IMPROVED MEANS TO BE APPLIED TO LAMPS OR LANTERNS TO INDICATE THE NAMES OF STREETS OR OTHER INFORMATION, WHICH MEANS WILL ALSO ASSIST
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Parkman, of Madison County, Tennessee,
in the United States of America, but at present of 23, Southampton
Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
"IMPROVED MEANS TO BE APPLIED TO LAMPS OR LANTERNS TO INDICATE THE
NAMES OF STREETS OR OTHER INFORMATION, WHICH MEANS WILL ALSO ASSIST
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Scaled the 26th February 1875, and dated the 11th November 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Parkman at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
tho 11th November 1874.
I, EDWARD PARKMAN, of Madison County, Tennessee, in the United
States of America, but at present of 23, Southampton Buildings, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven.
tion for "IMPROVED MEANS TO BE APPLIED TO LAMPS OR LANTERNS TO INDICATE
THE NAMES OF STREETS OR OTHER INFORMATION, WHICH MEANS WILL ALSO ASSIST
IN REFLECTING THE LIGHT FROM SUCH LAMPS OR LANTERNS," to be as
follows:-
For this purpose I fix at the upper part of the lamp or lantern at one

page_text: or more sides or entirely around it a reflector of metal, porcelain, or
other material, on which is painted or otherwise indicated the name of
the street or other information. This reflector is made or covered with
material capable of. reflecting the light from the burner in the lamp or
-lantern, and it is placed at such an angle and position as to enable it to
be readily seen and read.
For ordinary street lamps I by preference fix a square metallic
reflector on to the top of the lantern frame or support, and such reflector
I form of sheet metal suitably painted, enamelled, or japanned to reflect
the light and to indicate the information desired, thereby adding to the 1
reflecting capacity of the lamp without obstructing any of the light.
It is evident that the reflector may be made of any shape suitable to
the particular lamp or lantern to which it is to be applied, and that the
information thereon may be on one or more sides or entirely around it.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Lettors
Patent, and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Edward
Parkman in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd May 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
PARKMAN, of Madison County, Tennessee, in the United States of
America, but at present of 23, Southampton Buildings, in the County
of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Edward Parkman, Her special
license that I, the said Edward Parkman, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Parkman, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVED Means to
BE APPLIED TO LAMPS OR LANTERNS TO INDICATE THE NAMES OF STREETS OR OTHER

page_text: INFORMATION, WHICH MEANS WILL ALSO ASSIST IN REFLECTING THE LIGHT FROM
SUCH LAMPS OR LANTERNS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Edward Parkman, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Parkman, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
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For this purpose I fix at the upper part of the lamp or lantern at one
or more sides or entirely around it a reflector of metal, porcelain, or
other material, on which is painted or otherwise indicated the name of
the street or other information. This reflector is made or covered with
material capable of reflecting the light from the burner in the lamp or
lantern, and it is placed at such an angle and position as to enable it to
be readily seen and read.
For ordinary street lamps I by preference fix a square metallic
reflector on to the top of the lantern frame or support, and such reflector
I form of sheet metal suitably painted, enamelled, or japanned to reflect
the light and to indicate the information desired, thereby adding to the
reflecting capacity of the lamp without obstructing any of the light.
It is evident that the reflector may be made of any shape suitable to
the particular lamp or lantern to which it is to be applied, and that the
information thereon may be on one or more sides or entirely around it.
And in order that my said Invention may be more clearly understood
and readily carried into effect I will proceed aided by the accompanying
Drawings more fully to describe the same.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is an elevation of an ordinary street lamp having my Inven-
tion applied thereto, and Figure 2 is an under side view; Figure 3 is
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page_text: a represents the frame or support of the lamp or lantern 6. This
frame a is fixed to the upper end of a lamp-post by means of the
socket a¹.
c is the reflecting indicator, which is made or covered with material
capable of reflecting the light from the burner & in the lamp or lantern,
and it is placed at such an angle and position with respect to the light
as to enable it to be readily seen and read. This reflecting indicator, as
applied to ordinary street lamps, is made removeable, and is held in
position between the lantern frame or support and the lamp or lantern.
Although I have only shown my Invention applied to an ordinary 1
square street lamp or lantern it is evident that it may be applied to
other descriptions and shapes of lamps or lanterns, and may be fixed in
position by any other suitable means.
The reflecting indicator may be made or coated with any suitable
reflecting material, and it may have the names of streets or other 1
information painted or otherwise indicated thereon, and such information
may be on one or more sides or entirely around it. By these means I
am enabled to provide an indicator which, whilst reflecting the light
from the burner does not obstruct any of the light.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the mode 2
in which I carry the same into effect, I would have it understood that I
do not claim a simple transparent or other indicator attached to a lamp
or lantern, as such have before been used, but what I claim is forming
or coating such indicators with reflecting material and fixing them in
manner substantially as herein shown and described in such a position. 2
with respect to the burner that whilst reflecting the light therefrom, and
thereby exhibiting the information intended to be conveyed thereby, it
shall not obstruct any of the light.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Parkman, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of May, in a
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-