An Appliance for Attachment to Candle Wicks to Prevent Waste of the Ends of Carriage and like Candles by Guttering, the of thes being Automatically Extinguished.
Year: 1888

page_text: An Appliance for Attachment to Candle Wicks to Prevent Waste
of the Ends of Carriage and like Candles by Guttering, the
Flames of the Wicks being Automatically Extinguished.
I, HENRY SALSBURY of 125 and 126 Long Acre in the county of Middlesex
Lamp Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to a novel arrangement or construction of appliance to be
attached to the bottom end of a candle wick so as to grip and form a terminal or baso
to the candle in order to obviate the usual guttering or waste when the candle is
about being consumed at the end; the invention is specially applicable to candles
for carriage and like lamps in which a spring is used forcing the candle up as
consumed.
By the application of this invention the wick at the bottom of the candle becomes
extinguished for the want of fat, or the composition of which the candle is made, to
support combustion.
I purpose attaching or applying my device to the candle wick previously to
moulding the candle so that the device, the wick and the candle become as it were onc
article.
The appliance or device consists of a disc of metal a portion of which is removed without
destroying the article as a disc a portion of the cut away part being turned up to form
a tube or semi-tube within which the candle wick or cotton can be gripped to secure
the disc or tube thereto. The aperture left by the cut away portion of the disc, if
the appliance be attached to the candle wick before the candle is moulded would form
the aperture through which the filling of the mould could be effected.
The appliance instead of having an aperture formed in the disc and a tube or semi-
tube shaped from the turned up part, the disc may be cut in two parts and with two
turned up portions to constitute a tube or semi-tube between which the candle wick or
cotton can be gripped by simply nipping the two half tubes or other part constituting
the tube together for the purpose.
The disc may be flat, or of dished form.

page_text: An Appliance for Attachment to Candle Wicks to Prevent Waste
of the Ends of Carriage and like Candles by Guttering, the
Flame of the Wick being Automatically Extinguished.
I, HENRY SALSBURY, of 125 and 126 Long Acre, in the County of Middlesex,
Lamp Manufacturer, 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 a novel arrangement or construction of appliance to be 5
attached to the bottom end of a candle wick, so as to grip and form a terminal or baso
to the candle in order to obviate the usual guttering, or waste when the candle is
about being consumed at the end. The invention is specially applicable to candles
for carriage and like lamps, in which a spring is used for forcing the candle up as
consumed.
By this invention, the wick at the bottom of the candle becomes extinguished for
the want of fat, or the composition of which the candle is made, to support
combustion.
I purpose attaching or applying my device to the candle wick, previously to
moulding the candle, so that the device, the wick, and the candle become, as it were, 1
one article.
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The appliance, or device consists of a disc of metal, a portion of which, is removed
without destroying the article as a disc, a portion of the cut away part being turned
up to form a tubo, or semi-tube, within which, the candle wick or cotton can be
gripped to secure the disc and tube thereto. The aperture left by the cut away 20
portion of the disc, if the applianco be attached to the candle wick before the candle
is moulded, would form the aperture through which the filling of the mould could be
effected.
The appliance instead of having an aperture formed in the disc and a tube or semi-
tube shaped from the turned up part, the disc may be cut in two parts and with two 2
turned up portions to constitute a tube or semi-tube, between which, the candle wick
or cotton can be gripped by simply nipping the two half tubes, or other part, constituting
the tube together for the purpose.
The disc may be flat or of dished shape.
Several examples of my invention are shown in the annexed drawings, Figures 1, 3
2, 3, 4 and 5.
A is a disc of thin metal, or it may be of other material. B is a piece like a flap
cut out of the disc, or cut from the disc and capable of being turned up previous to
the edges being folded round, as at Figure 2. In this folded portion, the wick C is
nipped or pinched, as at Figure 6, the nipping taking place only at the upper edge 3
or sufficiently down the tubular portion of B so that the end of the wick is quite
clear of the disc A.

page_text: Figure 3 represents a disc with a tee piece cut from it and bent upwards, the tee or
top flange B to be bent round into tubular formation, as at Figure 4.
According to Figure 5, two tongues or strips B are formed from the disc A and
when a wick is placed between the two tongues and the top ends of the two tongues
pressed in close contact, the wick is held firmly between them.
I purpose attaching the discs to the wicks, as before described, and to place the
wicks in the candle moulds, the aperture formed by the cut away part (to constitute
the tongue B), serving as a channel when pouring in the fat, or substance of which
the candle is to be made, or the candle can be made hollow and the wick passed
through the central aperture, the disc A being slightly pressed into the candle base,
or the base may be moulded, slightly hollowed for the reception of tho disc and then
by dipping the candle base and disc onto the surface of melted fat, stearine,
spermaceti, or other, the disc would become embedded in the base and be firmly
attached thereto.
Figure 7 is an illustration of a spring socket candle holder D with the remains of
a candle E which has been burnt. It will be thore observed that the wick, which
originally did not go below the tubular part of the appliance, has consumed all the
fat within its reach and the flame has extinguished itself.
By this invention, a small portion of a candle end is left in the nozzle F and by
reason of the flame having been extinguished before the actual base of the candle is
reached, guttering, and clogging of the spring G and its container tube D are
prevented.
I have described the tongues as being tubular for nipping the end of the wick but
the said tongues may be perforated and the wicks be sewn to the tongues, or the wick
may be laced into the perforations as a means of securing it to the tongue. The
disc and tongue may be formed of coiled wire.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The appliance of the shapes, or substantially the shapes shown on the annexed
drawings, in which a turned up, or other portion is or may be tubular, or other shape
for the attachment of a candle wick for the purpose described.
2. The attachment of a candle wick to the tongue of a base plate, by any desired
means when wick end stops short of the base plate A, as described.
The 31st day of December 1888.