US89707A - Improvement in lamp-shapes - Google Patents

Description

G. W. TUCKER.

Lamp Shade.

Patented May 4, 1869.

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ILIPROVEIENT IN LAMP-S-HADES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe same.

To all whom it lmar/y concern:

Be it known that I, G. W. TUGKEn,`of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Lamp-Shades; and I do, hereby declare the following, when taken in "connection with the accompanying drawingsand the y by the shade, and at the same time to ornament or illuminate the shade, to relieve it from the dark and `gloomy appearance which unavoidably accompanies a solid metal shade. y

To this end my invention consists in combining in a shade formed from an opaque material, embossed and perforated to represent'upon the surface clearlydened figures, the perforations defining the figures by the light which passes therethrough from the flame.

In order to the clear understanding of my invention, I will fully describe the same as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

From sheet-metal or from other suitable opaque i material, I cut into proper shape, as seen in fig. l, so

that when the two ends are united together they will give to the shade the required conical'form; this may be in one or more pieces; then, in proper dies, I emboss the surface with any desirable figure, here represented asstars; then around such figures I perforate numerous holes, which clearly dene the outlines of the igures. In addition to such embossed and perforated figures, words or letters may be perforated, here denoted by the words, Let Aus have peace; and may be further ornamentedras by a vine at the edge, as seen in the drawings. l,

Thus constructed, it is placed upon and secured to the chimney in any convenient or known manner, here represented as by a spiral spring run through a series of perforations at the upper edge. OtherA devices may be employed, it only being necessary that some means of' attachment be combined with theshade.

The light from the flame, while it is reected downward bythe shade, atthe same time illuminates through the perforations, clearly defining the letters,

figures, or whatever ornamentation there may be, producing a most beautiful effect, and relieving an opaque shade from its dim, gloomy appearance.

I am aware that paper shades have been made, in which portions have been embossed and other portions perforated. I, therefore, do not claim such as my invention.

I do not wish to be understood as claiming a metallic or opaque shade for lamps, as such, I know, is not new; but having fully described myinvention,

What I do claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is`

l As an article ofmanufacture, a lamp-shade orna-` mented to represent upon the surface clearly-definedw figures or forms, bythe combination of embossing and p perforating, substantially as described. l

. G. W. TUCKER. Witnesses:

SARAH A. BLATT, M. J nimm Arwoon.

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