US839869A - Electric lamp. - Google Patents

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PATENTED JAN. l, 1907. P. MUSCHENHEIM.

ELECTRIC LAMP.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 8. 1906.

FREDERICK MUSCHENHEIM, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ELECTRIC LAM F'.

Specification of Letters Patent.

eatnted Jan. 1, 1 907.

Application filed September 8, 1906. Serial No. 333.752. I

To a/ZZ whom t mfr/y concern: I

Be it known that I, FREDERICK MUSCHEN- HEIM, a citizen of the United States, residing l at New York city, Manhattan, county and State of New York, have invented new and l useful Improvements in Electric Lamps, of l which the yfollowing.; `is a specication. l

This invention relates to an electric lamp g more particularly adapted for throwing a pleasant light upon a diningeroom table by concentrating part of said light upon a fernclish which constitutes the foot of the lamp.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is i a side View of my improved lamp; Fig. 2, a vertical section thereof; and lf'ig. 3, a side -View of the la'lnp, showing it in use.

The hase ot the lamp is made in the form l of a cup or dish 10, adapted to'receive flowers i or ferns. This cup is open at the top and closed at the bottoni, so that it may be readily'filled and will reta-in the llowers and ferns i after being filled. Frein the side olE cup l project upwardly a number of posts 11, hav i' ing converging or inwardly-bent upper ends 12. These upper ends support the socket Vl S l of an electric-light hulh 14, which thus cenv g tered above the cup. Socket 13 is surrr'iundi ed by a translucent reflector 15, supported upon the converging upper ends 12 oi posts 11. Upon rellector 15 is in turn placed a thin textile or paper shade 16.

l The wires 17 of the hull) 14 pass through i 5 ing. ward through shade 16, but will be princione of the posts 1,1, which is made hollow, and thence through cup 10, and out of the latter through a `nipple 18. Yl'Iere they are coupled to the wires 1S) of a dr'y battery 20 or other Source of electricity.

Inv use the lamp is placed upon a table 21, to the lower side of which the battery 20 is attached, so that the table may be freely carried about without interfering with the wir- 'l`he light wiil be partly diffused uppally concentrated upon the plants in cup 10, which will thus become brilliantly illuminated. In this way a rich and pleasant lighting efliec't well adapted for dining-room tables is obtained.

An electricrlam'p composed of acup-shaped pbase which is closed at the bottom and open Q at the top,a hollow post projecting upwardly therefrom and having an inwardly-bent upper end,.an electric-lamp socket secured thereto, a reflector surrounding the socket, and electric-light wires within the post, sub-- lstantially :1s spocilied.

Signed by ire at New York city, AIanhattain, New York, this 7th day of' September, lJ.

FREDERICK MUSCIIIQNHIGIM.

I'Vitnesses:

FRANK v. Q'nrnsEN, OETLEN ZENNEER.

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