Improvements in Holders for Burning Night Lights.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 1st July, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 30th Mar., 1393-Accepted 6th May; 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Holders for Burning Night Lights.
I, GEORGE Cox, Commercial Clerk, 16 Bramfield Road, Wandsworth Common,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to enable glass cups to be used for holding night
lights whilst they are being burnt when the melting point of the material of which
the night lights are formed is comparatively high. In the ordinary way such night
lights cannot be burnt in glass cups as after burning for a short time they go out as
the material at a distance from the wick does not get sufficiently heated to be
melted. To remedy this I form a holder of a glass cup placed inside a metallic
cup of corresponding form and which may project somewhat above the top
of the glass. The lower part of the sides of the metallic cup I make perforated so
as not to obstruct the passage of light more than necessary. To the underside of
the metallic cup I secure a disc of a non conductor of heat and preferably also form
it with short legs or a descending rim for it to stand on. When a night light whose
melting point is comparatively high is burnt in such a holder the upper part of the
metallic cup becomes heated and the perforated sides conduct down sufficient of the
heat to the lower part and bottom to keep the material in contact with the glass
in a soft condition and ready to melt as the night light burns down, whilst the disc
of non conducting material prevents loss of the heat thus obtained.
Dated this 1st day of July 1892.
GEORGE COX.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Holders for Burning Night Lights..
I, GEORGE COX, Commercial Clerk, 16 Bramfield Road, Wandsworth Common,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
The object of this invention is to enable glass cups to be used for holding night
lights, whilst they are being burnt, when the melting point of the material of which
the night lights are formed is comparatively high. In the ordinary way such night
lights cannot be burnt in glass cups as, after burning for a short time, they go out,
as the material at a distance from the wick does not get sufficiently heated to be
melted. To remedy this I form a holder of a glass cup placed inside a metallic
cup of corresponding form and which may project somewhat above the top of the
glass. The lower part of the sides of the metallic cup I make perforated so as not
to obstruct the passage of light more than necessary. To the underside of the
metallic cup I secure a disc of a non conductor of heat and preferably also form it
with short legs or a descending rim for it to stand on. When a night light whose
melting point is comparatively high is burnt in such a holder the upper part of the
metallic cup becomes heated and the perforated sides conduct down sufficient of the
heat to the lower part and bottom to keep the material in contact with the glass in
a soft condition and ready to melt as the night light burns down, whilst the disc of
non conducting material prevents loss of the heat thus obtained.
In order that my said invention may be most fully understood and readily
carried into effect I will proceed to describe the drawings annexed.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure is a side elevation, -
Figure 2 is a plan, and
Figure 3 is a vertical section of a night light holder in accordance with my
invention.
a is the glass cup, and is the metallic cup into which it fits; this cup being of
polished metal radiates but little of the heat which it receives especially at the
upper part, but serves to store the heat in and distribute it more or less uniformly
over the glass cup and its contents. is the bottom of the metallic cup
and its legs. c is a disc of felt which protects the under side of the cup b. 'In
Figure 3 the night light is shown in the holder.
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 :-
A night light holder substantially as described.
GEORGE COX.