US1245855A - Shade-holder. - Google Patents

Description

E. G. K. ANDERSON.

SHADE HOLDR,

7 APPLICATION FILED APR. 1 5| I916.

Patented Not 6, 191?.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1 E. G. K. ANDERSON.

SHADE HOLDER.

nrrucmou mm APR. 15, I916.

, 1,245,855. Patented Nov. 6, 1917.

v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERNST G. K. ANDERSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO ANDERSON ELECTRIC SPECIALTY CO., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

SHADE-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 6, 1917.

Application filed April 15, 1916. Serial No. 91,292.

shade holders for electric light fixtures, and

refers more specifically to that type of shade holder which embraces in its construction a clamping device consisting of two or more open or loop-shaped clamping members which are adapted to fit over the large end of an electric light bulb and engage with said bulb in such manner that the shade supported thereby may be adjusted in various positions on the bulb so as to direct the lightv rays at varying angles.

y improvements relate more specifically to a shade holder of this character which is so constructed and arranged as to permit the clamping members of the holder to befolded or collapsed relatively to-each other so as to enable said holders, or shades equipped with such holders, to be closely nested and therefore occupy compact space for the purposes of shipping and storage. Another object of the invention is to provide a construction of'holder which may be made amply strong and reliable by the use of wire or other material substantially lighter than that heretofore used in shade holders of this general character.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of the parts shown in the drawings and described in the specifications and is pointed out in the appended claims.

I have shown in the drawings a number of modifications of my invention, certain of the embodiments being adapted to be attached to and form a unitary part of the shade, and others constituting separate fixtures which are adapted to be used with standard shades.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view, as seen from beneath, of one form of shade holder and attached shade embodying my invention,

showing the manner in which it is used with an ordinary electric light bulb.

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the shade holder and shade with the holder folded or collapsed.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view of a plurality of holder-equipped shades showing the facility with which they may be nested.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view of another form of shade holder, as applied to a standard form of shade.

Fig. 5 is a perspective View of one of the holder's, showing the holder members collapsed.

Fig. 6 is a vertical section of another form of holder, adapted for use in connection with beaded type shades.

Fig. 7 is a plan View showing the latter form of holder collapsed or folded.

Fig. 8 is a detail view illustrating the manner in which the hinged ends of the holder clamps are formed to facilitate folding, and which may be applied to either form of holders heretofore referred to.

Fig. 9 is a perspective view of a modified form of clamping member.

First referring to the construction shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, 10 designates a shade of common form, usually made of sheet metal. 11 designates an ordinary electric light bulb. 12, 12 designates the two members of a holder clamp which are fastened centrally to the top of the shade and within the same. Said clamping members 12 are preferably made of relatively lightspring wire, and are of open or loopform, so that they may readily adapt themselves to the larger ends of electric light bulbs in such manner that the shade supported thereby may be practically universally adjusted about the longitudinal axis of the lamp so as to direct the light rays in all horizontal directions.

Heretofore it has been the common practice in making shade holders of this eneral type to rigidly fix the clamping mem rs to the top of the shade. A disadvantage of the priorpractice is that the clamping members extend practically to the lower rim of the shade so that the shade and holder necessarily occupy as much'room, when packed for shipping or storage, as a solid semispherical body of the general dimensions of the shade. I

In accordance with my invention, the two clamping members constituting the holder are hingedly connected to the shade in such manner that they may swing toward and from each other. They may be thus attached to the shade through the medium of an attaching plate 14 which is fixed, as by means of a central rivet 15, to the shade in the axis thereof. The clamping members 12, as shownin Figs. 1, 2 and 3, are each made of a single piece of resilient wire with the end ortions or arms 16, 16, next adjacent to the oop or ring-like parts of the clamping members, brought together and generally arallel with each other as herein shown.

eyond said parts 16 the arms 17 of the clamping members are bent at an angle to the portions 16 and terminate in oppositely directed pintle portions 18 which, as herein shown, are hingedly connected to loops 19,

19 formed on the attaching plate 14, as best shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 8. Thus the clamping members are free to swing toward and from each other, and by reason of the resiliency of the wire constituting said members, one of the members may be passed through the other when said members are swung toward each other so as to permit them to assume the folded position shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 8, substantially parallel with the attaching plate 14. The folding or collapsing of the clamping members is facilitated by the angular arrangement of the portions 16 and 17 of the arms of the clamping members, as is best illustrated in Fig. 8. Fig. 3 illustrates the facility with which a plurality of shades, equipped with the folding clam ing members described, may be nested or shipment or storage. From an inspection of said figure, it will be noted that the use of the foldable clamping members permits approximately four times the number of shades to be nested or. grouped in a given s ace as compared to the prior form of sha e having fixed clamping arms or members.

