Improvements in or Additions to Candlesticks or Candle Lamps.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Left 16th Jan 1890-Accented. 22nd Feb.. 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Additions to Candlesticks or Candle Lamps.
I FRANCIS DOUGLAS EVERITT of Finstall Park Bromsgrove in the County of
Worcester Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:-
:-
The shade holder of a candlestick or candle lamp is usually carried by a short
tubular nozzle which is supported by the candle and descends with the candle as the
latter burns away. When the shade holder is so supported the nozzle is liable when
the candle is nearly burned away to be tilted aside or to fall from the candlestick by
the bottom of the nozzle striking the top of the candlestick. The shade is thereby
liable to be burned or injured and should the candle fall with the nozzle it may set
fire to or injure the article on which it falls.
The object of my invention is principally to prevent when the candle has nearly
burned away the tilting or falling of the nozzle supporting the shade holder and
thereby avoid the danger from fire and the damage to the shade hereinbefore
referred to.
For this purpose I construct the nozzle supporting the shade holder and combine it
with the candlestick or candle lamp in the following manner.
Instead of supporting the shade holder on a short nozzle as usual I support the
shade holder upon a tubular nozzle having a length somewhat greater than the length
of the candle to be burned so that during the burning of the candle the tubular
nozzle slides within the tubular pillar of the candlestick or candle lamp and when
the candle has nearly burned away the bottom of the sliding nozzle rests upon the
foot of the candlestick and prevents the further descent of the said nozzle and the
shade holder. The sliding motion of the nozzle carrying the shade holder being
thus arrested when the candle has nearly burned away the shade holder is supported
independently of the candle and the tilting or falling of the nozzle and shade holder
is effectually prevented.
For the purpose of supporting the candle in the tubular pillar of the candlestick or
candle lamp I use in the said pillar a loose and detachable holder consisting of a tube
which rests on the foot of the candlestick or candle lamp the said tubular candle
holder being of about the same length as the tubular pillar and having a diameter
somewhat less than that of the said pillar so that the nozzle carrying the shade holder
can slide freely in the annular space between the long candle holder and the tubular
pillar of the candlestick or candle lamp. This loose tubular candle holder can be
readily removed from the tubular pillar for cleaning it by inverting the candlestick
or candle lamp and again placed in the tubular pillar. Although I have described
my invention as applied to a candlestick or candle lamp supported by a foot yet my
invention is equally applicable to candlesticks or candle lamps supported on brackets
or arms.
Date : 27th day of in 1980
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Additions to Candlesticks or Candle Lamps.
I FRANCIS DOUGLAS EVERITT of Finstall Park Bromsgrove in the County of
Worcester Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of my invention and the manner
in which the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
The shade holder of a candlestick or candle lamp is usually carried by a short

page_text: tubular nozzle which is supported by the candle and descends with the candle as the
latter burns away. When the shade holder is so supported the nozzle is liable when
the candle has nearly burned away to be tilted aside or to fall from the candlestick.
by the bottom of the nozzle striking the top of the candlestick. The shade is thereby
liable to be burned or injured and should the candle fall with the nozzle it may set
fire to or injure the article on which it falls.
The object of my invention is principally to prevent, when the candle has nearly
burned away, the tilting or falling of the nozzle supporting the shade holder and
thereby avoid the danger from fire and the damage to the shade herein before
referred to.
For this purpose I construct the nozzle supporting the shade holder and combine
it with the candlestick or candle lamp in the following manner.
Instead of supporting the shade holder on a short nozzle as usual I support the
shade holder upon a tubular nozzle having a length somewhat greater than the length
of the candle to be burned so that during the burning of the candle the tubular
nozzle slides within the tubular pillar of the candlestick or candle lamp and when the
candle has nearly burned away the bottom of the sliding nozzle rests upon the foot
of the candlestick and prevents the further descent of the said nozzle and the shade
holder. The sliding motion of the nozzle carrying the shade holder being thus
arrested when the candle has nearly burned away the shade holder is supported
independently of the candle and the tilting or falling of the nozzle and shade holder
is effectually prevented.
For the purpose of supporting the candle in the tubular pillar of the candlestick or
candle lamp I use in the said pillar a loose and detachable holder consisting of a
tube which rests on the foot of the candlestick or candle lamp the said tubular candle
holder being of about the same length as the tubular pillar and having a diameter
somewhat less than that of the said pillar so that the nozzle carrying the shade holder
can slide freely in the annular space between the long candle holder and the tubular
pillar of the candlestick or candle lamp. This loose tubular candle holder can be
readily removed from the tubular pillar for cleaning it by inverting the candlestick
or candle lamp and again placed in the tubular pillar.
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawing represent partly in vertical section
and partly in elevation a candlestick or candle holder containing my invention.
In Figure 1 the shade holder nozzle is represented supported upon the partly burned
away candle and in Fig. 2 the sliding nozzle carrying the shade holder is represented
in its lowest position after the candle has nearly burned away, the said sliding nozzle
being arrested by and supported upon the foot of the candlestick or candle lamp.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in both Figures.
a is the tubular pillar of the candlestick and bis the foot of the same; c is the
candle supported in the top of the loose or detachable holder d the said holder d
consisting of a tube having nearly the length of and fitting loosely in the tubular
pillar a and resting on the bottom of the candlestick at e. The long tubular candle
holder d can be readily removed from the pillar a for cleaning it by inverting the
candlestick. After cleaning, the candle holder d replaced in the pillar a; fis the
tubular sliding nozzle on the upper end of which the shade holder g is placed the said
nozzle f being supported by the candle e during the burning of the greater part of
the said candle (see Figure 1). The said tubular nozzle f slides in the annular space
between the tubular pillar a of the candlestick and the long candle holder d and has a
length somewhat greater than the candle to be burned so that during the burning of
the candle the descending nozzle f slides over the candle holder d.
When the candle has nearly burned away the bottom of the sliding nozzle f rests
on the foot of the candlestick at e as represented in Figure 2 and thereby prevents
the further descent of the said nozzle and the shade holder g carried by it. As the motion
of the sliding descending nozzle f is thus arrested when the candle has nearly burned
away the shade holder g is supported independently of the candle and the tilting or
falling of the nozzle and shade holder is effectually prevented.
From the foregoing description reference being bad to the accompanying Drawing

page_text: it will be understood that so long as the bottom of the sliding nozzle f is not
resting on the bottom e of the foot of the candlestick the said sliding nozzle and the
shade holder carried by it are supported by the candle, the said nozzle descending
into the candlestick as the candle burns away but immediately the shade holder has
descended to the position Figure 2 the bottom end of the sliding nozzle has reached
and rests upon the part e of the foot of the candlestick and the shade holder is
supported in that position by the upper part of the now arrested nozzle and hence is
prevented from falling or being tilted aside as commonly happens when the nozzle of
the shade holder is supported by the candle only.
Although I have described and represented my invention as applied to a candlestick
or candle lamp supported by a foot yet my invention is equally applicable to candle-
sticks or candle lamps supported on brackets or arms.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention:-
The combination in a candlestick or candle lamp of a long tubular sliding nozzle on
which the shade holder is carried for arresting the descending motion of and sup-
porting the said shade holder when the candle has nearly burned away for the purpose
and substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawing; also the combination of the said tubular sliding nozzle with a tubular
candle holder upon which it slides substantially as herein before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
Dated the 15th day of January 1890.