IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SUSPENDING FIXING, AND ADJUSTING SWING LOOKING GLASSES, SWING VENTILATORS, SWING FANLIGHTS, AND OTHER SWINGING ARTICLES."
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Keey, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Cabinet Maker; for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
SUSPENDING FIXING, AND ADJUSTING SWING LOOKING GLASSES, SWING
VENTILATORS, SWING FANLIGHTS, AND OTHER SWINGING ARTICLES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Keey at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th March 1881.
GEORGE KEEY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Cabinet Maker.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SUSPENDING, FIXING, AND ADJUSTING SWING
LOOKING GLASSES, SWING VENTILATORS, SWING FAN LIGHTS, AND OTHER
SWINGING ARTICLES."
My Invention consists of the improvements herein after described in apparatus
for suspending, fixing, and adjusting swing looking glasses, swing ventilators,
swing fan lights, and other swinging articles.
I will describe my Invention as applied to a swing looking glass.
In constructing that portion of the apparatus which is connected to the frame of
the swing looking glass I make it in two parts. One of the said parts consists of
an oblong plate which is screwed to the looking glass frame. At the middle and
near one of the longer edges of the said plate a hollow half cone is formed, the
outer or narrow end of which has an internal flange, leaving a nearly semi-circular
opening at the said narrow end. That part of the fixing plate in front of the half
cone is cut away, the sides of the cut away part being dovetailed, and forming a
dovetail seat for receiving a sliding dovetail plate carrying a half hollow cone
similar to that on the fixing plate first described. By sliding the one half hollow
cone by its dovetail plate into the dovetail seat carrying the other half hollow cone
the two half cones can be brought together or separated from one another. When
the sliding half hollow cone is fitted in its place in the seat near the other half
hollow cone a rectangular plate is formed having at its middle a hollow cone, the
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halves of which are separated a short distance from each other. Both half cones
are screwed externally with afscrew thread, and in order to bind together and
adjust the distance between the two half cones I use a milled detached ring, the
opening.in which is conical and of a size suitable to fit on the half cones. The said
opening is screwed with a screw thread of a size proper to screw upon the said half
cones. That part of the apparatus which is fixed to the pillar or standard of the
looking glass consists of a stem or axis having a disc like head with a conical edge,
the said disc like conical head being of a size suitable to fit and work in the hollow
half cones on the frame of the swing looking glass. The said stem or axis has a
plate at its base which is fixed to the pillar or standard by screwing. Instead of a
conical disc like head a sphere may be used, the interior of the half cones having
a corresponding figure.
In fixing the parts described the plate carrying one of the half screwed hollow
cones is screwed to the side of the looking glass frame, and the plate carrying the
conical disc like head (or sphere) is screwed to the standard or upright. The
detached screwed ring is next placed on the neck of the conical disc like head.
The half screwed hollow cone on the frame is next placed by a sliding motion onto
one half of the disc like head on the pillar so as to support the looking glass. The
sliding dovetail plate carrying the second screwed hollow half cone is next moved
into its place, so as to embrace the other half of the disc like head. By now
screwing the detached screwed ring upon the two half cones they are tightened or
bound to the required degree upon the disc like head. The looking glass is thereby
hung or suspended to the upright or pillar. Both sides of the looking glass may
be furnished with the mechanism described. The half cones on the looking glass
frame are made by the action of the screwed ring to work with such friction upon
the conical disc like head on the upright that the swing looking glass is fixed in
any position or angle to which it may be adjusted. As the rubbing parts wear the
hollow half cones may be made to press upon the disc like heads with the required
degree of tightness by driving home more or less the detached conical ring.
By my improvements the parts of the apparatus are made very efficient in action;
they are readily fixed in their places, and the cutting away of the wood of the
frame is avoided. Further, the parts of the apparatus are capable of being fixed in
a more advantageous position on the sides of the looking glass frame for balancing
the said glass than is afforded by the ordinary apparatus.
I apply my Invention to swing ventilators, swing fan lights, and other swinging
articles, substantially as described with respect to a swing looking glass.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said George Keey in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th September
1881.
