US1362177A - Search or pocket light support - Google Patents

Description

5. G. PETRIE.

SEARCH 0R POCKET LIGHT SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY ls. 1919.

Patented Dec.14,1920.1

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UNITED STATES EDWARD G'. PETRIE, OF IRVINGTON, NEW JERSEY.

SEARCH OR POCKET LIGHT SUPPORT.

Application filed May 16, 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD G. PETRIE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Irvington, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Search or Pocket Light Supports; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eX- act description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in electric search or spot-lights of the character which are carried in the hand; and, the present invention has reference, more particularly, to provide the cylindrical barrels or casings of electric pocket search or spot lights, with a supporting means, when in use, whereby the search or spot light can be placed in an angular position upon the ground, table or bench, to enable the use of both hands of the person using' the device in the performance of his work.

rIhe present invention, therefore, has for its principal object to provide in connection with an electric pocket search or spot-light, means which may be variously adjusted for the angular support of the search or spotlight to enable the use of both hands, and also to prevent the rolling about of the device, due to the usual cylindrical shape of the barrel or casing in which the electrical instrumentalities are contained.

The invention has for its further object to so construct and arrange the supporting means with relation to the cylindrical barrel or casing of the search or spotlight,that the said supporting means can be forced into circular relation about the barrel or casing, when not in use, so as to afford no obstruction when carrying the search or spot-light in the pocket, or when the same is packed in a boX or case.

The deviceis especiallyadapted for the use of autoists at night by resting the search or spot-light upon the ground, when removing and replacing tires upon the wheels of the vehicle, or when working about the various mechanisms of the vehicle.

Other objects of the present invention not at this time more particularly enumerated will be clearly understood from the follow- Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 14, 1920.

Serial No. 297,509.

ing detailed description of the present invention.

With the various objects of the present invention in view, the said invention consists in the provision of an electric pocket search or spot-light with a novel and simply constructed supporting means for angularly placing the search or spot-light upon the ground, table, bench, or the like, to throw the light vdirectly upon the spot where required, and still permitting the operator to use both hands; and, the invention consists, furthermore, in the novel arrangements and combinations of the several devices and parts, as well as in the details of the construction of the said parts, all of which will be more fully described in the following specification, and then finally embodied in the clauses of the claims which are appended to and which form an essential part of the said specification,

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which z- Figure l is a view of a fragmentary tion of an electric pocket search or spotlight provided with a supporting means made according tothe principles of the present invention, said supporting means being shown closed about the cylindrical barrel or casing of the search or spot-light when the latter is not in its angularly supported position; and F ig. 2 is a cross-sectional representation of the same, said section being taken on line 2 2 in said F ig. 1.

F ig. 3 is a side elevation of the electric search or spot light and the supporting means in one of its operated positions, illustrating the manner of angularly supporting the search or spot-light upon a surface; and Fig. 4l is a transverse vertical section of the same, said section being taken on line 4-4 in said Fig. 3.

Similar characters of reference are employed in all of said above described views, to indicate corresponding parts.

Referring now to the said drawings, the reference-character 1 indicates the usual style of electric pocket search or spot-light, the same comprising the usual cylindrical barrel or casing 2 provided at one end with the lens 3 and at its other end with the screw-cap 4. The reference-character 5 indicates the usual switch-device for estab lishing within said barrel or casing an electric circuit between the battery 6 and the electric lamp, the latter not being shown,

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understood from an inspection of That the said and both of which devices are of the usual and well-known constructions.

The herein-above mentioned supporting means consists, essentially of a cylindrical drum or shell, as 7, which is suitably 'mounted in a fixed position upon said barrel or casing 2, near the illuminating end-portion of the search or spot-light, the said drum or shell 7 being made in such a manner that a circular space or chamber is provided between the said barrel or casing 2 and the concentrically disposed drum or shell 7. The latter is also provided with a pair of elongated guide-openings or slots 8 and 9, and a pair of narrow openings or slots 10 and 11, the opening 10 being in alinement with the guide-opening or slot S, and the opening l1 being in alinement with the guide-opening or slot 9, substantially shown in the several figures of the drawings.

