Improvements relating to Candles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Oct:, 1891-Accepted, 14th Nov., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Candles.
I, GEORGE EDWARD FARROW, of 190 Dalston Lane, London, in the County
of London, Gentleman, 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 my invention has reference to a certain new and useful improvement relating
to candles, and said invention has for its object to provide certain means whereby
candles are made to extinguish themselves automatically at a certain determined
point, and further the invention provides means whereby the whole of the candles
may be used, and consequently waste thereof prevented.
By this invention also fires are prevented by the light being extinguished when
accidentally left burning at night, and possibly setting fire to paper or the like
wound around the end of the candle to secure it in the candlestick.
I am aware that heretofore mechanical devices have been invented for auto-
matically extinguishing candles, but it is necessary that these devices should be
attached either to the candle or to the candlestick, which arrangement is objection-
able inasmuch as the various parts of the apparatus become covered with groase, or
the like, which necessitates cleaning; the devices are moreover unsightly and liable
to get out of order.
These objections are all overcome in a simple, neat, and efficacious manner herein-
after described, set forth in the claims, and illustrated in the drawings hereunto
annexed.
I now proceed to describe my said invention, reference being had to the accom-
panying drawings, in which—
A refers to an ordinary composite or other candle. B refers to the wick, which,
as shown at C, is made to project at the lower end of the candle. By this invention
I secure in any suitable manner an obstruction D upon the wick substantially in the
position shown.
This obstruction preferably consists of a flat piece of metal or
other non-combustible material, which is tightly bent or wound round the wick, in
such manner as to stop the flow of the composite, or the like, through the wick at
that part. It is evident, however, that the obstruction in the wick may be effected
in other ways than that described, therefore I do not wish to confine myself to
that particular form of obstruction shown and described.
It will be readily understood that when the candle burns down to the obstruc-
tion D, the supply of composite through the wick ceases, and therefore the light is
extinguished. In order to relight the candle to consume it all, the obstruction D
may be either removed from the wick, or the remaining piece may be inverted in
the candle-stick and the projecting piece of wick shown at C ignited.
In manufacturing candles in accordance with this my invention I preferably take
a considerable length of wick, and secure to it-preferably by machinery-at suitable
intervals the obstruction pieces D. The wick can then be cut off to suitable
lengths, which are severally laid in the candle moulds so that the obstruction takes
its proper position with respect to the length of the candle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
1 claim is:
The hereinbefore described improvement in candles, said improvement consisting
of an obstruction of any suitable non-combustible material secured to the wick of
the candle at a determined part thereof to cause the extinction of the light at that

page_text: said part, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated
in the drawings hereunto annexed.
The hereinbefore described improvements in candles, said improvement consisting
of an obstruction of any suitable non-combustible material secured to the wick of
the candle at a determined part thereof to cause the extinction of the light at that
said part, and the wick of the said candle made to project at the lower end thereof
to enable the remaining portion of the candle to be relighted, all eubstantially as
and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated in the drawings hereunto
annexed.
W. H. MUNNS,
Agent for Applicant.