Improvements in or relating to Cycle, Hand, and like Lamps.
Year: 1896

page_text: Improvements in or relating to Cycle, Hand, and like Lamps.
I HENRY SALSBURY of 125 and 126 Long Acre, London, Lamp Manufacturer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to certain improvements in or relating to cycle hand and
like lamps.
According to this invention I make the body from two similarly stamp pressed
shells with curls or gudgeons for hinge jointing them together the lower portions.
being so arranged that the oil tank can be secured or held by one of the shells and
be locked in place by the other, the locking also securing the two shells as body
and base or body only of the lamp.
The upper part of each half shell has its portion of the head and the body
the usual opening for the front bell reflector, and the spring parallel or other
back.
D
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,.
Agent for the said H. Salsbury.
I, HENRY SALSBURY, of 125 and 126 Long Acre, London, Lamp Manufacturer,.
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 relates to certain improvements in or relating to cycle, hand, and
like lamps.
According to this invention and as shown on the annexed drawings, I make the
body and the head of a lamp from two somewhat similarly stamp pressed shells A, B,..
with curls C, D, or gudgeons for hinge jointing them together, the lower portions
being so arranged that the oil tank E can be suspended securely or held such as by
being pushed into one of the shells, say A, and be locked in place by a spring E
and also by the other half shell when closed to, a further locking of the two shells
by the usual fastener F being effected.
The upper part of each half shell has its portion of the head as before mentioned
and the body the usual opening for the front bell reflector G and the back for the
spring parallel or other attachment.
According to the annexed drawings,
Figure 1 represents the two half shells separated, and the oil well detached.
Figure 2 an elevation of the lamp with the two half shells closed and with the-
il well in nosition

page_text: Figure 3 plan of oil well taken below the gallery to show a spring which
temporarily locks the oil well in position when pushed into the half shell prepared
to receive it.
Figure 4 sectional plan of the lamp through the lines a, a, of Figure 2 but with
one half shell i.e. the front half thrown open.
Figure 5 external back elevation of back half of lamp showing the holes for
entry of air to keep the back reflector cool and to prevent the lamp sweating from
the heat of the flame, the lamp being otherwise provided with ventilating openings
or channels in the usual manner.
It will be observed from an inspection of the drawings that each half head and
half body combined are struck from single stampings the shape of the weathering
screens and roof being so moulded that baffle plates I can be pushed into one
half head, such as into the back half as shown at Figure 1 to prevent down
draughts.
I am aware that bodies of lamps have been made in two halves, one half
constituting the front and the other half the back, but in those instances the heads
were made separately and complete and then affixed to the tops of the back halves
and no portion of a head opened with the front half as in my invention. Again,
the back halves of the former so made lamps were each provided with a full ring
or a cup at the bottom of the back half into which an oil well could be dropped
for locating it, the front being a door only with side wings to close against the
back half, therefore I make no claim to making lamp bodies in two halves in the
broad sense but
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. The described improvements in or relating to cycle, hand, and like lamps
consisting of combined half bodies and half heads A and B, so prepared that the
oil well E can be suspended from either half body and the burner be enclosed when
the two half bodies are secured as set forth and substantially shown.
2. The manufacture and employment of two half shells each comprising a half
body and a half head which when united constitute a full body and head of a lamp
of the kind referred to and whether the oil tank or oil well be suspended from or
enclosed within the body as specified.
The 3rd dex of Anril 1807
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Henry Salsbury.