Improvements in Smoke or Ceiling Protectors for Chandeliers, Pendants, Gas Brackets, or the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 25th July, 1892-Accepted, 27th Aug., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Smoke or Ceiling Protectors for Chandeliers,
Pendants, Gas Brackets, or the like.
I, PETER THOMAS PIERPOINT of 57 Chapel Street, Southport in the County
of Lancaster, Cashier, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to that class of smoke or ceiling protectors or chandeliers,
pendants, gas brackets or the like, in which a screen is placed above the light to
intercept the smoke and heat and prevent the ceiling being blackened.
.
In carrying out my invention, I form a bracket of any suitable shape, size and
material, having a sleeve at the bottom adapted to slip onto the burner, or onto
the socket in which the burner is fixed, and thereby be supported in an upright
position. This bracket extends above the globe and at its top end is an arm to
which is attached in any convenient manner a shade or protector of suitable
material, such as glass, mica or porcelain. The bracket is so formed as to pass
up between the flame and the globe, by which means it is quite independent of the
size of the globe and can therefore be used in connection with a globe of small or
large size. The shade or protector may, if desired, have a reflecting interior
surface, and the bracket could be supported from the gallery of the globe instead
of from the burner.
Dated this 10th day of March 1892.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Smoke or Ceiling Protectors for Chandeliers,
Pendants, Gas Brackets, or the like.
I, PETER THOMAS PIERPOINT of 57 Chapel Street, Southport in the County
of Lancaster, Cashier, 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 relates to that class of smoke or ceiling protectors for chandeliers,
pendants, gas brackets or the like, in which a screen is placed above the light to
intercept the smoke and heat and prevent the ceiling being blackened.
In carrying out my invention, I form a bracket of any suitable shape, size and
material, having a sleeve or clip at the bottom adapted to slip onto the burner or
onto the socket in which the burner is fixed, and thereby be supported in an
upright position. This bracket extends above the globe, and at its top end is an
arm to which is attached in any convenient manner a shade or protector of
suitable material, such as glass, mica or porcelain. The bracket is so formed as to
pass in close proximity to the flame or between the flame and the globe, by which
means the ceiling protector and bracket are quite independent of the size of the
globe, and can therefore be used in connection with a globe of small or large size,
or without any globe at all. The protector may, if desired, have a reflecting
interior surface and the bracket could clip onto and be supported by the gallery or
other part of the bracket or chandelier instead of by the burner.
The accompanying drawings depict one way in which the invention may be
carried into effect.

page_text: Figure is an elevation of a globe and ceiling protector supported by the
bracket; and
Figure 2 an enlarged view of the bracket alone.
In these figures, A. is the upright bracket or stem provided at the bottom with
the sleeve B for fitting onto the burner or gas pendant, etcetera, and at the top
with the screwed shank C, collar D, and thumb nut E. F is the globe. The
screwed shank C is passed through the hole in the ceiling protector G, and secured
in place by screwing on the thumb nut E whereby the protector is gripped between
the collar and the nut and cannot fall off.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is-
1. The use;
in combination with smoke or ceiling protectors for chandeliers,
pendants, gas brackets or the like, of a stem carrying the ceiling protector attached
by a sleeve, clip or its equivalent to the burner or bracket substantially as
described.
2. The combination, with smoke or ceiling protectors for chandeliers, pendants,
gas brackets or the like, of an upright support or stem located in proximity
to the flame or between the globe of the lamp and the flame substantially as
described, whereby both the ceiling protector and the stem or support are rendered
quite independent of the size of the globe or even of any globe at all.
Dated this 23rd day of July 1905
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and London, Patent Agents.