Improvements in Gasaliers and other Pendant Lights.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Jan., 1896
T
4000
COLL Ala
4000
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gasaliers and other Pendant Lights.
I, HERMANN ARNHOLD, of Wasserthorstrasse No. 37 Berlin, Germany, Master
Locksmith, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In gasaliers and other pendant lights, whether for petroleum, gas, electric or other
lighting, there exists a disadvantage, which consists in the fact that they require a
very considerable space in transport, as the boxes or crates in which they are packed
have to be very bulky, thereby rendering the transport expensive.
The present invention relates to an improved construction of such gasaliers or
pendant lights whereby these can be folded together, but without requiring the parts
to be separated.
On the accompanying drawing is shewn at Fig. 1, by way of example, a
three armed pendant light in plan, while Fig. 2 shews a five armed pendant. As
shewn at Fig. 1 the several horizontal arms a a a of the pendant, that branch off
from the middle vertical arm, are constructed with pivotted joints c so that for
purposes of transport two of the three arms of the pendant Fig. 1 can be turned into
the dotted position shewn.
By this means the pendant will occupy much less space than in its ordinary,
position.
At the hinge-joints c c a fixing device is provided, for instance a screw, for securing
the arms in the ordinary radial position.
In the five armed arrangement at Fig. 2 four of the arms can be turned on their
pivots into the dotted positions, with the same result.
In gasaliers and other pendant lights constructed as above described, the taking to
pieces thereof for transport is not necessary, but merely the turning round of the arms
on their pivotted joints c, the device for securing them in the radial position having
previously been loosened.
The arms may, however be so arranged as to be separated at the hinge-joint c.
For this purpose the joints are formed like ordinary shut-off cocks, so that the
conical plug, which is attached to the arm a, can be raised out of the conical bore
of the socket fixed on the other part of the arm.
Dated this 23rd day of January 1896.
ADEL & IMRAT,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Gasaliers and other Pendant Lights.
I, HERMANN ARNHOLD of 46 Wasserthorstrasse, Berlin, in the Empire of Germany,
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:-
Gasaliers and the like for petroleum, gas or electric lighting have the drawback of
occupying a great deal of room during transport, as the cases in which they
are conveyed must be very extensive, which greatly increases the cost of
transport.

page_text: This invention has for its object a form of construction of gasaliers and the like
which allows of the same being folded up but in such a way that the gasalier or the
like does not require to be taken to pieces.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure I is a plan view of a three branch gasalier and
Figure II a similar view of a five branch gasalier or pendant.
As shown in Figure I the separate horizontal arms:a of the gasalier, which branch
off from the central vertical one are provided with working joints at c so that
for the purpose of transport two' for instance of ther three arms of the pendant
may be folded back as shown by dotted lines in Figure I. By this means the
gasalier occupies' much less 'space than it does when" in a position for use. A
stop-device or screw is arranged on the joints c in order to secure the arms a in
the position for use. Figure II. shows the arrangement.of.a 5 branch: gasalier,
where four arms a are folded back. In this case also it will.be clearly seen what a
considerable saving of space is obtained by folding back the arms.
In a gasalier or the like-therefore arranged in the manner hereinbefore described,
no disconnecting of the parts for packing is necessary but the arms merely require
to be folded back, after the before mentioned stop or the like in each joint c has
been first released. It is also possible to unhook the separate horizontal arms a. of
the gasalier at the joints c. For this purpose the joints are constructed after..the
manner of shut off taps, so that the conical cock plug which is placed on arm a may
be lifted out of the conical opening. Such a form of construction. shows a different
use of the joint to that hereinbefore described.
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,
A gasalier or the like having its arms or branches adapted to be folded back or
unhooked so as to reduce to a minimum the space occupied by the gasalier...when
being transported, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
Dated this 13th day of October-1896.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.