IMPROVEMENTS IN CANDLE CLAMPS OR HOLDERS FOR CANDLESTICKS, CANDLEABRAS AND SUCH LIKE
Year: 1884

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COMPELIE
SPECIFICATION.
We JACOB BERLINER and HERRMANN ZIEGLER, trading under the name of
Berliner and Ziegler, Metal Goods Manufacturers of 74 Ritter Strasse in the
City of Berlin and German Empire do hereby declare the nature of our Invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN CANDLE CLAMPS OR HOLDERS FOR CANDLESTICKS,
CANDLEABRAS AND SUCH LIKE and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Our Invention relates to improvements in candle clamps or holders for
candlesticks, candelabras, sconces and other similar appliances for holding candles
and consists of a device by means of which candles of any usual thickness can be
so clamped or firmly held that the same are prevented from falling out of the
clamp or holder or taking up any other position than that determined by the said
clamp or holder.
The constructions hitherto employed for the purpose of clamping or holding
candles in candlesticks and such like possessed many disadvantages the jaws of the
holder were either so arranged that the same could easily bite off or sever the end
of the candle or protruded a considerable distance beyond the candlestick and
tended in any case to disfigure the candlestick candelabra sconce or other receiver.
These disadvantages are entirely avoided according to our Invention as a
deformation or severing of the end of the candle or a disfiguring of the candlestick
or other holder is rendered impossible.
Figure 1 is a plan or top view of one of our improved clamping devices or
holders.
Figure 2 is a view of the under side of the upper plate or disc with the clamping
device.
Figure 3 is a like view of the opened clamping device.
Figure 4 is the section of the upper part of a candlestick with our Invention
applied to the same.
Figure 5 is the top view of a modification of our device.
Figure 6 is a view of the under side of the upper plate in combination with this
modification.
Immediately beneath the upper or annular surface plate a is a second annular
plate b which carries two parallelly arranged guides c on which the two slides or
jaws d I are guided by means of the slots e in the same.

page_text: The inner edges of the slides or jaws d are scolloped out so as to form projecting
teeth or points immediately behind which the flange g is arranged so as to prevent
these said teeth from penetrating too far into the material of the candle. A pin or
projection h is either affixed to each of these flanges g or cast or made of one
piece with the same which said pins or projections serve to guide the said flanges
in the curved guide slots e of the plate k.
If the holder or clamp is in the open position as shown by Figure 1 and the
upper ring or plate a which is moveably attached at fis given a partial revolution
in the direction of the arrow, the pins h will glide in the guide slots i of the slotted
plate or disc k and press the teeth of the slides d, which are also guided by means
of their slots e on the flanges c, into the surface of the candles until the outer
surface of the said candle comes in contact with the flanges g of the slides or jaws d
which said flanges prevent the teeth of the slides or jaws d penetrating too deep
into the material of the candle and consequently all biting off or severing of the
end of the same.
According to the device as shown in Figures 5 and 6 the two slides or jaws d¹
are made to move around the centres or pivots which are fixed to the lower or
inner surface of the upper annular plate a¹ and which said slides or jaws are
guided in the curved slots of the plate or disc ¹ by means of the pins or
projections h¹.
A spring m¹ is laid around the two slides or jaws d¹ so as to hold the same in
closed position.
If a candle is to be inserted in the clamp or holder the upper annular plate a² is
turned in the direction of the arrow (Figure 5) so that the jaws are opened. After
inserting the candle give the annular plate a' free whereupon the spring m' will act
on the slides or jaws d' and clamp the candle tight. A similar automatic closing
of the slides or jaws by means of a suitable spring can also be employed in the
device shown in the Figures 1 to 4.
In order to prevent the stearine or other material of the candle from falling
through the curved slots ii into the interior of the candlestick, a second full
disc n is arranged beneath the slotted disc k. It is evident from the foregoing
Specification that my said clamping or holding device can be modified in various
ways, and it is further evident that the curved slots can be formed in the lower
surface of the slides and the guide pins arranged on the plate k or its equivalent
without in any way departing from the tenor of my said Invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
In candlesticks, candleabras, sconces and other similar objects :—
1. The arrangement construction and application of two slides or jaws d with
toothed or scolloped inner edge which said slides or jaws are provided with the
slots e in which the flanges c fit so that the said jaws d can make a sliding motion
in a straight line and also with flanges g and guide pins h which latter gear into
the curved slots i of the plate or disc k so that the slides or jaws can be neared
each other and the candle firmly clamped between the same by giving the upper
annular plate a partial revolution substantially as described and shown in the
accompanying Drawings.
2. The arrangement construction and application of two toothed slides or jaws d¹
arranged to turn around the centres or pivots and provided with pins or
projections h¹ which gear into the curved slots of the plate or disc k¹ whereby
the said jaws d' are held in closed position by means of a suitable spring m¹ so
that a firmly holding automatic clamping device is formed substantially as described
in the foregoing Specification and shown in the accompanying Drawings.
3. The flanges g to the slides or jaws d or d' which said flanges are so arranged
as to prevent the teeth of the jaws d or d penetrating the material of the candle
so far as to cause the same to break or to bite or clamp off the lower end of the
same substantially as described and shown in the accompanying Drawings.

page_text: 4. The arrangement and application of the curved slots i¹ which serve as
guide ways for the pins or projections h to the jaws or slides & or d substantially.
as described and shown in the accompanying Drawings.
5. The arrangement and application of the guide slots e which fit over the
guides c so as to guide the jaws or slides d in a straight line substantially as
described and shown in Fig. 1 to 4 of the accompanying Drawings.
6. The general construction and arrangement of the parts in our said clamping
or holding device or any mere modification of the same substantially as described
in the foregoing Specification and shown in the accompanying Drawings.
Dated this Eleventh day or July 1884.
JACOB BERLINER.
HERRMANN ZIEGLER.
Witnesses
ANTHONY STEFFEN.
HERMAN SCHWANEBECK,