Improvements in or connected with Portable Candle or other Light Holders Combined with Walking Sticks, Umbrellas, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Aug., 1892-Accepted, 24th Sept., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Portable Candle or other Light
Holders Combined with Walking Sticks, Umbrellas, and the like.
I, AXEL DÖHN, of 18 Schlesische Strasse, Berlin, in the Empire of Germany,
Manufacturer, 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:-
Portable light-holders, suitable for being carried in constant readiness for use,
form, as at present constructed, a more or less complicated apparatus, being also
on account of their small size easily mislaid or lost, and are inconvenient for the
pocket. Now the object of this invention is to obviate these disadvantages, and
to combine a simple construction of light-holder with the upper part of a walking
stick or umbrella or the like.
In the accompanying drawing, portable light-holders are represented in com-
bination both with a stick and with an umbrella, constructed according to this
aforesaid invention, Fig. 1 shewing the light holder combined with an umbrella,
and Fig. 2 a light holder of a slightly modified construction in combination with a
walking stick.
As shewn in the drawing, on the stick part of either walking-stick or umbrella,
a case is provided which serves for the reception of the light or candle l, and of a
spring for pressing the candle upwards. Upon the aforesaid case h containing the
candle and spring is fitted the handle or knob A, which in Fig. 1 is hinged at s to a
tube part either screwed onto the case or held thereto by a bayonet or other
suitable joint; such a design is particularly applicable where the light is used in
places comparatively free from draughts.
Where the device is to be used in draughty places, preferably increase the
length of the knob tube as is shewn at Fig. 2 marked B, thus providing a longer
neck below the knob, in which neck is formed an aperture o by which the rays
of light pass, whilst the tube prevents the flame from being extinguished. In
the knob-piece or tube, close above the screw or fixing part, a collar e is provided,
towards or against which the candle is pressed by the spring, the caudle being
pushed up in proportion as it burns away. Above the collar is the hinge s on
which the knob part (after the undoing of whatever kind of fastening is employed)
can be turned over and the candle exposed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is
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The combination, with a walking stick, umbrella, or the like, of a candle or
light-holder, composed of a case mounted upon the stick containing the candle/
and spring, and a knob having a longer or shorter tube part provided with hinge s
and bearing flange e, and if longer, with a light aperture o, all substantially as and
for the purposes herein described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of August 1892.
BREWER & SON,
Agents.