http://www.google.com/patents?id=i7JSAAAAEBAJ&dq=2263622
I thought folks might be interested in seeing Phillip E. Gabriel's 1941 patent for a new and improved lantern globe. I have two of these that are Little Wizard size. They are stamped LITE-GARD/PATENT APPD. FOR/DETROIT METAL PROD./DETROIT, MICH. This photo is from the Traffic Gard site. The site states that these globes come in the three-way Lite-Gard model and also a four-way model for the Embury Luck-E-Lite. The photo, however, appears to show a three-way globe in the Luck-E-Lite frame. Wouldn't the lenses have to be smaller and spaced closer together to fit four of them in the metal casing? Does anyone have a four-way globe and can you post photos? Until I read the patent I did not realize that the lenses are removable and can be replaced if they are broken. I checked mine and there are indeed snap rings on the inside holding the lenses to the metal casing. I don't want to remove them as I'm afraid I might not be able to get them back in! The patent claims that this globe will eliminate "blind spots" and will "cast light rays through a substantially 360 degree arc." I was a little skeptical but when I light mine I find that the red light is in fact visible from all points around the lantern and the fresnel lenses do make a brighter light. I don't know how many they sold but it is a neat item.
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