Improvements in Chandeliers, Electroliers, Pendent Hanging Lamps, and Brackets for Gas, Oil, or Electric Light.
Year: 1895

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Chandeliers, Electroliers, Pendent Hanging
Lamps, and Brackets for Gas, Oil, or Electric Light.
CHARLES MEASON Designer St. Ives Crompton Road Handsworth Birmingham
THOMAS FORD Chandelier Manufacturer Emily Street Highgate Birmingham do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
We purpose making pendent lamps with a centre down rod the top end of the
down rod to have a plate or ceiling rose attached and from underneath same a
pully rack rollers or wheels and from the same chains will be connected to the
moveable arms or scrolls on arms regulated by weights. The moveable jointed
arms will have one or any number of pendent tubes with a swing or regulating
joint to keep the tube or tubes straight and in line the arms of the pendent lamp
can then be lowered or moved as required so that any person requiring the light
brought lower can do so by pulling the arm down to the required position. The
burners and globes will be attached to the end of the pendent tube or tubes.
Dated this 5th day of February 1895.
CHARLES MEASON.
THOMAS FORD.
Improvements in Chandeliers, Electroliers, Pendent Hanging
Lamps, and Brackets for Gas, Oil, or Electric Light.
We, CHARLES MEASON, Designer, St. Ives, Compton Road, Handsworth,
Birmingham, and THOMAS FORD, Chandelier Manufacturer, Emily Street,
Highgate, Birmingham, do hereby declare the nature of our invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:-
Our invention consists of the construction and arrangement or combination of
parts hereinafter described of chandeliers electroliers and pendants aud brackets
carrying gas, oil or electric lamps whereby one or other or all of the arms of the
chandelier or electrolier or the lamp of the pendant or bracket may be raised or
lowered and at the same time moved towards or from the down pipe of the
chandelier, electrolier or pendant or from the wall plate of the bracket.
In constructing a chandelier according to our invention we connect the pendent
tube carrying the globe and burner to the down pipe by means of an intermediate
scroll arm or lever jointed at its inner end to the bottom of the down pipe and at
its outer end to the pendent tube so as to be capable of turning in a vertical plane.
The underside of the ceiling rose or plate of the down pipe is provided with a
roller or pulley over which a chain passes and works, one end of the chain being
fastened to the scroll arm or lever and the other end carrying a weight to counter-
balance the weight of the pendent tube and parts connected therewith. Or the
chain guiding rollers or pulleys may be carried by arms on the down pipe.

page_text: The construction of the arms of electroliers, pendent hanging lamps and brackets
is the same as that of the arms of a chandelier. In the case of a bracket the
intermediate scroll arm or lever is jointed at its inner end to the wall plate or
pateras.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents in elevation a three light
chandelier containing our improvements and Figures 2 and 3 represent the said
improvements applied to a gas bracket.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of
the drawings.
We will first describe the chandelier Figure 1.
a is the down pipe of the chandelier to the bottom of which the scroll arms or
intermediate levers b, b are jointed at 2, 62. To the outer ends 63 of the said scroll
arms or levers b, the pendent tube c, carrying the burner and shade appliances, is
jointed, the joints at 63 63 being horizontal and permitting the scroll arm 6 and
pendent tube c to turn in a vertical plane as indicated by the arrow and curvilinear
path in Figure 1. The joints *, 63 are provided with gas passages of the ordinary
kind. To the upper end of the down pipe a the arms or brackets d, d for sup
porting the chain guiding pulleys or rollers e, e are fixed, each of the chains f
passing and working over the said pulleys, being fixed at one end to the scroll
arm band at the other end to the weight g.
When it is wished to lower one or other or all of the lights of the chandelier it
is only necessary to pull the pendent tubes down to the desired extent when they
are counterbalanced by the raised weights g and thereby retained in the positions
to which they have been brought. One of the pendent tubes is indicated in its
nearly fully lowered position in Figure 1. The raising of the lights is effected
by the reverse motion of the pendent tubes c.
It will be seen by reference to Figure 1 that not only is the pendent tube lowered
by the pulling down action described but it is simultaneously brought out to a
greater distance from the down pipe, the scroll arm taking a horizontal or nearly
horizontal position.
Figure 2 represents in side elevation a gas bracket constructed according to
our invention, the jointed arms being in their normal or raised position and
Figure 3 represents the same with the jointed arms in their lowest and fully
extended position.
a² is the wall plate or pateras of the bracket having at its lower end the
swivelling or elbow joint h, h² and at its upper end the ornamental bracket or arm d
for carrying the chain guiding roller or pulley e which pulley is preferably connected
to the bracket d by a swivelling joint. The scroll or first arm 6 of the gas bracket
is pivotted at 62 to the part of the elbow joint h, h² so as to be capable of turning
in a vertical plane on the said joint b². The other or second arm c of the gas
bracket is suspended from the end of the first or scroll arm c by the horizontal
joint at 6. The arms of the bracket are extended and the light at the same time
lowered by pulling down the second or pendent arm c as represented in Figure 3,
the weight 9 on the end of the chain f counterbalancing and supporting the pendent
tube in any position to which it may have been brought. The first or scroll arm b
is capable, in addition to an angular motion in a vertical plane, of an angular motion
on the part 2 of the elbow joint h, 2 in a horizontal plane.
The application of our invention to electroliers, pendent hanging lamps carrying
gas, oil or electric lamps and to brackets supporting oil or electric lamps differs in
no essential respect from its application to a chandelier or gas bracket as hereinbefore
described and illustrated.
Having new particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that we claim
as our invention ;-
The arrangement or combination of parts of chandeliers, electroliers, pendent
hanging lamps and of brackets hereinbefore described and represented in the

page_text: accompanying drawings, the said combination of parts consisting of two jointed
arms, the outer or pendent arm being jointed to the end of the inner or scroll arm
and the latter to the down pipe of the chandelier or the like, or to the wall plate of
the bracket, so as to be both capable of motion in a vertical plane, and the com-
bination with the said jointed arms of a counterbalance weight connected by means
of a chain to the scroll arm, the said chain passing and working over a guiding
roller or pulley situated perpendicularly or nearly perpendicularly over the joint on
which the scroll arm turns, the said counterbalance weight rising and falling in
a line parallel to the down pipe of the chandelier or the like, or to the wall plate of
the bracket, substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated the Twenty-eighth day of October 1895.
CHARLES MEASON.
THOMAS FORD.