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Description

(No Model.)

N. L. BRADLEY.

Shade Holder.

No. 242,592. Pat ented June 7, i881.

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NATHANIEL L. BRADLEY, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE BRADLEY 8t HUBBARD MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SHADE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,592, dated June '7, 18 81.

Application filed April 30, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NATHANIEL L. BRAD- LEY, of Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Shade-Holders; and Ido hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,

10 and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a vertical central section; Fig. 2, plan of the holder from the inner side.

This invention relates to an improvement in the method of securing lamp-shades to the shade-ring. In the usual construction this is done by means of screws or rigid holders confining the shade rigidly to the holder.

The object of this invention is to produce a yielding holder, and which, if the shade be thrown out of place, will automatically return it to its proper position; and it consists in the construction, as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claim.

In the Patent granted to me June 8, 1880, N 0. 228,594, two or more springs were attached by one end to the shade-ring at different points, the other end of the spring engaged with the opposite edge of the shade, and so that the 0 power ofthe springs holds the shade to its seat on the shade-ring, as these springs are the only means for holding the shade, and several springs are necessary.

In this invention the object is to use but a single spring applied at one point, while stationary hooks or lugs on the shade-ring at other points will perform the office of the other springs, and generally make the holding of the shade permanent.

In the illustration the invention is shown as applied to that class of shades which are of inverted funnel-shape, and attached to the ring at the top.

A represents the ring, and B the shade, which maybe of any of the usual shapes. The 5 ring is constructed at one side with a lug, a, which will pass within the shade, and at each side of this lug is another lug, b, arranged to pass beneath the flange of the shade, as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 1. Upon the opposite side a spiral or other suitable spring, C, is attached, by one end, (I, to the shade-ring, preferably inside the shade, and the other end provided with a hook, e, to engage the opposite, or, in that case lower, edge of the shade. 5 5 The shade is introduced by first engaging the edge with the lugs a b on one side, then bringing it to its seat in the ring, when the spring may be applied, as shown, to hold it in that position. The spring will yield, so that by no possibility can the shade be bound in its seat, as by'a screw, to cause it to break.

The particularconstruction of thelugs Which combine with the spring to hold the shade is not material, it only being essential that a rigid engagement be made between the shade and the shade-ring opposite to the spring.

It will be understood that this fastening device may be applied in like manner to other shapes of shades or globes.

I claim- The combination of the shade-supporting ring and shade with a rigid device on one side to engage the flange of the shade, and the spring C upon the opposite side, attached by one end to the shade-ring, the other end eugaged with the opposite edge of the shade, all substantially as described.

NATHANIEL L. BRADLEY.

Witnesses:

F. J. SEIDENsTIoKER, ROBERT P. BAND.

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