Improvements in Wick Sustainers for Night Lights.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Nov., 1891
Complete. Specification Left, 12th Aug., 1892-Accepted, 17th Sept., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wick Sustainers for Night Lights.
I, WILLIAM BOHLING of Belmont Works, Battersea in the County of Surrey,
Foreman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention has for its object the maintainance in an erect position of the
wicks of night lights during the period of combustion and is more particularly
applicable to such night lights as are moulded and have the wicks inserted
afterwards. The wicks are usually attached to a piece of tin or other metal
called a "Sustainer." These sustainers are of various shapes and have a hole
punched in the centre through which the wick is inserted. To facilitate the
insertion of the wick the hole is made slightly larger than the wick itself and so
the sustainer does not act so efficiently as if it clasped the wick tightly. To
overcome this difficulty make use of sustainers each consisting of two tin or
other metallic pieces superposed one upon the other and by compressing or forcing
the two together after the wick has been inserted, induce the "burr
lower tin to close in upon and bite the wick of the night light, thereby assisting
very materially in maintaining the wick in an erect position.
upon the
Figs. 1 show a night light wick with the sustainer in two pieces threaded on it.
Figs. 2 show the same wick after it has been inserted in the night light and the
two tins compressed, the lower tin clasping the wick tightly.
The material, size and form of the sustainers may be varied.
Dated this 12th day of November 1891
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wick Sustainers for Night Lights.
I, WILLIAM BOHLING of Belmont Works, Battersea, in the County of Surrey,
Foreman, 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 :--
This invention has for its object the maintainance in an erect position of the
wicks of night lights during the period of combustion and is more particularly
applicable to such night lights as are moulded and have the wicks inserted
afterwards. The wicks are usually attached to a piece of tin or other metal
called a 66 Sustainer." These sustainers are of various shapes and have a hole
punched in the centre through which the wick is inserted. To facilitate the
insertion of the wick the hole is made slightly larger than the wick itself and
so the sustainer does not act so efficiently as if it clasped the wick tightly. To
overcome this difficulty I make use of sustainers each consisting of two tin or
other metallic pieces superposed one upon the other and by compressing or forcing
the two together after the wick has been inserted, induce the "burr"
upon the
lower tin to close in upon and bite the wick of the night light, thereby assisting
very materially in maintaining the wick in an erect position.
In the drawings left with the Provisional Specification
Figures 1 show a night light wick with the sustainer in two pieces threaded
on it.
Figures 2 show the same wick after it has been inserted in the night light and
the two tins compressed, the lower tin clasping the wick tightly.

page_text: The material, size and form of the sustainers may be varied but usually the
pieces will be of tin plate of the substance commonly in use for the purpose.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to he performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
As an improvement in night lights a wick sustainer in two parts both perforated
for the passage of the wick and which when the wick has been inserted are
pressed together whereby the upper part is made to close in the burr around the
hole in the lower part and the said burr is made to bite the wick as herein
described.
W. BOHLING.