US974702A

US974702A - Smoke-bell support.

Info

Publication number: US974702A
Application number: US56626110A
Authority: US
Inventors: James T Owens
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1910-06-10
Filing date: 1910-06-10
Publication date: 1910-11-01
Anticipated expiration: 1927-11-01

Description

J. T. OWENS. SMOKE BELL SUPPORT. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1o, 1910.

Patented Nov. 1; 1910.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 1, 1910.

Application led .Tune 10, 1910. Serial No. 566,261.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES T. OWENS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Smoke- Bell Supports, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices to be suspended from hangers and especially to smoke bells for lamps, especially for gas lights, and means for suspending them.

It is very often desirable to suspend smoke bells over lights without marring the ceiling by the securing therein of hooks, the ceiling being very often punctured, disfigured, or broken down by unsuccessful eilorts to find the ceiling joists in fixing hooks in position from which to suspend the bells. Very often when the ceiling joist is located, it is not in proper position above the light. On account of such danger of mutilation or destruction, and wrong location of ceiling joists, the bells are very often dispensed with, thus permitting the ceiling to become disgured by the smoke as the lesser evil.

The object of my invention is to provide economically constructed and easily operated means whereby smoke bells and any other article near an upright bar, pipe or support, may be readily suspended in proper position and taken down when desired, without in any manner marring or disfiguring the ceiling or Wall, and with this object in View my invention consists in the improved support, the construction, arrangement and combination of the parts of which will be hereinafter fully described, the particular points of novelty therein being set up in the appended claims.

I have illustrated an embodiment of my invention in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 represents, partly in vertical section and partly in elevation, a two light chandelier with my invention in place thereon. Fig. 2 represents in perspective the simplest form of my support. Fig. 3 represents a vertical sectional view showing a support for two lateral arms, the clasping ring being shown in open position in dotted lines. Fig. 4: represents a view, similar to Fig. 3, showing a support for three lateral arms. Fig. 5 represents, in perspective, a support for four lateral arms. Fig. 6 represents, in perspective, a portion of the upper member of the cover, showing the inside thereof, with the securing means, and Fig. 7 represents, in perspective, a modification of the two arm support, with eXtensible arms in position therein.

Like reference characters mark the same parts wherever they appear in the several gures of the drawing.

Referring specifically to the drawing, 10 indicates the vertical pipe of a gas light chandelier which depends from the ceiling and carries at its lower end any desired number of lateral pipes 11, each terminating in a burner, as at 12.

In Fig. 1, I have shown the vertical pipe 10 clasped vby a wire loop 13, the central portion of which, on one side of the pipe, is formed into a vertical coil, as at 14:, the wire of the loop being bent downward from the top of the coil, as at 15, and upward from the bottom of the coil, as at 16, to the plane of the loop at the mid-height of the coil. At the opposite side of the loop the ends of the wire are bent to form two smaller coils, as at 17 and 18, one end of the wire being bent upward from the plane of the loop to form the coil 17 and the other end downward from that plane to form the coil 18.

The wire of which the loop is formed is elastic and the two ends are normally separated, holding the loop open on that side so that it may be slipped laterally upon the pipe 10 after which the two ends are brought together causing the loop to tightly clasp pipe 10 and bringing the

small coils

17 and 18 into line with each other, to form substantially a single coil, into which the vertically depending hook end 19 of a lateral arm 20 may be inserted, thus not only holding the loop tightly closed, but firmly supporting the arm 20 in position to support a smoke-bell, as at 21, over one of the burners. The end 22 of another lateral arm 23 may be inserted into the coil 12 to hold the arm in position to support another smokebell over another burner. The loop may be formed without the central coil, as shown at 130 in Fig. 2, for use where there is only one burner, the

end coils

17 and 18 being of the same construction and operating in the same manner as described with reference to Fig. 1.

In Fig. 3, I have shown in section the loop 13 clasped on pipe 10 with the other parts in full lines in the same positions as in Fig. 1, and in dotted lines I have shown the loop open vin position to be slipped upon and closed around the pipe 10 by bringing

coils

17 and 18 into line with each other to receive the hook end of the lateral arm 2O which, with arm 2Q, is shown partly broken away.

In Fig. 4, I have shown how my invention may be modilied to support three lateral arms, there being formed by bending the wire of the loop intermediate its ends, two coils 140, each a counterpart of coil 14, in Figs. 1 and 3, the end coils 17 and 1S being the same in construction and operation as in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, and being shown separated, as in Fig. 3, in dotted lines.

