Improvements in or Additions to Lamps for Bicycles, Tricycles, and other Velocipedes, which Improvements are also Applicable to other Lamps and Lanterns.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Additions to Lamps for Bicycles, Tricycles, and
other Velocipedes, which Improvements are also Applicable to
other Lamps and Lanterns.
We, WILLIAM DOBSON and WILLIAM DOBSON the younger, both of Gordon
Works, Oxford Street, Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Tin Plate Workers,
do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
Our invention consists of the improvements in or additions to lamps hereinafter
described, which improvements are especially applicable to lamps for bicycles,
tricycles and other velocipedes, but may also be applied to other lamps and
lanterns.
We will describe our invention in connection with a bicycle lamp.
In order that our invention may be the better understood we remark that the
lighting of the lamp of a bicycle involves the possession by the rider of lucifer
matches. As the rider by change of dress or otherwise may inadvertently start
without a supply of matches and thereby be unable to light his bicycle lamp, it
is desirable that the lamp should be provided with a stock of matches at hand
whenever required, or in other words it is desirable that matches should form an
integral of the charged lamp as the oil and wick.
Our improvements in or additions to a bicycle lamp consist in forming at the
bottom of and outside the lamp case, a slide in which a drawer works, the said
drawer being for the reception of matches. The drawer may either he made so
that it can be wholly withdrawn and separated from the lamp and it may be
provided with a stop which permits it to be fully drawn out, but prevents its
detachment from the lamp. The bottom of the drawer is roughened externally for
permitting the lighting of the match by striking it on the roughened bottom of the
drawer. Instead of connecting the drawer with the lamp by means of a slide the
underside of the bottom of the lamp may be provided with a case open at front
into which case the box containing the matches slides the roughening being made
on the bottom of the case. The case in which the drawer slides may be isolated
from the bottom of the lamp by means of an air space or a space containing felt
or other imperfect conductor of heat. The drawer may be provided with a hook
fastening or spring snap. or other fastening.
Although we prefer to make the receptacle for the matches slide as a drawer
yet we do not confine ourselves thereto, as the said receptacle for the matches may
be attached to the outside of the bottom of the lamp by a pin on which it swivels
so that the said receptacle when turned at right angles to its normal position
exposes the matches, or is open, and when restored to its position underneath the
lamp is closed and may be secured by a spring snap or other fastening.

page_text: The application of our invention to lamps for tricycles and other velocipedes
as well as to other lamps and lanterns differs in no essential respect from its
application to a bicycle lamp as hereinbefore described.
Dated this Twenty-fourth day of September 1896
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applcants.
Improvements in or Additions to Lamps for Bicycles, Tricycles, and
other Velocipedes, which Improvements are also Applicable to
other Lamps and Lanterns.
We, WILLIAM DOBSON and WILLIAM DOBSON the younger, both of Gordon
Works, Oxford Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Tin Plate Workers,
do hereby declare the nature of our 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 consists of the improvements in or additions to lamps hereinafter
described, which improvements are especially applicable to lamps for bicycles,
tricycles and other velocipedes, but may also be applied to other lamps and
lanterns.
We will describe our invention in connection with a bicycle lamp.
In order that our invention may be the better understood we remark that the
lighting of the lamp of a bicycle involves the possession by the rider of lucifer
matches. As the rider by change of dress or otherwise may inadvertently start
without a supply of matches and thereby be unable to light his bicycle lamp, it
is desirable that the lamp should be provided with a stock of matches at hand.
whenever required, or in other words it is desirable that matches should form an
integral of the charged lamp as the oil and wick.
Our improvements in or additions to a bicycle lamp consist in forming at the
bottom of and outside the lamp case, a slide in which a drawer works, the said
drawer being for the reception of matches. The drawer may either be made so
that it can be wholly withdrawn and separated from the lamp, or it may be
provided with a stop which permits it to be fully drawn out, but prevents its
detachment from the lamp. The bottom of the drawer is roughened externally for
permitting the lighting of the match by striking it on the roughened bottom of the
drawer.
Instead of connecting the drawer with the lamp by means of a slide the
underside of the bottom of the lamp may be provided with a case open at front
into which case the box or drawer containing the matches slides, the roughening
being made on the bottom of the case. The drawer may be provided with a hook
fastening or spring snap or other fastening.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in front elevation, partly
in vertical section and Figure 2 in front elevation, a bicycle lamp containing one
of the arrangements of our invention. In Figure 1 the sliding drawer containing
the matches is represented in its closed position and in Figure 2 in its open or
withdrawn position.
a is a case or chamber at the bottom of and outside the lamp body b, the said
case or body being either soldered to the lamp body or made in one piece therewith.
The case or chamber a is open at its front c and in it the box or drawer d for
holding matches works. By means of stops e, e at opposite sides and near the
mouth of the case or chamber a, the sliding match drawer d is prevented from
being wholly detached from the lamp, but by emitting the stops e, e the match

