Improvements in Metallic Fittings or Mountings for Mirrors or Looking Glasses.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd May, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Feb., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metallic Fittings or Mountings for Mirrors or
Looking Glasses.
I, FRANCIS JONATHON HARLOW LILLEY, of 22 Shakespeare Road, Ladywood,
in the City of Birmingham, Brass Finisher, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention. relates to improvements in the metallic fittings, or pivot
movements, employed for mounting a looking glass or mirror upon its vertical or
other stand or bracket.
The object of my invention is to so construct such fittings that the looking glass
or mirror frame can be freely turned on its pivots and set at any desired angle or
position, and be also readily removed from or attached to the stand or bracket, thus
giving greater convenience for polishing, packing, or other operations.
In carrying my invention into effect in one convenient manner, I cast, stamp, or
otherwise form journal or bearing pieces, from brass or other metal and secure the
same with screws, or by other means, to the vertical or other stand or bracket. 1 form
the pivots from brass or other metal, in one with or attached to suitable bracket
pieces which I secure to the looking glass or mirror frame. Between the pivot
bracket and the outer extremity of the pivot I fix a circular or other steel spring
suitably shaped and arranged as to cause its compression when the frame is mounted
upon its bearings. By thus compressing the spring its elasticity will retain the
frame at any angle or position to which it may be set.
The frame is readily mounted upon the pivot bearings attached to the stand or
bracket, by causing the pivots to enter between suitable slots or openings formed
in the bearing pieces hereinbefore described. In the same manner the frame can
be detached from the stand or bracket for polishing, packing or other purposes by
withdrawing it from the bearing pieces against the resistance of the spring.
I do not limit the application of my invention to any form of the springs, pivots,
or pivot bearings, or to any particular method of attaching the same to the looking
glass frame, or stand, but modify the details and arrangement of my improved pivot
movements without departing from the essential features of my invention.
Dated this 22nd day of May 1894.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Metallic Fittings or Mountings for Mirrors or
Looking Glasses.
I, FRANCIS JONATHON HARLOW LILLEY, of 22 Shakespeare Road, Ladywood,
in the City of Birmingham, Brass Finisher, 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:-
This invention relates to improvements in the metallic fittings, or pivot
movements, employed for mounting a looking glass or mirror upon its vertical or
other stand or bracket.
The object of my invention is to so construct such fittings that the looking glass
or mirror frame can be freely turned on its pivots and set at any desired angle or
position, and be also readily removed from or attached to the stand or bracket, thus
giving greater convenience for polishing, packing, or other purposes.
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter
referred to-
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a mirror or looking glass having my improved
fittings or mountings attached thereto.
Figures 2, 3 and 4 represent in side elevation, plan, and end elevation respectively,
enlarged views of the pivot boxes or bearing pieces.
Figure 5 is an end elevation and Figure 6 a front elevation illustrating a pivot
with bracket and spring in combination.
In carrying my invention into effect in one convenient manner, I cast, stamp, or
otherwise form pivot boxes or bearing pieces, A A¹ Figure 1 preferably of
configuration such as illustrated at Figures 2, 3, and 4, from brass or other metal
and secure the same with screws, or by other means, to the mirror frame B.
I form each of the pivots such as C Figures 1 and 5, from brass or other metal,
in one with or attached to a suitable bracket piece D which I secure to the mirror
stand or bracket E Figure 1. Between each pivot bracket and the outer extremity
of the pivot I fix a circular or other steel spring F Figures 5 and 6 suitably
shaped and arranged to allow of its being compressed and enclosed within the pivot
box A.
By thus compressing the springs their elasticity will retain the frame at any
angle or position to which it may be set.
The frame is readily mounted upon the stand or bracket E, by causing the slots a
Figures 2 and 4 formed in the pivot boxes, to pass over the pivots C, and thus to
enclose and compress the springs F within the pivot boxes.
In the same manner
the frame can be detached from the stand or bracket for polishing, packing, or
other purposes by withdrawing it from the pivots against the resistance of the
springs.
Instead of securing the pivot boxes or bearing pieces to the mirror frame as
hereinbefore described, I sometimes attach them to the stand or bracket E and
secure the pivots with their retaining springs in corresponding positions upon the
mirror frame.
I do not limit the application of my invention to any one form of the springs, pivots,
or pivot boxes or bearings, or to any particular method of attaching the same to
the looking glass frame, or stand, but modify the details and arrangement of my
improved pivot movements without departing from the essential features of my
invention.

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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The method of mounting a mirror or looking glass upon its stand or bracket
by means of pivots and retaining springs with pivot boxes or bearing pieces
substantially as herein described.
2. In metallic fittings or mountings for mirrors or looking glasses the use of
pivot boxes or bearing pieces enabling the mirror frame to be readily mounted upon
or withdrawn from its pivots, substantially as hereinbefore described and as
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
3. In metallic fittings or mountings for mirrors or looking glasses, the combination
of a pivot with a back plate or bracket and a circular or other retaining spring
substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and as illustrated in
the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 31st day of January 1895.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.