Improvements in Mounting Electric and other Lamps.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 30th June, 1894
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Complete Specification Left, 18th July, 1894-Accepted, 18th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mounting Electric and other Lamps.
I, WILLIAM NEWBIGGING, Lt. Colonel (retired) of 94 Lexham Gardens
London, S. W., do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to mounting and carrying electric or other lamps, and is
particularly adapted for use over billiard tables, although of course the invention
may be used in other places.
The invention consists in mounting the electric or other lamps on a frame which
is pivoted at the top and bottom joints or slung by flexible cords or wires so as to be
capable of movement practically in the same way as the bottom bar of a parallel
ruler could be moved if the top bar were fixed, the object being to enable the
electric or other lamps to be drawn aside when not in use so as to give ample head
room and not interfere with the light coming from above or from any predetermined
point. The said frame may be raised or drawn aside by a cord travelling over a
uitable pulley.
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PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agent,
For the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mounting Electric and other Lamps.
I, WILLIAM NEW BIGGING, Lt. Colonel (retired), of 94 Lexham Gardens,
London, S. W., 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 mounting and carrying electric or other lamps, and is
particularly adapted for use over billiard tables, although of course the invention
may be used in other places.
The invention consists in mounting the electric or other lamps on a frame which
is pivoted at the top and bottom joints or slung by flexible cords or wires so as to
be capable of movement practically in the same way as the bottom bar of a parallel
ruler could be moved if the top bar were fixed, the object being to enable the
electric or other lamps to be drawn aside when not in use so as to give ample head
room and not interfere with the light coming from above or from any predetermined
point. The said frame may be raised or drawn aside by a cord travelling over a
suitable pulley.
In the accompanying drawing is shewn a set of six electric lamps suspended to a
frame over a billiard table with a skylight above.
In this form the frame a is slung on the cords b in such a manner that it can be
drawn up and to one side by the cord c which passes over a pulley d fixed on the
ceiling or at some suitable point so that during daylight the frame and lamps-or it
may be, frames-are out of the way of the players and spectators and the light
coming from the skylight is not obscured by the frame and shades.
In place of moving the entire frame to one side the frame may consist only of the
two bars a a¹ to each of which three lamps are attached the end bars e e serving
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page_text: only to steady the frame and being removeable in any convenient way so that the
bars a a¹ may be drawn to the right and left by the cords cc', or the removeable end
bars may be dispensed with and the bars a a' alone be employed.
It will be evident that in the case of a gas or oil fitting by suitably jointing the
pipes or employing ball socket joints the frame or fitting can be drawn aside in a
similar way or ways.
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 improvements in mounting electric and other lamps which consists in
arranging and constructing the parts so that the lights may be drawn aside sub-
stantially as and for the purpose described.
2. In mounting electric and other lamps for the purpose described the arrange-
ment and construction of the moveable frame for carrying the lights substantially
as described.
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3. The improvements in mounting electric and other lamps for the purpose set
forth substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated the 17th day of July 1894
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agent,
For the Applicant.