AN IMPROVEMENT OR Tuna KrunG OF CARDI
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Day, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OR
Tuna KrunG OF CARDI
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Day at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 20th Juno
1854.
I, JOSEPH DAY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OB
IMPROVEMENTS IN CERTAIN KINDS OF CANDLESTICKS" to be as follows:―
My Invention consists of a method or methods of constructing such candle-
sticks as are furnished with sliding mechanism for raising and lowering the
candle. Figure 1 represents in vertical section a portion of a candlestick
constructed according to my Invention; Figure 2 represents a portion of the
same in elevation; and Figure 3 represents a portion of the same in plan.
a is the candlestick; b, the moveable bottom, on which the candle rests, and
which retains its place by the pressure of the spring c against the sides of the
candlestick; d.is the button or thumb plate, passing through a slot in the side
of the candlestick, by which said button or thumb plate the candle is raised.
This thumb plate or button is usually connected with the plate c, by screwing
it therein from the outside of the candlestick; but I make the said thumb
plate d and plate e in one piece, as shown in the plan of the same, Figure .3.

page_text: In candlesticks made according to the ordinary method there is great risk of
the thumb plated becoming unscrewed and lost, but in candlesticks made
according to my Invention this risk is avoided.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Day in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th
December 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
DAY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Joseph Day, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph Day, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph
Day, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and

page_text: vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Jslands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVE-
MENTS IN CERTAIN KINDS OF CANDLESTICKS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Joseph Day, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Day, 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
thereof (that is to say): -
My Invention consists of a method or methods of constructing such candle-
sticks as are furnished with sliding mechanism for raising and lowering the
candle.
Figure 1 represents in elevation a chamber candlestick constructed according
to my Invention; and Figure 2 represents a vertical section of the same. a is
the candlestick; b, the moveable bottom or socket on which the candle rests;
the said socket 6 is affixed to a stem c, and the bottom end of the said stem
screws in or is otherwise fixed to the plate d. A. thumb plate, connected with
the plate d, and passing through a slot in the candlestick, serves to raise and
lower the socket b; e is a spring, made of a piece of sheet steel, which said
spring, by pressing against the inside of the candlestick, retains the socket b
in its place. The socket b, stem c, plate d, and spring e, are represented sepa-
rately, in elevation in Figure 3, vertical section in Figure 4, and plan in
Figure 5. The thumb plate, by which the socket is lifted, is marked d' in
Figures 1, 3, and 5. I sometimes modify my Invention in the manner illus-
trated in Figures 6, 7, and 8; Figure 6 being a vertical section; Fig. 7, an
elevation; and Figure 8, a plan, of the socket, stem, spring, and plate, con-
structed according to the said modification of my Invention. The spring is
inverted, as seen in Figure 6, and the socket is furnished with points or spikes,
as seen in Figures 6 and 7; a cylindrical plate of metal may be placed within
the spring, as shown at Figure 6, to prevent the tallow from running to the
bottom of the candlestick. The candlestick a, Figures 1 and 2, is in its lower
part encased in the tube f, the lower half of the tube a constituting a lining
to the tube f, as seen in Figure 2. The tube a is secured in the tube f by
the bayonet joint g, and the said joint may be concealed by a bead or ring h.
When it is wished to clean the candlestick, by melting the tallow therefrom, the
tube a is turned in the tube f, so as to unfasten the bayonet fastening g; the

page_text: said tube a may then be withdrawn from the tube f, and the tallow or the other
combustible retained in the tube a, and in the sliding mechanism in the said
tube a, may be melted out. I sometimes place two springs of sheet metal in
the upper part of the candlestick, as represented at i, i, in vertical section, in
Figure 9, and plan, in Figure 10; the said springs having for their object to
give steadiness to a candle too small to hit the candlestick properly.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise methods herein described, as the same may be varied
without departing from the nature of my said Invention; but I claim as my
Invention,―
Firstly, the method herein described and represented in the accompanying
Drawing of constructing the sliding mechanism of candlesticks.
Secondly, the method herein described and represented in the accompanying
Drawing of separating the upper part of a candlestick and the sliding
mechanism in the same from the lower part of the said candlestick, for the
purpose of cleaning the said upper part.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Day, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Witness,
THOMAS RUTTER.
JOSEPH DAY. (LS.)