CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR CARRIAGE Lamps
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Neale, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of " CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN FASTENINGS FOR CARRIAGE Lamps.”
Sealed the 13th November 1874, and dated the 16th May 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Neale at the'
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the'
16th May 1874.
I, JAMES NEALE, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manu-:
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"CERTAIN, IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR CARRIAGE LAMPS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists in the application to the ordinary. taper
socketed "back iron" lamp fastener of a bent lever, which works upon
a pin.or joint at the upper edge of the back iron. socket. The spindle
which fits the socket is furnished with a catch or shoulder,

page_text: When it is desired to fix the lamp the socket is adjusted to the spindle
and the curved lever is pressed over the catch or shoulder of the spindle
and serves the double purpose of a finger loop and a spring to cause the
lever to hold firmly under the catch, by which means the lamp is drawn
on to the iron attached to the carriage, and there held securely.
When required to be removed the action of the lever releases the lamp
by lifting it (the lever) through a space sufficient to raise the taper
socket somewhat on the iron arm.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Neale in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 16th November 1874..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
NEALE, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing dato the Sixteenth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four; in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said James Neale, Her_special licence that I,
the said James Neale, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said James Neale, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR. CARRIAGE LAMPS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James Neale, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under: my, or
their, or one of their hands and seal, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the a
same, was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Neale, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained'in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the figures. and letters on
the accompanying Sheet of Drawings (that is to say) :—
This Invention consists in the application to the ordinary taper
socketed "back iron" lamp fastener of a bent lever, which works upon a
pin or joint at the upper edge of the back iron socket. The back iron
or spindle, the end of which fits the socket, is furnished with a catch or
shoulder.
On the accompanying Drawings, Fig. 1 is a view of the fastener
adjusted.
Fig. 2 shews the back plate of a lamp with socket and fastening; and
in Fig. 3 is shewn the lamp iron.
a is the back plate of a lamp with socket; b, the spring lever, which
is jointed at c.
The lamp iron, Fig. 3, is tapered at the extremity to fit the socket,
and is furnished with the catch or shoulder d.
When it is desired to fix the lamp the socket is adjusted to the spindle
and the curved lever is pressed over the catch or shoulder of the spindle
and serves the double purpose of a finger loop and a spring, which causes
the lever to hold firmly under the catch, by which means the lamp is
drawn on to the lamp iron, and there held securely.
When required to be removed the action of the lever releases the lamp
by lifting it (the lever) through a space sufficient to free it from the
catch or shoulder on the lamp iron.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, I claim the
improvements in fastenings for carriage lamps, substantially as hercin
set forth and shewn by the Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Neale, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of November, Onc
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
JAMES NEALE. (L.S.)