Improvements in and relating to Brackets, Chandeliers, Electroliers, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Oct., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 30th July, 1898-Accepted, 1st Oct:, 1898
Improvements in and relating to Brackets, Chandeliers,
Electroliers, and the like.
We, CHARLES DARRAH, of Holly Point, Heaton Mersey, near Manchester,
Merchant, and THOMAS GIBSON, of 21, George Street, Levenshulme, Manchester,
Foreman Brassfinisher, both in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to brackets, électroliers, chandeliers' and the like which may
be employed for gas and electric lighting, and its object is to so construct those parts
which carry the burners or lamps that they may be easily bent or turned to any
desired position without the employment of swivel or other joints.
A bracket constructed to embody these improvements is provided with a base by
means of which it may be secured to a wall or other support in any usual manner.
Secured to the base by one end is a length of flexible metallic tubing the other end
of which carries the burner or lamp. The wires or the gas pass through this tubing
in the same way as they do through the ordinary rigid tubing at present employed.
Should the flexible metallic tubing be not strong enough or stiff enough to maintain
itself in any position in which it may be placed it may have combined with it, either
outside or in, a metallic or other suitable strip or the like capable of bending, such,
for example, as a copper wire. In some cases of electric lighting this extra strip may
be dispensed with as the conducting wires will, when strong enough, act as stiffeners.
In other cases a clip or length of short rigid tube or the like may be adapted to slide
upon and occupy any position upon the flexible tubing.
The arms or branches of an electrolier, chandelier or the like may be similarly
formed of the flexible metallic tube arranged as herein before described.
The flexible métallic tubing must of course be gas or air tight when used by itself
in gas lighting, but, if desired, it may be lined or combined with a soft tube such as
thin soft copper, which will act as a stiffener or support and may be utilised to convey
the gas to the burner. This tubular stiffener may also be employed with electric
light brackets or arms.
A bracket or chandelier arm or branch so constructed may be easily bent to
different shapes and its lamp or burner may be placed in many different positions.
Dated this 20th day of October 1897
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day of October 1897
W. E. HEYS & SON,.
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Brackets, Chandeliers,
Electroliers, and the like.
We, CHARLES DARRAH, of Holly Point, Heaton Mersey, near Manchester,
Merchant, and THOMAS GIBSON, of 21, George Street, Levenshulme, Manchester,

page_text: Foreman Brassfinisher, both in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be partic-
ularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to brackets, electroliers, chandeliers and the like which may
be employed for gas or electric lighting, and its object is to so construct those parts
which carry the burner or lamps that they may be easily bent or turned to any
desired position, which they will retain as long as desired, without the employment
of swivel or other joints.
A bracket constructed to embody these improvements is provided with a base or
other suitable or equivalent part by means of which it may be attached to a wall or
other support in any usual manner. Secured to the base by one end is a length of
flexible metallic tubing the other end of which carries the burner or lamp. The
gas or the wires for the electric light pass through this tubing in the same manner
as they do through the ordinary rigid tubing at present commonly employed. As
the flexible metallic tubing is not in itself strong enough or stiff enough to main-
tain itself in any position in which it may be placed, it has combined with it, either
outside or in, a metallic or other suitable strip or the like capable of bending, such
for example, as a copper wire. In another case a clip or short length of rigid tube
or the like may be adapted to slide upon and occupy any position upon the flexible
tubing.
The improved bracket may thus have any convenient or suitable shape imparted
to it at any desired time.
The arms or branches of an electrolier, chandelier, or the like may be similarly
formed of the flexible metallic tube arranged and stiffened as hereinbefore
described.
.
The flexible metallic tubing must of course be gas or air tight when used by
itself in gas lighting, but if desired it may be lined or combined with a soft tube
such as thin soft copper, which will act as a stiffener or support and may be utilised
to convey the gas to the burner. This tubular stiffener may also be employed with
electric light brackets or arms.
In order that our invention may be more readily understood we have hereto
appended a sheet of drawings, which illustrate one form of improved bracket, and to
which we will hereinafter refer.
Figure 1 shows a bracket adapted to carry an electric lamp.
Figures 2 and 3 represent respectively transverse and cross sections of parts of the
tubular part of such a bracket.
Figure 4 illustrates on a reduced scale a bracket in one of the positions to which it
may be bent or curved.
A is a base or other equivalent part to which one end of the length of flexible
metallic tubing B is secured by solder or other suitable means. C is a lamp holder
which is similarly attached to the other end of the tubing. D, E, are wires for con-
veying the current to the lamp. The flexible tubing may be of any desired
construction or cross section, as, for example, that represented in Figures 2 and 3.
The brackets may be bent to many suitable shapes one of which is shown in Figure 4,
and these shapes may be altered at any time.
The tubing has its strength supplemented by the copper or other suitable strip F
which may be placed within the tube, or outside if desired, and have its ends secured
to the ends of the flexible tubing.
As an alternative the copper or other strip F may be substituted or supplemented
by a short length of curved or straight rigid tubing, which fits upon the flexible
tubing and may be slided along to any desired point.
Should it be intended to use the bracket for gas lighting the tubing may be lined
with a thin copper or other tube and this tube may also act as the stiffener. Of
course the flexible tubing may be used for the conveyance of gas without a
lining tube and may be stiffened by a strip or the like as already described.
Similarly a tubular stiffener may be employed for the electric light bracket instead
of the strip.

page_text: Although we have only described our invention as applied to the construction of a
bracket it is evident that it is equally applicable to the construction of arms or
branches for electroliers, chandeliers and the like.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is :-
A bracket or a branch for an electrolier or chandelier or the like, constructed from
a length of flexible metallic tubing and provided with a stiffening device, substan-
tially as herein before described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
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1000.
W. E. HEYS & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.