IMPROVEMENTS IN SLIDING AWIWANE en CHANDELIERS AND Gaseliers
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Breedon, of the Firm of J. and W.
Breeden and Booth, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SLIDING
AWIWANE enna
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Breeden at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 3rd April 1875
I, JOSEPH BREEDEN, of the Firm of J. and W Breeden and Booth, of
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SLIDING
CHANDELIERS AND Gaseliers," to be as follows.-
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My Invention consists, first, in connecting the several weights by
which the said chandeliers and gaseliers are balanced to a ring or common
junction piece, so that if by accident the chain of one of the weights
breaks the said weight does not become detached from the chandelier or
gaschier. The injury which is occasioned in ordinary chandeliers and

page_text: gaschiers by the falling of a weight consequent on the breaking of a
chain, and in the case of a gaselier the throwing out of balance the
sliding part of the gascher, which results in a dangerous escape of gas,
are by this improvement prevented.
My Invention consists further in the following improvements in
constructing the sliding mechanism of sliding chandeliers and gaseliers.
On the inner or fixed tube of the gascher (or the fixed rod of the
chandelier), which is secured to the ceiling and conveys gas to the
gaselier, I fix two or more strong ribs or projections, the said ribs or
projections being situated at or about the point at which it is wished to
limit the descent of the outer tube or water cup of the gaselier. The said
water cup or top of the outer tube of the gaselier is provided with a
strong cover firmly secured to the said cup The said cover is perforated
with a hole and slot of a size and shape proper to allow of the passage-
through them of the fixed tube and its ribs or projections. Upon the
summit of the said cover a screw cap takes, the said screw cap being
provided with a like hole and slot to those in the cover, but the said
screw cap when screwed home is so situated with respect to the summit
of the cover that the slots made respectively in the said cover and screw
cap cross cach other, so that the fixed tube can no longer pass out of the
sliding tube of the gaschier, and the motion of the sliding tube in the
fixed tube is arrested as soon as the cover of the water cup or top of the
sliding tube has descended to the tops of the said ribs or projections on
the fixed tube By this arrangement the chandelier or gasolier is
prevented from falling in case of the breaking of one or more of the
chains, and its descent to a position at which an escape of gas in the
case of gaseliers may occur is prevented
In order to remove the sliding part of the chandelier or gaselier from
the fixed tube for repair or other purpose it is only necessary to turn the
screw cap upon the cover until their slots coincide, and then to turn the
sliding part of the chandelier or gasclier until the ribs or projections on
the fixed tube coincide with the said slots, when the moving part may
by a sliding motion be removed from the fixed tube.
The screw cap may be retained in its normal position by means of a
set screw, although this need only be done as a matter of extreme
precaution, there being no tendency to a displacement of the screw cap
by the sliding of the chandelier or gaselier.

page_text: This part of my Invention may be applied both to hydraulic gaseliers,
that is, gaschiers having water slides, and to gascliers sliding with a
piston and packing.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Breeden in the Great Scal Patent Offico
on the 24th September 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
BREEDEN, of the Firm of J and W. Breeden and Booth, of Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Breeden, Her
special license, that I, the said Joseph Breeden, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph
Breeden, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time, and at all times there-
after 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN SLIDING CHANDELIERS AND GASELIERS," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Breeden, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Breeden, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists, first, in connecting the several weights by
which the said chandeliers and gaseliers are balanced to a ring or common

