US1574296A - Electric-light fixture - Google Patents

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Feb. 23 1926 A 1,574,296

v. LE BEAU ELECTRIC LIGHT FIXTURE Filed Dec. 29, 1924 WITNESSES Patented Feb. 23, 1926.

UNITE YSTES maar oFFICE.

VICTOR LE BEAU, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUSEANA; PAULA BEAU SOLE LEGATEE OF SAID VIC'IOBJ LE BEAU, DECEASED.

ELECTRIC-LIGHT FIXTURE.

Appli-cation filed December 29, 1924. Serial No. 758,681.

To all whom i?? may concern:

Be it known that I, VICTOR Ln BEAU, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electric-Light Fixtures, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to an electric f1X- ture for commercial purposes and has for its object the provision of a device for producing soft subdued and shadowless light and at the same time sufficiently brilliant and concentrated for illuminating the entire interior of a room regardless of the color of the ceiling, walls or floor, the light being evenly distributed throughout said room.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a simple and inexpensive light ing fixture in which an electric lamp is disposed at a point which is in line with the axis of a pair of translucent globes, with the globes being in opposed relation and supported by a ring which supports the lamp.

A further object of the invention'is the provision of a device in which the rays from a single lamp passing through a pair of opposed translucent globes produce a light sufficient for illuminating a room and with a minimum waste of the rays.

This invention will be best understood from a consideration of the following detailed description, in view of the accom-y panying drawing forming a part of the specification; nevertheless it is to be understood that the invention is not confined to the disclosure, being susceptible of such changes and modifications which shall define no material departure from the salient features of the invention as expressed in the appended claims. l

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side view of the completed lamp.

Figure 2 is a side view of the supporting ring for the electric bulb and a pair of opposed translucent globes.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 designates a metallic ring provided with spaced set screws 2 which are threaded through perforations in the ring for locking in place a pair of opposed translucent globes 3 and 4C as shown more particularly in Figure 1. At a point where the vertical diameter of the ring 1 goes through the upper portion of said ring, a perforation is provided through which is inserted the usual threaded member at the end of a supporting piece 5 of a lamp socket 6. A clamping eye 7 is screwed onto the threaded member for locking the socket 6 to the ring 1. The eye 7 is adapted to receive a'link of a chain 8 for suspending the ring and likewise the lamp from a fixed part of the building. The electric bulb 9 is screwed in the socket 6.

rlhe ring 1 is provided with perforations upon opposite sides of the suspending eye 7 to receive electrodes 9 and 10 which are insulated from the ring 1 and clamped thereto by the usual nuts 11 and 12. A wire 13 is i connected with the inner end of the electrode 9 and passes through the perforation in the member 5 of the socket 6 and is connected with a terminal of the lighting filament of the bulb 9. A wire 14; is connected with the electrode 10 and with the other terminal of the lilament of the bulb.

A plug 15 having its socket adapted to receive the electrode 9 is connected with a wire 16 which runs to a terminal of the house current. A second wire 17 is connected with the other terminal of the house current incorporated in a plug 18 adapted to receive the electrode 10. The filament or illuminating element of the bulb 9 is disposed directly at the center of the ring 1 with the bulb located along the vertical diameter of said ring so that when light rays 'emanating from said filament are projected in opposite directions and pass through the translucent globes 3 and 4L an illuminating elfect of the room is had which, while apparently soft and subdued, is sufficiently intense to properly illuminate the room without any disagreeable effects to the eyes of an occupant.

A deflector 19 formed of glass or metal or any other suitable material is connected to the socket 6 by means of screws 20 and is adapted to direct the rays of light downwardly and thereby produce a more intense light. The white glass or metal deflector is rst inserted and the screws are operated for locking the same in position.

What I claim is:

An electric xture comprising a ring adapted-vy to be suspended in a manner to maintainV the ring in a vertical plane, an

l electric bulb having its illuminating ele-l ment disposed at the center of the ringl and along' a radius of' said ring7 translucent globes mounted on the ring and extending in opposite directions from the light source and having their longitudinal axis in alinement With the longitudinal axis, 0fthel ring, and a con-vexdetlector'- connected'with the bulb and located above the illuminating element and at one side of the horizontal aXis of the ring:

VICTOR LE BEAU.

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