AN IMPROVED GALLERY OR GLOBE HOLDER FOR FIXING GLASS CHIMNEYS, GLOBES, OR SHADES FOR GAS OR OTHER LAMPS
Year: 1879

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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Fielding at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 1st February 1879.
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JAMES FIELDING, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster. "AN IMPROVED
GALLERY OR GLOBE HOLDER FOR FIXING GLASS CHIMNEYS, GLOBES, OR SHADES
FOR GAS OR OTHER LAMPS."
The devices commonly called " galleries" or "globe holders," as ordinarily
employed for fixing the glass chimneys, globes, or shades onto gas burners and
lamps, are provided with two hook clips, under which the bottom flange of the
chimney, globe, or shade is passed, and a small neb through which passes a screw
for fixing the chimney or globe.
This method of fixing is tedious, and the chimneys or globes are liable to be
broken by turning the screw too far, and the screws are liable to become loose and
be mislaid.
The object of my Invention is to dispense entirely with the use of screws for this
purpose, and the Invention consists mainly in the use of three or more hook clips
for that purpose, one of which is adjustable or movable horizontally to allow of the
introduction of the rim of the chimney or globe beneath the others, and when
moved back to its original position will effectually hold and fix the chimney, globe,
or shade.
This horizontally movable adjustable clip can be arranged in various ways so
long as when turned aside it will admit the full diameter of the rim to pass, and
when turned back again it will fix or hold the same. For example,.a very ordinary
form of gallery consists of a central ring which screws onto the gas burner, and is
provided with three radial arms, two of which are provided with hook clips, and the
third with a neb and screw. In applying my Invention to this class of gallery I
provide the central ring with two arms only at an angle of about 120 degrees to
each other, and I form a second ring provided with one arm, the end of which is
also bent up into a clip or hook.
The ring has also three small radial projections, which, being bent over the edge
of the first named ring, will clip the two rings together, and allow of the third arm
being turned horizontally about one sixth of a revolution. In this position the
third arm, instead of being opposite the centre of the space between the other two,
will be in a line with one of them, and at an angle of about 60 degrees to the other.
It will be evident that when in this position the flange of the chimney or globe can
readily be placed side ways under all three clips, and that upon turning the loose

page_text: arm horizontally back to its original position it will effectually hold and fix the
chimney or globe.
In those "galleries" made with an external ring I have two fixed hook clips, and
the third one is so made as to clip round the ring and be capable of moving round
the external ring a sufficient distance to admit of the full diameter of the flange
_of_the_chimney_or_globe..
In other cases I make the clip so as to turn horizontally on its own centre, which
-passes-through-a-hole-in-the-gallery.In this case the flange of the chimney or
globe is slipped under the two fixed clips in the usual manner, while the movable
clip-is turned with its hook outwards, and the latter being then reversed will hold
the flange securely.