US1155348A - Vault-light. - Google Patents

Description

WQJ. GARRISON.

VAULT LIGHT.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 16, 1915.

1,155,348. Patented Oct. 5, 1915.

William J. fiarrlls 0/7 Witness: Inventor (A). ow

Attorney WILLIAM eAaBIsoN, or SHEFFIELD, PENNSYLVANIA.

VAULT-LIGHT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented @ct. aims.

Application filed m 16, 1911 5. Serial No. 40,241. a I

small individual glasses set in individual frames embedded in a concrete or cement slab.

nection with the accompanying drawing in which: i p V Figure l is a plan of my improved vaultlight showing a group of the frames attached to each other, two of the frames being shown in conjunction with the embedding concrete or cement, and one of these latter frames be ing shown as being provided with its glass: Fig. 2 a diametrical section, of one of the frames and its links, its glass appearing in elevation: Fig. 3 a side elevation of one of the links employed in attaching the frames to each other: and Fig. 4; a side elevation of an exemplifying tool which may be employed in removing a damaged glass from its frame.

In the drawing :1, indicates a frame illustrated as being circular, as a IHBIB'GX ample of form, of a size to freely receive the glass to be employed; 2, an upwardly prescnting shoulder on the interior of the frame at such distancebelow the top rim of the frame as corresponds with the thickness of the glass; the glass, the same being of a form and size less than that of the interior of the top of the frame and adapted to rest upon the shoulder 2 and fit the frame at its juncture with the, shoulder; 4, a perimetrical groove in the glass; 5, a groove formed within the interior of the frame o posite the groove 4; 6, perforated ears, illustrated as being four in number, projecting outwardly from the frame intermediate between the base and the top rim of the frame; 7, Wire links engaging the ears of the frame and adapted for connecting a group of frames together, theselinks being preferably in the form of staples having their ends engaging the perforations in the ears of the frames and then bent inwardly to prevent their displacement from the ears; 8.,the cement or concrete in which the frames are embedded;

My invention "will be readilytunderstood' from the following description taken in con-,

9, a tool well lending itself to employment,

-swi Pewter caries.

when a glass is to be removed from 1ts setting, this tool being in the form of a bar to serve as a handle; 10, a prong at one end of the tool to serve in removing the waterproof cement holdmg the glass in its setting; 11, a prong at the opposite end of the.

tool to serve in catching in the groove-a of the glass; 12, a lug projecting from the tool at the side opposite prong 11 and at suchdistancefrom prong 11 that it may gage the depth of-penetration of prong 11 into the space between the glass andthe frame; and 13, water-tight cement, of usual composition, disposed in the space between the glass and that portionflof the inside of the frameoccupied by'the glass.

Gneof the frames with its glass is to be viewed as an individual unit, and these units may be associated, at such distance from each other as may be desired, into a group embedded in the cement or concrete slab, the

tern as is desired and coupled together by the links. These links may be of such length as corresponds with the desired distance apart of the frames. The links may be inserted into the ears of the frames and their ends bent after the frames are disposed upon the supporting surface or, if desired, the frames may be associated and linked together and then laid upon the supporting surface. Thecement or concrete to form the slab is then to be placed around and be tween the frames and leveled OK, as by troweling, level with the top of the frames. \Vhen the material of the slab has set, it maybe removed from'the supporting surface and transported and placed in its ultimate situation. The slab becomes a reinforced structure by reason of the embedded frames and their connecting links. If the slabis to be constructed in the situation which it is ultimately to occupy, then the p plane surface on which the slab is to be built may be formed by a suitably positioned and supportingplatform. If the links are employed merely for posi tioning agents in securing proper relationship between the frames, the strength of the i V links is immaterial so long as it will answer said purpose, but special reinforcing capacity will be derived, from the links if they be of substantial size and material and are 1 clenched tightly to the ears of the frames. The glasses are to be placed in the frames concentric with the frames, the glasses centering themselves in the frames, and the iwater-p'roof cement applied around the Hglasses between them and the interior of the frames. The glasses may be applied to.

the frames before the frames are set upon .the supporting surface in the process of forming the-slab, or the setting of the glasses in theframes may be made the final element in the process of forming the slab. If a i glassbecomes broken andit be desired to re-' place it,'then-the waterproof cement around the defective glass is dug out by means of the tool 9, the prong 10 being used for this purpose. The opposite end of the tool is now inserted into the space between the glass and frame, lug engaging the'top of the frame and determining when the. tool has been inserted into the space a proper dis tance to bring prong 11 into the neighbor-- Goplesof this patent may be obtained for hood of groove 4 in the glass. The tool is then used as a lever with lug 12resting on the rim of the frame and the pried out of place. i

I claim 7 1. A vault-light comprising, a frame having an inward upwardly presenting shoulder and an interior recess above said shoulder,

ears projecting from the exterior of the frame and adapted to receive links to connect the frame with similar frames, a glass glass lifted or adapted to rest upon said shoulder and have its upper surface flush with the rim of the cars, a glass secured within each frame by sealing'material, links engaging Stud ears and uniting the frames, and a slab of plastic material embedding said ears and links and surrounding the frames, combined substantially as set forth.

v WILLIAM J. GARRISON.

Witnesses: v

W. O. SKELTON,

' T. W; MARTIN.

five cents each, hy addressing the Commissioner of 'Yatents, Washington, D. G.

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