Improvements in Night Lights.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 30th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 5th Jan., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Night Lights.
We, HENRY PALMER, Managing Director and EBENEZER SPAIN, Foreman,
both of the Victoria Oil and Candle Works, Stratford, in the County of Essex,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention has for its object to maintain in an erect position the wicks of
night lights during the time they are being burnt. For this purpose we secure
the lower end of the wick to a sustainer or base plate in two parts one above the
other. The lower part a disc or piece of a sheet of felt pulp or like fabric, the
upper part a disc or piece of thin sheet metal. The wick is first threaded through
a hole in the thin sheet metal disc-the lower end of the wick is then dipped into
a melted compound of adhesive matter such as a compound of shellac and bees-
wax with it may be other ingredients. Afterwards the lower end of the wick is
inserted into a hole in the pulp or fibrous disc and the metallic disc is pushed
downwards along the wick until it is brought down on to the pulp or fibrous disc.
The melted adhesive matter on the end of the wick then secures the two discs and
the lower end of the wick firmly together.
The body of the night light is cast with a vertical hole centrally through it and
with a recess on the under side around this hole for the disc attached as above
described to the end of a wick to fit into.
After the body has been removed from the mould in which it was cast a wick
previously secured in the manner above described to a sustainer or base plate is
threaded through the central hole formed in it and the sustainer or base plate is
pressed into the cavity on its under side.
Dated this 1st day of March 1894.
HENRY PALMER.
EBENEZER SPAIN.
Improvements in Night Lights.
We, HENRY PALMER, Managing Director, and EBENEZER SPAIN, Foreman,
both of the Victoria Oil and Candle Works, Stratford, in the County of Essex,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what mauner the same is
to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
The invention has for its object to maintain in an erect position the wicks of
night lights during the time they are being burnt. For this purpose we secure
the lower end of the wick to a sustainer or base plate in two parts one above the
other. The lower part a disc or piece of a sheet of felt pulp or like fabric, the
upper part a disc or piece of thin sheet metal. The wick is first threaded through
a hole in the thin sheet metal disc-the lower end of the wick is then dipped
into a melted compound of adhesive matter such as a compound of shellac and
bees-wax, with it may be other ingredients. Afterwards the lower end of the
wick is inserted into a hole in the pulp or fibrous disc and the metallic disc is
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page_text: pushed downwards along the wick until it is brought down on to the pulp or
fibrous disc. The melted adhesive matter on the end of the wick then secures the
two discs and the lower end of the wick firmly together.
The body of the night light is cast with a vertical hole centrally through it and
with a recess on the under side around this hole for the disc attached as above
described to the end of a wick to fit into.
After the body has been removed from the mould in which it was cast a wick
previously secured in the manner above described to a sustainer or base plate is
threaded through the central hole formed in it and the sustainer or base plate is
pressed into the cavity on its under side.
Figure 1 of the drawings annexed is a night light constructed as above
described.
Figure 2 is a vertical section of the body of the night light before the wick has
been inserted into it-and
Figure 3 is a side elevation of the wick with its sustainer or base plate.
A is the body of the night light having a central vertical hole A' formed through
it and recess A2 on the underside around this hole. A recess sufficient for the
purpose is formed by the shrinkage of the material in cooling.
B is the wick it may be an ordinary cotton wick coated with a material
somewhat harder than that of which the body of the night light is formed-C is
the metal disc having a central hole punched through it, the metal removed when
forming the hole being made to form a short tube standing up on one side of the
disc around the hole-D is a disc of paper or felt or like material preferably
glazed or enamelled or varnished on one side and having a central hole formed
through it-the disc is stamped so as to make it slightly hollow in the centre on
the under side as shewn in Figure 1. The two parts of the wick sustainer are
pressed together and to the base of the wick in the manner above described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. A night light constructed substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the drawing annexed.
2. A sustainer for the wick of a night light composed of a disc of metal having
a disc of paper or felt or like material pressed to its underside and to the wick
substantially as described.
Dated this 3rd day of November 1894.
HENRY PALMER.
EBENEZER SPAIN.