Improvement in Wicks for Use with Tubes of Consumable Material termed Wickless: Candles.
Year: 1886

page_text: Improvement in Wicks for Use with Tubes of Consumable
Material termed Wickless: Candles.
I, CECIL HENRY FITZMAURICE of 17 Great George Street Westminster, London,
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to make wicks, for tubes of a consumable material
such as wax, stearic, composition, tallow, or other substance usually used for.
candles, from a combination of woven wire or meshed metal or other material
inconsumable in itself with a porous material which is also inconsumable, but
which may be in combination with a very slow consumable absorbent material
notably stone, cement, cyanited substance, or other material rendered fireproof or
comparatively proof against fire. Said materials or substances are so arranged that
by the application of heat a liquifaction can take place and an absorption of the
material forming the tube for maintaining a light such as but superior to, that of
an ordinary candle, said wicks being indestructible or nearly so and applied by
simply placing them in position, available also for removal from one tube to another
or at will.
The wick proper is an extension or a portion standing above the level of a disc
or cup and forms part of or is in connection with a depending piece preferably the
tubular portion part of said leg being protected by a waterproof varnish or other.
material which is non-absorbent to any desired height the closed in portion forming
a reservoir for retaining sufficient material for first burning purposes.
The leg of the wick before referred to may be of meshed metal and contain an
absorbent to form the reservoir and to be in connection with the wick proper or
with the disc or with both and in some cases the disc may be formed from several
layers of material some of which may be absorbent.

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I CECIL HENRY FITZMAURICE of 17+ Great George Street, Westminster, London,
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 my invention is to make wicks for tubes of a consumable material
such as wax, stearic, composition tallow or other substance usually used for candles,
from a combination of woven wire or meshed metal or other material inconsumable
in itself with a porous material which is also inconsumable but which may be in
combination with a very slow consumable absorbent material notably stone, cement,
cyanited substance or other material rendered fireproof or comparatively proof
against fire.
Said materials or substances are so arranged that by the application
of heat a liquification can take place and an absorption of the material forming the
tube for maintaining a light such as but superior to that of an ordinary candle
said wicks being indestructible or nearly so and applied by simply placing them in
position, available also for removal from one tube to another or at will.
The wick proper is an extension or a portion standing above the level of a diso
or cup and forms part of or is in connection with a depending piece for occupying
the tubular portion, part of said leg being protected by a waterproof varnish or
other material which is non-absorbent to any desired height, the closed in portion
forming a reservoir for retaining sufficient material for first burning purposes.
The leg of the wick before referred to may be of meshed metal and contain an
absorbent to form the reservoir and to be in connection with the wick proper or
with the disc or with both and in some cases the disc may be formed from several
layers of material some of which may be absorbent.
.
The manner of carrying my invention into effect will be understood by reference
to the annexed drawings in which at Figure 1 a is the wick proper composed of
stone or suitable material as hereinbefore described and being an extension from a
disc b, said disc b being in connection with a depending piece o of perforated metal
or other material, filled with a porous absorbent material, the lower part d of said
depending piece being suitably varnished so as to close in a portion thereof which
then forms a reservoir for retaining sufficient material for first burning purposes.
The depending piece c may spring from the disc b or its upper part may form a
disc as shown on the drawing, separated from the disc b by a perforated plate e.
Figure 2 is a side view of this arrangement. Figure 3 shows an arrangement in
which a cap f of thin metal (meshed or otherwise) or other material is used to
keep the disc b in position on the candle g.
Figure 4 is a view of an arrangement in which the wick proper a stands in a
b which holds melted wax or other material to supply the wick a.
cup
In all cases the candles g are tubes of consumable material and the depending
piece c is placed therein as represented on the drawings.

page_text: 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:-
The improved indestructible affixable wick hereinbefore described for tubular
sticks of consumable substances as set forth.