IMPROVEMENTS IN WALL BRACKETS AND SUSPENSIONS FOR ELECTRIC LAMPS
Year: 1885

page_text: I JOSIAH GLODE STAPELTON of 47 Lee Terrace, Lee in the County of Kent,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN WALL BRACKETS AND SUSPENSIONS FOR ELECTRIC LAMPS" to be as follows:
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My Invention has for its object to render an electric light wall bracket or suspen-
sion movable so as to enable it to be moved to different parts of the room or from
one room to another, and also to enable an electrolier or suspension to be raised or
lowered.
The invention consists lat in a removable wall bracket, which may either be
rigid or swinging, and which is adapted to be supported upon and to travel along
a rod or equivalent support affixed to the wall and combined with a barrel (which
may be a self coiling barrel or its equivalent) upon which is wound the necessary
quantity of wire to admit of the desired removability of the bracket, the said
barrel being mounted either on the bracket or on the wall in such way that the
wire connection will be uncoiled when the bracket is moved away from and coiled
up again when it is returned in towards the point where the wire enters or is fixed
to the wall of the room.
The bracket may be in the form of a bow or other shaped frame, provided with
books (in which friction rollers may be mounted) adapted to engage with and slide
or run upon the supporting rod, said frame being furnished with a strut terminating
in a foot (which may be provided with a friction roller) adapted to bear and run
against the face of the wall in order to support the bracket frame in the horizontal
position. Upon this frame the arm carrying the lamp is mounted either rigidly or
to swing on a pivot.
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A similar arrangement either with or without the supporting rod is applied to
electric light hanging brackets or suspensions either for the purpose of rendering
them movable from place to place or for enabling them to be raised and lowered
in which case the suspension or electrolier would be counterweighted in the manner
of a telescopic gasalier.

page_text: Electric Lamps.
I, JOSIAH GLODE STAPELTON, of 47, Lee Terrace, Lee, in the County of Kent
Gentleman, 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 :-
My Invention has for its object to render an electric light wall bracket, or suspen-
Bion, movable so as to enable it to be moved to different parts of the room, or
from one room to another, and also to enable an electrolier or suspension to be
raised or lowered.
The Invention consists first, in a removable wall bracket which may either be
rigid, or swinging, and which is adapted to be supported upon, and to travel
along, a rod or equivalent support affixed to the wall and combined with a barrel
(which may be a self coiling barrel or its equivalent) upon which is wound the
necessary quantity of wire to admit of the desired removability of the bracket,
the said barrel being mounted either on the bracket or on the wall in such way
that the wire connection will be uncoiled when the bracket is moved away from,
and coiled up again when it is returned in towards, the point where the wire enters,
or is fixed to; the wall of the room.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this
Specification, wherein ;-
Figure 1. is a side elevation;
Figure 2. an end elevation; and
Figuro 3. a plan of the bracket in its simplest form.
Figure 4. is a side elevation ;
Figure 5. an end elevation; and
Figure 6. a plan of the bracket as provided with one means of paying out and
taking up the conducting wires as required.
Figure 7. shows a barrel adapted to be used for the same purpose but not carried
on the bracket.
The bracket arm a has a bow or other shaped frame b provided with hooks c
adapted to hook on to the supporting rod d fixed to the wall in the manner of, and
for use as, a picture rod, and the bracket-arm is supported in the desired horizontal
position by a strut e terminating in a foot ƒ suitably padded and adapted to bear
against the face of the wall. The arm a may either be rigidly attached to the
bow b, and the strut e to its foot fas shown, or the parts may be jointed, the axes
of the joints being in a vertical line with the point where the arm springs from
the how, or at other suitable point. If desired, the hooks c and the foot finay be
provided, with friction rollers (not shown) adapted to run upon the rod d and
against the wall respectively if it is desired to slide the bracket laterally along
the face of the wall without unhooking it.
In Figures 4. 5. and 6: the bracket is constructed as before described, and
is provided with a means of paying out and coiling up the wire as required;
consisting of a self coiling spring barrel h turning on a dead spindle & carried by

page_text: slide-blocks adapted to slide in slots k in a frame carried by the strut or the
bracket arm and extending above and along it as shown so that the barrel is free
to move along the bracket as the wire is paid out or coiled up. Upon this barrel h
the bight of the twisted double wire or cable is wound in the manner shown in
Figures 6 and 7. so as to coil up, or uncoil the cable extending in both directions
(i.e. towards either end of the bracket) at once. The cable runs from the barrel
in one direction to the lamp to which it is connected in the ordinary way; and in
the other direction it passes between a pair of grooved guide rollers carried by
the slotted frame whence it passes to any suitable fixed point. The barrel h con-
tains a spring attached to its axis and to the barrel, as in the barrels of roller blinds
to render it self coiling; the barrel being free to shift in position along the bracket,
and the bight of the wire or cable being wound on it, as shown; the amount paid
out or taken up, per revolution, is equal to twice the circumference of the barrel.
The spring barrel shown in Figure 7. has its axis sharpened at one end to enable
it to be readily driven in any suitable part of the wood-work on the wall, instead
of being carried by the bracket.
An arrangement, similar to that shown in Figures 1. to 6; either with or without
the supporting rod is applied to electric light hanging brackets or suspensions
either for the purpose of rendering them movable from place to place, or for enabling
them to be raised and lowered; in which case the suspension or electrolier would
be counterweighted in the manner of a telescopic gaselier.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that
what I claim is ;
1st A rigid or swinging wall bracket adapted to be movably supported against
the wall in the manner herein described.
2nd A rigid or swinging wall bracket for incandescent electric light adapted to
be movably supported against the wall in the manner herein described in coinbina-
tion with a spring barrel mounted either on the bracket or not substantially as and
for the purpose specified.
3rd The rigid or swinging bracket adapted to be removably supported against
the wall as described in combination with the self winding spring barrel whereon
the bight of the wire or cable is wound as described, the barrel being capable
of rotating and of moving along guides carried by the bracket, for the purpose of
paying out and coiling up the wire or wires, substantially as herein described and
shown in Figures 4, 5 and 6 of the drawings.
4th The combination with an electric-light hanging bracket, suspension or
electrolier of a self-winding barrel for paying out and coiling up the wire or
wires, substantially as described.
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