AN IMPROVED DEVICE FOR SECURING CANDLES IN CANDLESTICKS OR THE LIKE
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake of the firm of Haseltine, Lake
& C° Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London for an Invention of
AN IMPROVED DEVICE FOR SECURING CANDLES IN CANDLESTICKS OR THE
LIKE" communicated to him from abroad by Jean François Taberlet, of
Paris France
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Robert Lake at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th May 1883.
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co, Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London
IMPROVED DEVICE FOR SECURING
[A communication
"AN
CANDLES IN CANDLESTICKS OR THE LIKE,"
abroad by Jean François Taberlet, of Paris, France.]
to him from
This invention relates to an improved device for securing candles in candlesticks
or the like.
The difficulty of holding candles in candlesticks, chandeliers, candelabra and the
like is well known; the candles are smaller than the barrel of the candlestick and
they lean to one side or the other of the same; they drop and run and soil with
wax both furniture and clothing.
For this
The object of this invention is to obviate these inconveniences.
purpose I construct the device for holding the candle in such a manner that it will
fit the barrel of the candlestick, chandelier or branch of the candelabrum, that is to
say; a piece curved to the shape of the barrel is moved to and fro by means of a
screw turning in a screw-threaded part of the border or bead which terminates the
device at its upper part.
The candle being placed in the barrel in the ordinary manner, is firmly fixed
therein by means of the movable piece which is pressed inward by turning the
Ecrew.
The said device may be made in various forms, and of different materials, but is
preferably of metal moulded or stamped. It may, if desired, form a part of the
candlestick, chandelier or the like, or it may be made independently thereof to be
sold as an appendage serving for a candlestick or the like.

page_text: One mode of constructing the said device is as follows, that is to say :-. I
provide a sleeve designed to be inserted in the barrel of the candlestick, in which
is arranged a curved piece capable of being moved inward by means of a set-screw
which turns in a screw-threaded aperture in the upper edge or beading of the
sleeve. The head of the screw is milled to facilitate handling it. A recess is
formed in the said sleeve to receive the said curved piece when the whole of the
space within the sleeve is to be occupied by the candle.
According to another modification the device forms part of the barrel or socket
of the candlestick. For this purpose the said barrel or socket is made with a
strengthening rim in which is bored the aperture to receive the screw for operating
the curved piece. The milled head of the screw may be level with the socket,
which is then cut to permit the screw to be manipulated.
Instead of using the screw for adjusting the curved piece I may use any
analogous device.

page_text: I do not confine myself to the precise construction shewn, as it is obvious that
I may modify the same without departing from the nature of this invention for
instance instead of using a screw for adjusting the curved piece I may use any
analogous device.
Having thus fully described the said invention as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent and the manner of performing the same I wish it understood
that I claim
The device herein before described, or any mere modification thereof, for securing
candles in candlesticks chandeliers, candelabra, or the like, which device comprises
a movable clamping piece and a screw, or its equivalent, placed inside the socket
which receives the candle, and is either fixed to, or independent of, the candlestick,
chandelier, candelabrum or the like to which the said device is applied.
In witness whereof I the said William Robert Lake have hereunto set my
hand and seal this Twenty third day of November in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty three
WIZM PORT LAWW
WM PORT LAKE