Movably disposed within the above-mentioned circular space or chamber are a pair of supporting elements or members 12 and 13, said members or elements having their respective ends 14 and 15, under normal initial conditions, projecting from the respectivenarrow openings or slots 10 and 11, and the respective members or elements 12 and 13 being provided at the other end-portions with guiding studs or projections 16 and 17, or other suitable means, which respectively extend into and from the respective guideopenings or slots 8 and 9. To properlyT retain the said supporting members or ele- y ments 12 and 13 in their relative positions within the cylindrical drum or shell 7, aga-inst inoperative displacement and to properly manipulate the said supporting members or elements 12 and 13, so as to bring them from their encircling closed relation, shown in Figs. 1 and 2, to their supporting relation represented in Figs. 3 andy 4, the said guiding studs or projections 16 and 17 are respectively provided upon their projecting end-portions with manipulating means, such as heads or buttons 18.and 19, or other suitable devices, which as is illustrated more particularly in Figs. 1 and 3 are of greater width than the width of the openings or slots 8 and 9, so as to project laterally across said slots, as willbe clearly the several figures of the drawings. supporting members or elements 12 and 13 will readily wind themselves about the cylindrical barrel or casing 2, within the drum or shell 7, or that they will straighten out into their supporting relation, when manipulated, each supporting member or element is made of a metal having great resiliency, the preferred metal to be used being pieces of flat spring-steel, as here shown.

Having in the vforegoing description set forth one general construction of supportlng means for electric pocket-search or spotresa-rvr lights, l will now briefly set forth the manipulation of the supporting members or elements for angularly.arranging the Search or spot-light upon a surface in the manner illustrated in Figs. 3 and d of the drawings.

lWhen the said supporting members or elements are thus to be arranged all that is necessary is to move the finger-pieces, heads or bottoms 1S and 19 in opposite directions, in the respective guide-openings or slots 8 and 9, whereby the respective members or elements 12 and 13 will be pushed from the respective openings or slots 10 and 11, the said members or elements, owing to the resiliency of the metal assuming the straight cned-out and spread positions, indicated in said Fig. Llof the drawings. llVhen the said members or elements 12 and 13 are moved out to their fullest extent, the angular disposition of the search or spot-light is thirty degrees or thereabout to the` plane of the surface upon which it is placed; but, it will be evident that this angular arrangement may be varied, according to the degree of movement of the fingerpieces, whereby the said supporting members or elements 12 and 13 may be variously extended in their straightened out relations from the openings 10 and ,11, as will be clearly evident, the frictional contact of the wrapped portions of the said-members or elements 12 and 13 within the drum 7 being` such that the said members or elements 12 and 13 will be held in their adjusted positions, unless moved in either direction by means of 100 their manipulating means or fingerpieces 1S and 19.

l' am fully aware, that changes may be made in the general arrangements and combinations of the various devices and parts, 105 as well as in the details of the construction of the said parts, without departing from the scope of the present invention as set forth in the foregoing specification and as defined in the clauses of the claim which are 110 appended thereto. Hence, l do not limit my present invention to the exactarrangements and combinations of the various devices and parts.

1. In an electric pocket search or spotlight, in combination with .the inclosing barrel or casing thereof, a drum mounted upon and encircling said. barrel or easing, and means disposed withinsaid drum and nor- 12( mally encircling said barrel or casing, said means being adapted to be projected from said drum in straight relation for angularly supporting said search or spot-light upon a surface. Y

2. ln an electric pocket search or spotlight, in combination with the inclosingV barrel or casing thereof, a drum mounted upon and encircling; said barrelor casing, and means movably and adjustably disposed 13 Within said drum and normally encircling said barrel or casing, said means being adapted to be variously projected from said drum in straight relation for supporting said search or spotlight at diii'erent angles upon a surface.

3. In an electric pocket search or spotlight, in combination with the inclosing barrel or casing thereof, a drum mounted upon said barrel or casing, said drum being constructed so as to form With the barrel or casing an annular chamber, the shell of said drum being provided With a pair of elongated openings and a pair of small openings, each small opening being in alinement With an elongated opening, a pair of resilient bands movably disposed in said chamber, each band having an end-portion projecting from a small opening, and means upon each band extending into and from an elongated opening for manipulating said bands.

4. In an electric pocket search or spotlight, in combination With the inclosing barrel or casingthereof, a drum mounted upon said barrel or casing, said drum being constructed so as to :form with the barrel or casing an annular chamber, the shell of said drum being provided With a pair of elongated openings and a pair of small openings, each small opening being in alinement with an elongated opening, a pair of resilient bands movably disposed in said chamber, each band having an end-portion projecting from a small opening, a guiding stud upon each band, each stud extending into and from an elongated opening, and a fingerpiece upon the extending portion of each stud for manipulation of said bands, each fingerpiece being of greater Width and the Width of the corresponding elongated opening above which the ingerpiece is movably disposed.

In testimony, that I claim the invention set forth above I have hereunto set my hand this 14th day of May, 1919.

EDWARD G. PETRIE.

Witnesses:

FREDK. C. FRAENTZEL, BARBARA SUTTERIJN.

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