Improvements in or connected with Candles.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Candles.
JAMES JOHN PATRICK LAWLER Retired Indian Civil Servant, Sailor's Home,
Cape Town South Africa, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The candle, and, or, candles which may be made in various forms or modifications
for convenience, to have 2, 3, 4, 5 or more wicks, so arranged or placed as to afford
the greatest illuminating power, with the least consumption of material.
Novelty is claimed on the ground that no such candle or candles are now made or
used.
Utility is claimed on the ground that a candle with two or more wicks properly
made will give more & for some purposes better light than candles with only one
light & will consume less material in proportion to the light given.
Improvements in or connected with Candles.
1, JAMES JOHN PATRICK LAWLER, late of the Sailor's Home, Cape Town, South
Africa, but now Poste Restante, Sydney, New South Wales, Retired Indian Civil
Servant, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in or connected with candles.
For the purpose of this specification, the appellative the "candle" is to be under-
stood as referring to the well known portable combination of wick enclosed in an
axial position within a solid cylinder of hard combustible material; and the
appellative "wick" is to be understood as referring to the wick so enclosed,
independently of whether the wick in question is a single one or a double one.
other words, each of the "wicks" of my improved candles is the source of a separate
and distinct flame.
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The invention itself consists in the incorporation of two or more candles of the
same length, placed side by side with their conical ends-those from which the wicks
protrude-together, their blunt ends flush with each other, excepting that of one of
the candles, which latter is prolonged beyond the flush blunt ends of the other or
others, as the case may be, thereby providing a pintle adapted to fit into the socket of
the candlestick.
The advantage of the invention arises from the fact that one of my improved
candles, gives more, and for some purposes, a better, light from its two or more
separate and distinct flames than will the same number of separate and single flame
candles. Besides that, the consumption of combustible material is less in proportion
to the light given.

page_text: Referring to the accompanying figures which are to be taken as part of this
specification and read therewith:-
Figure 1 is a side elevation of an improved two wick candle made according to the
present invention.
Figure 2 is a plan thereof.
Figure 3 is a side elevation of an improved three wick fluted candle also made
according to the present invention.
Figure 4 is a transverse section taken along the line 4-4 of Figure 3.
Figure is a side elevation of an improved five wick candle likewise made
according to the present invention.
Figure 6 is a plan thereof.
a, a are the wicks; b, b, the candles; c, c, their conical ends; d, d, the blunt
ends flush. with each other; and e the pintle, of the respective improved candle.
The several candles b, are arranged symmetrically about a common centre, and
touching each other. Their upper portions b', 61 are or may be of a reduced
diameter, to the extent illustrated. This symmetrical arrangement provides an extra
quota f'of combustible material in the middle of the inproved candle. 9, 9;, are
ridges of combustible material arranged down the outside of the improved candle
between each two candles b.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion. and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The herein before described combination of two or more candles, as many: wicks,
and one pintle.
2. The hereinbefore described combination of two or more candles, as many wicks,
one pintle, and extra quota of combustible material.
3. The hereinbefore described combination of two or more candles, as many wicks,
one pintle, extra quota of combustible material and ridges thereof down the outside of
the improved candle.
1800
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
No. 22 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.