In Figs. 4 and 5 is shown a form of holder which is adapted to sup ort on an upstanding electric light bulb a ight cloth shade 25, sometimes reinforced by a reticulated metal frame 26. This form of holder comprises a holder ring 27 of proper shape and size to fit snugly within the open truncated end of the shade. Said ring extends into the open end of the shade and is provided with a dependingl curtain-like flange 28 which engages t e shade below the open end thereof and on which the shade is supported.

The clamping members 29, 29 of the holder are of open or loop-shaped form, as in the construction previously described, to fit over the larger end of the lamp bulb. Each of said clamping members is shown as made of a single piece of wire and the ends 30, 30 are brought together in approximately parallel relation and terminate in opptely directed pintles 31, 31 which engage in loops 1 32, 32 formed integral with or struck up from the ring 27. The said clamping members are adapted to be folded or collapsed one upon the other in the same general manner as in the construction before described, the folded positions of the parts being illustrated in Fig. 5. In this construction the supporting ring and the clamping members are furnished for use with standard shades and are readily applied to the shades without the necessity of attaching means as in the previously described construction.

In Figs. 6 and 7 is illustrated a holder adapted for supporting a beaded type of shade 35 from an upstanding lamp bulb. This form of holder-comprises a plate 36, which is fitted over the flanged upstanding portion 37 of the shade and is formed with a depending curtain-like flange 38 which encircles said portion 37 It is fastened to the shade in a familiar manner by screws 39 which extend through said flange 38 and engage under a bead 40 which surmounts the upstanding portion 37 The clamping members 41, 41 are, in this instance, pivoted or him ed to an attaching plate 42 that is secure as by means of a rivet 43, to the central portion of the holder plate 36. The ends of the wires constituting said clamping members terminate in generally parallel angular ortions 44, 45, respectively, the ends of which are directed oppositely to constitute the pintles 46 for engagement with hinge loops 47 of the attaching plate 42.

In all the construction described, it will be noted that the bulb-engaging loops of the clamping members are solid or continuous throughout their bulb-engagin por= tions so that thereby they may be ma e relatively light, while possessing suflicient resiliency to reliably support the same and the shade on the lamp bulb.

In Fig. 9 is shown a modification of the clamping member, which may be ap lied to either of the forms of holder be ore described, and is more especially applicable to the forms illustrated in Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, and in Figs. 6 and 7. In the construction shown in said Fig. 9, the clampingmember 48 is made of a single piece of wire, as inthe constructions previously described, comprising two semi-loop portions 49, 49 and the angularly disposed arm portions 50, 51 at the hinged end of the clamping member. The arms 51, in this instance, are joined by an integral member 52 that constitutes the pintle of the clamping member, which is adapted to engage hinge loops of a supporting or attaching plate, like the plates 14 and 41, be fore described. The ends of the wire from which the clamping member is formed are brought close together on the side of the loop remote from the pintle. This arrangement gives considerable flexibility to the holder,

lamp bulb and hinged to swing toward and qrfroln aoh other.

2. A shade liolderfor electricrlamps comprising looped clamping members to engage over a lamp bulb and a mounting therefor to which the clamping members are hinged to swing toward and from each other to enable them to be folded or collapsed upon each other.

3. A shade holder for electric lamps comprising two clamping members, each made of a single piece of spring wire and comprising looped portions to engage over a lamp bulb; pintle portions; and a support to which said pintle portions are hingedly connected, whereby said clamping members swing ward and from each other to enable them to be folded or collapsed upon each other.

4. A shade holder for electric lam s comprising a mounting for the sha e, and

looped clamping members hinged to the mounting to swing toward and from each other and made of resilient material and of such dimensions, whereby one may pass through the other to enable the members to be folded or collapsed upon each other.

5. A shade hol ing clamping members each ma e of a single piece of wire embracing a centrally looped portion and end pintle portions, with a mounting to which said pintle portions are hingedly connected.

'6. In combination, a shade; an attaching.

ERNST G. K. ANDERSON.

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