Improvements in Carriers for Shades and like Objects for Gas and Electric Light Fittings and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 27th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 23rd May, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Carriers for Shades and like Objects for Gas
and Electric Light Fittings and the like.
EDWARD WILLIAM LANCASTER of Albert Works, Graham Street Birmingham
in the County of Warwick, Electrical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide a carrier having a very wide movement
and able to carry shades and like objects of different sizes and makes firmly with a
very slight and simple adjustment. To obtain this I employ a small circular disc
piece working on a centre pin or tube having excentric slots radiating towards the
edge in these slots are inserted the short ends of crank or wing pieces which are
arranged for griping the object to be carried.
The crank or wing pieces are fixed to the centre pin or tube and work on small
pins fixed close up to the circular excentric disc piece and at right angles with it,
that any movement of the excentric disc piece gives a largely increased movement
to the crank or wing pieces and thus grips the object. At the edge of the
excentric disc piece, I fix a milled set pin for holding the excentric disc firmly in
position when an object is gripped.
Dated this 23rd day of May 1895.
Improvements in Carriers for Shades and like Objects for Gas
and Electric Light Fittings and the like.
EDWARD WILLIAM LANCASTER of Albert Works, Graham Street Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, 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 :—
The object of my invention is to provide a carrier having a very wide movement
and able to carry shades & like objects of different sizes and makes, firmly, with a
very slight and simple adjustment. To obtain this I employ a small circular disc
piece working on a centre pin or tube having excentric slots radiating towards the
edge, in these slots are inserted the short ends of crank or wing pieces which are
arranged for gripping the object to be carried. The crank or wing pieces are fixed
to the centre pin or tube & work on small pins fixed close up to the circular
excentric disc piece and right angle with it, that any movement of the excentric
disc piece gives a largely increased movement to the crank or wing pieces and thus
grips the object. At the edge of the excentric disc piece, I fix a milled set pin for
holding the excentric disc firmly in position when an object is gripped. In order
to more clearly describe my invention and how the same is carried into effect,
I attach 3 sheets of drawings illustrating my invention. Similar letters in each
figure indicate similar parts.
Sheet One is a plan view of my carrier and Sheets 2 & 3 are elevation views.

page_text: Figures 1 & 4 illustrate my improved carrier in a form gripping the outside rim
of a shade for pendant or other purposes.
And Figures 2 & 3 illustrate my improved carrier in the form gripping the
inside of a shade or globe for bracket or other purpose. A. is a centre tube boss or
pin over which is fitted the disc piece B having the 3 slots C in which are inserted
the short ends d of the wing pieces D. Thus it will be clearly seen that when B is
moved round on A the short ends d of the wings D are moved to or from the
centre. F is the set screw which holds B firmly in any position along slot
is provided in the cap H.
which
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is.
The use of a circular disc piece having slots radiating from the centre to the
edge, operating the clip or holding pieces for shades and the like, as herein
described and illustrated.
Dated this 25th day of February 1806