Improvements in Lensed and Ornamented Glasses for Carriage and other Lamps, Lanterns, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 11th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 11th Feb., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Lensed and Ornamented Glasses for Carriage and
other Lamps, Lanterns, and the like.
I, JONATHAN HULLS, of The Cedars, Frederick Road, Stechford, near the
City of Birminghan, Manager of Works, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the providing of plain and other lamp, lantern and
like glasses with lenses for the purpose of changing the direction of rays of light
passing therethrough in order to increase the luminosity of the lamp or the like,
or attaching ornaments thereto without materially interfering with the ordinary
glasses employed.
In carrying out one form of my improvements, I take a square bevelled or plain
edged glass and attach a lens upon the middle of the outside plain face of the same
by rivetting. Or I take a plano-convex lens, with the plano side coming upon the
middle of the outside plane surface of the glass, and attach the same preferably by
rivettings through both the glass and lens at points near to the edge of the lens.
Or I secure the said plano surface of the lens to the middle of the glass plate
(which is preferably plain) by a fluxing process or by a slight fusion of the opposed
surfaces, in which case rivetting is dispensed with.
Instead of employing a square plate, the lens may be placed in the middle of
the plain face of a circular glass, or within the middle of the plain part of an
ornainented plate.
I find that in rivetting, two opposite rivets are sufficient for the purpose of
connecting the lens to the glass.
I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the use of plano-
convex lenses, as plano-concave, double concave or other lenses may be employed
for special purposes.
Glass ornaments of any desired character to the plain surfaces of glass plates
for lamps, screens or other purposes as indicated, by rivetting or cementation or
fusion.
Dated this 10th day of February 1896.
JO ONA
By Henry Skerrett,
HULLS,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE
Improvements in Lensed and Ornamented Glasses for Carriage and
other Lamps, Lanterns, and the like.
I, JONATHAN HULLS, of The Cedars, Frederick Road, Stechford, near the
City of Birmingham, Manager of Works, 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 providing of plain and other lamp, lantern and

page_text: like glasses with lenses for the purpose of changing the direction of rays of light
passing therethrough in order to increase the luminosity of the lamp or the like,
or attaching ornaments thereto without materially interfering with the ordinary
glasses employed.
In carrying out one form of my improvements, I take a square bevelled or plain
edged glass and attach a lens upon the middle of the outside plain face of the same
by rivetting. Or I take a plano-convex lens, with the plano side coming upon the
middle of the outside plane surface of the glass, and attach the same preferably by
rivettings through both the glass and lens at points near to the edge of the lens.
Or I secure the said plano surface of the lens to the middle of the glass plate
(which is preferably plain) by a fluxing process or by a slight fusion of the opposed
surfaces, in which case rivetting is dispensed with.
Instead of employing a square plate, the lens may be placed in the middle of
the plain face of a circular glass, or within the middle of the plain part of an
ornamented plate.
I find that in rivetting, two opposite rivets are sufficient for the purpose of
connecting the lens to the glass.
I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the use of plano-
convex lenses, as plano-concave, double concave or other lenses may be employed
for special purposes.
Glass ornaments of any desired character may be attached to the plain surfaces
of glass plates for lamps, screens or other purposes as indicated, by rivetting or
cementation or fusion.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents a plain lamp glazing having
upon its face, a separate and attached lens according to my invention and secured
by cementation at the extreme boundary edges.
Figure 2 represents a section of Figure 1 upon the dotted line x.
Figure 3 represents a like section as Figure 2 but with the lens and its plain
plate separated.
Figure 4 is a plan of the plain glazing and Figure 5 a plan of the lens
separately.
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In Figures 1 to 5, a is the plain glazing, and is the attached finished and
polished lens, which is shown as of a plano-convex section, with the plano side b¹,
attached to the said glazing by a ring of cement c, around the edges.
Figure 6 represents another form of my invention, in which the lens is secured
to the plain glazing or plate by cross rivettings at the two opposite sides.
Figure 7 is a cross section of Figure 6 upon the dotted line
like section, but with the parts separated.
and Figure 8 is a
a is the plain glazing or plate, b is the attached lens and c the securing rivets,
passing through coincident holes a', 6' in both lens and plate. d are soft washers
surrounding the end of the rivets to prevent the same coming in contact with the
glass.
Figure 9 is a plan of a round and ornamented plate or glazing having a lens
attached thereto by a ring of cement at the extreme edges of the lens.
It is understood that any number of lenses may be employed upon the same
glazing, or the same may be applied to a screen as represented in Figure 10.
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 :-
First. In flat glazings for lamps, screens and the like, providing the same with a
separate and attached lens, substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly. In a plain glazing for various purposes, securing a separate lens to
face or the plain face of the same by rivettings, whereby a lensed glazing is
obtained, substantially.
Thirdly. Affixing a lens or lenses to a plain glazing by fusion or cementation,
preferably at the edges, substantially as described and set forth.

page_text: Fourthly. The improvements in combined plain glazings and finished lens,.
substantially as herein described and set forth.
Deted this 11th day of November 1896
JONATHAN HULLS,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.
JONATHAN HULLS,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.