A New or Improved Device for Facilitating the Lighting of Cycle or other Lamps.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Oct.,
1897
Complete Specification Left, 9th Dec., 1897-Accepted, 19th Feb.,
1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Device for Facilitating the Lighting of Cycle or
other Lamps.
We, HERBERT EDWIN JACKSON and JOHN ALEXANDER ANDERSON, both of
233, Whittaker Street, Dalton Road, Barrow-in-Furness, Gentlemen, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to a new or improved device for facilitating the lighting
of cycle lamps and the like, and has for its object to enable a cyclist to light his
lamp without dismounting from the machine, or being compelled to open the lamp,
moreover it enables the lamp to be readily lighted in windy weather, the means we
employ to this end being very simple and effective.
In carrying our invention into practical effect, we provide a small conical body
fitted into the side or back of the lamp in such a manner that the inner end is in
close proximity to the wick tube.
This conical body has a hole hored centrally through same, while it is cut away
at one side, the cut away portion being covered with a flexible or spring strip of
steel having a roughened or serrated surface.
In order to light the lamp it is only necessary to insert a match into the opening
in the conical body and force it through same when it comes into contact with the
roughened or serrated surface of the aforesaid elastic or springy strip and is thereby
ignited, when it can be applied to the wick of the lamp for lighting same, the
match being afterwards withdrawn.
F. G. CASSELL,
(of Cassell & Co.),
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W.,
Agent for the Applicants.
A New or Improved Device for Facilitating the Lighting of Cycle or
other Lamps.
We, HERBERT EDWIN JACKSON aud JOHN ALEXANDER ANDERSON, both of
233, Whittaker Street, Dalton Road, Barrow-in-Furness, Gentlemen, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment:
Our invention relates to a new or improved device for facilitating the lighting
of cycle lamps and the like, the object being to enable the lamp (in the case of a
cycle lamp) to be lighted without it being necessary for the rider to dismount from
the machine, or being compelled to open the lamp in any way, moreover it enables
the lamp to be readily lighted in windy weather, and the means we employ to this

page_text: lighting device.
Fig. 2 is a back view of the lighting device detached and drawn to a considerably
enlarged scale.
Fig.
3
Fig.
is
a front view of same, and
is a vertical section.
Fig. 5 is a plan of the device.
According to our invention we provide a lighting device d (Fig. 1), said device
comprising a hollow conical body a (Figs. 2 to 4) which is cut away at one side,
the cut away portion being preferably covered with a plate 6 of flexible or springy
metal or material and which upon its inner surface is preferably roughened or
serrated, and behind this plate 6 is arranged a stiffer stripe of steel or other suit-
able material designed to keep the plate 6 closely against the sides of the lighting
device, and in such a manner that upon a match being forced through the body of
same it is ignited by the friction set up as the head of the match passes beneath
the plate and through the conical body.
The lighting device is inserted in the side, back, or other suitable part of the lamp
body in such a manner that its inner end is in close proximity to the wick, so that
by passing a match through same it is ignited as herein before described when the
light can be readily applied to the wick without opening any part of the lamp, thus
rendering it easy for the lamp to be lighted in positions or situations where it would
be practically impossible if the ordinary means had to be adopted.
As a slight modification of my invention instead of employing in connection
with the plate b a strip such as c, said plate may be made sufficiently strong and
springy of itself as to render unnecessary the use of such a strip.
Although we have illustrated our invention as applied to a cycle lamp, we wish
it to be understood that we do not restrict ourselves to this one particular applica-
tion of the invention, as it may also be used in connection with carriage or other
Jamps for which it is suitable and where its application would he attended with
advantageous results.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. The application to a cycle or other lamp of a lighting device, substantially
as herein described and shown with reference to the accompanying drawings.
2. A lighting device for use in connection with cycle and other lamps com-
prising a hollow conical body a being cut away at one side and covered with a
spring plate b, in combination with a stiffening strip c, substantially as herein
described and shown and for the purposes specified.
3/. The new or improved device for facilitating the lighting of cycle and other
lamps, substantially as herein described and shown, and for the purposes specified.