AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OR ARRANGEMENT OF TOP-WICK FOR CONSUMING THE BODY OF MATERIAL, TERMED A WICKLESS CANDLE
Year: 1884

page_text: I ABSALOM ELIJAH WEBB of 66 Ockenden Road Islington in the county of
Middlesex Surgeon, do hereby declare the nature of my said' invention for AN
IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OR ARRANGEMENT OF TOP-WICK FOR CONSUMING THE
BODY OF MATERIAL, TERMED A WICKLESS CANDLE to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved construction or arrangement of top-wick
for consuming the body of material termed a wickless candle the object being to
prevent guttering. I first make an absorbent of silicate of cotton or any other
suitable non-combustible substance into the shape of a pipe which terminates at
one end as a button, which button rests upon small circular pieces of calico and
lint placed one over and upon the other as a pad to rest upon a solid cylinder of
wax or tallow. The pipe shaped absorbent is placed into a circular piece of
perforated thin sheet of brass of tube shape terminating in a button to receive the
Baid pipe.
When the end of this is lighted the heat absorbs the wax or tallow into the
body of the calico and lint and supplies sufficient wax or tallow to keep up the
combustion.

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I ABSALOM ELIJAH WEBB of 66 Ockenden Road Islington, in the County of
Middlesex, Surgeon, dó hereby declare the nature of my said invention for
"AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OR ARRANGEMENT OF TOP-WICK FOR CONSUMING
THE BODY OF MATERIAL TERMED A WICKLESS CANDLE," and in what mauner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
This invention has for its object the formation of detachable burners as wicks
with absorbent body within metallic gauze for sucking up the fat or other material
of which the candle is composed, by heat imparted to the metal from the flame
during the burning of the wick.
The candle is composed of a solid stick of wax, stearine, tallow or other material,
moulded or otherwise shaped like an ordinary candle but without a cord cotton or
wick within it, the wick according to my invention being a distinct article capable
of being placed on the candle and removed at will
The absorbent or capilliary attractive body in my burner may be lint, sponge,
porous clay, horsehair, cane felt or other material with which asbestos or other non
conbustible can be mixed, a portion of this forming the wick proper and projecting
from above the burner like an ordinary wick but preferably hollow, which hollow
may be filled up by an absorbent material so enclosed as to be preserved from
contact with the atmosphere.
The annexed drawings show my burner cupped or recessed, in its under side to
sit upon the candle A and be retained thereon, during the heating, absorption and
consumption of the candle.
The burner is composed of a bottom disc B of wire gauze (dished) and an outer
disc C also of wire gauze, but having a pipe like projection D at the upper central
part. Between the two discs B C I arrange discs or pieces of lint, sponge, or other
absorbent and also strips or threads of asbestos E loosely yet securely fastened by
rivets or lacing wires F which bind the parts together, portions of the asbestos
which forms the wick G being plaited twisted or worked into a tube and left open
ôr filled with string or other thread or a fibre either combustible or non combustible
such as asbestos fibre.
I have referred to wire gauze but any thin perforated metal will answer the
purpose of my burner.
I show several methods by which the burner can hold itself on the candle, and
instead of being cupped or grooved on the underside as at Figures 1 and 2 it may
be flat as at Figures 3 and 4 or have a central pin as at Figure 5 or several pins
projecting from the bottom disc as at Figure 6 or a glass or porcelain ferrule H can
be slipped over it as at Figure 7 which ferrule may be plain or ornamented in any
suitable manner. The candle block or stick may be notched or shaped as at
Figures 8, 9 and 10 and the top also to correspond therewith.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is,
First. The detachable burner with wick combined and its application to sticks
of combustible material as candles as described and as shown in the annexed

page_text: Secondly. The central pipe like projection D to detachable combined burners and
wicks used with candles as described,
Thirdly The particular formation or build of detachable tops with wicks as part
of same all as shown on the annexed drawings.
The 90th day of Ontabo 100%.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the Applicant.