Improvements in Self Descending Candle Shade Apparatus.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Feb., 1887
Complete Left, 1st Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 20th Jan., 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Self Descending Candle Shade Apparatus.
ARTHUR BROOKE LLOYD Barrister at law Union Chambers 32, Grainger Street
West Newcastle-upon-Tyne do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
An upright metallic rod which passes through the circle which holds the shade, and
also through another metallic rod bent at right angles, the frame of the shade being
attached to the perpendicular part of the latter and the horizontal part culminating in
a fine blade shaped point which lies on the top of the candle and descends by the
weight of the superstructure as the candle is burnt. The lower end of the first
mentioned rod to fit into the sconce of the candlestick the candle to be fixed by a
hand screw working through the centre of the sconce on the opposite side.
Dated this 4th day of February 1887.
ARTHUR BROOKE LLOYD.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Self Descending Candle Shade Apparatus.
1, ARTHUR BROOKE LLOYD of 32, Grainger Street West Newcastle upon Tyne,
Barrister at law 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 :-
An upright flat wire rod which is fastened at the lower end to a socket or collar
into which last the candle is placed and which for the purpose of this invention may
either form the upper portion of the candlestick, or be separate from it resting upon
the top of the candlestick. The wire rod is parallel to the candle and about half an
inch distant from it. The candle is pressed against the side of the collar next to the
rod by means of a hand screw working through the collar on the opposite side.
Sliding easily up and down the wire rod but fitting so as to keep its position is a flat
piece of metal bent at right angles the rod passing through a hole in the bottom of
the same and being held by a support at the distance of an eighth of an inch from the
perpendicular side of the piece of flat metal, the said piece of flat metal terminating
on its horizontal side in a fine blade shaped point or knife which rests upon the edge
of the candle on the top, cutting through the rim of the candle to some little distance
when the same is lighted, and descending by gravitation as the candle burns down, ati
the same time preserving the rim of the candle above it. On the top of the perpen-
dicular side of the flat piece of metal at the back, is fastened by means of a spring so
as to admit of being shortened or lengthened by being pushed up or down, a flat rod
having at its upper end the circle which supports the shade and through which the
first mentioned upright wire rod passes, thus
A. The blade shaped cutter or knife.
E. The hand screw.
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 blade shaped cutter or knife, which, cutting through the rim of the candle,
which is thereby preserved, rests in the grease, and descends by its own weight and
that of the superstructure as the candle burns down.
2. The socket or collar in which the candle is fastened at the bottom by means of
he hand screw, and the application of the same to the above mentioned apparatus.
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