US959205A - Reflector attachment. - Google Patents

Description

H. DOLIER, JR.

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.REFLECTGE TTACHMENT.

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To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRYDOLEB, Jr.,

e citizen o the United States, residing at Rutherford, Stateo New Jersey, have invented eert-ain new and useful Improve-- of iight, and it is the further object that:

such adiusting and fastening attachments be simple, cheep to manufacture,4 and easily' attacheole, and when attached, aording a. tirs. and eli'cient support.

For en illustration otsome of the forms my invention may take, reference is to be hed the accompanying drawing, in yY'lli'-lii li" l is an elevational View of a lamp socket. with o reflector supported 'thereby L adjustable with respect thereto, the reiiector and the supporting and adjusting means being shown in vertical section. Fig. 2 is e perspective View of a resilient ring member. 3 is a plan View of o. reinforcing or. stirlening member. Fig. 4 is e fragmentary vertical section through an adjusting means takerr'nt right angles to the section in 1. Fig. 5 is a vertical secionel View through a modified form of adjusting means.

Referring to the drawing, a lampcord C, or other suitable, flexible or rigid support, disposed vertically or at any other angle, supports a lamp socket S, having.,T a key K, here shown as one of the standard sockets used at present andhaving a bead approximate its lower end. Into the lamp socket may be fitted on incandescent lomp L shown in dotted lines to indicate the posif -tion a lamp may take.

A. resilient ring?r member li', shown sc parately in Fig. 2, is eircumferentially discontinuous, e slot or-gap g/ being provided to make. such ring the more resilient. The ring R is provided with n bead c adopted te spring over and register with the lamp Specification or Letters Patent.

Application filed October 7, 1908. Serial No. 458,656.

Patented May 2s. 1910.

socket bead o, and vebove this heed c the edge of the rlng R is turned 'over` as at d,

also eircumferentielly discontinuous at f, as seen in Fig. 3. Thisringe is resilient and reinforces or stifens the ring member R 'cousin a more secure attachment between the rlngand the lampsocket. At some is provided to form between it end the lower l1 'or liange i a deep and substantially flirt-side edge of the shell j.

.The shell or ball member s herieal in she ,and is partially surroundb the simllarly shaped shell or ball mem er which has a bead Z and n lip or shade member n, hsving the inside reiectmg surface n.

The shellsor ball membersv j andc are secured together .by eyelets o,- as vbest seen' which the shell le may move with respect to the shell j. L

.Into the o ning at the upper portion of the shellor all member j is sprung the re- A silient ring member R, the saine expanding in such opening and engaging the edge or the member 'j in the groove formed between the steep sided bead It and the lip or Hangs The ring member' R muy then be sprung over the lam the lamp societ bead .7), the resilient reinforcing ring e serving to stiifen and strengthen the support.

As it is often desirable to direct the reiiected light from an incandescent lamp in tipped or tilted one Way or the other about the pivotal axis as determined by the eyelets o, the opening in the shell member 'la being suihciently great to form a wide mouth to allow a substantial angle of movement about the pivots before contacting with the globe or shell of the lamp L. Furthermore, with any angular position of the relector n with regard to the-axis determined by the pivots, the rellector u may also be rotated around the lamp or socket axis either where the shade n engages between the steep sided bead l and the 11p lml or b the rotary movement of the shell or bal j upon the ring` member R. Thus, it is seen that the relertor muy be tilted with respect l to the lamp or socket axis and may also be to hold the resilient. wire ringe which isdistance below the bead 0 a steep shoulder groove to receive the turned-inl j is preferably flsnge m to receive the metal reiector or' in Fig. 4, such eyelets forming pivots upon socket, the bead c engaging I dilerent directions, the reflector n, mary be rotated around thelampvor socket axis. The

adjustment of the shade 71. lserves also for lio changing the relative positions of the redector surface and the source of light to afford different degrees of dispersion or concentra- 'tion of thereflected rays. Here the reflector ball members j and it'. These members are here represented as being spherical in form, one of the horizontal axes of the sphere being indicated at X--X. The shell ic extends a considerable distance above the axis X-X and the member -j extends, a considerable distance below thataxis, so that these members overlap for a considerable Zone of' a sphere, this overlapping beyond the axis preventing vtheir falling or coming apart. A shade held by the member if: may be adjusted. through an angle With respect to the member j, but this adjustment is not confined about any articula-r axisl as in Fig. 4, but may be a out any axis. In other Words, the adjustment means of Fig. 5 is more universal than that shown in Figs. l and et.

