Improvements in Candle Reading Lamps and Candlesticks.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 16th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 18th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Candle Reading Lamps and Candlesticks.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD EVERITT of St. Peter's Road, Bournemouth, in the
County of Hants, Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
My invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in candle
reading lamps and candlesticks.
Candle reading lamps constructed according to my invention are especially
useful for travellers and can be readily held in the hand while being used but
they may be provided with a foot by which they may be supported on a table or
other support.
In making a candle reading lamp according to my invention I form the body of
a cylindrical metallic tube having an expanded or trumpet mouth at top. This
expanded or trumpet mouth top constitutes a receptacle or holder in which the
melted wax tallow or composition from the candle is received and is thereby
prevented from falling upon and injuring the dress of the person holding the lamp.
The melted wax tallow or composition received in the trumpet mouth top of the
candle lamp is prevented from passing into the cylindrical tubular body of the
lamp by means of a ring or ferrule fitted closely in the top of the said cylindrical
body and slightly projecting into the trumpet mouth top.
The candle is supported in the cylindrical body and its height adjusted therein
by means of a slide or lifter fitting closely in the interior of the said body. This
slide or lifter consists of a short tube closed at top and carrying a clamping or
binding screw having a milled head the said screw working in a longitudinal slot
in the cylindrical body of the lamp. By driving home the screw in the tubular
slide or lifter a shoulder near its head is made to bear against the outside of the
cylindrical body and clamp or bind the slide or lifter in its place. By relaxing
the binding screw the slide or lifter is released and may be raised or lowered in
the cylindrical body by means of the binding screw and the height of the candle
adjusted and the slide afterwards refixed by driving home the binding screw.
The bottom of the cylindrical body of the lamp is provided with a disc-like foot
preferably screwed in its place. Upon this foot the candle lamp may be supported
on a table or other support.
My invention consists further in adapting to metallic candle sticks and
particularly to those having fixed shade holders the arrangement of parts herein-
before described with reference to candle lamps for adjusting the height of the
candle; that is, I use in the metallic cylindrical body of the candlestick a tubular
slide or lifter on which the candle is supported and a binding or clamping screw
for fixing and adjusting the height of the slide.
When the candlestick is provided with a fixed shade holder the slide supporting
the candle is raised from time to time in the body of the candlestick as the candle
burns away so as to maintain the flame of the candle at a uniform or nearly
uniform height in the shade.
Dated the 7th day of November 1892.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Candle Reading Lamps and Candlesticks.
I WILLIAM EDWARD EVERITT, of St. Peter's Road Bournemouth in the
County of Hants, Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of the said 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 consists of the improvements hereinafter described in candle
reading lamps and candlesticks.
Candle reading lamps constructed according to my invention are especially
useful for travellers and can be readily held in the hand while being used but they
may be provided with a foot by which they may be supported on a table or other
support.
In making a candle reading lamp according to my invention I form the body
of a cylindrical metallic tube having an expanded or trumpet mouth at top.
This expanded or trumpet mouth top constitutes a receptacle or holder in which
the melted wax, tallow or composition from the candle is received and is thereby
prevented from falling upon and injuring the dress of the person holding the
lamp. The melted wax tallow or composition received in the trumpet mouth top
of the candle lamp is prevented from passing into the cylindrical tubular body of
the lamp by means of a ring or ferrule fitted closely in the top of the said cylindrical
body and slightly projecting into the trumpet mouth top.
The candle is supported in the cylindrical body and its height adjusted therein
by means of a slide or lifter fitting closely in the interior of the said body. This
slide or lifter consists of a short tube closed at top and carrying a clamping or
binding screw having a milled head, the said screw working in a longitudinal slot
in the cylindrical body of the lamp. By driving home the screw in the tubular
slide or lifter, a shoulder near its head is made to bear against the outside of the
cylindrical body and clamp or bind the slide or lifter in its place. By relaxing
the binding screw the slide or lifter is released and may be raised or lowered in
the cylindrical body by means of the binding screw and the height of the candle
adjusted and the slide afterwards refixed by driving home the binding screw.
The bottom of the cylindrical body of the lamp is provided with a disc-like foot
preferably screwed in its place. Upon this foot the candle lamp may be supported
on a table or other support.
