USRE8579E - Improvement in lamps - Google Patents

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UNITED VErin/.rims PATENT OFFICE JAMES IVES, OF MOUNT CARMEL, CONNECTICUT.

| M PROVEM ENT IN LAMPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 46,471, dated February 21, 1865; Reissue No. 8,579, dated February 11, 1879 lz application led September 19, 1878.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES IvEs, of Mount Carmel, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements -in Lamp Burners, of which the following is a specification:

Some of these .improvements consist in a lamp comprising the combination, with a cone and deflector and a wick-tube capable, with appurtenances, of being depressed vertically without tilting, of means for causing it to automatically return to a position for use.

Other improvements consist in the combination of a lamp, a shade-holder, and, preferably, also a chimney and defiector-holder connected therewith, so that one is adaptedto be depressed and the other raised simultaneously, whereby, when the lamp is depressed to at ford access to the wick, the shade, or the shade, chimney, and detlector, may be simultaneously moved away from it, and, preferably, so that the slightlysuperior weight of the shade, or

shade and chimney, serves as a means for bringing the parts back to their proper position for use after the lamp has been iilled, trimmed, cleaned, or lighted, as may have been requisite. These improvements afford double the amount of space between the lamp and shade, or shade and chimney, with halt` the length of movement usually made in the lamp, or in parts above it, and the shade or globe itself answers as a weight to bring the parts together, thus dispensing with weights and' cords, which impair the beauty of the arrangement.

Other improvements consist in the means shown for accomplishing the suspension of a lamp and chimney, shade, and deiiector, wh ereby stability, cheapness, and a perfect operation are obtained.

Other improvements consist in the combination of a ring for sustaining a lamp-reservoir and a pin extending above a projection on said reservoir to retain it in place, whereby provision is afforded for removing the reservoir from above.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the improvements embodied in a hanging lamp.

Figure l is a side elevation and partial section of such lamp with the parts adjusted for lighting or trimming the wick, or for extinguishing; and Fig. 2 is a side elevation ofthey same with the parts adjusted for use.

Similarletters of reference designate corresponding parts in both igures.

A designates a lamp- 1eservoir for supplying illuminating material to a burner provided with awick-tube,A 5 B,a chimney; C,a shade, and F a deliector, which may be of any ordinary formation. The reservoir is shown as supported in a socket or holder provided with Y for the shade is capable of being moved away from the wick-tube A to afford facility for access to the wick, and, as represented, it is provided with means for retaining the shade in place, consisting of an upwardlyextendin g device, a, and an inwardly-extending device for grasping the same, shown as consisting of a pin, b, which projects over a iiange or lip, o, on the shade, thereby enabling the shade to be moved away from the wick-tube by moving the holder, and without touchingthe shade. Therefore it may be moved away from the wick-tube without any danger of dropping or any liability of smearing or otherwise soiling it.`

As represented, the shade-holder is also combined with a chimney and delector-holder, E, wherefore not only may the shade be'moved away from the wick-tubes with the advantage just enumerated, but provision is ai'orded for likewise and simultaneously moving the chimney and deiiector. Thus all may be moved away with one hand, leaving the other free for trimming, lighting, or otherwise attending to the lamp. The shade and chimney and deiiector-holders D E are connected by narrow.

cross bars or arms r/ g, so that no great amount of obstruction to the downward reflection of the light shall be ot'ered. The holder E is also open at the bottom, so as to admit the wick-tube of the lamp up into the defiector, as usual. G G are rods, which, in this example of my invention, extend up from the lamp through the hOlder'D, and up to and through a semicircular guard and stay-plate, H. At d d these rods are bent so as to form a stop for controlling the downward movement of the lamp. I I are other rods extending up from the holder D, and fastening firmly to the stay-plate or collar H. The ends of these rods G and I are shown as connected by an endless chain, J, passing up Overa pulley, K, of a suspension-bracket or bow, L. A similar chain, J', is shown as extending up from the rods G I and over a pulley, K', on the other end of the bow L.

