Improvements in the Combination of Electric Light with Metallio Bedsteads.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 14th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 19th Jan., 1995
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Combination of Electric Light with Metallio
Bedsteads.
We JOHN WILLIAM HOYLAND, of Hill Crest, Bromsgrove, in the County of
Worcester, Manufacturer, and WILSON HENRY STURGE, of 17 Frederick Road,
Edgbaston, in the City of Birmingham, Electrical Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention relates to the combination with metallic bedsteads of certain
fittings for the accommodation and use of an electric lamp, and consists as follows:-
In the construction of the metallic bedsteads we provide means and accommodation
to receive an electric lamp which is contained in a suitable fitting carried in or
upon a gimbal or other similar universal like joint, by which the rays of the light
may be easily thrown into any desired direction by the occupant of the bed, such
as for reading &c. purposes or be thrown upon any special object in the room such
as a clock &c. In some cases the forepart of the hood or cover may be made
movable so that it may be thrown forward or backward to some extent, by which
the rays may be allowed a wider or more confined range.
Dated this 18th day of October 1894.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicants' Agent.
Improvements in the Combination of Electric Light with Metallic
Bedsteads.
We JOHN WILLIAM HOYLAND, of Hill Crest, Bromsgrove, in the County of
Worcester, Manufacturer, and WILSON HENRY STURGE, of 17 Frederick Road,
Edgbaston, in the City of Birmingham, Electrical Engineer, 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 the combination with metallic bedsteads of certain
fittings for the accommodation and use of an electric lamp, and consists as follows:-
In the construction of the metallic bedsteads we provide means and accommodation
to receive an electric lamp which is contained in a suitable fitting carried, in or
upon a gimbal or other similar universal joint, by which the rays of the light may
be easily thrown into any desired direction by the occupant of the bed, for various
purposes, such as reading &c., or be thrown upon any special object in the room
such as a clock &c. By these improved means we are enabled to keep the rest of
the room in comparative darkness if desired. In some cases the forepart of the
hood or cover may be made movable so that it may be thrown forward or backward
to some extent, by which the rays may be allowed a wider or more confined
range.
In order to more particularly explain this our invention, we have appended
hereunto an illustrative sheet of drawings upon which are figures and numbers of
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Fig. 1, is a general view of this our improved combination of electric light
fitting with a metallic bedstead.
Fig. 2, is an enlarged detailed view of the electric light fitting and those parts of
the bedstead to which it is attached..
Fig. 3, is a part sectional plan view of the fitting &c. on line A-B (see Fig. 2),
showing the lamp case and the trunnion ring slightly turned around in their
respective orbits.
Figs. 4 & 5, are enlarged detailed views in section of the trunnion connections
to the bedstead vertical rods.
Figs. 6 & 7, are detailed views of the lamp case showing the modified arrangement
of the sliding hood.
Fig. 8, shows this our invention in a modified position upon the bedstead head.
10, is the metallic bedstead whose top rail 11, and vertical rods 12, 12, and cross
bar 13, are so arranged as to form a square opening to receive the lamp fittings as
hereinafter described. 14, is the lamp which is carried in the case 15, having
hollows trunnions at 16, 16. At the front of this case is a glass or lens 17. These
trunnions 16, 16, fit into the hollow trunnion ring 18, which is again carried upon
the upright rods 12, 12, by the hollow trunnions 19, 19. The precise details in
the construction and arrangement of these trunnion connections may of course be
varied, but we find the arrangement shown to be very convenient, in which the
trunnions which carry the ring 18, are made in two parts, viz. 19 and 19*, and which
are in each case connected together by their respective screw nuts 20. This
facilitates the putting together of the parts.
It will be seen that the leads 21, 21, are conveyed interiorly along either or both
of the rods 12, 12, and through the hollow trunnion 19, 19ª, thence around inside
the ring 18, and through the upper hollow trunnion 16, to the lamp. At 22, or at
any other suitable point in the path of the leads, we provide a switch by which the
light may be turned on or off at will, the knobs 23, 24 & 25, are used only for
effect of design.
In Figs. 6 & 7, we illustrate the adjusting sliding hood 26. In Fig. 6, it is
shown pushed entirely back upon the lamp case 15, in which position it has no
effect upon the rays of light to that shown in Figs. 2 and 3, but when drawn out as
seen in Fig. 7, the rays are contracted somewhat, and limited thereby the range of
light given.
In Fig. 8, we have shown how this our improved arrangement may he made upon
the upper part of the top rail 11, of the bedstead, in which case the leads would be
conveyed along inside the rod or rods 12ª, and inside the frame 27.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
The hereinbefore named improvements in the combination of electric light with
metallic bedsteads, that is to say, the improved bed head having the ring 18,
carried thereon by trunnions such as shown, and further having the lamp case 15,
with its lamp and accessories carried within such ring 18, all substantially as shown
and described.
Dated this 13th day of December 1894.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicants Agent.