Improved Means for Automatically Attaching Globes to Globe Holders or Galleries.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 7th Dec., 1891-Accepted, 5th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Automatically Attaching Globes to Globe
Holders or Galleries.
WILLIAM FREDERICK FLETCHER 60 Stanmore Road Edgbaston Birmingham
ELISHA JOHN BRYANT DANKS 1 Trafalgar Place St. Mark Street Birmingham,
Gas Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
:-
Our invention has for its objects, a rapid and reliable method of adjusting, and
automatically locking a moveable clip, in connection with a globe holder or
gallery in any position suitable to the requirements, of various sized globes, and at
the same time avoiding any unnecessary pressure on such globes.
This invention consists of and is carried out in the following manner_viz. :—
To one of the arms of the globe holder is fitted a combined carrier and clip,
arranged in such a manner as to slide backwards or forwards as desired, the said
carrier being fixed by a locking device with which we use a lever or spring or
both, the spring being either coil or flat as best suited to the design of the holder,
the lever is carried on a rocker, or used in guides as required. To the lever is
attached a spring the whole working in the following manner riz. :-
The lever on being pressed with the thumb or finger removes a portion of the
said lever out of one of a series of grooves, or holes, or slots, made in the arm of
the globe holder and thereby releasing the carrier and enabling it to be easily and
readily moved along the arm, to any desired or suitable position and on releasing
the said lever, the spring acting on same, forces it back into one of the said grooves,
holes or slots, and thereby automatically locking the carrier in such position, on
the arm of the globe holder, as to either hold the globe firmly in its place or allow
of its being removed at will.
We would observe in conclusion that we do not confine or restrict ourselves to
the precise details or arrangement of parts that have been described, as variations
may be made therefrom, without deviating from the principle or main features of
this invention.
Dated this Fourth day of March 1891
W. F. FLETCHER.
E. J. B. DANKS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Automatically Attaching Globes to Globe
Holders or Galleries.
WILLIAM FREDERICK FLETCHER 60 Stanmore Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham,
ELISHA JOHN BRYANT DANKS 1 Trafalgar Place, St. Marks Street, Birmingham,
Gas Engineers 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 has for its objects a rapid and reliable method of adjusting and
automatically locking a moveable clip in connection with a globe holder or gallery
in any position suitable to the requirements of various sized globes and at the same
time avoiding any unnecessary pressure on such globes.
This invention is clearly represented by the accompanying drawings in which
the same letters of reference indicate the corresponding parts in all the figures and
consists of firstly In one of the arms of the said holder or gallery A a slot is cut
or pierced, on the sides of which, teeth, grooves, holes, or slots, are cut in such a

page_text: manner as may be best suited for the loosely fitting clip which slides and locks therein,
of which we will now give a more minute description. In the one side of the plate
of the clip C an oblong indentation is stamped Fin which is fitted a suitably shaped
spring G between which and the arm A a plate or disc H is placed in which a slot
is made sufficiently large to allow of large end of the plunger I to work freely
therein the said end being so formed as to fit at the top & bottom into the grooves
or teeth cut in the arm A, on the other side of which a plate B (see Sheet 4.)
sliding along in the groove between the teeth in the arm A hereinbefore mentioned,
and as shown in Fig. 2 in the accompanying drawings. On either sides of the
plates C, H, & B, holes are pierced to allow of rivets D1 and D2 being passed
through and riveted, in such a manner as to allow of the clip working freely along
the said arm A. On the projecting end of the plunger I a suitable shaped thumb
bit E is secured thereto.
The whole working in the following manner, viz. :-by placing the thumb &
finger on the portions E & F at the same time slightly pressing E, thereby forcing
the plunger I back on the spring G and so releasing the enlarged portion of
the plunger I from the grooves or teeth in the arm A, it can now readily be
moved at will along the said arm so as to allow of it being suitably placed to clip
any sized globe that may be desired to be fitted thereto, by removing the finger &
thumb the spring G regains its power and forces back the plunger I into the
teeth, in the slot of the said arm A and thereby automatically locking it in the
desired position.
The drawings show what we consider to be the best way of carrying our inven-
tion into effect, but it is to be understood that our said invention is not limited to
the precise details herein described and illustrated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
The method of attaching and automatically locking various sized globes to globe
holders, and the combination and arrangement of parts for effecting the same,
substantially as herein shown and described.
Dated this 5th day of December 1891.
WM. F. FLETCHER.
E. J. B. DANKS.