Improvements in Pins and Socket Joints for Looking Glasses and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 29th May, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 25th Oct., 1897- Accepted, 18th Dec.,
1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pins and Socket Joints for Looking Glasses and
the like.
I, GEORGE HENRY SYDNEY, of 25 Elm Road, Winchester, in the County of
Hants, Inspector, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in pins and socket joints for looking glasses
and the like, which consists of a cam with a ratchet fixed on the front of the socket
plate with a loose pivoted weighted pawl, for the purpose of fixing the looking glass
at any angle.
In carrying my invention into practice I provide a plate with a socket and on this
socket in the front of the plate I fix a cam with a ratchet. Also I construct a plate
Below the pivot
with a pivot pin to work in the socket of the plate with the cam.
pin, I pivot loosely a weighted pawl, this said pawl has a lever formed at its weighted
end. When the aforesaid apparatus is fixed to a swing looking glass the pawl can be
Each plate is
made to engage with any of the teeth in the ratchet on the cam.
provided with countersunk screw holes for fixing the apparatus.
The plate with the cam and ratchet is fixed to the pillar or upright, and the plate
with the pivot pin and pivoted weighted pawl is screwed to the side or sides of a
looking glass or the like.
2005
J. P. BAYLY,
18 Fulham Place, London, W, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pins and Socket Joints for Looking Glasses and
the like.
I, GEORGE HENRY SYDNEY, of 25 Elm Road, Winchester, in the County of Hants,
Inspector, 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 relates to improvements in pins and socket joints for looking glasses
and the like, and consists of a cam with a ratchet fixed on the front of the socket
plate with a loose pivoted weighted pawl, for the purpose of fixing the looking glass
at any angle.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed to
describe the accompanying drawing thereof, reference being had to letters and figures
marked thereon.

page_text: Fig. 1, is an elevation of the plate to be screwed to the pillar or upright.
Fig. 2, is a view of the apparatus with the plate a set at an angle.
Fig. 3, is a front elevation of Fig. 2.
Fig. 4, is an elevation of the plate with the pivoted pawl.
In carrying my invention into practice I provide a plate a with a socket f and on
this socket in the front of the plate a I fix a cam d with a ratchet or toothed
quadrant g. Also I construct a plate 6 with a pivot pin h to work in the socket f of
the plate a with the cam d. Below the pivot pin h, I pivot loosely a weighted pawl e,
this said pawle has a lever c formed at its weighted end, When the aforesaid
apparatus is fixed to a swing looking glass the pawl e can be made to engage with any
of the teeth in the ratchet on the cam d. Each plate is provided with countersunk
screw holes i for fixing the apparatus.
The plate a with the cam and ratchet is fixed to the pillar or upright, and the
plate with the pivot pin and pivoted weighted pawl is screwed to the side or sides of
a looking glass or the like.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In pins and socket joints for looking glasses and the like, the combination of
the various parts substantially as above described in this specification for the purpose
specified.
2. In pins and socket joints for looking glasses and the like, the combination of
the plate a plate b lever c cam d lever e socket f toothed quadrant g pin h and
countersunk holes i, substantially as herein described and according to the
accompanying drawing.
Dated this 25th day of October. 1897.
J. P. BAYLY,
18 Fulham Place, London, W, Agent for the Applicant.