Improvements in Swinging Lamps for Tip Carts, Wagons, and other Vehicles or Articles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Nov., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 8th Aug., 1899-Accepted, 7th Oct., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Swinging Lamps for Tip Carts, Wagons, and other
Vehicles or Articles.
I, THOMAS ROGERS, Gentleman, of 106, Warwick Road, Kensington, W., in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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To any ordinary oil lamp I attach a tube of any suitable substance and dimen-
sions running parallel with the lens of the said lamp, and which may be fitted
either internally or externally on the hood or dome. A suitable bolt is provided
with a rose or cap at the outer end being perfectly smooth for the length of the
tube which works upon it; it finishes off with a screw end, the latter being
smaller in diameter than the smooth end, and carries a washer and nut, the sides
or frame of the tip cart, wagon or other vehicle being provided with plates of
metal in any suitable position through which the bolt passes and fixes the lamp
to the side of the cart.
In fixing I take the bolt, pass it through the tube, put on the washer, (which
then forms a shoulder) pass the screw end through the plates attached to the
frame, and screw up the nut, when we have a perfect swinging lamp which never
loses its centre of gravity or vertical position no matter in what position the
tip cart, wagon, or other vehicle or article may be tilted.
Dated this 9th day of November 1898.
Improvements in Swinging Lamps for Tip Carts, Wagons, and other
Vehicles or Articles.
I, THOMAS ROGERS, of 106, Warwick Road, Kensington, W., in the County
of Middlesex, of no occupation, 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:-
My invention refers to lamps of all kinds for vehicles and especially for those
vehicles which are required to be tilted or which are employed on hilly country,
and are therefore often out of the horizontal position. It consists of a device
or attachment applicable to any ordinary oil lamp, old or new, for converting
the said lamp from a fixed to a swinging one which never loses its centre of
gravity or vertical position in the line of motion, no matter how the tip cart,
wagon or other vehicle may be tilted.
For this purpose two bent straps or a curved plate or loop is attached to the
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page_text: top of the lamp suitable for suspending on a horizontal tube or pin having a
button or stud or hook at the end, or other suitable device for preventing dis-
engagement.
I will now describe my invention with reference to the accompanying draw-
ings, in which,
Fig. 1 shews a perspective view of an ordinary lamp attached to the side of
a cart in accordance with my invention;
Fig. 2, represents the tube attachments, and
Fig. 3, shews a sectional elevation.
a represents a tube which is made of any suitable metal or material and which
sustains the arched stay or strap 6 which is made flexible and pliant so as to fit
on or over any size dome or hood of the lamp.
A bolt d passes through the tube a and a washer f, and also through frame-
work g of the cart and is firmly screwed up by the nut e. Or if preferred the
tube a may be united to, or formed solid with, a plate having screw holes for
attaching same to the vehicle. In this case a flange or collar is placed at the
end of the tube.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is: —
1. In a lamp for vehicles two curved stays, straps or arched plates placed at
the summit of the lamp to engage with and take the wear of a horizontal tube
or pin attached to the vehicle as herein described and set forth.
2. The combination of a horizontal headed pin or flanged tube or a bolt and
tube combined with straps or stays attached to a lamp which engages therewith,
so as to suspend the said lamp beside or on a vehicle and ensure its preserving
the vertical position as herein described and set forth.
Dated this 8th day of August 1800
S. S. BROMHEAD,
Patent Agent, 33, Cannon Street, E.C.