"SUNBURST" PRISM (Patented) |
Location: New York
- "Office and Factory, Scholes and Waterbury Streets, Brooklyn, NY" · 1908
- "Universal Iron Foundry, 283-287 Scholes St., Brooklyn" · 1909
- "New York Office, 78-80 Broad Street" · 1910
- "office and factory at 61 DeKalb av., Brooklyn" · 1912
- "154 Nassau St., New York" · 1912
- "No. 243 South 10th Street, Philadelphia" · 1912
Timeline:
- 1909 · "Sunburst Prism Light Co. Incorporates" in Delaware
- 1910 · Annual Financial Report [Delaware]
- 1910 · Sweet's Catalogue of Building Construction
- 1912 · "[WANTED] EXPERIENCED salesman in vault lights, for
New York and vicinity. Apply Sunburst Prism Company, 243 South 10th st.,
Philadelphia" —The New York Herald, January 28, 1912
- 1912 · "THE SUN-BURST PRISM COMPANY, manufacturers of prismatic
light systems for vaults, sidewalks, doors, skylights, etc., recently
opened an office and factory at 61 DeKalb av., Brooklyn." —Real estate record and builders' guide, v.89 #2301, April 20, 1912
- 1912 · "The Sun-Burst Prism Co., 154 Nassau St., New York, is
contemplating opening a shop to take care of the increased business in
and about New York. This concern manufactures the only system of vault
lights and skylights having 100% underneath surface in glass. Philip
Schwickart is the inventor of the system and is also the New York manager.
This is the system specified for the Woolworth Building, New York."
—Engineering News, v.67, Mar 7, 1912
- 1913 · Corporate charter repealed · "...corporations which for two
years preceding such report have failed to pay the taxes assessed against
them and due them under the laws of this state [Delaware]..."
History:
"Sunburst Prism Light Co. Incorporates — The
Sunburst Prism Light Co. was incorporated last week with $250,000
capital, all of which is in common stock, to succeed
the Universal Iron Foundry Co., which has been doing a large business at
Seholes and Waterbury sts, Williamsburgh, for many years. The officers
will be elected within the week. The newly incorporated company
will purchase the Universal Iron Foundry's plant and property,
consisting of a plot 75×100 ft., on which stand three wooden
and one brick factories and will devote the whole to the manufacture
of a new vault light invented and perfected by Philip Schwickert
[sic], one of the incorporators of the new company.
This is a system of vault lights
with mirror reflectors. The company also makes skylights which are
burglar proof. Tests of the new system enabled a photograph to be
taken of a printed placard placed 40 ft. from a skylight 15×45
ins., on an exposure of 1 to 8, daylighted street. In other words
the exposure in the attic was only eight times the time of exposure
allowed for the same work on a sun lighted avenue. In the developed
picture the 24-point type was clearly readable without the use of
magnifying glass. In the cellar, where one of the vault lights have
been installed, a nonpariel or newspaper type could be read at a
distance of 50 ft. with no other light penetrating the otherwise
dark cellar. The company already reports several large orders from
its Boston office."
— Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide: v.84, no.2155, July 3, 1909
Patents:
Identifier |
Mon |
DD |
Year |
Inventor(s) |
Patent Title |
US |
D23,348 |
June |
12 |
1894 |
Schwickart, P. |
Design for a Lens for Vault-Lights |
US |
889,724 |
June |
2 |
1908 |
Schwickart, P. |
Building Light |
US |
894,708 |
July |
28 |
1908 |
Schwickart, P. |
Building Light |
US |
922,964 |
May |
25 |
1909 |
Schwickart, P. |
Lens for Building Lights |
US |
1,037,668 |
Sep |
3 |
1912 |
Schwickart, P. |
Building Light and Ventilator |
US |
1,146,660 |
July |
13 |
1915 |
Schwickart, P. |
Ventilating and Lighting Construction |
Paper:
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| "Sunburst Prisms"
"Sunburst Prisms" are described and
the many methods of their application illustrated in a pamphlet
issue by the Sunburst Prism Co., No. 243 South 10th Street,
Philadelphia.
Particular reference is made in this
pamphlet to the use of these prisms in vaults, pavements, subways,
skylights, ceilings and ship decks.
The introduction of prisms whose angles
have been scientifically calculated to deflect light at desired
angles has made it possible to avail of certain parts of buildings
heretofore considered as little better than waste spaces. What is
considered to be the proper construction and application of prisms
is described in this pamphlet and shown by photographs of actual
installations.
The catalogue may be had on request. |
American Architect and Architecture, Volume 102 · 1912
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