Improvements in Means for Adjustably Suspending Lamps from Ceilings or similar places.
Year: 1898

page_text: Improvements in Means for Adjustably Suspending Lamps from
Ceilings or similar places.
I, EDWARD WILTSHIRE, of Itchen Abbas, Alresford, in the County of Hampshire,
Farmer, 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 means for adjustably suspending lamps
from ceilings or similar places, and has for object to provide means whereby a lamp
can be suspended from a ceiling or the like at any desirable point in such a manner as
to be raised or lowered at will.
In carrying my said invention into practical effect I provide two pulleys which are
fixed to any convenient part of a ceiling, for instance, and over which pulleys passes
a chain or cord having at one end means for attachment to a lamp while at the other
is a device for securing the said chain or cord to a hook fixed in the wall of the room
or the like. In order that this my invention may be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect, reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet of
illustrative drawings, wherein :-
Fig. 1 shows a front and a side view of one of the pulleys.
Fig. 2 being similar views of the double-hook.
Fig. 3 is a view of the ends of the chain with their attachments, while
Fig. 4 is an elevational view of my invention in use for suspending a lamp
within a room.
Referring to the drawings wherein like letters of reference indicate corresponding
parts throughout the several figures a bare pulleys each provided with a screw a
and 61 to allow of said pulley being fixed to any convenient parts of a ceiling or
the like.
c indicates a chain (though it may conveniently be a cord) which passes over the
said pulley, being provided at one of its ends with a hook c¹ having an eye c² for
attaching it to the chain.
The other end of chain c is provided with a rectangular loop d to engage with a
double book e which is fixed to the wall of the room or the like.
In operation one of the pulleys a is fixed in the ceiling fat a point above where it
is desired the lamp should hang, while the other pulley b is similarly fixed near one of
the walls g. The chain c is then passed over both pulleys and the lamp h attached to
the hook c¹ at one end thereof. The lamp h is then suspended at the desired elevation
by letting out, or drawing in the length of chain and passing the loop d over the
double hook e, which is fixed to the wall g at any convenient part thereof.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
In means for adjustably suspending lamps, the chain or cord c having at one end a
hook c¹ and at the other end a loop & in combination with the two pulleys a and b

page_text: and a double hook e, all arranged, combined, and operating, substantially as described
and as illustrated.
Dated this 5th day of January 1898
G. D. HOWARD,
Of the Firm of Hughes, Son & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agent for the Applicant