US1088848A - Lamp-bracket. - Google Patents

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A. H. S. SWAN.

LAMP BRACKET.

APPLIOA'HON FILED 001.30, 1911.

1,088,848, Patented Mar. 3, 1914 7325.5 lfo'mup @IED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED I-I. S. SWAN, 0F ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO ROCHESTER STAMPING- COMPANY, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

LAMP-BRACKET,

To all 'wlw/m it may concern.'

Be it known that I, ALFRED II. S. SWAN, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lamp- Brackets;l and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the specification, andv to the reference-numerals marked thereon.

My present invention relates to stoves and more particularly to the small vapor or fluid burning heating units as typified by chaing dishes and tea stands, and it has for its object to so mount the lamps or burners of these devices that they present their flames very close to the surface to be heated when in operative position, yet may be readily moved to a position in which they will become easily accessible for filling, adjusting or other manipulations.

To these and other ends the invention consists in certain improvements and combinations of parts all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the novel features being pointed cut in the claims at the end of the specification.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of a tea stand constructed in accordance with and illustrating one embodiment of my invention; Fig. 2 is a horizontal' section taken substantially on the line 2 2 of Fig.

1 and giving a plan view of the lamp and its support; Fig. 3 is a detail elevation of the bearing of the bracket arm taken in partial section substantially on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2 and Fig. l is a detail cross section through the table, showing the lamp body about to rise into position thereon.

Similar reference numerals throughout the several figures indicate the similar parts.

As before indicated I have shown my improvements applied, in the present instance, to a tea stand or stove embodying a top 1 and two oppositely arranged supporting legs 3, between the lower portions of which extends a table l for the lamp. The top l may be continuous or open or the kettle or other vessel may be so supported that a top, such as shown, is not altogether necessary, but it is herein illustrated to represent approximately the surface against which the flame is to be directed. l

The lamp 5 may be of any suitable type desired, that shown being a vapor lamp hav- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 30, 1911.

Patented Mar. 3, 1.914. Serial No. 657,581.

ing a burner 6 and a controlling knob 7. Its operative position is on the table 4- and it has hitherto been customary to hold it in place by providing a socket on the table into which it is lowered. But the objection to this construction has been that in order to provide room for inserting the lamp between the edge of the socket and the surface to be heated before it dropped in place, the height of the stand must be unduly increased and in dropping the lamp into the socket its burner and hence its flame is removed just that much farther from the surface to be heated and therefore rendered less effective. l `u1thermore, the operator must reach in beneath the standard to manipulate the lamp. lo obviate these objections I provide a swinging bracket for the lamp which comprises in the present instance, an elbowshaped arm 8 preferably composed of a single piece of wire having its inner end bent downwardly at 9 and removably supported in a suitable bearing 10 secured to the inner side of one of the legs 3, while the outer end of the arm is preferably rigidly attached to a ring 11 into which the lamp body 5 lits. The latter has a flange 12 at its upper edge that prevents it from dropping through the ring and when it `is desired to lill the lamp or adjust it or manipulate it in any way, it is swung' outwardly on the bracket from the position of Fig. l to that indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The peculiar bent shape of the arm 8 allows considerable radius to this movement so that the ring 11 of the bracket and the lamp are supported at a readily accessible point on the outside of the leg 3, while when the bracket and lamp are swung inwardly again beneath the stove top, the intermediate portion of the arm S engages the inside of the leg as a stop, as shown in Fig. 2, to define the operative position of the lamp, so far as its inward movement is con cerned. Were the lamp merely supported in this swinging manner when in operative position, however, the slightest movement might cause it to swing from beneath the stove top either partially or wholly, and to prevent this I make arrangements whereby the lamp actually rests upon the table 4 when in its operative position. To this end it is loosely fitted in the bracket ring 11 so that it is allowed slight vertical movement and its flange 12 does not, therefore, engage the ring when in the position of Fig. 1, and the frictional engagement of the lamp bottop,

tom with the table is suiicient to hold it in place, although the ring of course still holds it erect against tilting. Vhen it is pushed ofi' from the table, however, it is supported solely by the bracket and the ring and when swung back it rises slightly onto the table to produce which movement its lower edge is beveled or provided with a cam surface 13 that coperates with the edge of the table to raise the lamp in the bracket ring.

l claim as my invention:

l. The combination with a stove top and a supporting leg therefor, of a lamp and a bracket for carrying the same embodying an elbow shaped arm pivoted on the inside of the leg and permitting the lamp t0 be swung outwardly from beneath the stove the intermediate portion of the arm engaging the inside of the leg as a sto-p when the lamp is swung back to define the position of the latter beneath the stove top.

2. The combination with a support embodying a stove top and a table beneath the same, of a laterally pivoted lamp bracket embodying a lamp supporting ring adapted to swing from beneath the stove top and above the table and a lamp supported in and resting on the bracket ring with its bottom below the level of the table and having vertical movement relatively to the ring permitting it to rest upon the table inde- 1 pendently of the support of the bracket ring when the latter is beneath the stove top.

3. The combination with a support em- A bodying a stove top and a table beneath the Same, of a lamp supported on the table and a laterally pivoted lamp bracket connected to the lamp to swing it rombeneath the stove top. and to support it when off the table with its bottom below the level of the latter, the lamp being permitted vertical movement relatively to the table and said parts being provided with means for ele- ;vating the lamp onto the table when returned comprising a cani surface on one of them engaged by the other.

4. The combination with a stove top havt ing oppositely arranged supporting legs 1 and a table extending between the legs below the top, of a bracket comprising an elbow shaped arm pivoted on the inside of one leg and carrying a supporting ring adapted to assume a position beneath the stove top or to swingv laterally to the opgposite side of the leO and a lamp carried "loosely within the ring to rest on the table in one position of the bracket and to be supported wholly bythe latter in its other position, the elbow of the bracket being proportioned to engage the leg by which it is 3 carried to define the position of the lamp on l the table and to straddle said leg when the bracket is so swung as to dispose the lamp on the other side of the leg.

ALFRED H. S. SVAN.

lVitnesses:

G. TWILLARD RICH,

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