Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Apr., 1887
Complete Left, 18th Jan., 1888
Complete Accepted, 24th Feb., 1888
We, JAMES BROAD, JAMES WALTER BROAD, GEORGE PETER BROAD and HENRY
JOHN BROAD trading as James Broad and Sons of Market Street, Candle Manu-
facturers and GEORGE CUPIT FOWLER of Southdown Villas, St. Anne's, Gentleman
both of Lewes in the County of Sussex, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The invention relates to an improved construction of sustainer for giving support to
the plaited or other wick used in night lights.
Heretofore the sustainer has had a hole formed therein through which the wick
was passed but such hole has been formed by punching the metal so as to raise a
portion of the same into a tapered or conical form around the hole which latter only
presented a narrow edge to the wick and consequently afforded no extent or length
of surface to form a secure holder for the same.
According to my invention I form such hole by means of a conically pointed
cylindrical punch acting in combination with a cylindrical hole in the die slightly
larger than the punch whereby the metal around the hole in the sustainer is carried
down around the punch and is thereby formed into a short cylinder projecting from
the surface of the sustainer which forms a holder acting to securely retain the wick
in a vertical position.
If desired the punch may be grooved or formed with sharp edges on its point whereby
the metal is cut into tongues or sections which are driven down to form the cylindrical
holder.

page_text: We, JAMES BROAD, JAMES WALTER BROAD, GEORGE PETER BROAD and HENRY
JOHN BROAD trading as James Broad and Sons of Market Street, Candle Manu-
facturers and GEORGE CUPIT FOWLER of Southdown Villas, St. Anne's Gentleman,
all of Lewes in the County of Sussex, 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 invention relates to the improvement of night lights by the employment of an
improved construction of sustainer for giving support to the plaited or other wick
used therein.
Heretofore the sustainer has had a hole formed therein through which the wick
was passed, but such hole has been formed by punching the metal so as to raise a
portion of the same into a tapered or conical form around the hole which latter only
presented a narrow edge to the wick and consequently afforded no extent or length of
surface to form a secure holder for the same.
According to our invention we form such hole by means of a conically pointed
cylindrical punch acting in combination with a cylindrical hole in the die slightly
larger than the punch whereby the metal around the hole in the sustainer is carried
down around the punch and is thereby formed into a short cylinder projecting from
the surface of the sustainer which forms a holder acting to securely retain the wick
in a vertical position.
If desired the punch may be grooved or formed with sharp edges on its point
whereby the metal is cut into tongues or sections which are driven down to form the
cylindrical holder.
In the accompanying drawings we have represented, to an enlarged scale, at
Figures 1 and 2 a plan and a section of the form of sustainer we prefer to employ
and at Figure 3 we have shown a vertical section of the die with the punch in position
in relation thereto and with a sustainer between them. Figure 3 is drawn to its actual
size.
At Figures 4 and 5 we have shown to an enlarged scale an elevation and an under-
side view of the punch.
The sustainer a, it will be seen, is formed with a short holder a' which is produced
by the aid of a die 6 and punch c acting upon a suitably shaped blank placed in
position between them.
The die bis formed with a cylindrical aperture 6' therein into which the punch
enters carrying with it a small portion of the metal of the sustainer, the hole in the
die is provided with an anvil or pusher 6 which is normally kept in its raised position
by an india rubber or other spring 63 but which gives way to the pressure thereon of
the punch c; on the rising of the latter the said anvil or pusher 63 is raised by the
spring 63 and thereby discharges the sustainer from the die.
The punch c shown in the drawing. is formed with a pyramidal point c¹ connected

page_text: by a short quadrangular stem c² with the cylindrical part of the punch; the
operation of the punch is as follows; the point c¹ first makes a central hole in the
blank and in combination with the sharp edges of the part 2 cuts the metal around
such hole into tongues or sections which by the cylindrical part care carried down
into the hole 61 in the die in a cylindrical form, that is to say, with the sides of the
holder a at right angles with the face of the sustainer. By these means a com-
paratively long and secure holder is formed for the wick of the night light.
We would here remark that other shapes and arrangements of dies and punches
may be employed so long as they produce substantially the same result as that above
described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is,
The employment in night lights of the improved construction of sustainer substan-
tially as herein shown and described and for the purpose stated.
Dated this 18th day of January 1888.
JAMES BROAD.
JAMES WALTER BROAD.
GEORGE PETER BROAD.
HENRY JOHN BROAD.
GEORGE CUPIT FOWLER.
By Harris & Mills,
23, Southampton Buildings,
Agents.