IMPROVEMENTS IN DETACHABLE the County of Worcester, Needle Manufacturers. CANDLE HOLDERS OR SOCKETS FOR CANDLESTICKS
Year: 1878

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Henry English at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th March 1878. A communication
from abroad by Augustin Aubert Poujade, of No. 235, Rue St. Martin, Paris,
in the Republic of France.
WILLIAM HENRY ENGLISH, of the Firm of J. English and Son, of Redditch, in
"IMPROVEMENTS IN DETACHABLE
the County of Worcester, Needle Manufacturers.
CANDLE HOLDERS OR SOCKETS FOR CANDLESTICKS." [A communication from abroad
by Augustin Aubert Poujade, of No. 235, Rue St. Martin, Paris, in the Republic of
France.]
The said Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in con-
structing and arranging the parts of detachable candle holders or sockets to be used
with candlesticks for holding the candles and for receiving any falling wax or other
combustible of which the candles are made.
A candle holder or socket constructed according to this Invention consists of a
shallow ornamental dish for catching any wax or combustible which may fall from
the burning candle, in the middle of which dish a short tubular socket or cup of
metal is fixed. The said dish is made by preference of glass, china, or other non-
metallic material. In the metal socket or cup described the end of the candle to be
supported by the candlestick is fitted. On the under side of the said socket or cup
a conical block is made, which seats itself in a conical seat in a bed plate beneath
the said socket or cup, the said bed plate and socket being securely fixed together
by a central screw passed through them. The glass or non-metallic dish surrounding
the candle socket or cup has a central opening in it, which is passed on to the outside
of the fixing bed plate, and when the socket and bed plate have been fixed together
in the manner described the said dish is held between flanges on the said socket and
bed plate. On the under side of the bed plate is a spring binder for securely holding
the combined candle socket and wax or combustible receiver on the candlestick;
this spring binder consists of two nearly circular narrow bands of steel made to
These
cross one another at right angles, and rivetted together where they cross.
crossing steel bands are secured to the bottom of the bed plate by a screw nut,

page_text: which is screwed upon the protruding end of the screw by which the candle socket
and its bed plate are fixed together and to the glass or non-metallic dish.
When the spring binder of the socket is introduced into the mouth or barrel of
the candlestick the circular steel bands are compressed together and flattened. By
the elasticity of the said bands they press against the interior of the candlestick,
and hold the socket very firmly in its place.
Instead of using a spring binder of the kind described a base of wood may be
used, fitting into the candlestick, the said wooden base being provided with an
india-rubber tube, or with a covering of india-rubber for fixing the said baso firmly
in the candlestick. The metallic socket or cup in which the candle fits is connected
to the wooden base by a central screw pin, and the rotation of the socket on the
base is prevented by a stud passed through the bottom of the socket, and taking
into the said base.
Small claws or points turned inwards at the edge of the socket or cup may be
used for firmly holding the candle in the said socket or cup.