Improvements in Globe Holders for Gasaliers, Gas Brackets, and the like.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Apr., 1887
Complete Left, 18th Jan., 1888
Complete Accepted, 24th Feb., 1888
Improvements in Globe Holders for Gasaliers, Gas Brackets, and
the like.
We, JOHN EATON and JAMES HUBAND, trading together as John Eaton & Co., of
Advance Works, Balsall Heath Road, Birmingham, Worcestershire, Gas Fitting
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention of improvements in globe holders for gasaliers, gas brackets and the
like consists in holding or carrying the globe or reflector in a peculiar manner as
herein described whereby more ready access to the burner is obtained and there is no
shadow therefrom.
An ordinary method of supporting a globe on a gasalier or gas bracket is by means
of a gallery below the burner on which the neck at the bottom of the globe fits and to
which it is held by screws or other suitable means. Now according to our invention
we dispense with the ordinary gallery below the burner and instead thereof we provide
a gallery some distance above the burner which is connected to a bracket or arm
forming part of the gasalier, gas bracket, or the like. The globe is inverted and
suspended by its neck from the said gallery above the burner thus leaving it perfectly
open beneath and as the supply pipe below the globe does not have to carry the weight
of the globo it can be made very small so as not to interfere with the downward rays
of light. The said gallery above the burner consists preferably of a metal ring having
set screws or other means for holding the globe similar to the means employed on
ordinary gallieries below the burner so that so called "comet" globes which have no
necks, and glass and other reflectors can be suspended and held thereby as well as
globes provided with necks for their attachment as above described.
DL: 10th day : 1007
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Globe Holders for Gasaliers, Gas Brackets, and
the like.
We, JOHN EATON and JAMES HUBAND, trading together as John Eaton & Co., of
Advance Works, Balsall Heath Road, Birmingham, Worcestershire, Gas Fitting
Manufacturers, 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 in holding or carrying the globe or reflector of gasaliers,
gas brackets and the like in a peculiar manner as herein described whereby more
ready access to the burner is obtained and there is no shadow therefrom.
An ordinary method of supporting a globe on a gasalier or gas bracket is by means
of a gallery below the burner on which the neck at the bottom of the globe fits and to
which it is held by screws or other suitable means. Now according to our invention
we dispense with the ordinary gallery below the burner and instead thereof we provide
a gallery some distance above the burner which is connected to a bracket or arm
forming part of the gasalier, gas bracket or the like. The globe is inverted and
suspended by its neck from the said gallery above the burner thus leaving it perfectly
open beneath and as the supply pipe below the globe does not have to carry the
weight of the globe it can be made very small so as not to interfere with the down-
ward rays of light. The said gallery above the burner consists preferably of a metal
ring having set screws or other means for holding the globe similar to the means
employed on ordinary galleries below the burner so that so called "comet" globes
which have no necks, and glass and other reflectors can be suspended and held
thereby as well as globes provided with necks for their attachment as above described.
We will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawing the
manner in which our said invention is to be performed.
Fig. 1 represents a gasalier with our said invention applied and Fig. 2 shows the
globe, globe holder and part of the said gasalier on an enlarged scale and Figs. 3 and 4
illustrate details of the same; Figs. 5 and 6 illustrate our said invention as applied to
"comet❞ globe.
a
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the Figures.
Referring firstly more particularly to Figs. 1 to 4, both inclusive, a is the gallery
made preferably in the form of a metal ring which according to our invention we
provide some distance above the burner b, and c is the bracket or arm forming part
of the gasalier to which the said gallery is connected. The arm c has a projecting
screw a formed with it which passes from the outside of the ring a to the inside
thereof thus securing the gallery a to the arm c. Passing through the ring a from
the outside and projecting inside thereof are the two other set screws e¹, e by which,
with the projecting end of the screw d, the globef when placed inside the ring a is
held suspended by its neck in an inverted position over the burner 6 thus leaving the

page_text: globe perfectly open beneath and enabling the supply pipe g to be made very small as
does not have to carry the weight of the globe.
It will be evident that any of the means now employed for carrying a globe and
connecting it to a globe holder by its bottom edge may, without departing from the
nature of our invention, be employed for carrying over the gas burner an inverted
globe or reflector from a bracket or arm of a gasalier, gas bracket or the like, as for
instance in the case of a "comet" globe f¹ as illustrated by Figs. 5 and 6 where the
ring a is made small enough to pass into the top of the globe and three holding
screws e, e², ea are provided and screwed from the inside of the ring a to the outside
thereof so that the globe can rest on their outer ends and be suspended therefrom.
Our invention can be applied to gas brackets and other like gas fittings similarly as
above described as applied to a gasalier.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :
1st. The combination with the supply pipe and burner of a gasalier gas bracket or
the like, of a globe or reflector holder and its supporting arm formed with the said
gasalier gas bracket or the like above the burner thereof, the said globe or reflector
holder having holding means substantially as described for holding an inverted globe
or reflector above the said burner in the manner substantially as described and
illustrated.
2nd. The combination with the supply pipe and burner of a gasalier gas bracket or
the like, of the ring-shaped gallery a and its supporting arm formed with the said
gasalier gas bracket or the like above the burner thereof, the said gallery being
screwed on to the projecting screw d of the arm c and having holding screws e¹, e² by
which in combination with the screw d an inverted necked globe or reflector can be
held above the said burner in the manner and substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
Dthis 10th
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