IMPROVEMENTS IN LAMPS FOR RAILWAY AND OTHER CARRIAGES, AND IN CONNECTING LAMPS TO CARRIAGES, A PART OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS MAY ALSO BE APPLIED TO HANDLES FOR CARRIAGES
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Walter Howes, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Lamp Manufacturer, and William Burley, of Birmingham,.
aforesaid, Lamp Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
LAMPS FOR RAILWAY AND OTHER CARRIAGES, AND IN CONNECTING LAMPS TO
CARRIAGES, A PART OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS MAY ALSO BE APPLIED TO HANDLES
FOR CARRIAGES."
Sealed the 15th December 1865, and dated the 17th June 1865.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Walter Howes and William
Burley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Peti-
tion and Declaration, on the 17th June 1865, pursuant to the 9th
Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WALTER
Howes, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Lamp Manufacturer, and
WILLIAM BURLEY,. of. Birmingham, aforesaid, Lamp, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS, we, are in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
LAMPS FOR RAILWAY AND OTHER CARRIAGES, AND IN CONNECTING LAMPS TO CAR-
RIAGES, A PART, OF WHICH IMPROVEMENTS MAY BE ALSO APPLIED TO HANDLES FOR
CARRIAGES," and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto us, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the same; and have
made solemn Declaration that we are the first and true Inventors thereof.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Walter Howes and William Burley, do
hereby declare that the following Complete Specification under our hands and
seals, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and in what

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, in and by the following statement, that
is to say:
This Invention relates to what we term an improved lamp iron or iron arm
and lamp fixing to be applied to railway and other carriages, first, to carry,
and, secondly, hold the lamps, and, thirdly, to facilitate the attaching and
fixing the lamp to the carriages, and unfixing and detaching the same
therefrom. The improvements are effected partly in the lamp and partly in
the lamp iron, and the fixing and unfixing parts are also capable of being
applied for attaching and fixing handles to railway and other carriages, so that
the same when thus fitted can be easily and readily detached and refixed when
it is required to clean them, or for preservation from tarnishing or other
deterioration when the carriages are not in use.
In applying our Invention to lamps we dispense with the common socket
iron, and substitute therefor a semi-cylindrical hollow socket with a hollow
thread cut out a certain distance along the periphery, and fixed to the lamp,
and by preference formed of brass or other suitable metal, and a short arm
fixed to the carriage, which we usually make of iron, the outer end of which
is formed with a tongue turned upwards at the end, round which tongue and
solid therewith a half collar and half screw are formed, terminating with a
short length of entire screw, the tongue on the arm (or lamp iron) fixed to
the carriage fits into the socket fixed to the side of the lamp, the two half
screws then form an entire screw, over which a screw collar or nozzle is then
screwed, the lamp becomes firmly fixed and secured to the carriage, when
detaching the lamp the screw collar is simply turned a few turns back till it
clears the two half screwed portions of the socket and tongue, but still
remaining on the entire screwed portion before mentioned by slightly lifting
the lamp, and at the same time pulling it forward it is instantly freed from
the carriage, and vice versa.
In applying our improved fastening to carriage door and other handles, we
make the studs or other fixing media which are usually formed entire, and
fixed to the carriage in two parts detachable one from the other, one part
being formed on the handle, and the other on the carriage stud, both being
screwed externally, and fixed securely together by means of a collar as before
described.
the loose collar or nozzle screwed home; Fig. 2 the same, with the nozzle
turned back clear of the socket and tongue screws; Fig. 3 a section through

page_text: the arm and socket vertically; Fig. 4, a front view of the lamp socket plate at
the line A, B, Fig. 1., with the arm and collar removed; Fig. 5, a side view
thereof; Fig. 6, a view of the end of the nozzle also taken at the line A, B,
(Fig. 1); Fig. 7 shews the position of the screw collar, and also shews the
position in which the socket is to be held when attaching or detaching the
lamp to and from the arm; Fig. 8 shews the improvements complete, and the
lamp as formed attached to the carriage therewith.
The following reference applies to the whole; a, represents the arm which
takes the place of the ordinary lamp iron, and which is fixed to the carriage;
b, the socket, into which the tongue at the end of the arm enters; c, the screw
collar or nozzle for fixing the parts securely together when in position at
Figs. 2 and 3; this nozzle is shewn as unsecured, clear of the screwed portion
of both tongue and socket; in attaching or detaching the lamp or handle stud
thus formed, however, it is not necessary to unscrew the collar further back
than the line C, D, or to the position shewn at Fig. 7, in which position it
remains on the entire screwed portion of the arni. d, d, two small wings or
thumb pieces for turning the nozzle; e is the socket which is formed in the
plate for side of the lamp; g, the semi-cylindrical and screwed portion of the
socket; h, the tongue which enters the socket, at the upper portion of which, i,
is hollowed out to receive the turned-up portion j of the tongue; k is the half
screw; and 1, the entire screwed portion of the tongued end of the arm.
Having thus explained, illustrated, and described our said improvements
without restricting ourselves to the precise forms and relative portions of
the parts shewn upon the Drawings, we hereby further declare that what we
claim as our said Invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is, the
improved mode of forming and fixing the lamp & handle, securing media
for facilitating the attaching and detaching thereof to and from carriages,
substantially as herein described.
In witness, whereof, we, the said Walter Howes and William Burley,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Seventeenth day of June,
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
WALTER HOWES.
(L.S.)
WILLIAM BURLEY. (L.s.)
WALTER HOWES.
(L.S.)
WILLIAM BURLEY. (L.s.)