GEORGE KEEY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Cabinet Maker.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SUSPENDING, FIXING, AND ADJUSTING SWING
LOOKING GLASSES, SWING VENTILATORS, SWING FAN LIGHTS, AND OTHER
SWINGING ARTICLES."
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My Invention consists of the improvements herein after described in apparatus
for suspending, fixing, and adjusting swing looking glasses, swing ventilators,
swing fan lights, and other swinging articles.
I will describe my Invention as applied to a swing looking glass.
In constructing that portion of the apparatus which is connected to the frame of
the swing looking glass I make it in two parts. One of the said parts consists of
an oblong plate, which is screwed to the looking glass frame. At the middle, and
near one of the longer edges of the said plate a hollow half cone is formed, the outer
or narrow end of which has an internal flange leaving a nearly semi-circular opening
at the said narrow end.
That part of the fixing plate in front of the half cone is cut away, the sides of
the cut away part being dovetailed and forming a dovetail seat for receiving a
sliding plate carrying a half hollow cone similar to that on the fixing plate first
described. By sliding the one half hollow cone by its dovetail plate into the
dovetail seat carrying the other half hollow cone the two half cones can be brought
together or separated from one another.
When the sliding half hollow cone is fitted in its place in the seat near the other
half hollow cone a rectangular plate is formed, having at its middle a hollow cone,
the halves of which are separated a short distance from each other. Both half
cones are screwed externally with a screw thread, and in order to bind together
and adjust the distance between the two half cones I use a milled detached ring,
the opening in which is conical and of a size suitable to fit on the half cones. The
said opening is screwed with a screw thread of a size proper to screw upon the
Baid half cones.
That part of the apparatus which is fixed to the pillar or standard of the looking
glass consists of a stem or axis having a disc like head with a conical or cylindrical
edge, the said disc like head being of a size suitable to fit and work in the hollow
half cones on the frame of the swing looking glass. The said stem or axis has a
plate at its base, which is fixed to the pillar or standard by screwing. Instead of
a disc like head a sphere may be used, the interior of the half cones having a
corresponding figure.
In fixing the parts described the plate carrying one of the half screwed hollow
cones is screwed to the side of the looking glass frame, and the plate carrying the
disc like head (or sphere) is screwed to the standard or upright. The detached
screwed ring is next placed on the neck of the disc like head.
The half screwed hollow cone on the frame is next placed by a sliding motion
onto one half of the disc like head on the pillar so as to support the looking glass.
The sliding dovetail plate carrying the second screwed hollow half cone is next
moved into its place so as to embrace the other half of the disc like head. By now
screwing the detached screwed ring upon the two half cones they are tightened or
bound to the required degree upon the disc like head. The looking glass is thereby
hung or suspended to the upright or pillar.
Both sides of the looking glass may be furnished with the mechanism described.
The half cones on the looking glass frame are made by the action of the screwed

page_text: ring to work with such friction upon the disc like head on the upright that
the swing looking glass is fixed in any position or angle to which it may be
adjusted.
As the rubbing parts wear the hollow half cones may be made to press upon the
disc like heads with the required degree of tightness by driving home more or less
the detached conical ring.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing the
manner in which my Invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in side elevation, Figure 2 in vertical section, and Figure 3
in plan a portion of a swing looking glass, to which apparatus constructed according
to my Invention is applied; Figure 4 represents an end elevation of the same, the
pillar or upright being removed; Figures 5, 6, 7, and 8 represent parts of the
apparatus detached.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of
the Drawing.
