Improvements in Cycle and other Lamps.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cycle and other Lamps.
FRANCIS JAMES EDGINTON, Metal Spinner, 153, Sherborne Road, Balsall Heath,
Birmingham, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
A fastener for securing door and oil can of bicycle, carriage, & cart lamps. To
obtain this a piece of sheet steel is formed into a feather or V spring. Another
piece of steel or sheet metal is attached by a pinned joint and working upon the
said spring by the way of a lever forces the piece of steel or sheet metal forward &
thus securing the door or oil can.
Improvements in Cycle and other Lamps.
I, FRANCIS JAMES EDGINTON, of 153, Sherbourne Road, Balsall Heath, Birming-
ham, Metal Spinner, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This my said invention relates to improvements in cycle and other lamps and
consists in the construction of a fastener to be employed for securing of the doors,
and other parts of lamps, the operation of fastening and unfastening being
effected in a more simple and reliable manner, and without strain or injury which
has been the case hitherto.
And in order that this my said invention may be more fully understood I will
now proceed to describe the same more particularly and for that purpose I shall
refer to the sheet of drawings hereunto annexed the same letters of reference
indicating like or corresponding parts throughout all the figures.
Fig. 1. is a view in elevation of the one side of a "cycle lamp" with the
fastener applied thereto and constructed according to my invention.
Fig. 2. is a view in elevation as Fig. 1 but shewing the reverse side.
Fig. 3. is a plan view of the fastener detached (to an enlarged scale) and
constructed according to my invention.
Figs. 4 and 5 are side views of same.
Figs. 1 and 2. A is the body of a cycle lamp, B is the cone, C is the oil
container D is the door, (with lense) employed for the cleaning of B. E. is the
door employed for the trimming of lamp.
In Fig. 1 I shew my fastener securing the door D and holding the oil con-
tainer C.
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is a spring of steel bowed at b, with slide plates c, c, provided with holes d, d,
for receiving rivets, and for fixing and with ears e, e, which are bent up, and
having small holes h, h, is a lever of metal provided with side pins o, o, and
the hole which engages with the guide peg q, in Figure 1 only.
By referring to each of the figures it will be perceived that the end of the lever 7,
extends over the free end of the spring a, and the said 7, having its side pins o, o
engaged in the holes h, h, (and by means of which it works freely) it follows that
any movement of 7, is against the resistance of the spring a, a knuckle joint,"
being thus formed so that the lever 1, by the power of a, secures the fastening, and
when raised for the unfastening secures 7, in its raised position.
While I have described and shewn the above features of my invention as applied
to a cycle lamp, it will be understood that the same can be used as a fastening
for any parts of either cycle or other lamps furthermore I do not limit myself to
forms or details of construction but contemplate necessary or desirable changes in
form, construction, and the substitution of equivalent members.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
In "Improvements in cycle and other lamps."-
1. In a fastening for securing the doors and other parts of cycle and other
lamps, the combination, the lever 7, with the spring a, substantially as hereinbefore
described.
2. The general construction combination and arrangement of parts substan-
tially as hereinbefore described in the foregoing specification and illustrated on
the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated 10th January 1898.
THOS. KENDRICK,
50, Cherry Street, Birmingham, Agent.