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2 Nº 16,536.--A.D. 1897.   Combining Prism Pavement and Prism Plate for Lighting Basements.     3. A device for lighting basements and the like comprising two sets or sections of prism tiles, a receiving prism plate intermediate between said two sets or sections and suspended in a substantially vertical plane, said prism plate so formed as to refract the light received from one set of prism tiles and direct it into the basement and reflect the light from the other set of tiles and also direct it into the basement.     4. A device for lighting basements and the like, comprising a transparent pavement-like body projecting substantially horizontally from the building and provided with two sets of prism tiles adapted to throw the light in opposite directions, a substantially vertically arranged transparent prism plate so suspended between the two sections that light from one section of tiles passes through the prism plates and is refracted into substantially horizontal lines, while the light from the other section of tiles is reflected from the prism plate into substantially horizontal lines.         Dated this 13th day of July 1897. For the Applicant,     W. LLOYD WISE. 46 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent. Redhill: Printed for Her Majesty's Stationary Office, by Malcomson & Co., Ltd.--1897