Improvements in the Means for Supporting Candles and Candle Shades.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Means for Supporting Candles and Candle
Shades.
I, REX DAVID COHEN, of The Priory, St. Michael's-in-the-Hamlet, Liverpool,
General Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The improvements relate to means for supporting candles in candle sticks or
holders, and also for supporting the shades used therewith; the objects of the
invention being to keep the candle firmly in an upright position, and to provide
a moveable support for the shade.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I provide a special holder,
of suitable material, and preferably annular in cross-section, and which is formed
at its upper part as a spring or other socket in which the lower end of the candle
is to be tightly held. The opposite end of this special holder is made to fit into
the socket of the ordinary or other candle stick or holder, and is preferably held
therein by spring action, for which purpose I may cut the lower portion of the
special holder into a series of tongues, or may merely slit such lower portion.
I also provide the special holder with one or more upright standards or tubes,
into which a wire, or wires, or rods, or other suitable connections attached to the
ring or carrier for the shade may be made to slide, but such wires or rods are
made to fit sufficiently tight in the tubes to enable the shade to be supported at
desired heights above the usual candle stick or holder.
As a variation the tubes may be attached to the carrier or ring for the shade,
and the rods or wires be attached to or formed on the special holder. The precise
means for adjusting the height of the carrier for the shade may be varied to some
extent, together with other details, without departing from the peculiar character
of the invention.
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Improvements in the Means for Supporting Candles and Candle
Shades.
I, REX DAVID COHEN, of The Priory, St. Michael's-in-the-Hamlet, Liverpool,
General Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
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page_text: manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement; —
The improvements relate to means for supporting candles in candle sticks or
holders, and also for supporting the shades used therewith; the objects of the
invention being to keep the candle firmly in an upright position, and to provide
a moveable support for the shade.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I provide a special holder
of suitable material, and preferably annular in cross-section, and which is formed
at its upper part as a spring or other socket in which the lower end of the candle
is to be tightly held. The opposite end of this special holder is made to fit into
the socket of the ordinary or other candle stick or holder, and is preferably held
therein by spring action, for which purpose I may cut the lower portion of the
special holder into a series of tongues, or may merely slit such lower portion.
I also provide the special holder with one or more upright standards or tubes,
into which a wire or wires or rods or other suitable connections attached to the
ring or carrier for the shade may be made to slide, but such wires or rods are
made to fit sufficiently tight in the tubes to enable the shade to be supported at
desired heights above the usual candle stick or holder.
As a variation the tubes may be attached to the carrier or ring for the shade,
and the rods or wires be attached to or formed on the special holder.
But that the improvements may be better understood, I will, with the aid of
the accompanying drawings proceed more fully to describe means employed by
me.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figs. 1, and 2, are side views, and Fig. 3, is a plan view of one form of candle
and shade support in accordance with my improvements, while Figs. 4, 5, and 6,
show other forms thereof.
The same letters indicate corresponding parts wherever they occur.
a, is the special holder, formed, in the examples shown, with a series of tongues
or serrations a¹, a², the latter to enable the lower portion of such holder to be
firmly held, by spring action, within the socket of the candlestick, as indicated
by dotted lines in Fig. 2; while the upper serrations a¹, form a spring socket for
the reception of the candle itself.
But this spring or nipping action may be obtained in other ways if preferred.
b, are the upright tubes or standards attached to the holder a, and c, are the
corresponding connections attached to the shade support or carrier d
In the examples shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6, the uprights b, are formed
as tubes, and the connections c, are wires or rods passing within the same; but
in Fig. 5, this method is reversed, the tubes being connected to the carrier d, and
the wires or rods to the holder a.
In Fig. 4, the holder a, is shown with only one upright b; and the carrier d,
with only one connection c to correspond; while two of each are shown in the
remaining views; but, as a further variation, a greater number of these connections
may be employed.
In Fig. 1, the adjustable portions of the apparatus are shown separated, to more
clearly illustrate their formation. In Fig. 6, the tubes b, are shown with their
inner sides partly cut away, at e, e, leaving longitudinal openings or slots into
which there take the projections c¹, upon the rods c, which projections prevent
the rods c, from being pulled completely out of the tubes b, as their movement is
limited by the extent of the slots or openings.
The precise means for adjusting the height of the carrier d for the shade may
be varied to some extent; as, for instance, the uprights 6 may be formed with
teeth, and the connections c, with projections to engage therewith, and other
variations in detail may be made without departing from the peculiar character
of the invention.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:―
In means for supporting candles and candle shades, the combination of a special
and extra candle holder formed to fit within the ordinary candle socket, with a
candle shade carrier; such holder and carrier having connections capable of
relative adjustment one with another, whereby the carrier is sustained, and may
be regulated in height, above the holder, in manner substantially as herein shown
and described.
Dated this 23rd day of Mov 1800
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.