Improvements in Roses for Supporting Electric Lamps.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 11th July, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Apr., 1890-Accepted, 10th May, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Roses for Supporting Electric Lamps.
I, WILLIAM ARTHUR SMITH BENSON of 2 Gordon Place Campden Hill in the
County of Middlesex Architect do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be
as follows:-
In fitting buildings with electric light the leads are often permanently enclosed in
the walls and ceilings their ends being left projecting to be joined to the ends of the
conductors of the fittings. In such cases difficulty is experienced in making sound
but hidden joints between the leads and conductors.
. According to my Invention I connect the projecting ends of the leads in the wall or
ceiling to contact makers carried by a rosette of wood or other material fixed to the
wall like the rosette used for a gas bracket. The ends of the wires of the fittings are
attached to spring contact makers which are carried by a disc or cone similar. to that
used for gas brackets and called the "back." "It is furnished with screw holes so that
it can be attached by screws to the rosette as is done in fixing a gas bracket.
In order to ensure-the- contact makers coming- one above the other I furnish the
rosette and "back" with pegs and holes.
By means of my Invention all skill in making the connections between the leads
in the wall and the fittings is dispensed with.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Roses for Supporting Electric Lamps.
I, WILLIAM ARTHUR SMITH BENSON, of 2 Gordon Place, Campden Hill, in the
County of Middlesex, Architect, 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 fitting buildings with electric light the leads are often permanently enclosed in
the walls and ceilings their ends being left projecting to be joined to the ends of the
conductors of the fittings. In such cases difficulty is experienced in making sound
but hidden joints between the leads and conductors.
According to my invention I connect the projecting ends of the leads in the wall or
ceiling to contact makers carried by a rosette of wood or other material fixed to the
wall like the rosette used for a gas bracket. The ends of the wires of the fittings are
attached to spring contact makers which are carried by a disc or cone similar to that
used for gas brackets and called the "back." It is furnished with screw holes so that
it can be attached by screws to the rosette as is.done in fixing a gas bracket.
In order to ensure the contact makers coming one above the other I furnish the
rosette and " back with pegs and holes.
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By means of my invention all skill in making the connections between the leads in
the wall and the fittings is dispensed with.
This form of rose may be used as a joint box on a large fitting, say at the joint
between the down rod and the several arms.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section and Figure 2 a front elevation of an apparatus
constructed according to my invention.
Figure 3 is a front elevation of the rosette.

page_text: A A are the leads in the wall or ceiling connected to the contact makers BB
carried by the “rosette "C. D D are holes in the rosette C into which pegs E E on
the "back F fit.
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GG and H H are screw holes in the "back" and rosette so that they can be
attached by screws J J.
KK are spring contact makers carried by the "back" F which press against
those (BB) of the rosette C and are connected to the wires L L of the fittings.
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. Roses for supporting electric lamps made in two parts with contact makers
between them substantially as described.
2. Roses for supporting electric lamps made in two parts connected together by
screws and pegs and having contact makers between them substantially as described.
3. Roses for supporting electric lamps substantially as described and shown in the
drawings.
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