Improvements in Cycle Lamps.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 18th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 21st Oct., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cycle Lamps.
We, JOHN PARKER, Successor to Samuel Snell and Company, of Aston Brook
Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, and JOSEPH BENJAMIN
WORTON, of 25, Tillingham Street, Sparkbrook, Birmingham aforesaid, Manager
of Works, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to detail improvements in cycle lamps, and consists first, in
the formation, or the making of the shell body part; secondly, in a hinged front,
jointed to the base or foot end, and which front carries the bell or lens glazing;
thirdly, in the reflector part; fourthly, in the bracket arms.
In carrying out the first part of our invention, we make the sides, top and bottom
of the shell body part in one piece, or from a single blank of sheet metal, of the
breadth of the said lamp, and with the meeting edges of the plate or strip coming
at the upper or breaker part, or coming at the lower or foot part, according to the
shaping of the blank.
Thus, we take a long cut-out blank of sheet metal, and bend the same upwards
at points a short distance from its middle, to form the sides, which are bent or
gathered inwards at a short distance from the extreme base, forming an oil tank
receiver, wherein the oil tank slides.
The upper ends of the blank are then bent inwards into a bridge or breaker, and
with hooded piercings directed through the metal of the same. Covering the
breaker or the crown from back to front is an attached hood or cowl, with the inside
of the same coming within a short distance of the breaker, whilst the ends are open
and the sides bulge outwards, to give clearance for the exit of the products of
combustion.
Situated at the back of the lamp is a loose reflector-carrying plate, having a
reflector shaped within the middle of the upper part of it.
The reflector plate has
its lower part expanded, to coincide with the back of the base of the inside of the
lamp, and has a flat or other spring standing from the front face of it, for the
pushing out of the oil tank carrying the burner, on the door of the lamp being
opened, whilst the top of the plate has a flange or turned back part, to keep the
reflector from the lamp back.
The door of the lamp, which constitutes the front thereof, and carries the bell, is
hinged to the base, and is fastened to a top strap or bridge, crossing transom-wise
the opening. The door or front of the lamp is secured near the cowl or hood by a
snap or other fastener.
We preferably provide the inside edges, less the top, of the door, with a flange
or rabate, so as to overlap the boundary edges of the opening of the body, which
are also rabated.
The sides of the lamp are glazed with sliding frames, as usual, and gapped for
ventilation, and for taking the winder stem.
By having the front hinged to the base or lower part, and turning downwards
instead of upwards, the interior of the lamp is made more accessible.
In forming the bracket arms, we make the same up of a pierced frame, of a ring-
within-ring construction, with the said rings connected by junctions, and with the
extreme ends of the frames branched into arms, which are connected by pins to
sleeves at the back of the lamp and socket plate respectively.
Dated this 11th day of January 1893.
JOHN PARKER,
JOSEPH BENJAMIN WORTON,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cycle Lamps.
We, JOHN PARKER, Successor to Samuel Snell and Company, of Aston Brook
Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, and JOSEPH BENJAMIN
WORTON, of 25, Tillingham Street, Sparkbrook, Birmingham aforesaid, Manager
of Works, 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 detail improvements in cycle lamps, and consists first, in
the formation, or the making of the shell body part; secondly, in a hinged front,
jointed to the base or foot end, and which front carries the bell or lens glazing;
thirdly, in the reflector part.
In carrying out the first part of our invention, we make the sides, top and bottom
of the shell body part in one piece, or from a single blank of sheet metal, of the
breadth of the said lamp, and with the meeting edges of the plate or strip coming
at the upper or breaker part, or coming at the lower or foot part, according to the
shaping of the blank.
Thus, I take a long, cut-out blank of sheet metal, and bend the same upwards at
points a short distance from its middle, to form the sides, which are bent or gathered
inwards at a short distance from the extreme base, forming an oil tank receiver,
wherein the oil tank slides.
The upper ends of the blank are then bent inwards into a bridge or breaker, and
with hooded piercings directed through the metal of the same. Covering the
breaker or the crown from back to front is an attached hood or cowl, with the inside
of the same coming within a short distance of the breaker, whilst the ends are open
and the sides bulge outwards, to give clearance for the exit of the products of
combustion.
