y connecting said extension to the globe-ring, said split ring being compressible to facilitate assemblage of parts, and means acl) render it incompressible after such assem- 7g. The globe-ring provided with a seat for a spring-holding ring, said latter ring being loosely seated on the globe-ring, a separate globe extension-ring, and means for detachably connecting it to the globe-ring within the spring-holding ring.

In testimony whereof I have signed'this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES H. HILL.

Witnesses:

J. D. HENRY, F. A. RUSSELL.

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