IMPROVEMENTS IN LAMPS FOR BICYCLES TRICYCLES AND OTHER VELOCIPEDES AND OTHER VEHICLES to be as follows :-
Year: 1884

page_text: I CHARLES PHILLIPS of No 66 Guildford Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Pattern Maker do hereby declaro the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN LAMPS FOR BICYCLES TRICYCLES AND OTHER VELOCIPEDES
AND OTHER VEHICLES to be as follows :-
"
My invention has reference principally to lamps for bicycles tricycles and other
velocipedes but is also applicable to lamps for vehicles in general.
My invention consists of the construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter
described whereby a part of the light (generally coloured red) passing through the
glazed opening or openings in the side or sides of the lamp is reflected forward that
is in the direction in which the vehicle is advancing and another portion of the
said light is reflected in the contrary or backward direction.
I will describe my invention in connection with a tricycle lamp. In the middle
of each of the small panes of coloured glass with which the openings or small
windows in the sides of the lamp case are glazed I fix two reflecting planes
preferably of plated copper. The two reflecting planes may be made from one
piece of plated sheet copper oblong in figure and bent in a line passing along its
middle so that the two halves are inclined to each other at about an angle of
ninety degrees this reflector is fixed on the outside of the lamp so that the junction
of the two planes is situated midway between the two sides of the small window
and parallel with the said sides.
Each of the reflecting planes makes an angle of about forty five degrees with
the window one reflecting plane being turned towards the front and the other
towards the back of the lamp. That portion of the coloured light passing through
the window which falls on the front reflecting plane is reflected forwards and that
portion of the said light falling on the back reflector is reflected backwards.
By the construction described the coloured light passing through the side windows
is in part radiated across the road both right and left while part is reflected
forwards and backwards on each side of the lamp that reflected forwards being
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page_text: coloured and situated on each side of the beam of uncoloured light passing through
uncoloured glass in the front of the lamp case.
In applying my invention to the lamps of ordinary carriages I apply the
reflectors described to one side only of each lamp the said reflectors being applied
to the right hand side of the right hand lamp and to the left hand side of the left
hand lamp.
Although I have found reflectors made of plated copper answer well in practice
yet the said reflectors may be made of other reflecting material.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: I CHARLES PHILLIPS of N° 66 Guildford Street, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Pattern Maker do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN LAMPS FOR BICYCLES, TRICYCLES AND OTHER VELOCIPEDES
AND OTHER VEHICLES" and in what manner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention has referenco principally to lamps for bicycles, tricycles and other
velocipedes but is also applicable to lamps for vehicles in general.
My invention consists of the construction and arrangement of parts herein after
described, whereby a part of the light (generally coloured red) passing through the
glazed opening or openings in the side or sides of the lamp is reflected forward,
that is, in the direction in which the vehicle is advancing, and another portion of
the said light is reflected in the contrary or backward direction. I will describe
my invention in connection with a tricycle lamp. In the middle of each of the
small panes of coloured glass with which the openings or small windows in the
sides of the lamp case are glazed I fix two reflecting planes preferably of plated
copper. The two reflecting planes may be made from one piece of plated sheet
copper oblong in figure and bent in a line passing along its middle so that the two
halves are inclined to each other at about an angle of ninety degrees. This reflector
is fixed on the outside of the lamp so that the junction of the two planes is situated
midway between the two sides of the small window and parallel with the said
sides. Each of the reflecting planes makes an angle of about forty five degrees
with the window, one reflecting plane being turned towards the front and the
other towards the back of the lamp. That portion of the coloured light passing
through the window which falls on the front reflecting plane is reflected forwards
and that portion of the said light falling on the back reflector is reflected
backwards.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in front elevation; Figure 2 in
side elevation and Figure 3 in plan, a tricycle lamp containing my improvements.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts.
a is the lamp case and b, b are the glazed windows or small openings in the sides
of the said lamp case, the said windows being generally glazed with red glass. At
the middle of each glazed window or side light b, two reflectors or reflecting
planes c, c are fixed the said reflectors being by preference mude of plated copper.
1 prefer to make the reflectors or reflecting planes c, c² from one piece of plated
sheet copper, oblong in figure and bent in a line passing along its middle, so that
the two halves are inclined to each other at about an angle of ninety degrees as
best seen in the plan Figure 3. The said double reflector or double reflecting
plane c, c is fixed by the ears d, & at top and bottom to the outside of the metallic
frame of the side light or window b so that the junction of the two reflectors or
reflecting planes is situated midway between the two vertical sides of the window b
and parallel with the said sides. But I do not limit myself to this method of
making and fixing the double reflector or reflecting surface c, c². The reflectors c, c³
only cover the middle portion of the side window 6 (see Figure 2) the sides which
are uncovered radiating the light in the ordinary way.
It will be seen by an examination of Figure 3 that each of the reflectors c and c
makes an angle of about forty five degrees with the side window b the reflecting
plane c being turned towards the front of the lamp case containing the glass e and
the other reflecting plane c towards the back of the lamp case.
Hence that part
of the coloured light passing through the window b which falls on the front reflector

page_text: or reflecting plane c is reflected forwards and that portion of the coloured light
passing through the window b which falls on the back reflector c² is reflected
backwards.
By the construction described and illustrated the coloured light passing through
the side windows b, b is in part radiated across the road both right and left in the
ordinary way while part is reflected forwards and backwards on each side of the
lamp by the reflectors cc³; c c², the coloured light which is reflected forwards
being situated on each side of the beam of uncoloured light passing through the
uncoloured glass e in the front of the lamp case.
Or a portion of the coloured light passing through the side windows b, b may be
reflected back wards only instead of both backwards and forwards.
This modification of my invention is represented in front elevation in Figure 4;
sido elevation in Figure 5 and plan in Figure 6. In this modification the backs of
the fixed reflectors h, h are turned towards the front of the lamp case, the reflecting
surfaces being turned towards the back of the lamp and each reflector is fixed at
one edge of the side window band covers nearly one half of the coloured glass with
which the side window is glazed.
Or the coloured light from the side windows b, b may be reflected forwards only.
In this case, each of the reflectors h is fixed at the edge of the opposite side of the
window b to that at which it is represented in the drawing and is turned towards
the front of the lamp. Or one reflector only may be fixed in the position last
described and the other reflector in the position represented in the drawing. In
this case a portion of the light passing through one of the side windows is reflected
backwards and a portion of the light passing through the other side window is
reflected forwards.
In applying my invention to the lamps of ordinary carriages I apply the fixed
reflectors described and represented to one side only of each lamp, the said reflectors
being applied to the right hand side of the right hand lamp and to the left hand
side of the left hand lamp.
Although I have found reflectors made of plated copper answer well in practico
yet the said reflectors may be made of other reflecting material.
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
The addition to or combination with the glazed side openings or windows of
lamps for bicycles, tricycles and other velocipedes, of the outside fixed double
reflectors or reflecting planes c, c² or the single fixed reflectors or reflecting planes h, h
arranged substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accom-
panying Drawing, so that part of the light passing through the glazed openings or
side windows is reflected forwards and backwards, or backwards or forwards only,
or reflected backwards from one side window and reflected forwards from the
other side window; also the application of the fixed reflectors described and
represented to one side of ordinary carriage lamps.
Dated this twenty seventh day of November 1884.