AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR HOLDING CANDLES IN CANDLESTICKS
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Charles Steane, of Brixton, in the County
of Surrey, Ohandler, for the Invention of " AN IMPROVED APPARATUS
FOR HOLDING CANDLES IN CANDLESTICKS."
Sealed the 10th February 1874, and dated the 16th August 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Charles Steane
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 16th August 1878.
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I, HENRY CHARLES STEANE, of Brixton, in the County of Surrey,
Chandler, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR HOLDING CANDLES IN CANDLESTICKS," to be as
follows:-
My improved apparatus will be composed essentially of a conical plug,
preferably of an elastic or semi-elastic material, such as india-rubber or
cork and of a plate or disc carried by said plug, and the upper surface of
which will be provided with supports or bearings carrying knives or

page_text: pieces of metal, or other material with sharp edges, which knives I
prefer to make moveable but which might be fixed.
The accompanying Sheet of Drawing illustrates an apparatus
embodying my Invention, Fig. 1 being a top plan view, and Fig. 2 an
elevation thereof.
-a, conical plug; b, plate or disc; c, ring in sections forming support
for the knives & pivoting upon the pins f; g, metal cap on the end of
central pin which secures plug a to disc b; h, collar on disc b in which
the head of plug is set.
The plug a is placed in the socket of the candlestick, its elasticity
adapting. it to various diameters, the bottom of the candle is passed
through c, and the knives & cutting into said candle securely fix it in the
apparatus.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Charles Steane in the Great Scal Patent
Office on the 14th February 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
CHARLES STEANE, of Brixton, in the County of Surrey, Chandler, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Henry Charles Steane, Her special licence
that I, the said Henry Charles Steane, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Charles Steane, my executors
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS
FOR HOLDING CANDLES IN CANDLESTICKS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Henry Charles Steane, my executors or adminis-

page_text: trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within. six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Charles Steane, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
My improved apparatus is composed of a conical plug preferably of
an elastic or semi-elastic material, such as india-rubber or cork, and of a
plate or disc carried by said plug, the upper surface of said plate or disc
being provided with supports or bearings carrying knives or pieces of
metal or other material with edges more or less sharp, which knives I
prefer to make moveable, but which might be fixed.
The accompanying Sheet of Drawing illustrates two apparatuses
embodying my Invention. Fig. 1 being a top plan view; Fig. 2, an
elevation of an apparatus with its knives pinned through the centre; and
Fig. 8 an elevation of an apparatus having its knives pinned out of the
centre for the purpose herein-after set forth.
a, conical plug; b, plate or disc; o, ring or sections forming support
for the knives & pivoting upon the pins f; 9, metal cap.on the end of
central pin which secures a to disc.b; h, collar on disc 6 in which the head
of plug is set. The plug a is placed in the socket of the candlestick, its
elasticity adapting it to various diameters, the bottom of the candle is
-passed through o and the knives & cutting into said candle securely fix.
it in the apparatus.
My object in pinning the knives out of the centre as at Fig. 8 is that
one apparatus may serve for several sizes of candles, its diameter being
increased or diminished at pleasure, for example, if it is to suit a candle
of small diameter one or more of the wide edges of the knives must be
turned inwards as shown in black ink, Fig. 3, if to suit a candle of
greater diameter one or more of the wide edges of the knives must be
turned outwards as shown in red at Fig. 3.
The stem a might be dispensed with and the plate 6 form a permanent
part of the candlestick.

page_text: Having now described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is or may be performed, I would have
it understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details herein
set forth and illustrated on the accompanying Sheet of Drawing, nor
limit myself to the use of any particular metal or material in the manu̟-
facture of my apparatus, and that I claim as secured to me by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent,—
Firstly. The use of the knives & substantially as and for the purpose
herein-before set forth, whether in combination with plate 6 and plug a,
or either of them, or otherwise supported.
Secondly. The use of the elastic plug a, substantially as and for the
purpose herein-before set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Charles Steane, have here-
unto sot my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of February, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
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