Sitting down at the table to work, you shoot off the shelf a thick book and reveal it. But what is it? She turns into… a small lamp! It turns out that book the back cover hides a cartridge with a bulb, cord with switch and soft lampshade-accordion. Quite a bit to push the flap cover and miniature the original lamp is steadily on the foot, giving a smooth local light at your workplace. Hungarian magazine "Earmaster" advises to acquire such the lamp is compact and convenient to use: work and cleaned up in books several.
To manufacture such a light book available to everyone, because the device extremely simple and does not require any scarce materials or parts.
You can start with the cover, the more that will be mounted on it. Bookbinding cardboard and any decorative paper for covering it - everything you need will be on the cover. Work is no different from an ordinary binding. Cardboard cut the crusts and the spine, which are joined with glued strips thick cloth or calico. The outer (front) side of cover pasted over decorative paper, and the inside with white paper or foil: this party will play the role of a reflector for best light reflection (because the light will "Mignon").
Prepared cover leave to dry under pressure, and in the meantime electric part. Since it is assumed that the lamp will be as close to the workplace, he doesn't need a powerful lamp (and dangerous overheating cardboard base). Therefore, you can take the cartridge Mignon, with the light bulb 40 watts.
Bookbinding part - manufacture of the cover: And - pasting billet spine; B - veneer decorative paper; In the design of the corners
For the cartridge on the spine of the cover will make a simple bracket by bending it G-shaped tin: narrow and short horizontal part is intended under the installation of the cartridge, and a wide vertical for attachment to the spine with rivets or screws M2. She will perform the role of reflector and protect the spine from overheating. The connection of the cartridge with the bracket is not difficult.
Left to form a lampshade. It can be made of the same decorative the paper, which was papered cover, or any dense type Whatman. First of two glued sheets of plain typing paper and cut the workpiece in the form of fans and lay the folds so that the broad side of a fan they were wider, and to narrow - narrower accordingly. The edges of the fan applied to the cover, cut the excess and use the blank already as a pattern for forming lampshade from the main paper.
Fold paper accordion (A) and the formation from it of the shade (B)
Mounting bracket-reflector: And the riveting of the workpiece to the spine;-the lighting part in the collection; In - ready lamp
The edges of the resulting bunching glue to both halves of the cover so that light bulbs not hit in the eye, and at the spine above it in the shade remained the hole for ventilation. On the lower corners of the inside of the cover attach the safety wooden lugs limiting the convergence of the "flaps" of the lamp when folding this pseudocyesis.