Improvements in and relating to Candlesticks, Candelabras, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 6th May, 1897-Accepted, 12th June, 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Candlesticks, Candelabras,
and the like.
I, WILLIAM JOHN JONES of 144 Cemetery Road, Trealau, Rhondda Valley,
Glamorganshire, Plumber, 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 :-
My invention relates to candlesticks candelabras, lanterns and the like, nud
consists of improved means for securely holding the candle when placed or seated
therein, and has for its objects to provide a means whereby a candle of any size in
cross sectional diameter (within reasonable limits) may be firmly held thereby in
an upright position, and so avoid the guttering or uneven burning away thereof
when the socket is too large for the candle as frequently obtains in such holders as
at present made and used, and by reason of the entire absence of a socket in my
improved holder, the grease and dirt which necessarily accumulates at the finish of
the burning of the candle may be quickly and easily removed..
In order to render my invention more easily understood I have hereunto
appended a sheet of drawings in which I have chosen to illustrate the same as
applied to an ordinary chamber candlestick.
Fig. 1 is a plan view of my said improved candlestick while, Fig. 2 is an elevation
of the same.
Fig. 3 shows an enlarged elevation of a slight modification of my invention for
adapting it to existing candlesticks.
In carrying my invention into effect I construct of any suitable metal or com-
bination of metals a candlestick of exactly the same shape and configuration as at
present made and used, with this exception, that instead of the usual socket at the
top for the reception of a candle, 1 provide a shallow, circular, and slightly concave
tray such as A, provided with bearings such as B B1 for carrying the ends of a
rod C, having a right and left handed screw thread cut or otherwise formed thereon,
the said rod C being clamped or fastened at one end by any suitable means, such
for instance as that of a screw D entering the end of C, and engaging with B,
while the opposite end of C may carry a milled edged button or circular disc, such
as E, by means of which the same may be rotated in either direction. The said
rod C carries two plates and G each in the form of a segment of a circle, and of
any suitable height, and having formed in their upper edges, two or more teeth or
serrations such as a for the purpose of gripping the candle H, the one plate F being
mounted upon the left, and the other plate G upon the right hand threaded portions
of the said rod, the reason of this being, that when the button or disc E is rotated
from left to right the plates F. G. would necessarily recede from each other which
may be continued until they reach the limit shown in dotted outline in Fig. 1, or
thereabouts, the converse being the case if the direction of rotation of the button E
is reversed, so that when a candle of any reasonable diameter is required to be
placed in position, the plates F G would be parted until the distance between them
was slightly in excess of the cross sectional diameter of the candle, which would
then be inserted between them with its bottom end touching, and may be resting
upon the rod C, when by rotating E in the opposite direction, or from right to left,
the jaws or plates F G would close upon the candle H, and their teeth or serrations a
enter the substance of the same (as shown in Figs. 2 and 3) and so grip it securely,
and consequently ensuring in this an almost perfectly vertical position.

page_text: For the purpose of adapting my invention to existing candlesticks, I may
construct the tray A and its connections, fixed upon a preferably tapering and may
be tubular portion such as J, adapted to fix in the socket of an ordinary candle-
stick originally provided for the insertion of the candle, and it will readily be seen
that by reason of the absence of any such sockets or like cavities in my said
candlestick, and the presence of a perfectly plane surface upon the portion A, the
grease and other dirt may be more easily removed, and the portion A more easily
kept clean than obtains with candlesticks or the like generally as hitherto
constructed.
Although I have chosen to illustrate my invention as applied to an ordinary
chamber candlestick, it is obvious that the same may be applied to each branch of
a candelabra or in connection with carriage and other lamps and lanterns.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is: :-
(1.) In a candlestick, candelabra, Cantern or the like the combination of a right
and left hand threaded screw C, adapted to be rotated by a finger hold such as E
within bearings such as B, B', the said screw C carrying a pair of plates such
as F, G, adapted to approach or recede from each other by the rotation of C, the
whole being attached to, and borne by a portion A attached to or forming the top
of the candlestick or the like substantially as and for the purposes herein described
and shewn.
Dated this 6th day of Nov 1807
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1 Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.