IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIP STABLE AND OTHER GLOBE LAMPS
Year: 1885

page_text: We SAMUEL SNELL of Skinner Lane Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Manufacturer and GEORGE PEARCE of the same place Foreman do hereby declare
the nature of the said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIP STABLE AND OTHER
GLOBE LAMPS to be as follows:-
This invention refers to Improvements in the construction of the frames of
Lamps of the above description so that they may be readily separated for the
purpose of packing or of cleaning or renewing the glass.
With this view we make the frame separable at the waist or round guard by
attaching to each of the under quarter guards a male screw and to each of the
upper quarter guards a female screw which is of a thimble form free upon the
guard but prevented from escaping therefrom by a small collar upon the guard.
The two guards being brought together each to each the screwed thimbles upon
the upper guards are made to engage with the male screws upon the lower guards
and thus the parts are secured.
The lower quarter guards are fixtures from the ring guard zone of the frame to
the bottom of the Lamp, and the upper quarters are also fixtures upon the head of
the Lamp, so that when disconnected the frame is in but two parts the top part
when reversed resting within the lower part.

page_text: We SAMUEL SNELL of Skinner Lane Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Manufacturer and GEORGE PEARCE, of the same place Foreman, do hereby declare
the nature of our said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIP STABLE AND OTHER
GLOBE LAMPS and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had
to the accompanying drawings and to the letters and figures marked thereon :-
This invention refers to improvements in the construction of the frames of lamps
of the above description so that they may be readily separated for the purpose of
packing or of cleaning or renewing the glass.
With this view we make the frame separable at the waist or round guard, by
attaching to each of the under quarter guards a male screw and to each of the
upper quarter guards a female screw which is of a thimble form free upon the guard,
but prevented from escaping therefrom by a small collar upon the guard.
Or the upper quarter guards may be made entirely separable from the lamp by
attaching them to the lamp at the top as well as at the. waist by means of the
thimble form female screw.
Or the upper quarter guards may be hinged either at the top or at the belt and
attached by the screw arrangement at their reverse, ends.
In all the above named arrangements the lower quarter guards are fixtures
from the ring guard or zone of the frame to the bottom of the lamp, but when
desired the lower quarter guards may be treated as described for the upper ones
and the upper ones may be fixed.
The two guards being brought together each to each, the screwed thimbles upon
the upper guards are made to engage with the male screws upon the lower guards
and thus the parts are secured.
Although we have described a thimble form screw fastening we wish it to be
understood that we do not confine ourselves to that particular form of screw
attachment as other forms may be adapted with the same result.
Referring to the drawings, Fig. 1 is a view of one of the lamps (a) (a) are the
thimble formed screw attachments of the frame at the waist or ring guard (b).
Fig. 2. shews the attaching arrangement at (a) on the waist and also at the
top (c) thus making the quarter guards (d) separable at either or both ends.
Fig. 3. shews the upper quarter guards hinged to the waist or ring guard (b)
at (e) and screwed at (c) or this may be reversed by hinging them at (c) and
screwing them at (e).
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
The construction of ship stable and other globe lamps by making the frames of
quarter guards separable for the convenience of removing the globe or glass
substantially as herein set forth and illustrated.