IMPROVED CANDLESTICKS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jean Nadal, of 14, Brooke's Market, Brooke Street,
Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Lamp Maker, for the Invention
of "IMPROVED CANDLESTICKS."
Sealed the 3rd October 1861, and dated the 8th May 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jean Nadal at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 8th
May 1861.
I, JEAN NADAL, of 14, Brooke's Market, Brooke Street, Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex, Lamp Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVED CANDLESTICKS," to be as follows:-
This Invention is an improvement on all lighting apparatuses fitted with
any sort of candles on brackets, chandeliers, and such like, but principally for
portable candlesticks; by which improvement the candle always stands in a
vertical position, thereby avoiding the trouble, dirt, and expense consequent on
the fat being run and spilt, thereby also making the portable candlestick fit to
be easily fixed to a wall with the dish or base of the candlestick on a vertical
position parallel to the direction taken by the candle itself.
This improvement is intended for such lighting apparatus as aforesaid, where
candles are used with or without a glass globe or chimney, but without the
burning of the candles being regulated or provided by tube or spring. The im-
provement is obtained by the adaptation of one or several combinations of binges
of oscillation. The candle in its socket being itself suspended in the centre of

page_text: the system of oscillation, and being kept vertical by a balance weight fixed at
the lower part of the socket, whatever may be the motion given to the dish or
base of the candlestick. The oscillation is stopped as soon as the dish or base
is in a fixed horizontal or vertical position by a friction that takes place as
soon as the dish or base of the candlestick comes in contact, say, with a wall 5
or table.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Jean Nadal in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th
November 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JEAN
NADAL, of 14, Brooke's Market, Brooke Street, Holborn, in the County of
Middlesex, Lamp Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her beirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Jean Nadal, Her special licence that I, the said Jean
Nadal, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Jean Nadal, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time, and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVED CANDLESTICKS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Jean Nadal, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Jean Nadal, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This improvement is intended for lighting apparatus where candles are used
with or without a glass globe or chimney. The candle in its socket is sus-

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weight fixed at the lower part of the socket, and by ne iriction
place as soon as the dish or bottom of the candlestick comes in contact with a
wall or table.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Figure 2 is a plan, of a candlestick con-
structed according to my Invention. a is the socket for receiving a candle.
This socket is weighted at the lower part. is the dish or bottom, which is
so constructed as to admit of its being placed on a table, or of being hung
against a wall or upright surface by the eye or opening c. The candlestick is
ordinarily carried by the handle d. The socket a is suspended by the parts
a', a', to the circular frame e, in such manner as to move freely on the
points f, f. The frame e is suspended in the fixed frame g in such manner as
to move freely on the points h, h. When being carried, the socket is free to
oscillate; but when suspended against a wall, or when placed on a table, the
stud i, which hangs freely through the bottom of the dish of the candlestick is
pressed inwards, by which it is caused to come against the bottom of the
socket, and thus will the oscillation be prevented.
The peculiarity of the Invention consists in applying apparatus for preventing
oscillation when a candlestick is placed on a table or suspended against a wall,
as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jean Nadal, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Second day of November, in the year of our Lord Oue
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.