COMBINATION OF STREET-LAMP POSTS LETTER-BOXES AND FIRE-ALARMS
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I, THEODORE LUMLEY, of Saint James's Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of said invention for THE COMBINATION
OF STREET-LAMP POSTS LETTER-BOXES AND FIRE-ALARMS, to be as follows :---
My Invention consists in the combination of a street-lamp post a post-office
letter-box and a fire-alarm, or in the combination of either two of the said
contrivances or devices, and it has for its object to economize space in crowded
thoroughfares.
According to my Invention, and in one arrangement, wherein all the contrivances
or devices, or any two are combined or brought together, the post-office letter-box
and the fire-alarm are fitted, arranged or contrived in the base of the lamp post.
The door of the letter box, and the slit or opening through which postal-matter is
introduced, are on the same side of the base of the lamp-post, in the same manner
as in the ordinary pillar-letter-boxes, or at any other convenient part, the slit or
opening being either vertical or horizontal.
Above the letter box, or on the opposite side of the post, or in any other
convenient position, the fire alarm .is arranged, the electric wires of which. pass
down the base of the column whence they are convoyed to the battery in the fire
engine station. A glass disc or plate may be let into the base of the lamp post, so
as to protect the call button of the fire-alarm, and prevent it being tampered with.
This call button may be on the same side as the door of the letter box, and the slit,
or it may be on another side.
The
gas pipe, or the electric wire, for lighting, is arranged outside the letter box
and fire alarm, but within the base and shaft of the lamp post.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I, THEODORE LUMLEY, of Saint James's Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of said invention for THE COMBINATION
OF STREET LAMP-POSTS, LETTER BOXES, AND FIRE ALARMS, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :--
My Invention consists in the combination, forming a single article, of a street
lamp-post, a post-office letter-box and a fire alarm; or in the combination of any
two of the said contrivances or devices, and it has for its object to economize space
in crowded thoroughfares.
My Invention will be readily understood on reference to the accompanying
drawings in which Figs. 1 and 1* are views of opposite sides of a combined lamp-
post, letter-box and fire alarm, constructed according to my Invention, and fig. 2 is
a horizontal section taken through the line y, y, of fig. 1.
According to my Invention, and in one arrangement wherein all the contrivances
or devices are combined or brought together, as shewn in the drawings, A represents
the Post-office letter-box, B, the fire-alarm, C the lamp-post, and D its base, and it
is in this base that I construct, arrange or fit the lotter-box. The door a of the
letter-box, and the slit or opening a¹, through which postal matter is introduced,
are shown as being on the same side of the base of the lamp post, and in the same
manner as in the ordinary pillar-letter-boxes, but they may be arranged at any
other convenient part of the same, if desired or found necessary, and the slit or
opening a¹, may be arranged either vertically or horizontally.
Above the letter-box proper, or on the opposite side of the base of the lamp post,
or in any other convenient position, I arrange the fire alarm B, the electric
wires b, bx, of which pass down the base of the post, whence they are conveyed to
the battery in the fire engine station. A glass disc, or plato, may be let into the
base of the lamp post so as to protect the call button d, of the fire alarm, and
prevent it being tampered with. This call button may be on the same side as the
door of the letter box and the slit, or it may be on another side.
The gas pipe c, or the electric wires, for lighting, is arranged outside the
letter-box proper and the fire alarm, but within the base of the lamp post.
The gas pipe or the electric wires although in the interior of the base of the
lamp post, is entirely disconnected from the letter box. This gas pipe and electric
wires have separate doors placed in the most convenient position in the base of the
lamp post. The lamp post, or lamp, may be in such form, shape or position as may
be necessary for the required light,

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. The combination, forming a single- article, of a street lamp-post, a post-office
letter-box, and a fire alarm, substantially as herein described and as illustrated in
the drawings, and for the purposes set forth.
2. The combination, forming a single article, of any two of the devices or
appliances above set forth, and for the purposes described.