page_text: junction piece, so that if by accident the chain of one of the weights
-breaks the said weight does not become detached from the chandelier or
gaselier. The injury which is occasioned in ordinary chandeliers and
gaseliers by the falling of a weight consequent on the breaking of a
chain, and in the case of a gaselier the throwing out of balance the
sliding part of the gaselier, which results in a dangerous escape of gas,
are by this improvement prevented.
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My Invention consists further in the following improvements in con-
structing the sliding mechanism of sliding chandeliers and gascliers.-
On the inner or fixed tube of the gaselier (or the fixed rod of the
chandelier), which is secured to the ceiling and conveys gas to the
gaselier, I fix one, two, or more strong ribs or projections, the said ribs
or projections being situated at or about the point at which it is wished
to limit the descent of the outer tube or water cup of the gaselior. The
said water cup or top of the outer tube of the gaselier is provided with a
strong cover firmly secured to the said cup. The said cover is perforated
with a hole and slot of a size and shape proper to allow of the passagė
through them of the fixed tube and its ribs or projections. Upon the
summit of the said cover a screw cap takes, the said screw cap being
provided with a like hole and slot to those in the cover, but the said
screw cap when screwed home is so situated with respect to the summit
of the cover that the slots made respectively in the said cover and screw
cap cross cach other, so that the fixed tube can no longer pass out of the
sliding tube of the gaselier, and the motion of the sliding tube in the
fixed tube is arrested as soon as the cover of the water cup or top of the
sliding tube has descended to the tops of the said ribs or projections on
the fixed tube. By this arrangement the chandelier or gasclicr is
prevented from falling in case of the breaking of one or more of the
chains, and its descent to a position at which an escape of gas in the
case of gaseliers may occur is prevented.
In order to remove the sliding part of the chandelier or gaselier from
the fixed tube for repair or other purpose it is only necessary to turn the
screw cap upon the cover until their slots coincide, and then to turn the
sliding part of the chandelier or gaseler until the ribs or projections on
the fixed tube coincide with the said slots, when the moving part may
by a sliding motion be removed from the fixed tube.
This part of my Invention may be annlied both to hydraulic gaschiers.

page_text: it for supplying water to the water slide, and on the summit of the
cover ² is a screw cap 7. In the cover ³ is a central hole of the size of
the central tube g, and also a slot m of the size and shape in cross section
of the rib or projection on the tubo g, and in the screw cap is a like
central hole and also a slot n. In order to permit of the passage of the
sliding part h of the gaselier on to the fixed tube 9 the screw cap / is so
turned on the cover 2² of the water cup that the two slots m, n, in them
coincide or are situated in the same line. When in this position the cap
and cover may bo passed on to the fixed tube g, the coincident slots m, n,
passing over the rib or projection k, and the sliding part of the gaselier
can now be supported by the balance weights in the ordinary way. After
the gaselier has been supported the screw cap is turned until its slot n
is made to cross or form an anglo with the slot m in the cover, as
illustrated in Figures 1 and 3, the slots m, n, in the said cover and cap being
closed by an unperforated part of the screw cap and cover respectively.
The moveable tube h of the gaselier is thereby prevented from passing
from off the fixed tube g. When the sliding part h of the gasclicr
desconds by the breaking of a chain the said part is arrested by the
cover of the water cup coming against the top of the rib k, and the
said part is thus suspended and the escape of gas prevented.
h
The screw cap may be retained in its normal position by means of a
set screw, although this need only be donc as a matter of extremo
precaution, there being no tendency to any change in the position of the
screw cap by the sliding of the gasclier.
To remove the sliding part of the gaselier from the fixed tube g the
screw cap is turned until its slot n coincides with the slot m in the
cover, and the sliding tube h is turned until the rib or projection k on
the fixed tube coincides with the two slots n, m. The moving part h
may now by a sliding motion be removed from the fixed tube.
Instead of using a single rib / on the fixed tube g, and a single slot in
the cover and cap, as represented, two or more ribs may be made on the
fixed tube, and a corresponding number of slots in the cover and сар, but
for ordinary purposes a single rb and slot answer satisfactorily.
Although I have represented the balancing and suspending arrange-
ments of my Invention in combination, yet they may be used independently:
of one another, that is, the arrangement for balancing the gaschier or
chandelier may be used apart from the arrangement for arresting the

page_text: descent of the sliding part of the gaselier or chandelier on the breaking
of one or more of the chains, but I prefer to use them in combination, as
represented.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I
do not limit myself to the precise details herein described and illustrated,
as the same may be varied without departing from the nature of my
Invention; but I claim as my Invention of improvements in sliding
chandeliers and gaseliers,—
First. Connecting the several weights by which sliding chandeliers
and gaseliers are balanced to a ring or common junction piece, substan-
tially as and for the purpose herein-before described and illustrated in
the accompanying Drawing.
Secondly. The construction and arrangement of the parts of the sliding
mechanism of sliding chandeliers and gaseliers hercin-before described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, that is, to say, arresting
the descent of or suspending the sliding part of the chandelier or gasolier
in case of the breaking of one or more of the chains by means of the
rib k (or ribs), slotted cover ², and screw cap 1, the said parts k, i², and
being constructed, and arranged, and used substantially as described and
illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Breeden, havo hereunto sct
my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
fire.
Witness,
Richard SkeRRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw,
Birmingham.
'JOSEPH BREEDEN. (L.s.)