In Fig. 5, I have shown in perspective, a modification for supporting four lateral arms, three coils 141, similar' to coil 14 in Figs. 1 and 3, and to coils 140 in Fig. 4, being formed of the wire of the loop intermediate its ends, which ends are bent to form

coils

17 and 18 as in the preceding figures, the coils 141 each receiving the hook .end 22 of a lateral arm 23,' and the two coils 17 and 1S, in line with each other, receiving the hook end 19 of arm 20, as in the other forms described.

In Fig. 1, I have shown a cover for inclosing and protecting my improved support when in position on the pipe 10, said cover consisting of an inverted cone 24 above, and an upright cone 25 below the support, the one fitting upon the other as a lid fits on a box, and there being formed in their meeting edges notches 26 which may be made to register with each other so that the lateral arms may project therethrough. Each of these conical members is made preferably of a single piece of sheet metal, the edges of which may be separated far enough apart to slip the member on the pipe, and when in position these edges vare brought together and secured by suitable hooks 27 on one member engaging notches 28 in the edge of the other member, there being a series of such notches so that the members may be adjusted to tit on pipes 10 of different diameters.

In some instances it may be desirable to use a separate fastener as at 29 in Fig. 7, to secure the upward and downward bends oi the loop wire to the intermediate coils in order to increase the rigidity of the structure. In Fig. 7, I have also shown modiiied forms of lateral arms, each being composed of two members 190 and 200, which are secured 'together in a manner to permit of longitudinal adjustment to lengthen or shorten the arms, in this instance the member 190 passing through a loop 191 on member 200, and the member 200 through a loop 201 on the member 190.

The economy of construction and utility of my invention will be obvious and the scope thereof will obviously include many variations'in form of the component parts described, as well as in their relations to each other.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isn 1. A device of the character described comprising a wire loop having each end formed into a coil, the axis of which is at a right angle to the plane in which the loop is bent, the two coils extending in opposite directions from the plane of the loop and being adapted to be brought into position with their axes in the same line to receive loop, the twoV end coils extending in opposite directions from the plane of the loop and being adapted to be brought into position with their axes in the same line to receive and support the vertical end of a bracket which also serves as a lock for the loop.

A device of the character described comprising a wire loop having each end formed into a coil, the axis of which is at a right angle to the plane in which the loop is bent, and the wire of the loop at a point intermediate its ends being formed into a coil also at. a right angle to the plane of the loop, the intermediate coil having its midlength in the plane of the loop, and the two end coils being adapted to be brought into position with their axes in the same line to receive and support the vertical end oft a bracket which also serves as a lock for the loop.

4. A device of the character described comprising a wire loop having each end formed into a coil, the axis of which is at a right angle to the plane in which the loop is bent, and the wire of the loop at a point intermediate its ends being formed into a coil also at a right angle to the planeV of the loop, the intermediate coil having its midlength in the plane of the loop, the two end coils extending in opposite directions from the plane of the loop and being adapted to be brought into position with their axes in the same line to receive a wire.

5. An article of the character described, comprising acoil of wire having its ends bent outside of and substantially parallel with the axis of the coil to the midlength of the coil, extended thence in a single plane lying at a right angle to the axis of the coil, in opposite directions, into the form of a loop, and bent at each end to form a coil with its axis parallel with the first named ilo coil, the axes of the end coils being adapted to be brought into a line with each other to receive and support the vertical end of a bracket which also serves as a lock for the coil.

6. An article of the character described, comprising an upright, a wire loop encircling it, wire hangers, extending laterally from the loop, and funnel shaped covers onv the uprights above and below the loop having openings at their meeting edges through which the wire hangers extend and serve to support the funnels in position on the upright.

7. An article of the character described, comprising an upright, an inverted funnel shaped cover on the upright, provided with notches in its lower edge, an upright funnel shaped cover on the upright below the inverted funnel having notches in its upper edge to register with the notches in the edge of the inverted funnel, the two funnels being open and made of elastic material, means for securing the open edges of each funnel t0- gether to close them around the upright, laterally extending hangers secured to the upright and projecting through the registerino' notches in the edges of the two funnels, anc supporting the Jfunnels in position on the upright.

In testimony whereof I aiX my in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES T. OWENS.

signature Witnesses S. BRASHEARS, JOHN H. SIGGERS.