When the chimney is set in its holder the stay plate H partly encircles it, and thus lessens the liability Of the chimney falling or being knocked out of place. It will be seen that provision is thus afforded for depressing or drawing down the wick-tube and appurtenances vertically without tilting, to afford access tO the wick for lighting, trimming', or extinguishing the lamp that the shade may also be simultaneously moved away from the wicktube 5 that the chimney and deflector may likewise be so moved away from it, the weight of the shade and chimney serving as a means for ca using the wick-tube and appurtenances to automatically resumea position for use after they have been depressed Or drawn down by hand, Or at least may greatly facilitate the same, and that the means for effecting this result acts upon the wick-tube through the body of the burner, or, in other words, that the force of the means for returning the wick-tube is imparted to the wick tube through the body of the burner.

VIt is a novelty among lamp manufacturers and in the arts, I believe, to provide for the depression of the wick-tube and appurtenances vertically without tilting and their automatic return to the normal position, to provide for raising a shade and depressing a lamp simultaneously, and to provide for the shade-holder and the shade, chimney, and deflector-holders going up or standing still together while the lamp is drawn down or away from them.

- What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. Alamp comprising the combination, with a cone and deflector and a wick-tube capable, with appurtenances, -Of being depressed vertically without tilting, of means for causing it to automatically return to a position for use.

2. A lamp comprising the combination, with a cone and deiiector and a wick-tube capable, with appurtenances, of being depressed vertically without tilting, of means acting on said wick-tube through the body of the burner for causing it to automatically return to a position for use.

3. A lamp comprising the combination, with a cone and deliector and a wick-tube capable, with appurtenances, of being depressed vertically without tilting, Of a counterbalancingweight for causing it to return to a position for use after having been depressed.

4. A lamp comprising the combination, with a cone and deiiector and a wick-tube capable, with appurtenances, of being depressed vertically without tilting, of means for causing it to automatically return to a position for use, and guides for the wick-tube during its movements.

5. A lamp comprising the combination, with a cone and deector and a wick-tube capable, with appurtenances, of being depressed vertically withouttlting, and means for causing it to automatically return to a position for use, of guides for the wick-tube during its movements, provided with stops for preventing the wick-tube from being depressed too far.

6. The combination of a lamp and a shadeholder connected therewith, so that one is adapted to be depressed and the 'other raised simultaneously.

7. The combination Of a lamp and a'shade and chimney -holder connected therewith, so that when the lamp is depressed the shade and chimney-holder will be raised.

8. The combination of a lamp and shade therefor capable of being separated toaiford access to the lamp, and connected by suspending-chains Or equivalent devices, substantially as speciiied.

9. The combination, with a lamp and shade therefor capable of bein g separated to afford access to the lamp, and connected by sus pending-chains or equivalent devices, Of guides for the shade in its movements, substantially as specified.

l0. The combination of a lamp and chimney capable of being separated to afford access to the lamp, and connected by suspending-chains or equivalent devices, snbstantiallyas speciied.

11. The combination of a lamp anddeflector therefor capable of being separated, to ai'ord access to the lamp, and connected by suspendin g-chains or equivalent devices, substantially as specified.

12. The combination of a lamp, a shade, chimney, and deflector therefor capable of being separated to afford access to the lamp, and connected by suspending-chains or equivalent devices, substantially as specified.

18. The combination of a ring for sustaining a lamp reservoir and a pin extending above a projection On said reservoir to retain itin place, whereby provisiony is afforded for removing the reservoir from above, substantially as specified.

14. The combination of the rods G G and I Il with the stay and guard-plate H, base D, and lamp-reservoir, with its appurtenances, and chains J J.

Y JAMESV IVES.

Witnesses:

W. W. WOODRUFF, A. H. WOODRUFF.

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