Improvements in and relating to Screens or Shades for Candles and other like Illuminants.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 80th Sept.,
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Complete Specification Left, 30th June, 1898-Accepted, 17th Sept., 1898
Date of Application, both opp
Complete Specification Left, 30th June, 1898-Accepted, 17th Sept., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Screens or Shades for Candles and
other like Illuminants.
1, EUSTACE WILLIAM PORTER, of No. 43, Baronsmere Road, East Finchley, in
the County of Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in screens or shades for candles and other
like illuminants and has for its object the construction of a frame in which is held
a photograph, the frame aforesaid being fixed a short distance away from a candle,
or other illuminant, thereby allowing light to be transmitted from the illuminant
through the photograph, which is in the place of an ordinary screening fabric,
making it stand out in bold relief almost equalling a stereoscopic effect.
My said invention consists in a frame of metal, or other suitable material which
may be of a variety of shapes, either having its edges plain to enable a photograph
to be affixed by some glueing medium, or, of a U section in order that the photo-
graph may be slid in, the grooved edge at the part of the said frame at which the
photograph is inserted meanwhile being suitably flattened out to admit of this
being done.
In place of the edge of the frame being of a U section it may be of thin flat
metal having tabs left at intervals round the frame which could be turned over
after the photograph is inserted in order to keep it in its position.
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of Cantambar 1807
Improvements in and relating to Screens or Shades for Candles and
other like Illuminants.
I, EUSTACE WILLIAM PORTER, of No 43, Baronsmere Road, East Finchley, in
the County of Middlesex, 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:-
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My invention relates to improvements in screens or shades for candles and other
like illuminates and has for its object the construction of a frame in which is held
a photograph, the frame aforesaid being fixed a short distance away from a candle
or other illuminant, thereby allowing light to be transmitted from the illuminant

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through the photograph which is in the place of a ordinary screening fabric,
making it stand out in bold relief, almost equalling a stereoscopic effect.
The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of the candle screen frame.
Figure 2 is a section through the frame.
Figure 3 is a plan of the frame through A B in Figure 1.
Figure 4 is a front elevation of a modified pattern only.
Figure 5 is a diagramatic plan shewing a number of screen frames in position
round about an illuminant.
My said invention consists in a frame of metal or other suitable material which
may be of a variety of shapes, one of which is shewn in Figure 1 and another in
Figure 5.
The sides D and the bottom in Figure 1 and F in Figure 4 are of a U section
in order that a photograph may be easily slid in or removed. Tabs C in Figure 1
and H in Figure 4 may be provided on the frame that they may be turned over
the photograph after it is inserted in order to keep it firmly in position.
As a modification the frame may be provided wholly with tabs in place of the
grooved edges. In Figure 2 D is the grooved or U section edge of the frame,
Cone of the tabs at the top turned over and holding the photograph P in position
E in the same figure is a hollow stalk fixed to the frame enabling the same to be
attached to an ordinary clip where the frame with photograph is used to screen an
ordinary candle.
Three or more frames may be used in conjunction with one another to screen
the same light. Figure 5 shews in plan an arrangement of six frames screening
a candle or other illuminant at G.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. A photograph or photographs in combination with a suitable frame, or frames,
the whole being used as a candle or other illuminant screen, substantially as herein
described.
2. A photograph or photographs in combination with a frame, or frames, having
grooved edges, or tabs, provided at intervals round the edges, to enable a photo-
graph, or photographs, to be easily inserted or removed substantially as herein
described with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 20th day of Tuno 1808
EUSTACE WILLIAM PORTER,
Applicant.