IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM OR APPARATUS FOR RAISING AND LOWERING CHANDELIERS AND OTHER SIMILARLY SUSPENDED OBJECTS OR BODIES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Frederick Oscar Timme, of Basinghall
Street, in the City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MECHANISM OR APPARATUS FOR RAISING AND LOWERING CHANDELIERS AND
OTHER SIMILARLY SUSPENDED OBJECTS OR BODIES."-A communication
from abroad by C. H. Stobwasser and Company, of Berlin, in the
Kingdom of Prussia.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Frederick Oscar
Timme at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 28th October 1875.
I, HENRY FREDERICK OSCAR TIMME, of Basinghall Street, in the City
of London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM OR APPARATUS FOR RAISING AND LOWERING CHANDELIERS
AND OTHER SIMILArly Suspended OBJECTS OR BODIES" (communicated to me
from abroad by C. H. Stobwasser and Company, of Berlin, in the King.
dom of Prussia, to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a new and useful arrangement of mechanism
for raising or lowering chandeliers, branch lights, and other similarly

page_text: suspended objects or bodies, which may be applied with perfect safety
to them however great their weight may be. The peculiarity of this
arrangement of mechanism relates to improved means of arresting the
rectilinear motion of the suspended object, which is effected by a screw
connected with a stopping wheel.
The employment of this apparatus will supercede the use of heavy and
often dangerous counterpoise or balance weights and the mechanism now
generally employed for this purpose, and also affords greater safety and
convenience.
For this purpose a screw having a stop wheel fixed thereon is arranged
in combination with the chandelier or other object to be raised and
lowered, together with a latch lever which catches or locks in the wheel.
The screw is combined with a tube, which has at its lower end a grooved
leader or nut into which the screw fits perfectly, and which being con-
ducted through an exterior tube admits of rectilinear up and down
motion. The inner tube is fastened to the ceiling by means of a screw
or otherwise, and as soon as the latch or catch lever is pressed upon the
catch or stopping wheel is set free, and by pulling downwards or pushing
upwards the screw is set in motion in its leader or nut, and the catch or
stop wheel turns on its axis. By removing the pressure from the latch
lever it at once catches in the stop wheel, when it is impossible to set the
screw in motion either up or down.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Frederick Oscar Timme in the Great Scal
Patent Office on the 15th April 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
FREDERICK OSCAR TIMME, of Basinghall Street, in the City of London,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of October, in the g
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Henry Frederick Oscar Timme

page_text: Her special license, that I, the said Henry Frederick Oscar Timme, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Henry Frederick Oscar Timme, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM OR APPA-
RATUS FOR RAISING AND LOWERING CHANDELIERS AND OTHER SIMILARLY SUSPENDED
OBJECTS OR BODIES," (a communication to me from abroad by C. H. Stob-
wasser and Company, of Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia,) upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Frederick Oscar
Timme, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the sanie was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Frederick Oscar Timme,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to a new and useful arrangement of mechanism
for raising and lowering chandeliers, branch lights, and other similarly
suspended objects or bodies, which may be applied with perfect safety
to them however great their weight may be. The peculiarity of this
arrangement of mechanism relates to improved means of arresting the
rectilinear motion of the suspended object; which is effected by a screw
connected with a stopping wheel.
The employment of this apparatus will supersede the use of heavy and
often dangerous counterpoise or balance weights and the mechanism now
generally employed for this purpose, and also affords greater safety and
convenience.
And in order that the Invention may be clearly understood and
readily carried into practice I will proceed to describe the Drawings
hereto annexed.

page_text: Figure 1 shows a vertical elevation partly in section of a chandelier
arranged in accordance with these improvements; Figure 2 is also a
section showing some of the parts.
a is a screw having a stop wheel 6 fixed thereon, which is arranged in
combination with the chandelier or other object to be raised and lowered;
c is a latch lever which catches or locks in the wheel b. The screw a is
combined with a tube e, which has at its lower end a grooved leader or
nut e*, into which the screw a fits perfectly, and which, being conducted
through the exterior tube f, admits of rectilinear up and down motion.
The inner tube e is fastened to the ceiling by means of a screw or other-
wise, and as soon as the latch or catch lever c is pressed upon, the catch
or stopping wheel 6 is set free, and by pulling downwards or pushing
upwards the screw a is set in motion in its leader or nut e*, and the
catch or stop wheel turns on its axis. By removing the pressure from
the latch lever c it at once catches in the stop wheel b, when it is
impossible to set the screw a in motion either up or down.
Having thus described the nature of this Invention, and the manner
of performing or carrying the same into practice, what I claim under the
above in part recited Letters Patent is, the improvmed combination and
arrangement of mechanism or apparatus for raising and lowering chan-
deliers and other similarly suspended objects or bodies, substantially in
the manner and for the purposes herein-before fully described and repre-
sented in the Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Frederick Oscar Timme,
have hereunto set my hand and scal, this Sixth day of April,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six.