Rigid or Yielding Bar Sockets for Holding Cycle and other Lamps.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th July, 1894-Accepted, 1st Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Rigid or Yielding Bar Sockets for Holding Cycle and other Lamps.
I, HENRY SALSBURY, of 125 and 126 Long Acre, London, Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to make a socket with a curvular hollow base, and
with a cross bar either rigid or yielding, so that when it is pushed over a tongue of
flat or hollow formation a grip or bite of one to the other is ensured, the holding
being secure.
I will describe my bar socket as applied to a cycle lamp, or for the fixing of a
lamp thereto. I shape, or hollow a base plate, or frame with a forwardly projecting
end or ends, and across, and at, or about the middle, I have a bar bent forwardly
to form a kind of loop. This base plate may be affixed to, or form part of the
suspension frame of a lamp, or it may be affixed to, or form part of the tongue of a
bracket belonging to a cycle, in which case, the tongue may be on the lamp, or its
suspension frame.
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H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London, Patent Agent,
Agent for the said Henry Salsbury.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Rigid or Yielding Bar Sockets for Holding Cycle and other Lamps.
I, HENRY SALSBURY, of 125 and 126 Long Acre, London, Manufacturer, 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:
The object of this invention is to make a socket with a curvular hollow base and
with a cross bar either rigid or yielding so that when it is pushed over a tongue of
flat or hollow formation a grip or bite of one to the other is ensured, the holding
being secure.
According to my invention I shape or hollow a base plate or frame with a
forwardly projecting end or ends and across and at or about the middle I have a
bar bent forwardly to form a kind of loop. This base plate may be affixed to or
form part of the suspension frame of a lamp, or it may be affixed to, or form part
of the tongue of a bracket belonging to a cycle, in which case the tongue may be
on the lamp, or its suspension frame.
The annexed drawings show several examples of my invention.
Figure 1 is elevation. Figure 2 a side view, and Figure 3 a sectional plan
through line a of Figure 1 of one form of bar socket and in which the base plate
or frame A is made of hollow formation with forwardly projecting ends, a bar B
being formed from the middle portion and bent to project, so that the tongue (not
shown) can be passed up between the frame A and bar B and be held tightly by
the rigidity or springiness of the frame A and bar B.
Figure 4 is a sectional side view, Figure 5 an elevation, and Figure 6 a plan of
a modified form of bar socket. In this case the plate or frame A is also of hollow
formation but the bar B instead of being formed as part of or affixed to the frame A,

page_text: it is attached to a spring plate C fastened by rivets, or otherwise to the frame
whereby the tongue (two kinds of which are shown in dotted lines in Figure 5) is
held by the tension of the spring C.
Figure 7 is an elevation and Figure 8 is a plan of another form of bar socket and
in which the bar B instead of being formed right across the hollowed frame A it is
made from the frame A as ears B, B', for holding the tongue by means of their
springiness, or rigidity, or by the springiness of the frame A-
Figure 9 is an elevation of a plate or frame A without the bar B, and Figure 10
is a plan with the bar B applied.
In this case, the bar B instead of being of springy metal it is formed with a screw
threaded hole or holes in same, or through a thickening or piece affixed thereto and
after being passed through slots E in the frame A is connected together by a screw
pin F which also has a bearing against the back of the frame A for clamping, by
screwing up the pin F, the tongue between the bar B and the framing A.
D, D, Figure 3, are the usual links connecting the bar sockets to a lamp.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The construction of rigid or yielding bar sockets for holding cycle and other
lamps, as described and substantially as shown on the annexed drawings.
2. Forming bar sockets for lamps from a curved or hollowed plate or frame and
a bar or ears for firmly holding a tongue between them by the rigidity or springiness
of one or both, or by the aid of a spring or screw affixed to the bar, or frame, or
both, as set forth.
Tue May or Juny 1094.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London, Patent Agent,
Agent for the said Henry Salsbury.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London, Patent Agent,
Agent for the said Henry Salsbury.