Improvements in Gasaliers or Chandeliers.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 24th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 26th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gasaliers or Chandeliers.
1 EMILY HUNT of No. 25 Gloucester Street Sheffield in the County of York,
wife of Bristow Hunt of Sheffield aforesaid do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in the construction
of gasaliers or chandeliers principally of the kinds made to slide up and down and
balanced by weights.
My invention consists in dispensing with the ordinary weights or weighted knobs
or balls that depend from chains passing over pulleys or rings held in brackets or
supporting arms connected to the main gas pipe of a gasalier, (for instance,) and
in lieu of such weights I connect to each chain a glass, metal, or other cover
something similar to those usually affixed to, and which depend from, the ceiling
to prevent it being smoked or injured when the gas is burning underneath.
This glass, metal, or other cover can be made in the form of an inverted saucer,
or of other suitable forms, and so as to act as a reflector or not as desired. In
order to make it sufficiently weighty (if not so of itself) to balance the gasalier, I
fix à sufficiently weighty metal or other knob or device to the top of the glass,
metal, or other cover, in the top of which a loop or eye made to fit onto and to
take on or off a hook attached to the depending end of the chain.
To the main gas pipe of the gasalier I attach the requisite number of brackets
or arms (according to the number of lights in the gasalier) which support and hold
pulleys or rings over which the chains pass and work, one end of each chain being
attached to the sliding or external tubular or telescopic portion of the gasalier
enclosing the main gas pipe, and its other end is hooked into the loop or eye made
at or in the top of the glass, metal, or other cover.
The brackets or arms will be so arranged and fitted to the main gas pipe, or
central part of the gasalier, that the chains, and the glass or other covers depending
therefrom, will always be exactly above the glass globes or saucers and the lights
therein and when the gasalier is being moved down or up.
This invention is also applicable to chandeliers made for holding either wax
lights or candles, or for holding oil or other lamps and whether of a tubular, sliding,
or telescopic kind or otherwise.
T1902
BRISTOW HUNT, R.P.A.,
Aldine Chambers, Sheffield, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gasaliers or Chandeliers.
I EMILY HUNT of No. 25 Gloucester Strect Sheffield in the County of York
wife of Bristow Hunt of Sheffield aforesaid 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 in writing, and on
reference to the accompanying drawing:
This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in the construction
and arrangement of gasaliers or chandeliers, principally of the kinds made to slide
up and down and which are usually balanced by weights.
In order that my said invention, and the means I adopt in carrying it into practical
effect, may be fully understood it is illustrated on the accompanying sheet of

page_text: explanatory drawings the same being marked with figures and letters of reference
corresponding with those in the following description, similar reference letters
indicating like parts in the two figures.
Figure 1, is an elevation of a two-light gasalier or chandelier constructed
according to my improvements, and Figure 2, is a plan of the same.
My invention consists chiefly in dispensing with the ordinary weights or weighted
knobs or balls that depend from chains passing over pulleys or wheels or rings
held in brackets or supporting arms connected to the main gas pipe of a gasalier,
for instance, and in lieu of such mere weights I connect to the end of each chain
a glass, metal, or other cover a, something similar to those usually affixed to, and
which depend from, the ceiling to prevent it being smoked or otherwise injured
when the gas is burning below.
I would here observe that a special feature of my invention and effectually
accomplished thereby consists in the preservation of the ceiling from becoming
smoked, blackened, or injured by the fumes from the gas or other lights burning
below.
The glass, metal, or other cover a, is made in the form of an inverted saucer as
shown in Figure 1, on the drawing, or it can be made of any other suitable form
or shape and either plain or ornamented, or it can be made partly of glass and
partly of metal so as to give it the necessary balancing weight; it can also be so
made as to act as a reflector if desired.
Or if not sufficiently weighty of itself to act as one of the balance weights of
the gasalier I affix a metal or other knob or device b, to the top of the glass, metal,
or other cover a, in or on the top of which a loop or eye b', is made so as to fix
onto and to take on or off a hook which is attached to the depending end of the
chain c.
To the main gas pipe d, of the gasalier I attach a sufficient number of brackets
or arms e, according to the number of lights in the gasalier, the example of
gasalier shown on the drawing illustrating a two light gasalier; these brackets or
arms support and hold pulleys or grooved wheels or rings f, over which the
chains c, pass and work, one end of each chain being attached as shown at f¹, to
the sliding or external tubular or telescopic portion g, of the gasalier which encloses
the main gas pipe d, and its other end is made so as to hook into the loop or eye b',
above the cover a.
The brackets or arms e, are so fitted and fixed to the main gas pipe d, that the
chains c, and the covers a, depending therefrom, will always be and remain exactly
above the glass globes or saucers h, and the lights therein whether the gasalier (or
chandelier) be lowered or raised as well as when the gasalier (or chandelier) is
moved round when so required.
The covers a, being and remaining always over the globes or saucers h, when
lowered or raised and when the gasalier or chandelier is moved round constitutes
another and very important feature of this invention.
Some gasaliers will be so constructed that there will be only one pulley or grooved
wheel or ring, connected with each bracket or arm e, as shown at the left hand
side of Figure 1, and others will be constructed with each bracket or arm e,
supporting and holding two pulleys or grooved wheels or rings f, f, as shown at
the right hand side of Figure 1.
When the covers a, are detached from the chains e, for cleaning or renewal, and
in order to prevent the chains from flying up on being released of their weighted
covers, the hooked ends of the chains will be hooked onto hooks or clips on the
ring, provided for that purpose and which is fitted on the tubular part g, of the
gasalier (or chandelier); or they may be hooked or looped onto the ornamental
parts j, of the gasalier (or chandelier) if preferred.
My improvements can also be advantageously applied to chandeliers that are
constructed so as to hold either wax lights or candles, or to hold oil or other lamps,
and whether the chandeliers are made of a tubular, sliding, or telescopic kind or
otherwise.

page_text: 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. The novel combination and arrangement of the component parts forming in
the whole an improved sliding or telescopic and rotative gasalier or chandelier,
substantially as hereinbefore described, and as illustrated on the accompanying
explanatory drawing.
2. Dispensing with the ordinary balance weights and chains hitherto used to
effect the lowering and raising of gasaliers or chandeliers and in lieu thereof
providing glass, or metal, or other composite covers (such as at a,) weighted as
required, and connecting the same to depending chains passing over pulleys or
grooved wheels supported in brackets or arms fixed to the main gas pipe of the
gasalier (or the main supporting pipe or tube of a chandelier) the other ends of the
chains being attached to the external sliding or telescopic portion of the gasalier
or chandelier; substantially as described, and as illustrated on the accompanying
drawing.
3. So constructing and arranging a gasalier, or a chandelier, that the covers
(such as a,) over the lights will be and remain always over the globes or saucers
(such as h,) when the gasalier or chandelier is raised or lowered as well as when
turned round, thereby effectually preventing the ceiling from becoming smoked or
blackened or injured; substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
Dated this 22nd day of October 1892.
BRISTOW HUNT, R.P.A.,
Agent for the Applicant.