Improvements in Candle Holders.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 17th July, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 17th Apr., 1890-Accepted, 17th May, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Candle Holders.
A communication to me from abroad by T. ALFRED STELZNER, of Wiesbaden, in the
Empire of Germany, Doctor of Philosophy.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the firm of Edwards and Co., Patent Agents and Engineers,
of 35 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved candle holder to be fitted in the hollow top or
socket of an ordinary candle stick and serving to securely grasp and support candles
of varying diameter.
The candles generally sold seldom fit exactly into the candle stick or its socket, and
to make them fit, a strip of paper is usually wound round the lower end of the
candle, or the latter is scraped at its lower end to reduce its size. The improved
candle-holder which forms the subject of this invention will firmly support candles of
different diameters.
The improved candle holder consists of a shell or short tube slightly tapering
towards its lower end and having a curved over flange at its upper end.
It is preferably stamped out of sheet metal such as steel or other hard metal, or it
may be cast of a suitable composition of metals.
From the tapering body of the shell or tube, three elastic tongues are stamped,
extending down from the rounded upper part or flange of the shell to which "they
remain fixed, the three tongues are at equal distances apart and their free ends
extend down nearly to the lower edge of the shell and are bent outward so as to bear
against the inside of the socket of the candlestick, when the shell is forced down into
the same, whereby the said tongues are compressed and forced towards the candle.
Between the three tongues described three other elastic tongues are similarly
stamped from the metal of the shell, their lower ends being attached to the lower
edge of the shell and their free ends extending freely upwards to about the middle of
the upper curved flange of the shell. These tongues are bent inside the shell in
such a manner as to grasp the candle when it is forced down between them.
By this means the candle is centrally held and supported within the shell, by the
three last described elastic tongues whilst the shell itself is elastically held within the
socket of the candle-stick by the tongues first described.
The shell or candle holder has therefore six elastic tongues formed in it, three to
adjust themselves within the socket of the candle-stick, and three to grasp and support
the candle. The tongues may preferably be bent or shaped to better adapt them to
the surfaces against which they are made to work.
By providing improved shells of this kind in different,-say six-sizes, candles of
any diameter may be adapted to candle sticks of any size of socket.
1000
EDWARDS & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Candle Holders.
A communication to me from abroad by T. ALFRED STELZNER, of Wiesbaden, in the
Empire of Geraiany, Doctor of Philosophy.
1, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the firm of Edwards and Co., Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 35, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,

page_text: do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying drawing (that is to say) :-
:-
This invention relates to an improved candle holder to be fitted in the hollow top or
socket of an ordinary candle-stick and serving to securely grasp and support candles
of varying diameter.
The candles generally sold seldom fit exactly into the candle-stick or its socket, and
to make them fit, a strip of paper is usually wound round the lower end of the
candle, or the latter is scraped at its lower end to reduce its size.
The improved candle holder which forms the subject of this invention will itself
firmly support candles of different diameters.
In the accompanying drawing which is in illustration of the invention, Figure 1 is
a sectional elevation of a candle mounted in the candle holder and fitted into the
candle stick, Figure 2 is a central vertical section of the improved candle holder,
Figure 3 is a side view and Figure 4 a plan of the same.
The improved candle holder consists of a shell or short tube slightly tapering
towards its lower end and having a curved over flange at its upper end.
It is preferably stamped out of sheet metal, such as steel or other hard metal or it
may be cast of a suitable composition of metals.
From the tapering body of the shell or tube, three elastic tongues A are stamped,
extending down from the rounded upper part or flange B of the shell to which they
remain fixed. .
The three tongues are at equal distances apart and their free ends extend down
nearly to the lower edge C of the shell, and are bent outward so as to bear against the
inside of the socket of the candle stick when the shell is forced down into the same,
whereby the said tongues are compressed and forced towards the candle.
Between the three tongues A three other elastic tongues D are similarly stamped
from the metal of the shell, their lower ends being attached to the lower edge C of
the shell and their free ends extending freely upwards to about the middle of the
upper curved flange B of the shell. These tongues D are bent inside the shell in such
a manner as to grasp the candle when it is forced down between them.
By this means the candle is centrally held and supported within the shell, by the
three last described tongues I) whilst the shell itself is elastically held within the
socket of the candle stick by the tongues A first described.
The shell or candle holder has therefore six elastic tongues formed in it, three to
adjust themselves within the socket of the candlestick, and three to grasp and support
the candle. The tongues are preferably bent or shaped to better adapt themselves to
the surfaces against which they are made to work.
By providing improved shells of this kind in different (say six) sizes, candles of
any diameter may be adapted to candle sticks of any size of socket.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A candle holder of suitable metal, consisting of a shell having three elastic
tongues D, forming part of the lower annular portion of the shell and grasping the
candle within the shell, and also three elastic tongues A forming part of the upper
portion B of the shell' and adjusting the shell within the socket of the candle-stick,
substantially as and for the purpose set forth and shewn.
Dated S
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.