My invention consists further in adapting to metallic candlesticks and particularly
to those having fixed shade holders the arrangement of parts herein before described
with reference to candle lamps for adjusting the height of the candle; that is, I use
in the metallic cylindrical body of the candlestick a tubular slide or lifter on which
the candle is supported and a binding or clamping screw for fixing and adjusting
the height of the slide.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents in elevation; and Figure 2 in
vertical section, a candle reading lamp constructed according to my invention;
Figure 3 represents a cross section of the same taken on the line a, a Figure 2.
bis the cylindrical metallic tubular body of the candle reading lamp having an
expanded or trumpet mouth at top, the said trumpet mouth being made in one
piece with the tubular body by expanding the upper part of the tube of which
the said body is made as represented. It will be seen that the expanded or trumpet
mouth top c constitutes a conical receptacle or holder in which the melted wax,
tallow or composition from the candle d is received and thereby prevented from
falling upon and injuring the dress of the person holding the candle lamp; e is a
short ring or ferrule brazed, expanded or otherwise fixed in the top of the
cylindrical tubular body of the candle lamp. The bottom of the cylindrical
tubular body b of the candle lamp is closed by the disc-like foot screwed in its

page_text: place. Upon the foot of the candle lamp may be supported on a table or other
support.
g is the slide or lifter for supporting the candle d in the cylindrical tubular
body b and for adjusting the height of the candle in the said body. The said slide
or lifter
consists of a tube closed at top and fitting closely in the interior of the
said body (see Figures 2 and 3). The said slide or lifter 9 carries the clamping or
binding screw having a milled bead h² and collar ³, the said screw working in
the longitudinal slot i in the cylindrical tubular body of the candle lamp.
g
When the binding screw h, 2, 3 is driven home by turning its milled head h³,
the collar at the back of the said milled head, bears against the outside of the
body 6 (see Figure 3) and clamps or binds the slide or lifter g in its place. By
turning the binding screw h, h2, h3 in the opposite direction so as to relax the
pressure of its collar h³ on the cylindrical body b, the slide or lifter y is released
and may be raised or lowered by the said binding screw in the body, the stem of
the binding screw working in the longitudinal slot i. After the height of the
candle has been adjusted the slide or lifter y is refixed by driving home the binding
screw h, h2, h3. The candle reading lamp represented can readily be held in the
hand while travelling and as the falling wax, grease or composition is received in
the holder or receptacle c the risk of injury to the dress of the person holding the
candle lamp is reduced to a minimum.
Figures 3 and 3B represent elevations taken at right angles to one another of a
candle reading lamp constructed according to my invention provided with a jointed
reflector. In Figure 34 the jointed reflector marked is represented raised at the
back of the flame of the candle for use and in Figure 3B the said reflector k is
represented turned down on the top of the flanged edge of the holder or receptacle c
at the top of the cylindrical tubular body b. The reflector k when turned down
may be secured by means of a button or turn 7 which passes through a slot in
the flanged edge of the holder or receptacle c and is turned so as to cross the
said slot.
Figure 4 represents in elevation; Figure 5 in vertical section and Figure 6 in
horizontal section on the line a, a Figure 5, an ordinary candlestick the body of
which is made from a cylindrical tube, to which a tubular slide or lifter and
clamping arrangement are applied.
Figure 7 represents in elevation another candlestick containing my improvements
provided with a fixed shade holder m.
The construction and action of the parts of the candlesticks represented in
Figures 4, 5, 6 and 7 are the same as corresponding parts of the candle reading
lamp represented in Figures 1, 2 and 3 and corresponding parts are marked with
the same letters of reference.
When the candlestick is provided with a fixed shade holder m as represented in
Figure 7 the slide g supporting the candle is raised from time to time in the body
of the candlestick as the candle burns away so as to maintain the flame of the
candle at a uniform or nearly uniform height in the shade.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention of "Improvements in candle reading lamps and candlesticks" :-
First Making a trumpet mouth top to the candle reading lamp for receiving
the melted wax, tallow or composition running down or falling from the candle in
one piece with the cylindrical tubular body of the candle reading lamp by
expanding the upper part of the tube of which the cylindrical tubular body is
made substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Secondly-The combination with the cylindrical tubular body of the candle
reading lamp and candlestick of a tubular slide or lifter closed at top for
supporting the candle as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accom-
panying drawings.

page_text: Thirdly-The combination with the tubular slide or lifter or other analogous
slide or lifter of a candle reading lamp and candle stick of the clamping or binding
arrangement hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings
for fastening and releasing the said slide or lifter.
Dated the Fifteenth day of February 1893.
WILLIAM EDWARD EVERITT.