IMPROVEMENTS IN LAMPS FOR RAILWAY AND OTHER CARRIAGES, AND IN CONNECTING LAMPS TO CARRIAGES; A PART OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS MAY ALSO BE APPLIED TO HANDLES FOR CARRIAGES
Year: 1864

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Walter Howes and William Burley
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on
the 17th December 1864.
We, WALTER HOWES, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Lamp
Manufacturer, and WILLIAM BURLEY, of Birmingham, aforesaid, Lamp Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN LAMPS FOR RAILWAY AND OTHER CARRIAGES, AND IN CONNECTING LAMPS TO
CARRIAGES; A PART OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS MAY ALSO BE APPLIED TO HANDLES
FOR CARRIAGES," to be as follows:-
Our improvements in lamps for railway and other carriages, consist in the
following arrangement for fastening and unfastening the doors of the said
lamps. In place of the ordinary asp used for that purpose, we employ a
spring handle and catch. The spring handle we attach to the door of the
lamp and the catch to the lamp. On closing the door, the tongue of the
spring handle engages with the catch, and securely fastens the door. When
it is wished to unfasten the door, the handle is turned, when its tongue is
disengaged from the catch and the door is unfastened. We connect the tongue
of the spring handle to the axis of the said handle by means of a screw, in a
manner similar to that by which the inside handles of carriages are connected
to their spindles, and we cover the head of the screw by means of a cap which
screws on the end of the axis and protects and conceals the screw by which
the tongue is fixed to the axis of the handle. The said screw cap may also
be applied to the inside handles of carriages for the purpose of protecting and
concealing the screw by which the handle is connected to its spindle.

page_text: Our improvements in connecting carriage lamps to carriages are as follows:-
The free end of the arm by which the lamp is attached to the carriage we
make somewhat in the form of a hook by turning up the extreme end of the
In the side of the lamp we.fix a recess or socket into which the
hooked end of the arm fits, and in which it is fixed in the following manner :-
To the lower side of the recess in which the end of the arm fits, a semi-tubular
piece of brass or iron is fixed, its concave side being upwards, and on the upper
side of the arm near its turned up end, a similar semi-tubular piece of brass or
iron is fixed. When the lamp is placed on the arm, so that the end of the
latter engages in the recess in the former, the two semi-tubular pieces are
presented to one another so as to make a complete tube. The outsides of
the semi-tubular pieces have a screw thread on them, and an annular screw
cap placed upon the arm is capable of being screwed upon the screw thread
on the semi-tubular pieces when they are brought opposite one another. The
said pieces are thus bound firmly together, and the lamp securely fixed to the
carriage. In order to fix the lamp to the carriage it is only necessary to
place the lamp on the arm, making the end of the arm engage in the recess
in the lamp, and to screw home the annular screw cap. To remove the lamp,
the annular screw cap is unscrewed, and the lamp may then be lifted from the
arm. In order to facilitate the screwing and unscrewing of the annular screw
cap, thumb bits or projections are made on it. We prefer to, make the semi-
tubular pieces of brass, and the arm and screw
ourselves thereto.
cap of iron, but do not limit