The ring member R and the members y' and c and the reflector or shade member 'n may preferably beformed out of sheet brass, or other sheet metal by spinning or by any other suitable process. y

F rom the foregoing description it follows that a reflector or shade-member may be disposed with its axis at an angle with the axis of an incandescent lamp, be adjustable with respect to the lamp about one or more. axes, and may also rotate around the axis of the lamp or socket; and that I have provided a simple, cheap, and effective attachment, for securing either directly or indirectly a shade or reflector to a lamp socket, and that I have provided angular adjusting means, either about a single or plurality of axes, 1n the form of wide mouthed ball or spherical members.

lVhat I claim is:

l. In combination, a lamp socket, a -bead thereon, a reflector or'shade, means for supporting said reflector or shade upon said lamp socket comprising a resilient ring member haifing a bead adapted to register with said lamp socket bead, a reinforcing ring on one sideof said bead on said ring member, and a steep lshouldered bead and a flange upon said ring member.

2. A reflector or shade attachment com-l prising i resilient ring member, a bead thereon, a reinforcing ring secured by said ring member on one side of said bead, a second bead, a lip or flange, and a groove formed 3. The combination with a lamp socket, of-

a-lamp held thereby, ai resilient ring member attached to said socket, a member circumferentially surrounding said lamp and support ed by said ring member, a reflector or shade, a member to which said reflector or shade is lattached and extending around said lamp,

and a ivotal connection between said members, W ereby said reflector or shade may be tilted with respect -to said lamp socket.

4.-. The combination with a lamp-socket, of a ball member attached thereto, a second ball member, said ball members being attached to and movable with respect to each other, and a shade or reflector supported upon said second ball member.

5. In combination,l a reflector or shade member having'an aperture therein, a ball member adapted to engage said reflector or shade member and having a mouth coaxial `with said aperture, and a second ball member attached to and movable with respect to said ball member.

6. The combination with a reflector or shade, lof a ball member attachedthcreto, a second ball member attached to and movable with respect to said ball member and having an aperture therein, and "a resilient ring member engaging said second ball member in said aperture. Y

7. The combination with a lamp socket, of a reflector or shade, and means for adjustably supporting said reflector or shade with respect to said lamp socket comprising wide mouthed ball members adapted to surround the lamp and attached to and movable with respect to each other, one of said ball members attached to said socket, and saidl rellector or shade attached to another of said ball members.

8. The combination with a lamp socket, of a shade or reflector-member, means for supporting said shade or reflector With its axis at an angle ivith the axisA of said lamp socket and for rotation of said reflector' or shade about the axis of said lamp socket, and means for adjusting said shade or reflector to different angles with respect to .said lamp socket.

9. The combination with -a lamp socket adapted to receive a lamp, of a shade or reflector'member, means for su )porting said shade or reflector upon said soclret independ ently of said lamp and with its axis at-an angle with Ithe axis of said lamp socket, and means for adjusting said shade or reflector to different angles with respect to said lamp socket. I

10. Thecombination with a lamp socket,

of a lamp held thereby, a member circumfer-l entially surrounding said lamp and supported by said socket, a reflector or shade, a second member to which said reflector or shade vso llO

essence is attached and extending around said lamp, shade and said member7 whereby said reand e 'pval connection between said inemleetol: or shade can be tilted with respect o bers, whereby said reeetor or shade may be said lamp socket.

tilted with respect to said lampsocket, In testimony whereof have hereunto afll. The combination With av lamp soeket, xed my signatue in the presence of the two 15 of a lamp held thereby, a member extending subscribing Witnesses.

v4beyond said socket and' circnmeentially 5 HENRY DLIER, JR. en rroundng seid lamp and supported by Witnesses:

sind socket, a reflector or shade, and e piv M. ANGELO ELIAS,

rlp otal connection between said reector or ANNA E. STEINBooK.

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