Improvements in Galleries or Holders for Carrying Globes for Gaseliers and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 26th June, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 19th Feb., 1891-Accepted, 21st Mar., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Galleries or Holders for Carrying Globes for
Gaseliers and the like.
I, WILLIAM FOLEY, of 1, Holland Grove, Brixton, in the County of Surrey,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in globe holders for gaseliers and the like,
and refers to an improved device for fixing the globes in position, in combination
with the globe holder.
According to my invention I make a three armed globe holder or gallery, and
to one arm I pivot a small lever by means of a pin passing through the lever and
the arm, and at about the middle of the said lever.
The bottom of this lever is provided with a screw pin fitted with a milled head,
and so arranged, that the end of the screw can be made to bind on to the arm of
the gallery, and so hold the lever arm in any required position. One half turn of
the screw will release the bite of the same against the arm of the gallery, and
then the pivotted arm can be moved backwards or forwards at will, and again fixed
as required by tightening the screw.
Although I prefer to place screw at the bottom of the pivotted arm, I may also
place the same at the side. The other two arms of the holder or gallery may carry
as usual a slight projection or spur, between which and the slant end or back of the
arm the lower edge of the globe is inserted. I do not claim as a novel feature the
special holder or gallery separately, but the combination of such a holder, with
the globe fastening device herein before described, as I am fully aware that holders
of somewhat similar shapes have been already designed and sold, but they were not
provided with my improved fastening device, which holds the globe more securely
and more efficiently than the fastening means heretofore invented, while being less
expensive to manufacture.
Dated this oth dow of L1000
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Galleries or Holders for Carrying Globes for
Gaseliers and the like.
I, WILLIAM FOLEY, of 1, Holland Grove, Brixton, in the County of Surrey,
Gentleman, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in globe holders or galleries for gaseliers
and the like, and refers to an improved device for fixing the globe in position in
combination with the globe holder.
According to my invention I make a three armed globe holder or gallery, and to
one arm I pivot a small lever by means of a pin passing through the lever and the
arm and at about the middle of the said lever.
The bottom of the lever is provided with a screw pin fitted with a milled head,
and so arranged that the end of the screw pin can be made to
of the gallery and so hold the lever in any required position.
end of the screw pin may take a perfectly firm hold on to the
that portion of the arm along which the lever works, (and
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bind on to the arm
To ensure that the
arm of the gallery,
which is formed of

page_text: segmental outline to accomodate itself to the sweep of the pivotted lever) is formed
with a milled or otherwise roughened edge, which enables the screw pin passing
through the bottom of the lever to bite on to such edge with great certainty.
One half turn of the screw will release the bite of the same against the arm
of the gallery and then the pivotted lever can be moved backwards or forwards
at will.
On the remaining two arms of the gallery I form a spur projection on the upper
edge of the said arms which acts in combination with the lever above described to
retain the globe securely in position as will be hereinafter explained.
In order that my invention and the action thereof may be more fully understood
1 append hereto the accompanying sheet of drawings in which the like letters of
reference indicate the like parts throughout.
Figure 1. is an elevation of my improved gallery shewing the arm carrying the
pivotted lever above described, and also showing one of the other arms in side
elevation and the third arm in end elevation and
Figure 2. is a plan of the gallery shewing the three arms thereof.
A represents the lever which is pivotted at B. C is the screw pin passing through
the bottom of the lever and biting on to the underside of the arm as described.
D shews that portion of the arm which is provided with a milled or otherwise
roughened edge to afford a good grip for the said screw pin. E, E are the spurs
formed on the remaining two arms of the gallery.
The action of my improved gallery is as follows-The glass globe is placed in
position between the outer slanting guides F of the arms and the spurs E. E; and
between the lever A. and the outer guide F of the arm to which it is attached.
The upper portion of the lever A is then pressed against the globe which has the
effect of drawing the globe closely against the spurs, in which position the lever is
fixed by means of the screw pin C.
When it will be at once seen that by reason of the curved form of the spurs E
and of the upper portion of the lever A. the globe is locked securely in position.
In some cases where the design of the arm of the gallery or any other circum-
stances causes it to be inconvenient to place the screw pin in the position above
described, I may actuate the lever by any other suitable simple contrivance-for
example I may make the screw pin longer and let it work through a threaded
socket in the front part of the arm so that by screwing in the pin it presses against
the lower portion of the pivotted lever which will have the effect of causing the
upper part of the lever to press against the glass globe as before.
Having now fully 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. In an improved gallery or globe holder the pivotted lever A, fitted with a
Screw pin in conjunction with the portion of the lower edge of the arm which is
milled or roughened, all as hereinbefore described and for the purposes set forth and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. The pivotted lever, screw pin and milled or roughened edge of arm in com-
bination with the spurs E on the other arms, all as described and set forth in this
Specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
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RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.