US356962A - P peters - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

FRANK RHIND, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE BRIDGEPORT BRASS COMPANY.

LAMP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,962, dated February 1, 1887.

Application filed February 3, 1886. Serial No. 190,667. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, FRANK RHIND, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful it is shown as perforated for but a short distance.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in both the figures.

The upper extremity of the wick-tube supports a cup-shaped air-distributer, G, and a ring, H. The latter is stamped-up out of one piece of metal, and is supported upon the distributer G, as shown, by means of a circumferential shoulder, 9, upon the ring H, which fits upon the upper edge of the distributer G, and may be supported upon a rim or bead, 9, upon the distributor G. The ring H constitutes a chimney-gallery, a support for a shadering, and two supports for globes of different sizes, should a globe be employed. A circumferential rim or flange, g, surrounding the wick-tube at the upper extremity of the lat-' ter, together with spring-fingers secured to the ring, constitute the chimney-gallery. The shoulder g constitutes a support for a shadering, I, which may be slipped down over the same. A globe may be supported upon the ring by means of a circumferential shoulder, 9 or other suitable check. The ring H extends laterally for a distance, and its upper edge is shown as turned up, forming a rim or flange, 9*, affording another support for a globe. Of course a globe would not be used when ashade and ring were in use. H is provided with perforations, through which air may pass so as to keep it cool.

It will be seen that by thus constructing the ring H it, together with the chimney, the

The ring 5 shade-ring, and shade, or a globe, if one be 50

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