Year: 1896

page_text: We, WILLIAM LINCICUM and CHARLES FREDERICK LEWIS, both of Colorado
City, in the County of El Paso, State of Colorado, U.St.A., Mechanics, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The miner's candlestick of this invention comprises a candle socket provided
internally with a spiral spring candle presser, and at top and bottom with a
suitable retaining cap; an oblong frame in which said socket is carried so as to
able to swing to the right and left; a pointed tang upon which said oblong frame
with the candle socket may turn at right angles to said frame; a hook attached to
the oblong frame for the suspension thereof and a reflector held by means of a
spring wire bracket upon the socket. The candle socket is held to its bearings in
the oblong frame by springs. The pointed tang is for pressing into the earth or
rock and holding the candle at any suitable place in a mine.
Dated this 21st day of February 1896.
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicants.
We, WILLIAM LINCICUM and CHARLES FREDERICK LEWIS, both of Colorado
City, in the County of El Paso, State of Colorado, U.St.A., Mechanics, 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 relates to improvements in miner's candlesticks, the object being
to provide a device that will always maintain the candle in a vertical position
whether it is driven into the ceiling, floor, or sides of a drift, or hung on the miner's
cap, or belt, or on a ledge; also to provide a device that will carry a long candle
and protect the same from breakage or injury; and also to provide adjustable
means for concentrating the rays of light in any direction desired.

page_text: In the accompanying drawing
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the miner's lamp of this invention.
Fig. 2 a top view with parts broken away and without the reflector.
Fig. 3 a vertical section.
Fig. 4 are details of the top and bottom caps and
Fig. 5 is a plan view of the reflector.
1 is the candle socket in the form of a tube about 10 inches long made of brass,
or iron, or other rigid material and of a size corresponding to the candle to be
used. Within this tube is a spiral spring projector 2, normally extending the entire
length of the tube and secured at its lower end by small staples to the bottom 3 of
an enclosing cap 4 whose side walls 5 fit closely round the outside of tube I. The
walls 5 are secured to said tube by one or more bayonet slots 6, cut in the edge of
said walls, which fit over suitable pins 7, projecting from the tube. The slots 6
are recessed at their inner ends 8 so as to retain the cap securely against accidental
dislodgement from the pins 7. At its upper end spring 2 carries a button or candle
rest 9, firmly secured thereto by staples in horizontal position. The rest 9 is
provided to receive the lower end of the candle 10 and hold the same by means of
spring 2 with its upper end in constant contact with the upper cap 12 which is
secured by a bayonet joint like that of the lower cap 4, and is provided in its top
with a central hole 13 of slightly less diameter than the candle, to receive the
projecting wick and candle end, and is also provided with an annular groove 14 to
receive the reflector arms.
A short distance from the upper end of candle socket 1 and on each side thereof
is a trunnion 15, having a shoulder 16 to secure an easy swing of the socket in its
supporting frame 17 which latter is of cast metal, oblong in shape, with oval ends
to permit of considerable swing of socket I which is hung transversely therein on
its trunnions 15 in bearings 18. Retaining springs 19 secured at one end to
frame 17 are arched over trunnions 15 to hold them in their bearings and are turned
up at their other ends 20, so as to give easy access for the removal or replacing of
the candle socket in its frame.
At one end, frame 17 is provided with a projecting lug 21, bored longitudinally
to provide an extended bearing for the spindle end 22 of tang 23, which is secured
therein by means of a heavy washer 24 and cotter pin 25, seated in a suitable
recess 26 provided in the frame. This tang is made of steel and is conically
tapered to a point 27 for the purpose of insertion in a seam in the rock to hold the
candle in position, and is provided with a shoulder 28 to abut against lug 21 for
the purpose of receiving the longitudinal thrust of said insertion.
At one side of frame 17, a hook 29 is provided for the attachment of the candle-
stick to the hat, or belt, or other convenient place on which it may be hooked.
The hook is made of strong wire and is secured to the frame 17 by diverging
brace knees 30 and downturned ends 31 which are rivetted or otherwise secured in
suitable holes in the frame.
Reflector 32 consists of a small polished disc of approved form and material,
provided at its back with a bifurcated lug between whose perforated ears 33, the
vertical loop end 34 of the supporting bracket 35 is secured by a set screw 36.
At its lower end the bracket 35 spreads out horizontally into two spring arms 37
which are adapted to take over cap 12 and snap into groove 14.
The candlestick is operated and used as follows:-The top cap 12 is taken off,
and a candle 10 placed in socket 1 whereby the rest 9 is pushed down and the
spring 2 compressed. The top cap is then replaced and the wick lighted. The
socket is placed in the frame by slipping the trunnions underneath the upturned
ends 20 of springs 19 and into bearings 18. Hook 29 is then secured in the
miner's cap to hold the candlestick until he reaches his place in the drift. He
then forces the tang into the rock or earth when the socket at once swings into the
vertical position. The reflector is then adjusted, to throw the light where required,
by raising or lowering it on set screw 36 and by turning it round laterally on
arms 37 in groove 14,

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In a miner's candlestick, the combination with a candle socket provided
internally with a spiral spring projector and having a suitable retaining cap at its
upper end, of an oblong frame pivotally secured at the middle of its sides to the
upper end of said socket, and a sharpened tang longitudinally pivotted at its inner
end in one end of said frame, so as to lie in the plane of said frame at a right angle
to the pivotal axis of the latter, and said tang having a shoulder abutting against
the outer end of its bearing, substantially as described and shewn.
2. In a miner's candlestick, the combination with a candle socket provided
internally with a spiral spring projector and having a suitable retaining cap at its
upper end, of an oblong frame pivotally secured at the middle of its sides to the
upper end of said socket, a tang pivotted in one end of said frame, and a hook
provided on the same to project over outwardly therefrom substantially as described
and shewn.
3. In a miner's candlestick, the combination with a candle socket provided
internally with a spiral spring projector and having a suitable retaining cap at its
upper end, of an oblong frame pivotally secured at the middle of its sides to the
upper end of said socket, a sharpened tang longitudinally pivotted at its inner end
in one end of said frame so as to lie in the plane of said frame at a right angle to
the pivotal axis of said frame, and said tang having a shoulder abutting against
the outer end of its bearing, and spring arms removably clamped to said cap so as
to turn freely thereon, said arms being bent outwardly and upwardly to form a
loop and provided on said loop with a reflector adjustably secured thereto by
means of a horizontal set screw pivot, substantially as described and shewn.
4. The general arrangement and combination of parts constituting the miner's
candlestick referred to, substantially as described and shewn.
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THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicants.