US92053A - Improvement in lamp-brackets - Google Patents

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HUNTER & BLEWITT.

I Lamp Bracket.

Patented June 29, 1869.-

dilated saw aiiiklii dtfiflim A THOMAS A. HUNTER .AND JOHN BLEWITT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 92,053, dated June 29, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN LAMP-BRACKETS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ol the same.

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that we, THOMAS A. HUNTER and J onx BLEwrTr, of the city and State of New York, have invented and made a new and useful Improvement in Lamps; 'and'we do hereby declare the following to be a. full, clear, and exact description of the said invention, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making part of this specification, wherein- Fi ure 1 is'a, side view of our lamp audits holder.

Figure 2 is a sectional plan of the same below the line a: a5.

Figure 3 is a section of the base of thelamp-holder in a slightly modified form.

Similar marks of reference denote the same parts.

We makeuse of a lamp' with a fountain or reservoir, a, that'rises. higher than the burner-collar b, and introduce arcylinder, c, that is fitted tightly to place and receives the wick of the burner, the same as shown in our Letters Patent, granted November 3, 1868, No. 83,711. 7

Our present invention consists in projections or ribs running more or less around the reservoir, combined with clips by which the lamp'is attached to a gas fixture, to the edge of atable, shelf, mantel, or other horizontal support, or may be connected to a vertical support, such as the edge of a door or biind, the m ullions or sash-bars of a window, or other convenient place of attachment.

The projections or ribs e are upon the lower part of the reservoir a, and ff are the clips for receiving and supporting the reservoir. These clips may be made with three arms, two of which are hook-ended and the other provided with a screw or other means for clamping, and these clips may be adapted to setting upon the end of a gas-fixtura as seen at g, fig. 3.

We have shown, and prefer that the clips f f stand as arms from the "vertical pivot 71, that sets into a hole into any desired position horizontally.

clip, with a clamping-screw, l, and a second hole, as

so that the pivot It can be entered therein when the clip is is attached to the edge of a shelf or other horizontal article. In the drawing this clip I: is shown as or other vertical article.

its position is permanent, and the two holes for the cally or horizontally, as may be most convenient. 1 g

If the rib e was made upon the bottom of the reser-- voir, it might be shaped so that the books or means stead of from the outside. 7

Patent, isv 1. The clips f, fitted to receive the lower part of the forth.

'2. The bracket, or socket k, formed with two holes at right angles to each other, for receiving the pivot h, and provided with 'the clamping-screw l, as and for the purposes set forth.

natures, this 17th day of April, A. D. 1869.

' T. A. HUNTER.

. J OHN BLEWITT.

Witn esscs I CHAS. H. SMITH, GEo. '1. PINCKKEY.-

in the socket It, so as to allow of the lamp being swung v The bracket, or socket k, is made use three-sided V at 1', passes through the projecting end of the bracket,

,iu a'positi'on for being attached to the edge of blind Provision is made for the introductionof screws at. m, so that the; bracket-can be sustained by them when t pivot it allow said bracket to be attachedeither vertiof attachment act outwardly from withinsaid ring in a What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters lamp-reservoir, in combination with; the rib or projection upon said reservoir, as and-for the purposes set I 3 In witness whereof, we have hereunto setour sig-

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