Improvements in Candlesticks.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 28th Dec., 1889
Improvements in Candlesticks.
A communication from abroad by FRIEDRICH WILHELM MINCK, of Riesbach, Zurich,
in the Federal Republic of Switzerland.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both in
the County of Lancaster and 323, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
Civil Engineer, 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 :-
The object of this invention is a candlestick into which the candles can be put and
firmly held by a single manipulation, and whereby the ends or residues of the candles
or other materials are entirely removed by means of a cleaning piston. Compared
with ordinary candlesticks, this new device offers the advantages of easy and firm
socketing of the candles as well as facilitating the cleaning of the candlesticks.
Figure 1 of the annexed drawing represents a longitudinal section of the candlestick
in the normal or closed position of the clasp. Figure 2 shows the opened position of
this clasp when the outer socket is pressed down.
The candlestick consists of four principal parts, which are :—
1. The outer socket a, provided with an annular edge o o projecting inwardly.
This annular edge o o is intended to carry with it the ring d when the socket a is
pressed down. The ring d is movable along the inner socket b and is influenced by
the spring g.
2. The inner socket 6 with the clasp c, the elastic tongues or lamina s of which
seize the candle; the said socket is provided with the fixed ring e between which
and the ring d aforesaid the spring 9 is compressed.
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3. The cleaning piston f¹, forming the base of the candle socket and its piston
which, passing through the inner socket b, is normally held down by the
spring i.
4. The foot or base m m, in the cavity of which the disc h is pressed by the
spring i.
The mode of using the candlestick is very simple: The socket a being pressed
down the laminæ s which are pressed together now spring asunder as shown by
Figure 2, a candle is put in, and as soon as the socket a is released it springs upwards
in consequence of the pressure of the spring 9, and, embracing the laminæ, presses
their inwardly bent tops into the candle, holding the latter fast in a very secure
manner.
-For cleaning the clasp, the socket a is pressed down, the lamina spring asunder,
the cleaning piston f', driven upwardly by means of the disc k, pushes away all
residues of the candle, stearine or other material, after which the piston returns into
its lowest position by virtue of the pressure of the spring i.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
A candlestick, consisting in its main parts of a movable outer socket a, a fixed inner
socket 6 connected with the foot m and provided with a clasping device c whereby the
socket a when drawn down compresses the spring g, but when released encircles and
presses the elastic laminæ of the clasping device e aforesaid into or against the candle,

page_text: and of a cleaning piston fl adapted to be pushed upwardly, but influenced by a
spring, whereby the residues of the candle after burning can be cleared away,
.substantially as described.
Dated this 25th day of November 1889
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.