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Situated at the back of the lamp is a loose reflector-carrying plate, having
reflector shaped within the middle of the upper part of it. The reflector plate has
its lower part expanded, to coincide with the back of the base of the inside of the
lamp, and has a flat or other spring standing from the front face of it, for the
pushing out of the oil tank carrying the burner, on the door of the lamp being
opened, whilst the top of the plate has a flange or turned back part, to keep the
reflector from the lamp back.
The door of the lanp, which constitutes the front thereof, and carries the bell, is
hinged to the base, and is fastened to a top strap or bridge, crossing transom-wise
the opening. The door or front of the lamp is secured near the cowl or hood by a
suap or other fasteuer.
We preferably provide the inside edges, less the top, of the door, with a flange
or rabate, so as to overlap the boundary edges of the opening of the body, which
are also rabated.
The sides of the lamp are glazed with sliding frames, as usual, and gapped for
ventilation, and for taking the winder stem.
By having the front hinged to the base or lower part, and turning downwards
instead of upwards, the interior of the lamp is made more accessible.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in longitudinal vertical
section, a cycle lamp provided with an improvement made according to our
invention.
Figure 2 represents a transverse section on the dotted lines A B Figure 1,
showing how the sides, bottom, crown and breaker of the shell body part of the
lamp are made in one piece, or from a single blank of metal.
Figure 3 represents the blank, and Figure 4 the same when bent up or fashioned
into the shell, less the back and front of the lamp.
Figure 5 is a cross section of the lamp showing how the turn-down front bas
overhanging edges for taking over the edges of the sides.

page_text: Figure 6 is a cross section of Figure 4.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawing.
The primary shell body part a, comprehending bottom a², opposite sides a³,
breaker a, and crown a is made from a blank a', folded up into the figure of the
transverse section of the body of the lamp Figure 4, and with the ends of the blank
meeting at a
The shell body part of the said lamp is then completed by adding to the top or
crown of the same, a cowl a, and to the aperture or open back a, a back b, and to
the open front a, a turn-down front d, hinged at 2, and having flanged edges d',
and with the upper part d³, of the said closure front or part front which carries the
bell e, being secured by a spring lever catch d*.
Thus the front of the lamp has a turn-down door or closure d, carrying the
glazed bell e, and which turn-down front, when partly opened, takes a position as
represented in the dotted lines in Figure 1.
The crown a', of the lamp is pierced with apertures a', and side wings a³,
and through the parts a', the products of combustion of the lamp outwardly
pass.-
The inwardly directed flanges do, of the said front d, overlap the edges a",
of the sides a³, so as to make the same practically light-tight.
and
fis a sliding oil-tank, pushed out of position when the front or door d is opened,
by a flat spring g², carried by a reflector back g, which carries a reflector g¹,
has top and bottom bearing flanges g³, g*.
The sides of the lamp are fitted as usual with side lights h, and the backs with
bracket arms i, also as usual.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
First In a cycle lamp, making the primary shell body part a, comprehending
bottom a, opposite sides a³, breaker a', and crown as, from a blank or single piece
of metal a', substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly-In a cycle lamp, combining with the primary shell body, com-
prehended by the bottom a³, the sides a, breaker a' and crown a³, of back and
front closures 6 and d, substantially as described and set forth.
Thirdly: In a cycle lamp, closing the open front or part open front of the same
by a door d, adapted to turn downwardly, and with its lower part hinged to the
bottom of the lamp, and with the middle part carrying the bell, substantially as
described and set forth.
Fourthly In a cycle lamp front, closing the same or a part of the same by a
turn-down door or closure, carrying with it the bell e, and with the lower part
jointed to the bottom by a set-back hinge d', and the upper part d³, connected or
fastened to the top part of the lamp by a catch such as d, substantially as described
and set forth.
:
Fifthly In cycle lamps, the combination with a lamp, of a reflector plate g,
having a reflector g', flat spring 2, and bearing or rest flanges 93, 9', substantially
as described and set forth.
Sixthly-In cycle lamps, the general construction, arrangement and combination
of the parts, substantially as herein described and set forth.
Dated this 1st day of September 1893.
JOHN PARKER,
JOSEPH BENJAMIN WORTON,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.