US734874A - Shade-holder. - Google Patents

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No. 734,874. PATENTED JULY 28, 1903.

H. HUBBELL. SHADE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAE. a, 1002. no MODEL.

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SHADE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 734,874, dated July 28, 1903. Application filed March 5, 1902. Serial No. 96,785. (No model.)

Be it known that LHARVEY HUBBELL,a citizen of the'United States, residing at Bridgeport, county of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Shade- Holder, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object to provide a simple and inexpensive shade-holder adapt-- ed for general use, but more especially adapted for holding incandescent-lamp shades,

which shall be made wholly from a single piece of sheet metal and formed entirely by machine-work and which shall be so constructed as to do away with ears and clamping-screws for retaining it in place, but will by its own resiliency adapt itself to all ordinary variations in the sizes of lamps.

With these and other objects in view my invention consists in certain improvements in the details of construction, which will be hereinafter described and then specifically pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1, is a plan 1 View of my novel shade-holder, and Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1.

l0 denotes the angular shade-ring, which is provided with the usual ears 11, having threaded hubs 12 to receive attaching-screws.

13 denotes the attaching-ring, and 14 arms connecting the attaching-ring with the angular shade-ring.

It is an important feature of my novel shadeholder thatthe angular shade-ring, with its. ears and threaded hubs, the attaching-ring, and the arms connecting the rings are all blanked out at a single operation and are formed complete-that is, without additional parts-by mechanical operations, thus doing away with l the expense of additional parts and the expense of their attachment in place by soldering, riveting, or threading. The attaching-rin g is provided with a rolled thread 15, whereby the shade-holder and the shade carried thereby may be attached to a lamp.

tudinally a portion of the length of the arms,

the slots being shown in the drawings as extending approximately to the mid-length of the arms. The length of the slots is of course a mere detail of construction that may be left entirely to the taste and judgment of the manufacturer, it being required to give the attaching-ring sufficient resiliency to adapt it to engagelamps having the usual variations of the different styles and at the same time necessary that the parts retain suficient .1 rigidity, so that the shade-holder will be securelyself-retaining in place when attached to a lamp.

Haviug thus described my invention, I claim- A shade-holder consisting of an angular shade-ring having attaching-ears provided with threaded hubs, an attaching-ring provided with a rolled thread, and arms connecting the shade-ring and the attaching-ring,

said arms being provided with stifiening-ribs and the attaching-ring being provided with transverse slots which also extend a portion of the length of the arms, said rings and arms being blanked out and formed complete from a single piece of sheet metal.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HARVEY HUBBELL.

Witnesses:

A. M. Woosrua, S. W. ATHERTON.

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