US339167A - Lantern attachment - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

B. H. HADLEY.

LANTERN ATTACHMENT.

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INITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LANTERN ATTACH M ENT.

tiPEGIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 339,167, dated Apr 51 6, 1886.

Application filed January 25, 1886. Serial No. 189,654. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EZEKIEL I-I. HADLEY, of Bradford, in the county of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Lantern Attachments; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure l is a side view of a lantern provided with my invention or means of attaching such lantern to a sill of the body of a roadcarriage. Fig. 2 is a top view; Fig. 8, a side elevation, and Fig. 4 a longitudinal and vertical section, of the attachment and the up per part of the lantern with which it is connected.

The invention is to enable alantern to be fastened underneath a carriage or wagon bodythat is,to one of the sills thereof, whether such sill be extended longitudinally or transversely of the bodythelantern, when so arranged, serving to illuminate the vehicle and a road wjy on which it may be traveling to better advantage in several respects than would be the case were thelantern affixed to the side or to the front end of the body.

The nature of the invention is duly defined in the claim hereinafter presented.

In the drawings, A represents a lantern, provided with a eoncavo'convex reflector, a,arranged in rear of the lamp 1), and fastened to a yoke, 0, extending from the lantern. Projecting upward from the upper part of the yoke, or, when such yoke is not used, from the upper part of the lantern, is an arm, B, bent at a right angle, as represented, its vertical or shorter part being screw-threaded, as shown at d, and extended through the yoke, and held thereto by two nuts, 6 andf, one of which is below and the other (which is a thumb-nut) above the yoke. Such means of connecting the arm to the yoke allows of such arm being turned about in a circle to enable it to be adjusted as occasion may require.

A clamping-vise, 0, slides on thehorizontal part of the arm B lengthwise thereof, and is held to the arm by aswivel, I), provided with a thumb-screw, e, for clamping it to the arm, such arm going loosely through the swivel.

The body of the vise is pivoted to the swivel, the latter having its shank g screw-threaded and extended up through the base of the said body, and held thereto by a nut, 71, screwed upon the shank. The said body consists of a fiat base, f, and two standards, h and 1', such standards extending upward from such base. The longer of said standards terminates in a vise-jaw, 7a, to cooperate with a movable jaw, Z, projecting from a hooked slide, m, formed as represented, and extending loosely through both of the standards h and The slide is screw-threaded, as shown at a, andhas screwed upon it a thumb-nut, 122/.

By means of the vise the lantern maybe attached to the sill of a wagon-body, such sill going between thejaws of the vise.

It will be seen that the vise may be swiveled and properly adjusted on the arm, in order for the vise to be adapted to a sill, whether the latter may extend longitudinally or transversely or otherwise across a wagon body; also that the vise and swivel may be detached from the arm, and the latter be turned around one hundred and eighty degrees of a circle, so as to project rearward of the lantern in a manner to enable the latter to be sus pended against a wall or a post by inserting the arm in a hole therein.

The swinging bail of the lantern is shown at 0.

I am aware that it is not new to detachably secure a lantern to the underside or part of a Wagon-body by a string, wire, hook, or an ordinary harness snap, or by screws; also that in the Patent No. 7,54 of reissues there is shown a pendent lanterirholder detachably connected to a wagon-body and also to a lantern. I therefore do not claim such. Nor do I claim the means as described and represented in the United States Patent No. 281,580 for attaching alantern to the axle of a bicycle. such means being a jawed clamp. Nor do I claim alantern hangeror supporter sustained as represented in either of the United States 9 Patents Nos. 235,617 or 215,523, as neither of such patents shows a lantern attachment like 1nine-that is, one consisting ofa bent arm having a clamping-screw and nuts, a swivel having a clamp-screw and nuts, and a vise combined, constructed, arranged, and adapted as and nut -h, and-the Vise 0, applied as explained hereinbefore described.

to suchswivehall being arranged and to oper- I0 I claimate essentially as represented. The lantern attachment substantially as de- 5 scribed, consisting of the arm or yoke a, bent EZEKlEL HADLEY arm 13, with its clamp-screw d and nut e, the Vitnesses:

slide-0r swivel D,' applied to such arm B, and provided with a clamp-screw, e, the screw 9,

FRANK M. TAPPAN, J OHN W. MORsE,

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