An Appliance for Affixing Night Light Wicks in Metal Bases.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 15th July, 1891-Accepted, 29th Aug., 1821
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance for Affixing Night Light Wicks in Metal Bases.
1, HENRY JOSEPH SMITH, of the firm Francis Tucker and Co. Limited, High
Street, Kensington, Middlesex, Candle Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object the construction and employment of an appliance
by which night light wicks can be affixed in or to metal bases.
For the purpose of my invention, I hinge a pair of handled jaws after the manner
of a pair of plyers. The lower jaw is somewhat wider than the upper one and has
uprising side lugs or cheeks, between which the upper jaw can pass but without
being in actual touch therewith. The upper jaw has a vertical slot in it for the
reception of a night light wick and part of working face of the upper jaw is recessed
slightly in order not to press the wings of the metal base down to the same level as
the body of it.
The working face of the lower jaw is a plain flat and its tongue is provided with
a post to keep it above a bench to which the article can be secured by screws or
bolts, a foundation or bed of the post enabling this to be readily done.
The wick bases are those or of the kind composed of a rectangular piece of thin
metal stamped with two end lugs and with a lozenge shaped slitted centre, whereby
3 or 4 wings are made, and leaving an opening at the centre by the wings being
forced a little apart.
In using the appliance, the upper jaw opens by the superior weight of its handle,
or it may be opened by hand, or by a spring, a prepared base with a night light
wick inserted in the central aperture is placed on the lower jaw and pushed in a
given distance, so that the wings are about under the recess in the upper jaw and
the wick in the slot, the handles are then caused to approach each other, whereby
the wings become pressed towards and their apex points be forced into the fibres
of the wick to fix it firmly. The pressure also causing the bottom projecting end
of the wick to be smashed up into the hollow which is left in the base and under the
wings for that purpose.
The prepared wick and metal base is intended for affixing into moulded blocks of
consumable material, such as that usually employed for night lights, each block
having a hole through it for the reception of the wick and with a bottom recess for
the metal base, the lugs of which fix it in position.
Dated this 15th day of October 1890.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Henry Joseph Smith.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance for Affixing Night Light Wicks in Metal Bases.
I, HENRY JOSEPH SMITH, of the firm Francis Tucker and Co. Limited, High
Street, Kensington, Middlesex, Candle Manufacturers, 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 has for object, the construction and employment of an appliance
by which night light wicks can be affixed in or to metal bases.
For the purpose of my invention and as I show in the annexed drawings, I hinge
a pair of handled jaws A, B, Figure 1, after the manner of a pair of plyers. The

page_text: lower jaw B is somewhat wider than the upper one A. and has uprising side lugs or
cheeks C, D, between which, the upper jaw A can pass but without being in actual
touch therewith. The upper jaw A has a vertical slot E in it for the reception of
a night light wick, and part of working face of the upper jaw is recessed slightly,
as at Figure 2, in order not to press the wings of the metal base down to the same
level as the body of it.
The working face of the lower jaw is a plain flat and its tongue F is provided
with a post G to keep it above a bench to which the article can be secured by
screws or bolts, a foundation or bed H of the post enabling this to be readily done.
The wick bases are those, or of the kind, composed of a rectangular piece of thin
metal stamped with two end lugs, and with a lozenge shaped slitted centre, as
at Figure 3, whereby 3 or 4 wings are made, and leaving an opening at the centre
by the wings being forced a little apart.
In using the appliance, the upper jaw opens by the superior weight of its handle,
or it may be opened by hand, or by a spring, a prepared base with a night light
wick inserted in the central aperture is placed on the lower jaw and pushed in a
given distance, so that the wings are about under the recess in the upper jaw and
the wick in the slot, the handles are then caused to approach each other, whereby
the wings become pressed towards and their apex points be forced into the fibres
of the wick to fix it firmly. The pressure also causing the bottom projecting end
of the wick to be smashed up into the hollow which is left in the base and under the
wings for that purpose.
The prepared wick and metal base is intended for affixing into moulded blocks of
consumable material such as that usually employed for night lights, each block
having a hole through it for the reception of the wick, and with a bottom recess
for the metal base, the lugs of which fix it in position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
The appliance shown at Figure 1 of the annexed drawing with a slotted and
recessed upper jaw, as at Figure 2, and with uprising side cheek to lower jaw, as
at Figure 1, as and for the purpose set forth.
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H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Henry Joseph Smith.