A New or Improved Shield or Cover for Electric Gas Lighting Apparatus.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 24th June, 1893-Accepted, 12th Aug., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Shield or Cover for Electric Gas Lighting
Apparatus.
I, JOSEPH HAMER, of Union Street, Halifax in the County of York, Electrician,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a new or improved shield or cover for protecting and
preserving a well known form of instrument employed for producing an electric
spark and which is extensively used in factories for lighting gas.
Hitherto there has been no recognised place in which to store away these electric
instruments, consequently they have been placed anywhere where the person last
using the iustrument chooses for the purpose. This unsystematic method is
inconvenient, in addition to which the exposure of these electric instruments to the
atmosphere is a means of causing the instrument to be less effective in generating
the electric spark.
My improvements consist in forming a shield or cover of a suitable shape and
size to cover and surround the electric instrument. This cover is capable of being
slided up and down suitable rods or other guides attached to or forming part of a
bracket or pedestal attached to a wall or other suitable place. The moveable cover
is kept in a suitable state of tension on the vertical rods or guides by spring loops
or clips, so that the cover will remain still or stationary in any position either up
or down the guides. The electric instrument is placed on a stand on the bracket
and the cover afterwards drawn down over the said instrument, and in order to
make the cover air tight, the stand is padded as is also the bottom of the cover.
In order to ascertain or in order to distinguish the whereabouts of these covers and
brackets, I place in some conspicuous part of same, some phosphorous or other
substance which shews or illuminates in the dark so that the instrument can be
found when entering a factory in the night.
The cover if required may be secured to the pedestal by lock and key.
1000
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Shield or Cover for Electric Gas Lighting
Apparatus.
I, JOSEPH HAMER of Union Street, Halifax in the County of York, Electrician
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 consists in forming a shield, case, or cover of any suitable shape
or size to cover and surround electrical gas lighters; and is so constructed, that
the shield, case, or cover, may be slided, up suitable rods, or guides attached to and
forming part of a bracket or pedestal-such bracket or pedestal being fixed to the
wall or other convenient place.
This moveable shield, case, or cover, is provided with spring clips which bite the
vertical rods or guides passing through them and by this means the shield, case, or
cover, can be slided and will remain in any position up or down the rods or guides
thus allowing for the insertion or withdrawal of the electrical gas lighter.

page_text: Referring to the accompanying sheet of drawings
Figure 1. is a front elevation showing the cover at the bottom of its guiding
rods.
Figure 2 is a side elevation and
Figure 3 shews the apparatus with the cover slided to the top of the guiding
rods and ready for the reception of the electrical gas lighter it is intended to
protect.
The bracket or stand proper (4) may be constructed from hoop iron or other
suitable material and bent at its upper and lower ends (5) so as to form supports
for the guide rods (6) and an india rubber or other flexible base (7) to hermetically
seal the cover when drawn to its lower position on the guides.
This bracket is also provided with holes (8) for the purpose of fixing it to the
wall or other convenient place. The case or cover (9) is provided with spring
guide clips (10) which nip the guide rods (6) and retain the cover in any position
up or down the rods. The conical part (11) of the case (9) I cover with self
luminous paint whereby the position of the electric gas lighter may be found in the
dark without the use of matches or other light otherwise than the self illumination
.of the case.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I would have it understood
that I do not confine myself to any one shape or form or to the exact details as
herein set forth but what I claim is
A shield case or cover of any suitable shape, sliding upon vertical guide rods
fixed to a bracket, the said shield, case, or cover, being covered or partially covered
with an illuminating medium substantially as drawn and described.
Dated this 22nd day of June 1893.
JOSEPH HAMER.