An Improved Candle-holder
Year: 1891

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Candle-holder.
A communication to me from abroad by FERDINAND VON EULENFELD, of
Breslau, in the Empire of Germany, Gentleman.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the firm of Edwards and Co., Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 35, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, 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 and accompanying drawing, that is to say :-
In ordinary candlesticks, the candles are generally inserted with a paper wrapped
round their lower end so that the candle may stand upright and hold fast, but by
this means the lowest end of the candle is wasted, because it cannot be burned
down to the last without heating the candlestick and burning the paper an objection
which is obviated by the candle holder which forms the subject of the present
invention.
In the accompanying drawing, which is in illustration of the invention,
Figure 1 is a view of a candlestick with a candle held by the improved holder.
Figures 2 and 3 are a vertical section and a plan respectively of the candle
holder in use.
The candle holder consists of a long conical socket A which fits the opening of
any candlestick. Above the socket A is fixed a hollow plate B in the centre of
which is fixed the tube C, which is split, conical, and has some small holes at the
bottom, through which the melted stearine, paraffine, or tallow flows to the wick,
which is in the tube C.
At both sides of the plate B are holes in which the bent wires E are hinged with
hooks D. These wires are crossed and a candle put between them, as shewn in
Figure 1, so that the candle is firmly held, the hooks D being strained in the sheet
metal of the plate B, and as soon as the candle has burned until below the wires E,
they will spring outwards, and the short end of the candle will burn to the last.
Before setting the candle upon the plate B the lower end of the wick is loosened
and is then put into the tube C which by its elasticity holds it fast.
The candle as it burns down heats the plate B, and this melts the last particle,
which flows through the holes and splits of the tube C to the wick, which burns it
entirely up.
The elastic wires E are at such a distance apart at the plate B, that it is possible
to burn every kind of candle. One of the wires E is narrower than the other at the
point where they cross each other so that both wires touch the candle at the same
height.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
A candle holder with a conical socket A. which fits any candlestick, the hollow
plate B with the tube C fixed to the socket A, and the bent wires E hinged to the
plate B with hooks D, the candle being adjusted on the plate B and the wick
inserted into the tube C, and the candle being held straight by the wires E, until
it is burned nearly out, the melted remainder being then burned by the wick, all
substantially as set forth and shewn in the drawing.
Dated this 6th day of January 1891.
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.