An Improved Extinguisher for Candles.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 5th May, 1896-Accepted, 27th June, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Extinguisher for Candles.
1, JAMES WILLIAM KAY, No. 8 Birch Terrace, Baxenden, Calico Printers
Finisher, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to provide a simple and efficient means whereby a
candle can be extinguished automatically when in course of consumption it reaches
a pre-determined spot. The invention consists essentially of a spring clip which is
placed over the candle. In carrying my invention into effect, I provide a frame of
metal or other suitable material preferably of greater length than breadth arranged
to slip easily over the candle. At each end of the frame is a spring clip the upper
ends being curved towards one another. In assembling the parts in the first
instance so arrange that the curved upper ends of the clips shall touch one
another. The extinguisher is used by slipping it over the candle till it occupies
the required position. This causes the curved upper ends to separate and press on
each side of the candle. When the candle becomes consumed till the wick comes
on a line with the curved upper ends, the latter will, owing to their spring-like
nature close in against the wick and pinch it out. In order to more clearly show
the nature of my invention I make reference to the accompanying sheet of
drawings in which
Fig. 1 shews a side view, Fig. 2 an end view, and Fig. 3 a plan of the
extinguisher.
Fig. 4 shews the extinguisher on the candle and Fig. 5 shews the candle when it
has burned down sufficiently to bring the extinguisher into action.
In each figure similar letters refer to the same parts.
a is the frame, having a circular part, b to go over the candle; c the clip having
the curved ends d: e the ends of the clip which are pressed together when it is
required to put on or remove the extinguisher. the spring, which passes along
one side and across each end as indicated in dotted lines on the end view. g is the
candle. It is proposed to make the extinguisher of metal.
I do not restrict myself to the precise details relative proportions or dispositions
of parts as shewn in the drawings as any or all of them may be varied without
departing from the spirit of the invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. An extinguisher for candles consisting essentially of a frame-like portion
arranged to slip over the candle and having at each end a spring clip with curved
upper ends which press against the sides of the candle until such time as it is
consumed to the position of the upper ends above mentioned, whereupon the latter
are closed upon the wick of, and so extinguish the candle, the whole substantially
described in the above specification and exemplified in the accompanying
drawings.

page_text: 2. An extinguisher for candles provided for and operating substantially as
described in the above specification and exemplified in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 5th day of May 1896.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.