Improvements in and relating to Vehicle Lamps.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 13th June, 1896-Accepted, 18th July, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Vehicle Lamps.
We CHARLES DUNN and ALBERT VICTOR TAYLOR both of No. 61 Burbury
Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick Tin-plate Workers 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 has for its object the providing of an improved lockable lamp-
holder, specially suitable to meet the requirements of cart owners who are
compelled by recent regulations to carry a light at night, and also suitable for
use on carriages bicycles and other vehicles.
We will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawings
the manner in which our invention is constructed and used.
Figure 1 represents a front view of improved tongue-plate.
Figure 2 represents a top or plan view of Figure 1.
Figure 3 represents a front view of the tongue-loop of lamp.
Figure 4 represents a section through tongue and tongue-plate shewing the
tongue of lamp passed through the tongue-plate.
Figure 5 represents an edge view of Figure 3.
In carrying out our invention we provide the tongue-plate as shewn at Figures, I'
and 2, the face a is provided to take a bearing against any suitable part of cart or
other vehicle, the tongue-plate being secured to the vehicle by means of screws,.
rivets, or other fastenments passing through the securing-holes b, the continuous
recess c between the face a and the back d of recess is provided to receive the-
tongue of lamp; a snug e is provided on the upper or other edge of tongue-plate,
such snug being provided with a lock-hole f.
We provide the tongue-loop as shewn in detail at Figures 3 and 5, such tongue-
loop of lamp is provided with a slot or opening g formed at the bent-over or loop.
end by piercing out or otherwise removing a portion of the bent plate, the slotted
tongue-loop of lamp would be made of sheet metal by preference altho' it may be
forged, cast or otherwise produced.
The tongue-plate and the tongue-loop of lamp are used in the following
manner
One of the arms h would be connected to a lamp by soldering, brazing, com-
pressing or other suitable mechanical means, thus producing a lamp carrying our
slotted loop-tongue, with each lamp sold would be delivered as part of such
complete lamp a tongue-plate as illustrated and described in relation to.
Figures 1 and 2.
The owner of the cart or vehicle who purchased our improved lockable lamp.
and lamp-holder would secure the tongue-plate permanently to the cart or other
vehicle by means of the bolt-holes b or by other suitable equivalent mechanical
means, the tongue h of lamp would then be passed into and through the recess c
until the slot 9 passed over the snug e as clearly shewn in the sectional view
Figure 4, the snug e would then project through and beyond the slot g and present
to view the lock-hole f, through this lock-hole would be passed the bar of a pad-
lock or other lock thereby locking the lamp to the cart or vehicle and preventing
it from being stolen.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1st. The invention as illustrated and described for use in the manner described.
2nd. In the manufacture of vehicle-lamps the combination of a slotted tongue-
loop with the snug of a tongue-plate as a means of locking the tongue-loop to
the vehicle tongue-plate.
Dated this 10th day of June 1896.
ALFRED WILLIAM TURNER,
Cobden Buildings, Corporation Street, Birmingham,
Agent for the Applicants.