US979848A - Lantern-frame. - Google Patents

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A. H. HANDL AN, J3.

LANTERN FRAME.

' APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 30, 1910.

979,848. Patented D6027, 1910.

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ALEXANDER H. HANDLAN, JR., OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

LANTERN-FRAME.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec, 27, 1910,

Application filed. September 30, 1910. Serial No. 584,613.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER H. HAND- LAN, Jr., a citizen of the United States of America, residing in the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lantern-Frames, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to a frame for a hand lantern, the object of the invention being to construct a frame of this description having a high degree of rigidity at the,

points where the guard members are attached to the guard hoop, and further to provide for such construction in a manner that permits of the frame being assembled by unskilled labor.

Figure I is an elevation of my lantern frame. Fig. II is an enlarged horizontal section, taken on line IIII, Fig. I, with a portion of the top ring of the guard hoop shown in horizontal section. Fig. III is a vertical cross section taken on line III-III, Fig. II.

In the accompanying drawings: A designates the hood of the lantern frame, and B the guard hoop beneath said hood, these parts being connected by the vertical guard wires 1 interposed between them and held in their proper relation by the horizontal guard Wires C. The parts thus far described may be, in the main, constructed as they commonly are in lantern frames, my invention pertaining to the construction of the lower ends of the vertical guard wires 1 and means carried by the guard hoop B, through the medium of which said wires are connected to said hoop.

The guard hoop B is surmounted by a guard receiving ring 2, the upper portion of which is horizontally disposed, and juts outwardly from the guard hoop. The horizontal portion of said ring is provided with a plurality of perforations 3 corresponding in number to the number of vertical guard wires 1, and which receive said guard wires.

4 is a depending flange extending downwardly from the outer edge of the horizontal portion of the guard receiving ring, and inwardly toward the guard hoop B, thereby providing an annular pocket 5 beneath the guard wire receiving ring at the exterior of the guard hoop, and which is bounded by the tached to the guard hoop. I, therefore, do 0.1

guard hoop and the horizontal and flanged portions of the guard receiving ring.

The vertical guard wires 1 are provided at their lower ends with arms 1 extending at angles to the upper portions of the wires that will provide for such arms being horizontally disposed within the annular pocket 5 provided by the guard hoop and the guard receiving ring, with the main portions of the vertical guard wires vertically disposed as they should be in the construction of the lantern frame.

In the manufacture of my lantern frame, the vertical guard wires are assembled in the guard receiving ring 2 while the downturned and inturned flange 4 of said ring is disposed in a downwardly extending direction, only, thereby permitting the passage of the arms 1 and the lower ends of these guard wires through the perforations 3 in the horizontal portion of the ring, and the arrangement of the guard wires in vertical positions with their arms 1'" positioned horizontally beneath the guard wire receiving ring. The horizontal guard wires C are then attached to the vertical guard wires, and the vertical guard wires are connected to the hoop B. After these steps have been carried out, the flange 4; of the guard wire receiving ring 2 is bent inwardly toward the guard hoop, with the result of causing it to confine the arms 1 of the vertical guard wires within the guard wire receiving ring 2. The final step in the production of the frame consists in dipping the frame into a solder bath to firmly unite the parts of the frame at the joints where they are fitted together, and inasmuch as the solderin this bath may enter freely into the pocket 5 of the guard wire receiving ring 2, the surface in such pocket becomes coated with solder, in consequence of which the arms 1 of the vertical guard wires are firmly and securely fastened to the parts adjacent thereto, thus producing highly satisfactory rigid connections between the vertical guard wires and the guard hoop of the lantern frame.

In the drawings, Fig. III, I have shown the guard wire receiving ring 2 as made independently of the guard hoop B and secured to said guard hoop, but it is obvious that this ring might be made integrally with the guard hoop and serve the same purpose as it would when made separately and, at-

not limit myself to the Construction shown I upperportion of said receiving member and 10 in the drawings. having lower armsat angles to their upper I cla1m': portions confined within said receiving mem- In a lantern frame, a guard hoop prober by its flange. vided at its upper end with an outwardly jutting guard wire receiving member hav- ALEXANDER HANDLAN ing a downturned flange extending inwardly In the presence of toward the guard hoop, and vertical guard M. C. HAMMON,

wires extending downwardly through the E. B. LINN.

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