An Improved Portable Appliance for Supporting and Suspending Candles and Lamps.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Dec., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 15th Oct., 1891-Accepted, 2'st Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Portable Appliance for Supporting and Suspending
Candles and Lamps.
I, JAMES SYDNEY, of Pine Lodge, Hampton Wick, near London, Operatic
Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists in the herein described improved portable appliance for
supporting and suspending one or more candles or lamps before a toilet or other
mirror, or before a framed picture, the said appliance being constructed so that it
can readily be attached to or removed from the frames of mirrors and pictures of
various sizes.
The said improved appliance consists firstly of a bracket preferably made of a
piece of wire doubled and bent so as to form at one end thereof a wide clip (which
when viewed sideways somewhat resembles the letter C) and a hook at the other
end thereof. The extremities of the said clip can be sprung apart so as to clip
over the top of the frame of a mirror or picture, from the front of which the
bracket will then project. The second part of the said appliance consists of a
pendant candle or lamp holder furnished with an upright stem which has holes or
notches one above the other adapted to engage with the hooked end of the bracket.
The lower part of the stem has a cross arm carrying two candle sockets or lamp
rings. Or the pendant may be arranged to carry only one candle or lamp or
several of the same. By means of the holes or notches in the said stem the height
of the candles or lamps relatively to the mirror or picture can be adjusted. The
said stem and its arms for carrying the candle sockets or lamp rings can readily be
made of wire bent or twisted so as to form the eyes or holes in the stem ; or from
sheet metal.
Or the pendant may be made so that its height is not adjustable. Or the pendant
may consist of a cross piece adapted at its centre to engage with the end of the
bracket and having suspended from each end a candle socket or lamp ring either
adjustable for height or not.
Or a chain with large links may be used instead of the stem above described.
Dated this 13th day of December 1890.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Portable Appliance for Supporting and Suspending
Candles and Lamps.
I, JAMES SYDNEY, of Pine Lodge, Hampton Wick, near London, Operatic
Manager, 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 :-
This invention consists in the herein described improved portable appliance for
supporting and suspending one or more candles or lamps before a toilet or other
mirror, or before a framed picture the said appliance being constructed so that it
can readily be attached to or removed from the frames of mirrors and pictures of
various sizes. The said appliance can also if desired, be used for holding a glass to
contain cut flowers.

page_text: Fig.
represents one form of my improved portable appliance in use on a mirror
and constructed for holding two candles;
Fig. 2 is a separate view of the clip bracket part of the same;
Fig. 3 shews a modified form of the said clip bracket part;
Fig. 4 shews a further modification of the candle or lamp holder part made to
carry two lamps or flower glasses;
Fig. 5 is a further modification of this part of the appliance made to carry four
lamps or flower glasses and
Fig. 6 is a further modified form of the same carrying two candles.
The said appliance consists firstly of a bracket A (made of wire as hereinafter
described) adapted to clip on to the frame of a mirror or picture C, and secondly of
the pendent candle or lamp holder B which can be made in several ways as herein-
after described for suspending from the said bracket. The bracket A is made of a
piece of wire doubled and bent either as shewn for instance in Figs. 1 and 2 or in
Fig. 3 so as to form at one end a wide C-shaped clip a¹ and at the other end a
hook a to engage with the candle or lamp holder B. The extremities a* a* of the
C-clip a¹ can be sprung apart so as to clip over the top of the frame C of a mirror
or picture (see Fig. 1) from the front of which the bracket A will then project.
In Fig. 3 the bracket A is shewn bent into a waved shape so as to form additional
notches as a from which other pendent candle and lamp holders can be suspended
in addition to the candle or lamp holder which is suspended from the hook a². The
wire is also bent up into a double looped eye at a¹ for convenience of holding the
bracket and so as to increase the spring of the C-clip part a'.
The holder B, when constructed for holding candles, as shewn for instance in
Figs. 1 and 6, has two candle sockets d₁ d (see Fig. 1) fixed as by the cross arm e
to the bottom of the upright which has holes gone above the other to engage
with the hooked end a of the bracket A and thus be suspended therefrom. Around
each of the candle sockets d¹ d' is a metal or other cup or dish h to catch any
grease falling from the candles. By means of the holes g in the stem the height of
the candles relatively to the mirror or picture can readily be adjusted, and the
candles will always be upright whether the mirror or picture is upright or at an
angle. The upright is by preference either made by stamping from sheet metal
(Fig. 1) or of twisted wire Fig. 6. When the holder B is required to carry
so called "Fairy or other lamps it is made with the usual two or more lamp rings
(in which the oil vessels of the lamps fit) fixed to the lower end of the upright f.
The lamp rings can either be circular (as those marked i¹ in Fig. 4) or they may
be square (as shewn in Fig. 5) or of other form which will hold the glass oil vessels
of the lamps. The holder B when made with lamp rings as shewn for instance
in Figs. 4 and 5 can very conveniently be used for holding glasses containing water
and cut flowers.
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The candle or lamp holders with adjustable stems (Figs. 1 and 6) are more
particularly suitable for toilet glasses but where the height of the lamps does not
require to be adjusted, the upright may be made of wire bent so as to form a
single hole j at the top as in the example shewn by Fig. 4.
It will be evident that the holder part B can if desired be made with more candle
sockets or lamp rings than are shewn on my drawings so as to carry a greater
number of candles or lamps.
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
1. The improved appliance for supporting and suspending candles or lamps before
a mirror or picture, consisting of a wire bracket such as A formed as a C-clip at
one end and a hook at the other, in combination with the holder B formed either
with candle sockets or lamp rings or holders and in either of the several ways and
for the purposes set forth.

page_text: 2. In an appliance for supporting and suspending candles or lamps before a
mirror or picture, the use of a wire bracket such as A. formed as a C-clip at one
end and as a hook at the other end for the purposes and substantially as herein-
before described and shewn in the accompanying drawings.
3. In combination with a bracket adapted to attach to a mirror or picture for
supporting candles and lamps in front thereof, a candle or lamp holder consisting
of an upright part having two or more holes one above the other adapted to engage
with and be suspended from the hooked end of the said bracket and furnished with
candle sockets or lamp rings or holders substantially as herein before set forth.
Dated this 14th day of October 1891.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.