A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF ATTACHING LAMPS AND WHIP SOCKETS TO CARRIAGES
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Walter Howes, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, and William Burley, of Birmingham, aforesaid,
Manager of Works, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD
OF ATTACHING LAMPS AND WHIP SOCKETS TO CARRIAGES."
Sealed the 27th July 1860, and dated the 3rd February 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATON left by the said Walter Howes and William
Burley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition
on the 3rd February 1860.
We, WALTER HOWES, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manu-
facturer, and WILLIAM BURLEY, of Birmingham, aforesaid, Manager of Works,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED
METHOD OF ATTACHING LAMPS AND WHIP SOCKETS TO CARRIAGES," to be as
follows:-
Our Invention consists of the method herein-after described of connecting
carriage lamps and the whip sockets of carriages to the fixed arms called the
socket irons, which said socket irons are permanently fixed to the carriage for
the reception of the lamps and whip sockets. In the interior of the ring
which terminates the socket iron, we make a concave or female screw, and on
the socket underneath the lamp we make a convex or male screw of a size
proper to engage in the screw in the socket iron. In the case for a whip socket
the screw is made on the middle of the said whip socket. By making the
lamp socket or whip socket engage in the socket iron by means of screwing, a

page_text: secure connection is effected free from the liability to shake, which the ordinary
method of fastening is subject to. The accidental unscrewing of the lamp
may be prevented by a small strap connected with the lamp being passed round
the socket iron, and fixed in that position.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Walter Howes and William Burley in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 1st August 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WALTER
Howes, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, and
WILLIAM BURLEY, of Birmingham, aforesaid, Manager of Works, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of February in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Walter Howes and William Burley, Her special licence that we,
the said Walter Howes and William Burley, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Walter Howes and William Burley,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD
OF ATTACHING LAMPS AND WHIP SOCKETS TO CARRIAGES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Walter Howes and William Burley, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or their
hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Burley, on behalf of myself
and the said Walter Howes, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that
is to say :-

page_text: Our Invention consists of the method herein-after described and illustrated
in the accompanying Drawing, of connecting carriage lamps and whip sockets
of carriages to the fixed arms called the socket irons, which said socket irons
are permanently fixed to the carriage for the reception of the lamps and whip
socket. In the interior of the ring which terminates the socket iron, both of
the lamp and whip socket, we make a concave or female screw, and on the
socket or tube underneath the lamp we make a convex or male screw of a size
proper to engage in the screw in the socket iron. In the case of a whip socket
the convex screw is made by preference at the middle of the socket, but the
said screw may be made at any other convenient part of the said whip
socket.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents an elevation of a carriage
lamp to which our Invention is applied, and Figure 2 represents a plan and
section of the socket iron of the said lamp, constructed also according to our
Invention Figure 3 represents the lamp and socket iron, Figures 1 and 2,
connected together, portions of the said lamp and socket iron being shown in
section. a is the ring which terminates the socket iron b, which is fixed per-
manently to the carriage. In the said ring a we make a concave screw c, as
represented. On the socket d of the lamp, and immediately below the body
of the same, we make a convex screw e. By passing the socket d of the
lamp through the ring a of the socket iron, and screwing the convex screw e
into the screw c in the said iron, the lamp is securely connected thereto, as
represented in Figure 3.
Figure 4 represents an elevation of a whip socket made according to our
Invention; and Figure 5 represents a plan and section of the socket iron of
the same.
Figure 6 represents an elevation (partly in section) of the whip socket
and iron connected together. As the method of connecting the whip socket,
Figure 4, to the socket iron, Figure 5, is the same as that by which the lamp
socket d, Figures 1 and 3, is connected to the socket iron, Figure 2, we do
no think any further explanation necessary, excepting to remark that the parts
in Figures 4, 5, and 6 are marked with the same letters as the corresponding
parts in Figures 1, 2, and 3. The socket irons, Figures 2 and 5, are fixed to
the carriage in the usual way.
By making the lamp socket or whip socket engage in the socket iron by
means of screwing, as before described and represented in the Drawing, a
secure connection is effected free from the liability to shake, which the ordinary
method of fastening is subject to. The accidental unscrewing of the lamp
may be prevented by a small strap being passed through the loop f on the

page_text: lamp and around the socket iron b, and buckled or fastened in that position;
but we have found in practice that the said strap is seldom, if ever,
required.
Having now described the nature of our Invention and the manner of carry-
ing the same into effect, we wish it to be understood that we do not limit
ourselves to the precise details herein described, as the same may be varied
without departing from the nature of our Invention; but we claim as our
Invention, the new or improved method of attaching lamps and whip sockets to
carriages, berein-before described and represented in the accompanying Draw-
ing, that is to say, attaching the said lamps and whip sockets by making on
the lamp socket and whip socket a convex or male screw, which takes into a
concave or female screw made in the ring at the termination of the socket
irons, the said socket irons being fixed permanently to the carriage.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Burley, have hereunto set my
band and seal, this Thirty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty. “
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw.
WILLIAM BURLEY. (L.S.).