An Improvement connected with Lamp Shades.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Dec., 1893-Accepted, 6th Jan., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement connected with Lamp Shades.
I, ADOLPH MAY, of the Firm Wilhelm Hermann, 57 Strasburgerstrasse,
Berlin, Germany, Manufacturer, 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:-
This invention relates to light or lamp shades, which may be capable of being
made in a great many different shapes, and as clearly shown in the accompanying
drawings,
Figure 1 of which is an elevation of a circular shade,
Figure 2 of a square pyramidal shade, and
Figure 3 of two screens, leaves, or sections of an octagonal, or other many sided
shade.
The characteristic features of the invention are:-The lamp shade comprises,
like most ordinary lamp shades, and according to the various sizes of lamps for
which it is intended, of a number of parts, consisting each of a foundation of
paper, linen, silk, or the like, upon which are fixed in any suitable manner such as
by means of an adhesive, for instance, dried natural flowers, artificial, or painted
flowers, these flowers, feathers, or the like being arranged in the most varied ways
and grouped in any desired manner.
In order to protect these flowers or ornaments from outside influences such as dirt,
damp, and the like on the one hand, and to render on the other hand, these flower
decorations, or ornamentations fully visible by ordinary daylight, as well as by the
radiation of artificial light, the flowers are covered with sheets, or films of gelatine
having a suitable thickness. Gelatine however would expand under the action of
the heat developed when the shade is used in conjunction with artificial light, and
would therefore bulge or form pleats and the like, were it to be tighty fixed in any
manner on the shade. In order to prevent the occurrence of such a defect, I
arrange upon the different parts of the shade edges or frames of paper, ribbon,
curled feathers, and the like, which will also add to the ornamentation of the
shade, and may be so connected that two adjoining parts of a many sided shade
can be held together by the ribbons at these edges or frames.
When the edges are merely fixed on the different parts, these parts are joined
together by threads, or in any other suitable manner in order to form a whole,
while in some cases the above mentioned ribbons may be made to fulfil the same
object. Below these firmly fixed edges, other edges frames, bands, or ribbons may.
be loosely affixed to the gelatine sheets which are not fixed, so that they may move
on all sides, and hence expand under the action of the heat from artificial light in
the easiest and readiest manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The herein before described improvement in lamp shades consisting of orna-
menting or decorating them with flowers, curled feathers, or the like, and provided
with frames or fixings by means of paper, or ribbon, upon which gelatine sheets or
films of suitable dimensions can be applied as protective means for the flowers etc.,
said sheets or films being thus allowed to expand freely under the action of the heat
developed by the artificial light, and for enabling the decorations or ornamentations
to be visible by ordinary daylight, as well as by the radiation of artificial light.

page_text: 2. A modification of the lamp shade claimed above characterized by the
utilization of the frames for connecting each two adjoining parts of the lamp shade,
as set forth.
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Dated this 1st dov
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Adolph May.