Certain Improvements in Floor Lamps or Standard Lamps."
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
"Certain Improvements in Floor Lamps or Standard Lamps."
I, HARRY HATELEY, of Aber Lodge, Rollason Road, Erdington, in the County of
Warwick, Gas and Electric Light Fitting Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
This Invention has reference to floor lamps or standard lamps and consists in
constructing the metal standard as herein described so that they will occupy less
space when packed for storing or transport. Heretofore the standard legs of which
there are usually three have usually been permanently fixed to the central part of the
standard causing the standards to occupy a considerable space when packed and
preventing the standard from being stored in a small compass.
In carrying out this Invention instead of making the legs rigidly fixed to the central
tubular stem of the lamp standard as heretofore I make all or some of the legs hinged
jointed or otherwise connected to the central portion of the standard so that the legs
can be folded to lie flat or almost flat against each other and thus enable the standard
to be packed in a small compass. The hinging or jointing or connecting of the legs
to the central tubular part of the standard may be carried out in various ways. For
instance I may fix on the central tubular part of the standard two socket like fittings
one above the other each made with a certain number of vertical sockets corresponding
with the legs said legs being made with corresponding vertical pegs or plugs fitting
in the sockets thus forming the hinged joints of the legs to the central part of the
standard.
To retain the legs in their opened out position at equal distances apart around the
central tubular stem of the standard various means may be adopted. For instance
this may be effected by one or more rings arranged inside or outside the legs and
secured thereto by screws or by other means thus keeping the legs at their proper
distances apart. Or I may make portions of the peg or plug parts of the legs of
square or other shape than round and the sockets to correspond so that the plugs will
not turn in the sockets until they have been moved longitudinally therein for a
certain distance. Thus in this arrangement when it is desired to fold the legs they
have first to be moved slightly longitudinally so as to disengage the square or like
parts of their plugs from the socket like fittings and then the legs can be turned
round and folded against each other. When the said legs are to be fixed in their
opened out positions they have first to be opened out to their required positions and
then moved longitudinally in the sockets so that their square or like parts of their
pins or plugs will enter and engage in the correspondingly shaped sockets and
thus retain the legs in their right positions.
It is not necessary that all of the legs should be made to fold as some of the legs
of the lamp standard may be rigidly fixed to the central tubular stem in the usual
way the others being made to fold as above described. For instance in a lamp standard
which is made with four legs arranged at equal distances apart round the central

page_text: part of the standard the two opposite legs which are in the same plane may be
rigidly fixed to the central stem of the standard and the other two legs be made to
fold so that the standard will then be comparatively flat."
Dated this 20th day of January 1897
"Certain Improvements in Floor Lamps or Standard Lamps."
I, HARRY HATELEY, of Aber Lodge, Rollason Road, Erdington, in the County of
Warwick, Gas and Electric Light Fitting Manufacturer, 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 has reference to floor lamps or standard lamps and consists in
constructing the metal standards as herein described so that they will occupy less
space when packed for storing or transport. Heretofore the said standard legs of
which there are usually three have usually been permanently fixed to the central part
of the standard causing the standard to occupy a considerable space when packed and
preventing the standard from being stored in a small compass.
In carrying out this Invention instead of making the legs rigidly fixed to the central
tubular stem of the lamp standard as heretofore I make all or some of the legs
hinged jointed or otherwise connected to the central portion of the standard so that
the legs can be folded to lie flat or almost flat against each other and thus enable the
standard to be packed in a small compass.
I will describe my Invention by referring to the accompanying drawings on which
Fig. 1 is a side elevation partly in section of the lower part of the standard of a
standard lamp or floor lamp constructed according to my Invention and represented
with the legs spread out so that it will stand as when in use;
Fig. 2 is a plan of the same;
Fig. 3 is a plan of the said standard folded for packing or transport ;
Fig. 4 shews a part of the said standard separately;
Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation and plan of a modified form of a part of the
same;
Fig. 6 is an elevation partly in section and
Fig. 7 is a sectional plan on line X X of Fig. 6 illustrating another form of folding
standard for a standard lamp or floor lamp constructed in accordance with my
Invention; and
Fig. 8 shews separately a part of the lamp standard represented by Figs. 6 and 7.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
Figures of the drawings.
A is the tubular stem of the lamp standard which at its top carries the lamp,
and B1 B2 B3 are the three legs of the standard two of which namely B1 B2 are in this
example of my Invention hinged or jointed to the tubular stem A instead of being
made rigid therewith as is usual so that when the lamp standard is to be packed or
stored the legs B1 B2 can be folded about their hinged joints and lie flat or almost flat
against the third leg B³ as shewn in Fig. 3 and thus the standard will occupy a small
compass. The hinging or jointing of the legs B' B2 to the central tubular standard A
may be carried out in various ways. For instance I may for each leg fix on the
central tubular part of the standard A two socket like fittings C³ 02 one above the
other each of which has vertical sockets or pings formed on the legs to engage with
and turn in, that is to say, the fitting C¹ has a vertical socket c' and the fitting C2

