IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF INCANDESCENT OR OTHER ELECTRIC LAMP TO RENDER IT PORTABLE AND CAPABLE OF BEING FITTED TEMPORARILY AT ANV AVAIT ADIE DELON OD OR ANDRE
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Banting Rogers of 47 Holborn Viaduct in the
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city of London Engineer for an Invention of IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF
INCANDESCENT OR OTHER ELECTRIC LAMP TO RENDER IT PORTABLE AND
CAPABLE OF BEING
FITTED TEMPORARILY
AT ANV
AVAIT ADIE DELON OD
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Banting Rogers at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd April 1882.
JOHN BANTING ROGERS of 47 Holborn Viaduct in the city of London Engineer.
IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF INCANDESCENT OR OTHER ELECTRIC LAMP TO RENDER
IT PORTABLE AND CAPABLE OF BEING FITTED TEMPORARILY AT ANY AVAILABLE
PLACE OR POSITION AND REMOVABLE THEREFROM AT WILL
The object of this invention is improved arrangement of incandescent or other
electric lanp to render it portable and capable of being fitted temporarily at
available place or position and removable therefrom at will.
any
For the purposes of my invention I arrange the conductible wires either by
short stems or otherwise so that they project beyond the base or socket of the lamp
or from that part of the lamp stem where the glass of an incandescent lamp is
hermetically closed or by, properly connected wires in are lamps or I terminate the
wires just inside the socket or the base either with plain, bent, cup shaped or other
form to be readily put into conductible contact with "lead" or with subsidiary
wires arranged in or on ledges, shelves, brackets, chandleliers supports or otherwise
where the lamp has to be temporarially used.
My temporarially fitted or arranged incandescent or arc (electric) lamps, are
preferably to be used with the system of dividing and subdividing the current
patented by me on the 20th day of September in the year 1880 N° 3809.
That system, is, carrying the two main wires,from a current producer such as a
dynamo machine each to an intermediate vessel or vehicle where said main wires
terminate from which vessel or vehicle other or subsidiary wires lead some of
which may be connected to lamps (divisions) and others to other intermediate

page_text: vessels or vehicles from which other subsidiary wires convey the current to lamps
(subdivision) or all the first named subsiduary wires may be connected to separate
vessels for further subdivison of the current or all or some only of the subsiduary
wires, secondly, mentioned may be affixed to other vessels or vehicles for a still
further division and so on as far as the current can be made divisable. To use
my present invention I affix the ends of the subsiduary wires of the first second
or other series to any part of a building or structure or suspended from any
appliance or otherwise held so that the lamp can be lodged, affixed or set thereon
or therein for obtaining a light.
The following will explain the object and method aimed at
Supposing A wants the current on at his house, he can have as many pairs of
wires as he likes to have about his place, he can have these wires in the Coal cellar,
Wine cellar, Closet Lavatory, Hall, Kitchen, Dining, Drawing and Bed Rooms in
fact 50 pairs of wires and only 6 lamps. He may use all the 6 lamps in one room
if he so wishes or he may have them in 6 rooms thus-he may have one in the
Kitchen, one in the Hall, one in the Dining Room, one on the Staircase, and two
in the Drawing Room. He may fit all the 6 lamps in a chandelier in the Dining
Room or otherwise and upon returning to the Drawing Room he may have them
taken there and placed in the sockets of the chandelier or elsewhere the current
being supplied from a main station or from a substation according to the system
described in the provisional specification lodged on the 8th February 1882 N° 621
or by any other system applicable to the purpose.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent and of
an Order of the Lord Chancellor filed by the said John Banting Rogers in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th April 1883.
JOHN BANTING ROGERS of 47 Holborn Viaduct in the City of London Engineer
IMPROVED ARRANGEMENT OF INCANDESCENT OR OTHER ELECTRIC LAMP TO RENDER
IT PORTABLE AND CAPABLE OF BEING FITTED TEMPORARILY AT ANY AVAILABLE
PLACE OR POSITION AND REMOVABLE THEREFROM AT WILL
The object of this Invention is improved arrangement of incandescent or other
electric lamp to render it portable and capable of being fitted temporarily at any
available place or position and removable therefrom at will. This is effected by
making the sockets and lamps so that all lamps interchangeably fit into all sockets
in the same house in the manner hereinafter set forth.
