Improvements in Candlesticks and Sconces.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 28th June, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 24th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 16th Nov., 1895..
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Candlesticks and Sconces.
JOHN WILLIAM BLAKE 115 High Street Gosport Ironmongers and Manu-
facturers do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention for improvements in candlesticks and sconces has for its object to
provide a frame so that an ordinary, candle may be kept balanced in a perpendicular
position.
The candlestick, frame, or sconce may be made in various metals and of any
design but so adjusted that whatever is the position of the candlestick the candle
remains in its upright position. The improvement is that by the use of a ball or
semi ball working in a cup or plane with a circular hole the candlestick is allowed
to swing and the candle thereby maintains its upright position.
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I JOHN WILLIAM BLAKE, of 115 High Street, Gosport, in the County of
Hants, Ironmonger, 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 its object to maintain candles and the like in a vertical
position even when the inclination of the candlestick or other main support deviates
considerably and is specially applicable for use in supporting articles on board ship
where they are subjected to a rolling or oscillatory motion, and consists essentially
in suspending or supporting the article or body from or upon a universal joint so
that the carrying part acts as an universal pendulum whose longitudinal axis
maintains an approximately vertical position notwithstanding variations in the
angular position of the main support.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is an elevation of a candlestick with a ball joint.
Fig. 2 is an elevation of a part of a candlestick with a gimbal joint, and
Fig. 3 is a part elevation of a sconce showing a ball joint.
In Fig. 1 the candlesocket a is mounted on a pendulum rod 6 on which is mounted
a ball bearing in the socket or seating d in the bracket e secured to the stand
dish f. The socket or seating d is sufficiently large to permit of considerable
relative angular motion between it and the pendulum rod which is maintained
vertical by the bob g thus mainting the candle vertical also.
In Fig. 2 the gimbal ring is pivoted by the screws i to the frame the rod b
being directly pivoted to the ring transversely by the pins or trunnions m the effect
being similar to that in Fig. 1 as will be readily understood.
Fig. 3 shows my invention applied to a sconce the candle casing n being formed
with a spherical enlargement o which works in a socket or seating ring p on the

page_text: outer end of a bracket the preponderating weight of the lower part causing it to
preserve a vertical position.
Although I have illustrated my invention as applied to candlesticks and sconces
ouly it will be obvious- that it is equally applicable for supporting other similar
bodies requiring to be maintained approximately in the same or parallel planes.
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 construction of candlesticks and the like with universal joints, substantially
as described and for the, purposes specified..
2. The arrangement and construction of candlesticks and sconces substantially as
described with reference to the drawings.
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Dated this 20th day of September 1895.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.