a is a portion of the frame of the swing looking glass, and b is a portion of the
pillar or upright. Fixed to the pillar or upright bis a stem or axis having a disc
like head (shown separately in Figure 5), the said headed stem being fixed to the
plate d, which is screwed to the pillar or upright as represented in Figure 2. That
portion of the apparatus which is fixed to the frame a of the looking glass is made
in two parts. One of the said parts consists of an oblong plate e, which is screwed
to the frame a of the looking glass. On the said plate e is a hollow half cone f,
screwed externally, the small end of the said half cone having an internal flange g,
leaving a nearly semi-circular opening at the said small end." In front of the said
half screwed cone f is a rectangular opening or cut away part h, the sides of which
are inclined and form a dovetail seat i, i, to receive the sliding dovetail plate k,
carrying a hollow half cone, similar to the half cone f, on the fixing plate e (sec
Figures 6 and 7). By sliding the half cone by its plate k, into the dovetail
seat i, i, of the plate e, carrying the half cone fa nearly complete screwed hollow
cone is formed, as illustrated in Figure 4, the two parts f, l, of the cone by the
sliding of the plate being capable of being adjusted the required distance from
one another.
The disc like head c of the part of the apparatus fixed on the pillar b has a size
and shape suitable to fit and work in the hollow half cones f; l, on the frame a of
the swing looking glass as seen in Figure 2, the stem of the said head being
situated in the opening at the small end of the half cones.
m is the milled detached ring by which the two half cones f, l, are bound
together and the distance between them adjusted. This ring is shown separately
in Figure 8. The opening in this ring is conical and is screwed with a screw thread n
of a size suitable to screw upon the half cones f, l.
Having fixed the plate & carrying the disc like head c to the pillar b and the
plate e carrying the half cone f to the side of the locking glass frame e the separate
ring m is placed on the neck of the head c. The swing looking glass carrying the
half cone f is now brought to the pillar b, and by a sliding motion the half cone f
is placed on or engaged with the head c on the said pillar, as seen in Figure 2. The
sliding dovetail plate k carrying the second half cone is next moved into the
dovetail seat i, i, in the plate e so as to cause the said half cone to embrace the.
other half of the disc like head c as seen in Figure 4.
The detached screwed ring m is now lifted from the neck of the head c and
screwed upon the two half cones f, l, so as to tighten or bind the latter to the
required degree upon the disc like head c. The looking glass is in this way hung
or suspended to the pillar or upright b.
By tightening more or less the ring m upon the half cones f. 1, they may be
made to work with such friction upon the head c that the swing looking glass is
fixed in any position or angle to which it may have been adjusted. The driving
home of the screw ring m also compensates for the wear of the rubbing parts of
the apparatus.

page_text: Although I prefer to place the disc like or spherical head on the pillar or
upright b and the gripping parts on the frame a, as illustrated in the Drawing, yet
the position of the parts may be reversed with the same effect.
The apparatus described may be applied to both sides of the swing looking glass
or to one side only. When it is applied to one side only the ordinary swing glass
movement may be applied to the other side of the said swing glass.
By my improvements the parts of the apparatus are made very efficient in
action; they are readily fixed in their places and the cutting away of the wood of
the frame is avoided. Further the parts of the apparatus are capable of being
fixed in a more advantageous position on the sides of the looking glass frame for
balancing the said glass than is afforded by the ordinary apparatus.
I apply my Invention to swing ventilators, swing fan lights, and other swinging
articles, substantially as described and illustrated with respect to a swing looking
glass.
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 claim as my
Invention of "Improvements in Apparatus for Susponding, Fixing, and Adjusting
Swing Looking Glasses, Swing Ventilators, Swing Fan Lights, and other Swinging
Articles."
The construction and combination of those parts of the said apparatus by which
the disc like or spherical head on one part of the swing looking glass or other
swinging article is gripped so as to suspend, adjust, and fix the said swing looking
glass or other swinging article herein before described and illustrated in the accom-
panying Drawing, that is to say, the plate e provided with an opening and a
dovetail seat i, and also with a hollow half cone f screwed externally and the
sliding dovetail plate k carrying a second half hollow cone screwed externally; the
said dovetail plate k by sliding in the dovetail in the other plate e adjusting
the distance between the two half cones, and the combination with the two half
cones of the separate conical screwed ring m, n, for binding them upon the
disc like or spherical head of the apparatus, substantially as described and
illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Keey, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Thirteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty-one.
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,
37, Temple Street,
Birmingham.
GEORGE KEEY. (LS.)