Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 27th Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 11th Oct., 1887.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gas and other Illuminant Lamps, and in Means for
Utilizing Lamp and other Posts and Pillars for Advertisement
Space.
I, JOHN HORROCKS of 25, Saunders Street Southport in the County of Lancaster,
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:--
My invention consists of a jacket of glass or other transparent material which surrounds
alamp post or pillar and the lamp is so placed that the light will both illuminate the
street and the interior of the transparent jacket which is intended to be used as
Advertisement space. In order to make this portion of my invention clear I refer to
the accompanying Drawings.
Figs. I and II shew my invention as applied to a street lamp pillar of ordinary
construction except that the upper stem is continued through and above the lamp in
the arrangement in Fig. I and in Fig. II is made high enough to carry below the
lamp the transparent jacket «. In Fig. I this jacket is above the lamp and I will
proceed to describe this arrangement first.
Secured to the upper part p. of the lamp post is a Bracket to which is suspended
or attached in any ordinary or suitable way the lampe which may be of any suitable
construction and which in the drawing is shown as a globe. Gas lights as shewn at g
or electric lights as at d may be used the downward rays of course serving to illu-
minate the streets. The Bracket is formed with large perforations through which
the upward rays which are usually largely lost can penetrate. The transparent
jacket is supported by this bracket and also at its upper end by the perforated roof /
Within the jacket and also surrounding the pillar p. is fixed the inverted conical
reflector . By the dotted lines the course of the reflected upward rays is shewn. A
space is allowed between the jacket and the reflector at the top for the escape of the
products of combustion. The transparent jacket a may be lettered or figured in any
lesired way for advertisement purposes.
In Fig. If the Lamp is placed above the jacket. An additional bracket is
employed and an upright, conical reflector-not shown-may if desired he employed
within the jacket.
In Fig. II is shewn a similarly arranged lamp to the one in Fig. I but suspended
from above by the rod instead of being supported on a pillar. The lamp shewn in
Fig. II can also be suspended if desired.
In my Specification No. 7726 1886 I mentioned that the upcast pillar of the
system of sewage Ventilation therein described could be utilized as a Lamp Pillar
and part of my present invention consists of the adaptation of the lamp and transparent
jacket to such an upcast pillar and it will be seen that it is only requisite to enlarge
the central pillar and the parts surrounding it to allow for the required increase of

page_text: internal area. Or the contents of the upeast pillar may be caused to pass either
through the lamp or through the jacket only so as to obtain assistance from the
heated column therein.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is.
1. Surrounding a Lamp post or Pillar with a transparent jacket illuminated
internally by reflected or unreflected rays proceeding from a Lamp placed below
the jacket substantially as illustrated and described in Fig. I of the accompanying
drawings and for the purpose herein before described.
II. The inverted conical Reflector for the purpose herein before described and
substantially as shewn in Figs. I & III of the accompanying drawings.
III. The transparent jacket illuminated internally by a lamp placed above the
same for the purpose herein before described and substantially as shewn in Fig. It
of the accompanying drawings.
IV. The suspended Lamp and Jacket with the Lamp either above or below the
Jacket substantially as herein-before described and illustrated in Fig. III of the
accompanying drawings.
V. The adaptation of my present invention to the upcast pillars of sewer Ventilators
substantially as herein before described.
Dated this Thonis fifth day of Awest 1987