page_text: has a vertical socket c² in which corresponding vertical pegs or plugs 6' 62 of the
leg B¹ fit these plugs having nuts d¹² screwed on to their lower ends to keep them
in the sockets c¹ c² thus forming a hinged joint for the leg B¹ so that this leg can
either turn outwardly as shewn in Figs. 1, 2, 6 and 7 or turn against the leg B³ as
shewn in Fig. 3. The sockets C¹ C² are similarly made with two vertical sockets c³ c
in which fit corresponding plugs formed on the leg B2 so that the leg B² can similarly
turn outwardly as in Figs. 1, 2, 6 and 7 or against the other leg Bs as shewn in Fig. 3.
To retain the legs B B in their opened out positions at equal distances apart round
the central tubular stem or standard A as aforesaid various means may be adopted for
instance this may be effected by a ring or hollow frame such as E or E2
(Figs. 1, 2 and 4) arranged outside the legs and secured to the same by screws e¹ and
nuts e as shewn in Figs. 1 and 2. The hollow frame E2 is shewn separately by Fig. 4.
By first removing the nuts e² the ring E' or the frame E² can readily be removed
before the legs are folded. In the lamp shewn by Figs. 6 and 7 the legs are kept
apart by the frame Es which is fixed to the bottom end of the standard A and is made
with three arms e et es which by the screws e¹ are fixed to the lugs 6s formed on the
inside of the legs B1 B2 B3. It will be evident that others mean than the rings or
hollow frames screwed to the legs B1 B2 B³ may without departing from the nature
of my Invention be employed for keeping the folding legs opened out at their proper
distances apart for instance I may make the upper portions of the peg or plug
parts 6' 62 of the legs B¹ B2 of square shape or of other shape than round and also
make the sockets c¹ c² c³ c¹ to correspond. Fig. 5 shews an arrangement of this kind
where the peg parts of the leg are made with a side projecting peg f which when the
legs are standing out in their spread out positions engages in a corresponding recess g
formed in the socket part c¹ and thus retains the leg in this position. When it is
desired to fold the legs the nuts d' d² have to be slackened to permit of the legs
moving slightly longitudinally up the standard A to disengage the pegs f from the
notches or the square or other like parts of the plugs from the corres-
ponding square or other shaped parts of the sockets c¹ c² and then the legs B' B²
can be turned and folded against the leg B³. When the said legs B1 B2 are to
be fixed in their opened out positions they have first to be opened out and then moved
longitudinally in the sockets so that their square or other like parts or pins or plugs
will move and engage in the corresponding shaped sockets and thus retain the legs in
their right positions.
If desired all the three legs of the standard B1 B2 B3 may be hinged to the standard A
but I prefer in a three leg standard to make one of the legs say B³ rigidly
fixed to the standard A and for the other legs B1 B2 to fold against the third
leg B³ as above described and illustrated by my drawings. When the standard is made
with four legs arranged at equal distances apart round the central part of the standard
the two opposite legs which are in the same plane may be rigidly fixed to the central
stem of the standard and the other two legs be jointed to the standard as above
described so as to fold against the fixed legs and the standard will then be
comparatively flat.
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
1. In a metal standard of a floor lamp or standard lamp, jointing the legs or some
of the legs thereof to the central standard so that said legs can either be folded
together at one side of the standard or turn outwardly therefrom in combination with
meaus for fixing the legs equi-distant from each other around the central standard,
all substantially as herein before set forth.
2. In a three legged floor lamp standard jointing two of the legs thereof to the
central standard so that these legs will either fold against the third or fixed leg on one side
of the standard or turn outwardly therefrom with means for fixing the two folding legs
equi-distant from the third or fixed leg and from each other, substantially as
hereinbefore 'set forth.
3. In a metal standard of a floor lamp or standard lamp, of the kind denoted under

page_text: Claims 1 and 2, connecting the jointed legs to the standard by the socket like
fittings C¹ C² fixed on the standard and made with side sockets in which fit vertical
plug or peg parts of the jointed legs secured therein by nuts or the like, in combination
with a removable ring or frame secured by screws to the lower parts of all three legs
to retain the legs at their proper distances apart substantially as hereinbefore
described with reference to Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 or Figs. 6, 7 and 8 of the
accompanying drawings.
4. Standards for floor lamps or standard lamps constructed in any of the
several ways substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the
accompanying drawings so that their legs will fold and occupy less space as set
forth.
Dated this 29th day of October 1897
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.