Improvements in or Additions to Mirrors for Toilet or other Purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Feb., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 8th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 21st Dec., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Additions to Mirrors for Toilet or other
Purposes.
We, ERNEST LOWER BERRY and FREDERICK HARRISON both of Lyric
Chambers, Whitcomb Street in the County of London, Electrical Engineers do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has for its object to provide a mirror with which means are
combined whereby for instance the face of the person using the mirror for shaving
or other toilet purposes can be illuminated very efficiently and the shadows which
are cast by ordinary means of illumination on the face, or beneath the chin for
instance of the person are avoided. According to our invention we provide a
mirror and rearward of it an electric lamp or lamps or other illuminating device so
arranged that light is emitted around or at all sides of the mirror so as to illuminate
the whole of the face, or face and neck for instance of the person using the mirror
and prevent shadows being cast onto the neck, for example, the casting of such
shadows being very objectionable more especially in shaving. The lamp or lamps
or the like may be situated around the edge of the mirror somewhat to the rear
thereof or at the back of the mirror the rays being reflected by reflectors arranged
around or on all sides of the mirror so that the rays are emitted around or on ali
sides of the mirror in a direction which will best illuminate the user of the mirror
as desired. For example the mirror may be a circular mirror held in a frame which
leaves a space between itself and the mirror the interior of the frame constituting
a circular reflector around the mirror and with its reflecting surface arranged at
such an angle as to reflect the rays from the lamp out through the space between
the frame and the mirror the reflectors and lamp, or lamps being so relatively
arranged and the reflector or reflectors placed at such an angle that the rays pass
from the said space in the required direction for example at right angles to the
plane of the mirror or converging somewhat so as to concentrate the light in front
of the mirror. The mirror and its frame may be of any desired shape and
proportions.
Dated this 8th day of February 1895.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Additions to Mirrors for Toilet or other
Purposes.
We, ERNEST LOWER BERRY, and FREDERICK HARRISON, both of Lyric
Chambers, Whitcomb Street, in the County of London, Electrical Engineers,
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 :-
Our invention has for its object to provide a mirror with which means are

page_text: combined whereby for instance the face of the person using the mirror for shaving
or other toilet purposes, can be iluminated very efficiently and the shadows which
are cast by ordinary means of inumination on the face, or beneath the chin, for
instance of the person, are avoided. According to our invention we provide a
mirror and rearward of it au electric lamp, or lamps, or other illuminating device
or devices, so arranged that light is emitted around, or at all sides of the mirror or
in such manner as to illuminate the whole of the face, or face and neck, for instance,
of the person using the mirror and prevent shadows being cast onto the neck, for
example, the casting of such shadows being very objectionable more especially in
shaxing, The lamp, or lamps, or the like may be situated around the edge of the
mirror, somewhat to the rear thereof, or at the back of the mirror the rays being
reflected by reflectors which may be arranged around, or on all sides of the mirror,
so that the rays are emitted around, or on all sides of the mirror or in such a
direction or directions as will best illuminate the user of the mirror as desired.
For example the mirror may be a circular mirror held in a frame which leaves a
space between itself and the mirror the interior of the frame constituting a circular
reflector around the mirror and with its reflecting surface arranged at such an
angle as to reflect the rays from the lamp out through the space between the frame
and the mirror the reflectors and lamp, or lamps, being so relatively arranged and
the reflector, or reflectors, placed at such an angle that the rays pass from the said
space in the required direction, for example at right angles to the plane of the
mirror; or converging somewhat so as to concentrate the light in front of the
mirror. The mirror and its frame may be of any desired shape and proportions.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawing is a front elevation and Fig. 2 is a transverse
section of a mirror provided with this invention. The mirror A in the example
shewn is set in a frame B with openings arranged around the mirror glazed with
transparent or translucent material such as opalized glass C. The back of the
mirror and frame has extending thereover the box or casing D with interior
reflecting surfaces. E is an electric lamp the rays from which are directed by the
reflectors through the opal glasses at C onto the face of the user of the mirror in
the most favourable manner.
If desired, especially for large mirrors, the illuminating devices may be in
separate reflecting containers arranged around, or partly around, the mirror.
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. A mirror having at the rear an illuminating device or devices and means
for directing the rays outwards, substantially as and for the purpose herein before
described.
2. A mirror combined with illuminating and reflecting devices substantially as
and for the purpose hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 8th day of November 1895.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
Agents.