A Novel Construction of Front Cone Reflectors for Cycle Lamps.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Oct.. 1894
Complete Specification Left, 19th July, 1895-Accepted, 24th Aug., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Novel Construction of Front Cone Reflectors for Cycle Lamps.
I, HENRY SALSBURY, of 125-126 Long Acre, County of London, Lamp
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object a novel construction of front cone reflectors for
cycle lamps, the front cone being made of silvered or reflective glass surrounded
by a metal jacket which in itself may be reflective if desired, particularly if the
glass be of a plain character.
Either end or both ends of the cone may have a lens in it like an ordinary cycle
lamp, the metal also serving as a protection and as a means of securing the cone
front to the body of the lamp, or to the door, or its flap according to construction.
To carry my invention into practice, I mould a cone shaped glass with an annular
channel at either, or at both ends, into which a lens or lenses can be cemented, or
otherwise secured, or I make the ends of the glass cone plain, and fit a metal or
other rim or rims, such as a bezil over to carry the lens or lenses, which metal may
be part of the cover cone, or affixed thereto, as desired. The metal cone or cover
may have flanges for its attachment to the lamp body, or other part.
The glass may have a silvered or reflective exterior, or the cover cone can be
reflective for the reflective properties to pass through a plain glass. I have
implied by the foregoing that the glass cone is in one piece but it may be in more
pieces either in curved or flat strips built into the cover.
Dated this 19th day of October 1894.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Henry Salsbury.
A Novel Construction of Front Cone Renectors for Cycle Lamps.
J, HENRY SALSBURY, of 125-126 Long Acre, County of London, Lamp
Manufacturer, 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 has for object a novel construction of front cone reflectors for
cycle lamps, the front cone being made of silvered or reflective glass surrounded
by a metal jacket which in itself may be reflective if desired, particularly if the
glass be of a plain character.
Either end or both ends of the cone may have a lens in it like an ordinary cycle
lamp, the metal also serving as a protection and as a means of securing the cone
front to the body of the lamp, or to the door, or its flap, according to construction.
To carry my invention into practice, and as I show in the annexed drawings
Figures 1 to 4, I mould a cone shaped glass A with an annular channel B at one
end as at Figure 1 (or at both ends) into which a lens C (or lenses) can be
cemented or otherwise secured, or i make the ends of the glass cone plain as at
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page_text: Figure 2 and fit a metal or other rim or rims D such as a bezil over, to carry the
lens C (or lenses), which metal D may be part of the cover cone E, or affixed
thereto as desired.
The metal cone or cover E may have flanges F for its attachment to the lamp
body or other part.
The glass may have a silvered or reflective exterior, or the cover cone E can be
reflective for the reflective properties to pass through a plain glass.
I have implied by the foregoing, that the glass cone is in one piece, Figures 1
and 2 but it may be in more pieces either in curved or flat strips as at Figure 3,
built up and slipped into an existing cone.
Figure 4 is a section of a glass cone silvered reflector or mirror A as a liner in a
cone shape metal exterior E not in touch with the glass but which is held in
position by a turned in end at G, and by its being soldered at intervals to the rim
at the other, the lens C is in a bezil H hinged to the cover at I, so that the
lens can be folded up or opened for cleansing purposes as also the exteriorily
silvered mirror of conical shape to be cleaned on its inside.
As before stated the cone glass may be plain and the interior surface of the
cover be reflective.
The invention herein before described obviates certain objections that are raised
with regard to the existing metal reflector cones of cycle lamps.
1. The reflective medium is not of a permanent character.
2. The reflective medium can be easily rubbed off in cleaning.
3. The reflective medium is rapidly tarnished by climatic action.
4. The reflective medium is easily indented and rendered unsightly.
5. The cone is of copper and bas to be specially prepared to receive the reflective
medium consequently it is costly.
By ny invention
1. The silvered exterior of the glass cone is comparatively speaking everlasting.
2. It cannot be rubbed off because it is not touched in the cleaning.
3. It is not affected by the climate, it being enclosed and protected by the metal
cover.
4. The reflective medium is preserved intact although the metal cover be
indented.
5. The manufacture of the glass cone silvered and a common metal cover
together are of less cost yet as efficient for the purpose as a prepared and silvered
copper cone.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The employment of cone shaped glass liners in the cones of cycle lamps
either as silvered glass reflectors or as a protection to a reflective surface of
the usual cones, as described and substantially as indicated by the drawings.
2. The manufacture and employment of glass reflector or mirrors of cone shape
with cover of cone shape as a protector to the silvering, as set forth whether the
Jeus be in the cone in the rim or in the folding bezil, as described and represented.
The 19th day of July 1995.
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H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Heury Salsbury.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Heury Salsbury.