Improvements in and connected with Chandeliers.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 18th June, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 17th Mar., 1898-Accepted, 23rd Apr., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Chandeliers.
I, ROBERT RILEY, of 70, Buxton Street, Stockport, in the County of Chester,
Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention has for its object to provide chandeliers having incandescent
or other lights with means which prevent concussion of the chandelier when
pushed up and thus breakage of the mantles, globes or chimneys, as the case
may be, which hitherto has been a great source of trouble and expense.
To this end my invention consists in providing a cushion or buffer which can
readily be applied to the chandelier and will receive the impact of the sliding
tube when pushed up. This buffer or cushion I form of two dises or cross pieces
which are connected together by means of one or more springs employed between
the same.
Each of the said discs or cross pieces has a hole through the middle,
which holes are concentric with each other and adapted to receive the fixed tube
of the chandelier. The said discs or cross pieces may be each formed in one
piece and connected together by a coiled spring arranged concentric with the said
holes and adapted to receive the fixed tube of the chandelier, or the said discs
or cross pieces may be connected together by two or more springs and each formed
in two parts hinged or otherwise secured together. The said buffer or cushion
is loosely placed around the fixed tube to rest on the upper end of the sliding tube
of the chandelier or its lower disc or cross piece may be suitably fastened to the
latter, whilst its upper disc or cross piece remains loose and permits of depression,
or vice versa, the upper disc or cross piece may be secured to the upper end of
the fixed tube of the chandelier and its lower disc or cross piece left loose thereon,
Dated this 17th day of June 1897.
:
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
Improvements in and connected with Chandeliers.
I, ROBERT RILEY, of. 70, Buxton Street, Stockport, in the County of Chester,
Manager, 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 for its object to provide chandeliers having incandescent
or other lights with means which prevent concussion of the chandelier when
pushed up and thus breakage of the mantles, globes or chimneys, as the case
may be, which breakages hitherto has been a great source of trouble and expense.
[Price 8d.]

page_text: To this end my invention consists in providing a cushion or buffer which can
readily be applied to the chandelier and will receive the impact of the sliding
tube when pushed up. This buffer or cushion I form of two discs or cross pieces
which are connected together by means of one or more coiled springs employed
between the same. Each of the said discs or cross pieces has a hole through the
middle, which holes are concentric with each other and adapted to receive the fixed
tube of the chandelier.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused
to be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures, Figs. 1 & 3 being elevations and
Figs. 2 & 4 plans respectively of a buffer or cushion shown in two different forms
separate from the chandelier, and Fig. 5 an elevation of a chandelier furnished
with a buffer or cushion.
In carrying out and according to one form of my invention, see Figs. 1, 2 & 5,
the said discs or cross pieces a, a may be each formed in one piece and connected
together by one spring 6 only, arranged concentric with the holes a', a', in the
discs or cross pieces a, a and adapted to be placed around the fixed tube c of the
chandelier.
I may here remark that in the described form of buffer or cushion, the discs
or cross pieces a, a may be dispensed with when applying the spring bloosely
upon the upper end of the sliding tube.
According to another form of my invention, see Figs. 3 & 4 the discs or cross
pieces a, a may be connected together by two or more springs b, in the present
instance four, and each formed in two parts hinged or otherwise secured together
so as to allow of being opened, as shown in dotted lines Fig. 4, and be readily
placed around the tube c of the chandelier. If deemed necessary one of the discs
or cross pieces a, a in the last named type of buffer or cushion, may be furnished
with pins d, see dotted lines Fig. 3, which serve as guides for the springs b, b.
The said buffer or cushion is loosely placed around the fixed tube c to rest
on the upper end of the sliding tube e of the chandelier, see full lines Fig. 5, or
its lower disc or cross piece a may be suitably fastened to the latter, whilst its
upper disc or cross piece a remains loose and permits of depression, or vice versa,
the upper disc or cross piece a may be secured to the upper end of the fixed
tube c, as shown in dotted lines Fig. 5, and its lower disc or cross piece a left loose
thereon.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is-
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1st. A cushion or buffer for chandeliers adapted to receive the impact of the
sliding tube of the chandelier when being pushed up and thus prevent concussion,
all substantially as set forth.
2nd. A cushion or buffer for chandeliers consisting of one or more springs
adapted to be placed around the stationary tube of the chandelier, all substan-
tially as set forth.