A New or Improved Holder Applicable to Lamps, Candlesticks, and other Analogous Articles.
Year: 1885

page_text: A New or Improved Holder Applicable to Lamps, Candlesticks,
and other Analogous Articles.
I, JAMES HARROWER, of Preston Crescent, Inverkeithing,, in the County of Fife,
North Britain, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for
A NEW OR IMPROVED HOLDER APPLICABLE TO LAMPS, CANDLESTICKS, AND OTHER
ANALOGOUS ARTICLES and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
My Invention, which relates to a new or improved holder applicable to lamps,
candlesticks, and other analogous articles, has for its object to produce a holder
whose holding parts, consisting of jaws or grippers, are moveable inwards or out-
wards according to the size of the candle, lamp or other object which has to be
supported. The jaws or grippers are so formed as. to slide inwards. and outwards
ón a circular gallery or plate, and this is effected by means of a ring having a
volute groove or thread on either the upper or under face thereof, which gears with
one or more notches or projections in each jaw, so that by turning the ring or
plate backwards or forwards, as the case may be, the jaws or grippers are
accordingly tightened or loosened.
In order that my said Invention may be properly understood and readily carried
into effect I will now proceed to described the drawings hereunto annexed.
Figures 1 and 2 are respectively plans of the upper and under sides of a lamp
holder constructed according to my present invention.
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Figure 3, is a side elevation of the same.
Figure 4, is a section of the same taken on the line A. B. Figure 1, and looking
in a direction at right angles to such line.
Figures 5 and 6, are respectively a side elevation and a plan (drawn to an
enlarged scale) of a modified portion of the same.
Figures 7 and 8, are respectively plans of the upper and under sides of a candle
holder constructed according to my present invention.
Figures 9.and 10, are respectively a side elevation and a vertical section of the
same.
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In the lamp holder which I have represented upon the annexed drawings there
are provided the three jaws or grippers a, b, and c. These jaws or grippers are
supported, and are free to move radially inwards and outwards in the guides d,
which are formed in part with the circular gallery or plate e, and the said jaws or
grippers a, b, and c, are formed with the upper bars f, and lower portions g, which
pass outwards respectively over and under the ring h, when such ring is engaged
with the said jaws in the manner now to be described. The lower portions g, of
the jaws or grippers are formed with the projections i, (Figure 4) which engage
with the volute groove j, formed on the underside of the ring h, as shewn more
particularly at Figures 2 and 4 of the annexed drawings, and the said jaws or
grippers a, b, and c, are further provided with the projections k, which prevent
them rising out of their guides d.
Should it be found necessary, for the better securing or holding of the lamp
globe or lamp glass, a piece of India rubber or other equivalent elastic material

page_text: may be inserted or otherwise secured in or to the inner or grippery edges of the
jaws or grippers a, b, and c. At Figures 5 and 6 of the annexed drawings, I have
represented on an enlarged scale a jaw or gripper so provided with a piece of
India rubber or equivalent material. This piece l, of elastic material as shewn, is
inserted and cemented or otherwise secured in a recess formed in the inner or
vertical edge of the jaw or gripper a, which is otherwise formed in the manner
herein before described with reference to Figures 1 to 4.
In the candle holder, which I have represented at Figures 7 to 10, the jaws or
grippers m, project upwards through the radial slots n, (Figure 7) formed in the
plate o, and are prevented from passing upwards through the said slots by the
segmental plates p, to which the said jaws at their lower parts are secured, and
portions of which plates p, are, as shewn, guided outwards through the ring piece u,
hereinafter described. Each of these plates p, has a projection q, formed at its
underside, so that it is capable of engaging with the volute groove r, formed in the
upper surface of the plate or disc 8. This disc s, is enclosed between the before
mentioned plate o, and the lower plate t, these two plates o, and t, being connected
at their edges by the ring piece u, which is preferably formed in part with the
plate o. At the underside of the discs, there is provided the plug v, which passes
out through a hole formed centrally in the plate t, as represented more particularly
at Figures 8, 9, and 10.
For causing the jaws or grippers m, to move radially inwards or outwards, either
the disc s, is rotated by means of the plug v, while the ring piece u, and its
connections are held stationary, or the disc 8, is held stationary while the ring
piece u, is rotated. By these means the jaws or grippers m, according to the
direction of the rotation of the before mentioned parts, are caused to advance
towards or retire from each other and thereby correspondingly to secure or release
a candle in or from the said grippers.
In applying the herein before described candle holder to an existing candlestick,
the plug v, which may, if desired, be formed taper, is secured in any convenient
manner in the recess of such candlestick, while for new candlesticks the said plug
may be formed in one with, and as a continuation of the body or standard thereof.
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 improvements in holders applicable to lamps, candlesticks, and other
analogous articles consisting of the jaws or grippers a, b, and c, or m, with or
without the piece l, of India rubber or the equivalent thereof, and capable of being
moved radially inwards, for securing an article between the said jaws or grippers,
and outwards, for releasing an article therefrom, by means of a volute groove or
thread all substantially as and operating in the manner and for the purposes.
hereinbefore set forth with reference to the annexed drawings.
Dated this twontre 0ooond dex of February 1986
J. H. JOHNSON, DAY & JOHNSON,
Applicant's Agents.