A New or Improved Transparency for use in connection with Street Lamps and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 6th June, 1899-Accepted, 15th July, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Transparency for use in connection with Street
Lamps and the like.
I, MARTIN GREGORCSIK-PASZTI, of No. 15, Contigasse, Budapest VIII, in the
Kingdom of Hungary, Merchant, 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 :-
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The object of this invention is to provide means whereby ordinary street lamps
may be utilized for exhibiting illuminated advertisements, indications of the
names of streets and so forth without the necessity of boring holes in or otherwise
altering the lamp supports.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings Figure 1 is a front view of a lamp and
lamp-post with one of my transparencies applied thereto, Figure 2 is a sectional
view of same, Figure 3 a side view partly in section, and Figure 4 shows a lamp
supported on an arm or bracket with a transparency placed at one side of the
lamp.
It will be seen in Figures 1, 2, and 3 that there is fixed to the lamp-post a,
below the lantern b, the transparency c, which may be of any suitable shape. The
transparency e is illuminated by gas burners e to which gas is supplied through a
pipe f. This pipe f branches-off from the burner of the lantern (which burner is
provided with a tap g) and is provided with a stop cock i. The branch pipe f is
fixed between the lantern burner and the gas service pipe in such manner that
it can be easily applied or removed. It is therefore not necessary to bore a hole
either in the lamp-post or in the gas service pipe within the post.
Figure 4 shows the transparency arranged on an arm or bracket i fixed to a
wall. In this case the transparency el is placed at one side of the lantern b. The
gas for illuminating the transparency is led to the same through a branch pipe fl
branching-off from below the burner of the lantern.
It is obvious that the transparency may be made of any suitable shape, and be
arranged in relation to the lantern in any suitable way, according to the position
and arrangement of the lamp support. By means of the above described arrange-
ments a street lamp can be provided with a transparency in such manner that the
lamp and its transparency can be illuminated each by itself independently of
the other.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
A transparency for use in connection with street lamps and the like, the
characteristic feature of which is that the suitably-shaped transparency, arranged
on the lamp support with proper relation to the lantern, is supplied with illuminat-
ing gas through a branch pipe connected below the lamp burner, and provided with
a stop-cock the said branch pipe being so arranged and adapted that it can be
easily applied or removed, whereby the boring of holes in, or other alterations to

page_text: the lamp support or gas service pipe in order to apply the transparency thereto, are
rendered unnecessary, substantially as described.
Dated this 6th lor of Jun 1899
M. GREGORCSIK-PASZTI
Per W. H. Beck,
Agent, 115, Cannon Street, London, E.C.
M. GREGORCSIK-PASZTI
Per W. H. Beck,
Agent, 115, Cannon Street, London, E.C.