page_text: The box or drawer dis
drawer d may be wholly withdrawn from the case a.
provided at its front end with a spring hook or spring snap fastening f. which
when the drawer is pushed home; snaps upon the rib g on the lamp body b and
thereby holds the box or drawer securely in its place. By depressing the spring
catch from the rib g, the box or drawer d is unfastened and may be drawn out
as illustrated in Figure 2 for gaining access to the matches contained in it. The
bottom of the case or chamber a in which the drawer works, is roughened at h
for permitting of the lighting of the matches by rubbing them on the said
roughened surface.
For the purpose of preventing the rattling of the matches in the box or drawer d,
the bottom and sides of the said drawer may be lined with cloth or other fabric
as seen at i Figure 1; and the bottom of the lamp body, forming the top of the
case or chamber a, may also be covered or lined with cloth or fabric for the same
purpose. If thought desirable the case or chamber a, in which the drawer d
slides, may be isolated from the bottom of the lamp by means of an air space, or a
space containing felt or other imperfect conductor of heat.
Instead of a closed case or chamber, open at one end, at the bottom of the lamp
body, for receiving the sliding box or drawer containing the matches as before
described and illustrated, a slide may be fixed on the bottom of the lamp body
for flanges on the sides of the box or draw to work in.
This arrangement of our invention is represented in Figures 3, 4 and 5; Figure 3
representing a cross section of the bottom of the lamp body and the match box
or drawer; Figure 4 a side elevation of the same and Figure 5 a plan of the
match box or drawer detached; is the sliding match box or drawer provided on
the top of its sides with horizontal flanges d, which engage with a pair of
parallel slides or guiding pieces 3, 62 on the bottom of the lamp body b as seen
in Figure 3. A stop e on the bottom of the lamp body prevents the box or
drawer from being wholly withdrawn from the slides 2,2 (see the dotted
position Figure 4). The box or drawer is secured in its closed position by the
spring catch f and rib g as before described.
The bottom of the box or drawer is roughened at for striking the matches
upon. Although we prefer to make the receptacle for the matches slide as a
drawer yet we do not confine ourselves therete as the said receptacle for 'the
matches may be attached to the outside of the bottom of the lamp by a pin on
which it swivels so that the said receptacle when turned at right angles to its
normal position exposes the matches or is open and when restored to its position
underneath the lamp is closed and may be secured by a spring snap or other
fastening.
This part of our invention is illustrated in Figures 6, 7 and 8; Figure 6 repre-
senting in plan and Figure 7 in side elevation, the swivelling match box i in its
normal or closed position under the bottom of the lamp body and Figure 8
representing in plan the swivelling box after it has been turned on its pin at
right angles to its normal position for opening the box and exposing the matches.
The box is retained in its closed position under the bottom of the lamp body by
a spring snap fastening l.
The application of our invention to lamps for tricycles and other velocipedes
as well as to other lamps and lanterns differs in no essential respect from its
application to a bicycle lamp as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawing.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that we claim as our
invention of "Improvements in or additions to lamps for bicycles, tricycles and
other velocipedes which improvements are also applicable to other lamps and
lanterns";-
The combination with or addition to the bottom of, and outside, the lamp or
lantern case of a box, drawer or receptacle for holding lucifer matches, the said
-

page_text: box, drawer or receptacle either working or sliding in a case or chamber or in a
slide on the underside of the bottom of the lamp or lantern case, or swivelling on
the outside of the bottom of the lamp or lantern case so that by a sliding or
swivelling motion the box, drawer or receptacle can be opened for gaining access
to the matches and returned to its normal position for closing it and fastened in
that position substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated the 16th day of June. 1897.
WILLIAM DOBSON.
WILLIAM DOBSON, JUNR.