For the purposes of my Invention I arrange the conducting wires so that either
by short stems or otherwise they project beyond the base or socket of the lamp, or
from that part of the lamp stem where the glass of an incandescent lamp is
hermetically closed, or I put terminals on the wires or so modify their ends that
they terminate just inside the socket or the base with extremities either plain,
bent, cup shaped, or of other form so as to be readily put into conductible contact
with "lead" or with subsidiary wires arranged in or on ledges, shelves, brackets,
chandeliers, supports or otherwise where the lamp has to be temporarily used. In
the case of arc lamps properly connected wires or projecting stems similarly
arranged may be used.
My temporarily fitted or arranged incandescent or are electric lamps are
preferably to be used in connection with the system of dividing and subdividing
the current patented by me on the 20th day of September in the year 1880.
N° 3809. That system is carrying the, two main wires from a current producer,
such as a dynamo machine, each to an intermediate vessel or vehicle where said
main wires terminate from which vessel or vehicle other or subsidiary lead,
some of which may be connected to lamps (division) and others to other inter-
mediate vessels or vehicles from which other subsidiary wires convey the current
to lamps (subdivision), or all the first named subsidiary wires may be connected to
separate vessels for further subdivision of the current, or all or some only of the
subsidiary wires secondly mentioned may be affixed to other vessels or vehicles for
a still further division, and so on as far as the current can be made divisable.
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To use my present Invention I affix the ends of the subsidiary wires of the first,
second, or other series to any part of a building or structure, or suspended from any
appliance or otherwise held so that the lamp can be lodged, affixed or set therein
for obtaining a light.
The following will explain the object and method aimed at :-Supposing A
wants the current on at his house, he can have as many pairs of wires as he likes
to have about his place; he can have these wires in coal cellar, wine cellar, closet,
lavatory, hall, kitchen, dining, drawing and bed rooms, in fact fifty pairs of wires
and only six lamps; he may use all the six lamps in one room if he so wishes or
he may have them in six rooms; thus he may have one in the kitchen, one in the
hall, one in the dining room, one on the staircase, and two in the drawing room.
He may fix them all in a chandelier in the dining room or otherwise and upon
returning to the drawing room he may have them taken there and placed in the
sockets of the chandelier or elsewhere, the current being supplied from a main station
or from a sub-station according to the system described in the Final Specification

page_text: of my Patent dated 8th February 1882 N° 621 or by any other system applicable
to the purpose.
The annexed sheet of drawings clearly shows at Figures 1 and 2 how I carry
the ends of the lamp wires a a through the socket b so that their ends c c which
project and are bent to serve as springy holdfasts in the bracket & when inserted
therein, the lead wires e e being arranged in the bracket that the ends c c come
into contact therewith. The bracket may be of any shape and of any suitable
material and arranged in any desirable position as will be understood by reference
to Figure 3 which illustrates a dwelling house in section with brackets, gasalier,
chandelier, and pedestal frames affixed in position each being provided with lead
wires which teriminate at the apertures as at Figures 1 and 2 so that the lamps can,
be fitted in and removed at pleasure such as distributed throughout the building or
grouped in one or more rooms.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed I declare that I claim :-
The improved arrangement of incandescent or other electric lamp whereby it is
rendered portable and capable of being fitted in any position as substantially shown
in the annexed drawings.
Secondly I claim: The employment of incandescent lamps in fixed quantities
without regard to the number of lead wires within a building in order that the
amount or quantity of electric energy or lighting power consumed can be regulated
and charged upon the number of lamps supplied and used by the consumer
substantially as and by the means herein described.
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In witness whereof I the said John Banting Rogers have hereunto set my
hand and seal this Twenty sixth day of April in the year of our Lord,
One thousand cight hundred and eighty three.