Improvements in and relating to Cord Shorteners for use in connection with Lamps.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Cord Shorteners for use in
connection with Lamps.
FERRAND AGNEW WILLIAMS, 86, Clifton Street, Stretford Road, Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster, Electrical Engineer, and ALFRED NORMANTON,
401, Stretford Road, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Agent, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
This invention relates to cord shorteners such as are used in connection with
electric light fittings and lamps and the object of this invention is to have a more
effective method of regulating the length of the cord which holds the lampholder
together with the lamps or shades. We attain this object by means of a fixed or
non-revolving horizontal spindle or bar around which the cord may be lapped by
the hand to the desired extent.
We then pass through the centre of the horizontal spindle or fix in other pre-
ferred way an upright or vertical pin of suitable make with a hook or ring or
other suitable device at each end.
When the cord has been lapped around the spindle to the desired extent the loose
portion of the cord above is hooked on to the hook above the spindle and the part of
the cord hanging underneath is fixed on to the hook underneath thus preserving
a straight line of cord from the ceiling to the lampholder.
The spindle together with the lapped portion of the cord and hooks may be
placed between discs of suitable design and material which screw on or are other-
wised fixed at each end of the spindle.
We form a modification of this invention by fixing on or through the horizontal
spindle an upright or vertical pin with a head at each end.
This head is slit at the side so as to admit the cord after it has been lapped
around the horizontal spindle and or upright pin.
Dated this Twenty-fifth day of July 1898.
FERRAND AGNEW WILLIAMS,
ALFRED NORMANTON.
Improvements in and relating to Cord Shorteners for use in
connection with Lamps.
We, FERRAND AGNEW WILLIAMS, 86, Clifton Street, Electrical Engineer, and
ALFRED NORMANTON, 401, Stretford Road, Agent, both in Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
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page_text: manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement; -
This invention relates to a device for regulating the length of cords such as are
employed in connection with electric light fittings and like purposes. The object
of our invention is to enable the length of the cord by which the lampholder and
lamps and shades connected with said fittings and other like articles are suspended
or connected to be regulated without knotting or tying the said cord in a loop,
and to afford a convenient, easy, and effective means for either lengthening or
shortening the cord.
In the accompanying drawing.
Fig. 1 is a front view, and Fig. 2 a side view of our invention; Figs. 3 and 4
are like views showing the application of our invention.
In these views similar letters refer to similar parts.
We fit to each end of a horizontal spindle a disc or rosette or other suitably formed
end as a.
We pass through or round the centre of said spindle a vertical rod c, that
is formed with a spiral c¹ at each end, or an equivalent, such as a clip or a hook.
In order to shorten a cord, a portion of the cord d in any preferred part is lapped
round the spindle 6 as shown in Fig. 4, and the adjoining portions above and below
the spindle are cach threaded on to the spirals c'; the length of the cord is by
these means regulated, and is also retained in a straight line from the point of
suspension to the lamp or other article when suspended.
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 :-
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1. A device for regulating the length of a cord such as is employed in connec-
tion with electric light fittings and like purposes without knotting or tying said
cord, by the employment of a horizontal spindle fitted with a disc at each end,
and a vertical rod passing through or round the spindle, the said vertical rod ter-
minating on either side of the spindle in a spiral or an equivalent for the purpose
and in the manner substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. A device for regulating the length of a cord such as is employed in connection
with electric light fittings and like purposes without knotting or tying the said cord
substantially as herein before described.
Dated this 24th day of April 1899.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicants, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.