An Appliance for Preventing Candle Drip and Collecting the Overflow.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 5th Dec., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance for Preventing Candle Drip and Collecting the
Overflow.
I, JOHN VIRTUE KELLY, of the Firm Messrs. Francis Tucker and Co.
Limited, High Street, Kensington, London, Soap and Candle Manufacturer, 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 object, the construction of an appliance for resting on the
top of a candle to hold and retain the hot fluid body next the lighted wick or
wicks, and so prevent drip, the appliance having a well or receiver for the overflow
should the candle be tilted or not carried upright.
The invention is more particularly intended for use with candles carried in
religious processions and also with altar and other candles subject to sudden
draughts of air from doorways or windows, as the collection of hot fat or wax in
the well prevents the candle guttering and looking unsightly.
For the purpose of my invention, I make a nozzle like shell with a reduced top
overlapping circularwise at the inner edge, and cone shape the belly portion so that
it may sit somewhat loosely on a candle and sink as the combustion continues, the
space between the touching part of the cone on the candle and that above serving
as receptacle for hot fluid body of which the candle is composed to feed the wick
or wicks with the thinnest and hottest fluid arising from the heat of the wick and
that imparted to the tip of the nozzle whereby the brilliancy and purity of the
flame is enhanced considerably and a great deal of the usual yellow tinge destroyed,
this being more or less effected by the slightly rarified air in passing the nozzle to
feed the flame.
The nozzle is surrounded by a shell of truncated cone shape inverted, the top of
which is just below the tip or reduced cap of the nozzle and its lower end some
distance below the bottom of the cone belly part of the nozzle, the space between
the two shells serving as a receptacle for overflow as before explained.
The appliances are made in various sizes or diameters for fitting over and on to
candles suited for them and in some cases where candles increase in diameter
towards the bottom, as is common with those used at high religious ceremonies, a
small appliance can be removed when the candle is about half burned down and a
larger one put on, the appliances being so made that each would answer for, say,
three sizes of candles.
The invention is clearly shown in the annexed drawings.
Figure 1 vertical section.
Figure 2 perspective elevation, where A indicates the inner cone shell. B the
inwardly burred top end. C the overlapping tip. D is the outer or inverted
truncated cone connected to the cone A at E, the annular chamber F serving for
receiving the overflow fat or wax if the candle be tilted. The space between the
candle top and the wick is for retaining the fluid body for feeding the wick.
Appliances made as shown and used as explained will enable candles to be
carried in ceremonies without risk of the drips, should any escape, being blown on
to the clothing, or the candle guttering and dropping on the path or roadway when
carried in procession, it also permits of the candles being carried upright and

page_text: where the flame is exposed to sudden gusts of wind, or to a gradual flow that
causes the flame to waver or flicker, the usual unsightly guttering is prevented.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The construction of appliances composed of two coned (reversed) shells for
fitting loosely on the tops of candles serving conjointly as retainers of hot fat or
wax and receptacles for overflow, as set forth and as represented in the annexed
drawings.
Dated this 20th day of October 1896.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said John Virtue Kelly.