AN APPARATUS FOR SECURING LAMPS FOR RAILWAY AND OTHER CARRIAGES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Walter Howes and William Burley, both of Bir
mingham, in the County of Warwick, Lamp Manufacturers, for the
Invention of "AN APPARATUS FOR SECURING LAMPS FOR RAILWAY AND OTHER
CARRIAGES."
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Walter Howes and William
Burley at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition
and Declaration, on the 25th July 1867, pursuant to the 9th Section of
the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WALTER
HOWES and WILLIAM BURLEY, both of Birmingham, in the County of War-
wick, Lamp Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS we are in possession of an Invention for "AN APPARATUS
FOR SECURING LAMPS FOR RAILWAY AND OTHER CARRIAGES," and bave petitioned
Her Majesty to grant unto us, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
Her Royal, Letters Patent for the same, and have made solemn Declaration
that we are the first and true Inventors thereof.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Walter Howes and William Burley,
do hereby declare that the following Complete Specification, under our hands
and seals, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, in and by the following
statement:
Our Invention consists, first, in forming on the side of the lamp next to the
carriage a tapered socket open at the bottom and closed at the top where a

page_text: female thumbscrew is fitted; the screw is free to turn horizontally, but is
secured in position vertically by having a groove cut round the neck, into
which groove the end of the pin passing through the side of the collar at the
top of the socket enters.
Secondly, in forming a lamp iron (fixed to the carriage in any convenient
way) with a stem made to fit the socket above mentioned, at the top of which
stem there is a small screw, the end of which when the lamp is placed upon
the iron enters the female in the thumbscrew, upon turning which the lamp
will be firmly secured.
When removing the lamp the thumbscrew and taper form of the socket
facilitate the lifting of the lamp and prevent it from getting fixed or jammed
upon the stem.
EXPLANATION OF THE DRAWING.
In the accompanying Drawing where similar letters appear in different
Figures they refer to the same part.
Fig. 1 is a side view of a carriage lamp, shewing our improved mode of
fixing the same; Fig. 2 is a back view. thereof; Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation
of the tapered socket lamp iron and female thumbscrew as they appear when
the lamp is firmly fixed in position.
-a is the lamp; b, the tapered socket open at the bottom and closeu
top by means of the cap c formed with an internal female screw; this screw
free to turn horizontally, but is secured in position vertically by means of the
grooves d, d.
e, e, are pins passing through the side of the socket into the
grooves d, d. f is the lamp iron which is made tapered to fit into the outer
case or socket and is formed with a screwed end f¹ to fit into the female screw
of the covering cap.
We claim as our Invention the particular mode herein described of attaching
and securing lamps to railway and other carriages.
In witness whereof, we, the said Walter Howes and William Burley,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-fifth day of July,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
Savon
WALTER HOWES.
(L.B.)
WILLIAM BURLEY. (L.s.)
WALTER HOWES.
(L.S.)
WILLIAM BURLEY. (L.8.)