An Improved Holder for Glass Globes and Shades for Gas and other Lights.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 1st Aug., 1895-Accepted, 7th Sept., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Holder for Glass Globes and Shades for Gas and
other Lights.
We, SAMUEL HENRY KEELING, trading as H. Hipkiss & Co. of Goodman
Street Works, Goodman Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, and
HENRY MATTHIAS PICKEN of 54, George Street West, in the City of Birmingham
aforesaid, Foreman Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention consists of the hereindescribed improved holder for glass globes
and shades for gas and other lights, the said holder being designed more particularly
for holding those globes for gas lights which are made without necks, such as comet
globes, but this invention can also be used for holding the globes for oil lamps and
for electric lights and for holding inverted glass shades for the same.
We will describe this invention in connection with a glass globe for a gas
light.
For the purpose of this invention we provide a globe holder consisting of a
central boss made with three projecting arms on which the globe reste, and
according to this invention in order to secure the globe in position we provide on
one or more of the arms an upwardly projecting finger which turns on a fulcrum pin
fixed to the arm and is made with a toothed quadrant which gears with a screw or
worm carried by bearings formed on the arm, the outer end of the said screw being
provided with a suitable milled head for turning the same.
To fix the globe on the globe holder the screw has first to be turned so as to
turn the quadrant and its finger about the fulcrum pin in one direction raising the
finger and allowing of the globe being placed on the globe holder, then when the
screw is turned in the opposite direction it will so act on the toothed quadrant as
to turn the finger down on to the inside of the globe and thus effectually secure the
same to the holder. The said screw which gears with the toothed quadrant as
aforesaid may
either be arranged horizontally or vertically or otherwise as may be
most convenient.
Dated this 8th day of November 1894.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.
An Improved Holder for Glass Globes and Shades for Gas and
other Lights.
We, SAMUEL HENRY KEELING, trading as H. Hipkiss & Co., of Goodman
Street Works, Goodman Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, and
HENRY MATTHIAS PICKEN, of 54, George Street West, in the City of Birmingham,
aforesaid, Foreman Machinist, 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 consists of the hereindescribed improved holder for glass globes
and shades for gas and other lights, the said holder being desigued more particularly

page_text: for holding those globes for gas lights which are made without necks, such as comet
globes, but this invention can also be used for holding the globes for oil lamps and
for electric lights and for holding inverted glass shades for the same.
We will describe this invention in connection with a glass globe for a gas
light.
For the purpose of this invention we provide a globe holder consisting of a
central boss made with three projecting arms on which the globe rests, and
according to this invention in order to secure the globe in position we provide on
one or more of the arms an upwardly projecting finger which turns on a fulcrum pin
fixed to the arm and is made with a toothed quadrant which gears with a screw or
worm carried by bearings formed on the arm, the outer end of the said screw being
provided with a suitable milled head for turning the same.
The said screw which gears with the toothed quadrant as aforesaid can either be
arranged horizontally, vertically or otherwise as may be most convenient.
On the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 is an elevation of a gas globe holder constructed according to this
invention represented as fixed to the globe;
Fig. 2 is a sectional end view of one of the arms of the same ;
Fig. 3 shews the same parts as Fig. 1 but with the globe holder open and the
globe removed :
Fig. 4 represents another arrangement of our invention with the screw vertical;
Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a globe holder illustrating another arrangement of
our invention in which the screw for operating the quadrant is arranged between
the globe and the fulcrum of the finger;
Fig. 6 is a sectional end view of the globe holder shewn by Fig. 5.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
figures.
A is the globe holder aud B B2 are two of the arms of the globe holder; C is
the central boss of the globe holder; D is the upwardly projecting finger which we
provide and which is jointed to the arm B2 by the fulcrum pin e so that the finger D
can turn on the fulcrum pin in a vertical plane so as either to catch against the
inside of the globe as shewn in Fig. 1 or turn in the opposite direction as shewn in
Fig. 3 and allow the globe being removed. d' is the toothed quadrant which is
made with the finger D and which gears with the screw or worm F carried by the
bearings formed on the arm B2. is the milled head of the screw F by which
the screw can be turned. This screw F may either be arranged horizontally
(Figs. 1, and 3) or vertically (Fig. 4) and either with the fulcrum e between the
screw F and the acting end d² of the tinger as in Figs. 1 and 3 or the screw F may
be arranged between the fulcrum e and acting end d² of the finger as shewn in
Fig. 5 in which case it will be seen that the toothed quadrant part d' of the
finger B is below the screw F. Similarly the screw F may if desired be arranged
in an inclined direction instead of being horizontal or vertical as shewn upon the
drawings.
To fix the globe A on the globe holder or to remove the globe therefrom the
screw F has first to be turned so as to turn the quadrant d and its finger D about
the fulcrum pin e in the direction shewn by Fig. 3 thus raising the acting end d² of
the finger and allowing of the globe A being placed on the globe holder in the
position shewn in Figs. 1 and 4 or allowing of the globe being removed from the
globe holder; then when the screw F is turned in the opposite direction the screw
will so act on the usual quadrant as to turn the acting end of the finger D down
on to the inside of the globe to the position shewn by Figs. 1, 4 and 5 thus
effectually securing the globe to the holder.
The accompanying drawings shew our said invention applied to only one of the
arms of the globe holder as this is sufficient when the globe or shade is held by its
base, but when our invention is applied to the holder of an inverted globe or shade
it is generally necessary for two or more of the arms of the holder to be furnished
with our invention as will readily be understood.

page_text: 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 :-
In a holder for glass globes and shades for gas and other lights the herein-
described improved means for removably securing the globe or shade to the holder,
consisting of the combination with an arm of said holder of a finger jointed thereto
for movement in a vertical plane said finger being made with a toothed segment
gearing with a screw carried by bearings on said arm so that when the screw is
turned in one direction the finger will grip the globe or shade and when the screw
is turned in the opposite direction the finger will release the globe or shade as
herein set forth.
Dated this 5th day of July 1895.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.