An Improvement in Bicycle Lamps.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Jan., 1897-Accepted, 15th May, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Bicycle Lamps.
I, JOHN Moss Draper 103 Johnston Street Blackburn Lancashire do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The improvement consists of a lense fixed behind the lamp at the bottom of the
lamp, in such a way as to throw the light on the pedals so that they can be seen
when mounting in the dark.
Dated this wi
1000
An Improvement in Bicycle Lamps.
I, JOHN Moss, of No. 103 Johnston Street, Blackburn, in the County of Lancaster,
Draper, 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 improvements in lamps for bicycles and tricycles, the
object being to so construct a lamp that it will throw a light not only to the front
and sides of the machine as ordinary, but will also throw a light backwards and
downwards so that the rider can see the pedals and gear of the machine when riding
or when dismounted, and the machine can be oiled or the gear adjusted without
the necessity of taking the lamp from the lamp bracket as heretofore.
The improved lamp is made somewhat after the ordinary manner but with a series
of reflecting and deflecting plates so that the light is thrown in the different required
directions.
Such being the nature and object of my said invention, the following is a
complete description of same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,
in which :-
Fig. 1 is a sectional side elevation of the improved lamp.
Fig. 2 is a view of the inside of the back of the lamp, partly in section.
Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the inside front of the improved lamp.
Fig. 4 is a plan view of the oil well.
According to this invention, the lamp is made somewhat after the ordinary manner
with a front lens 1 preferably circular, and below such lens 1 and at the front
part of the lamp is, preferably, a reflecting plate 2. The oil well 3 is cut away
or inclined at its back part 4, and in the lower part of the back of the lamp is a
glass or lens 5, above which is, a deflecting plate or reflector 6. The back part 4
of the oil well 3 is nickel plated or polished, forming a reflector and throwing a
powerful light through the back lens 5. At 7-7 are the ordinary side lights of
the lamp, and at 8 the spring suspending device.
When the lamp is lighted the ordinary reflector 9 at the back of the lamp throws a
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page_text: light through the lens 1 as ordinary and through the side lights 7. 7. The reflectors 2
and 4 and the deflector 6 also throw a powerful light through the lens or glass 5
backwards and downwards and onto the pedals and gear of the machine, so that they
-can be seen by the rider when on the machine, or when dismounted the parts and
gear can be seen to be oiled or adjusted.
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 :-
(1.) The improved lamp constructed as and for the purpose herein described and
substantially as illustrated by the annexed drawings.
(2.) A cycle lamp having a lens 5, reflector 2, and deflector 6, the back of the oil
well also forming an additional reflector as and for the purpose herein described and
substantially as illustrated by the annexed drawings.
(3.) A cycle lamp so constructed that the light in addition to being reflected
'towards the front is also reflected backwards and downwards as herein described and
substantially.as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
And this 20th dow of Å wil 1807
Dated this 20th day of Al 1907
day
JOHN MOSS,
By his Agents, Brierley & Howard,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax.