Improvements in Holders and Supports for Electrical Candles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 10th June, 1896--Accepted, 11th July, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Holders and Supports for Electrical Candles.
We, HUGO HIRST, Electrical Engineer and WILLIAM EVERETT GIBSON,
Electrician, both of 69-71 Queen Victoria Street in the City and County of
London do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
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Our invention relates to certain improvements in holders and supports for
electrical candles, and has for its object the ready adaptation of candles of any
length, and also providing means for fitting said holder and support within or upon
a voluted plug of resilient or elastic material.
In carrying our invention into effect we use a plug, preferably, which may be
adapted to any candlestick, said plug being of india-rubber, or any composition
thereof, or any material possessing elasticity, and is voluted with two or more
volutes formed or cut vertically. A tubular screwed base, fitting into said plug, is
provided with a slotted extension, and also a guide clip. The lamp holder may be
of any known type or design, and is mounted upon a slotted extension corresponding
to that herein before described, and fitting within the guide. One or more set
screws may be employed to fix the device so that the candle lamp may be adjusted
to the artificial candle of any length within the range of the two slots.
We may modify this arrangement by substituting an inversely arranged curve
upon the slotted extensions aforesaid, for the guide.
We do not confine ourselves to the use of the voluted elastic plug hereinbefore
described in combination with the adjustable device and the modification thereof,
but may use said plug independently of either, or may use the slotted adjustable
support as described with or attached to, any device whereby an electrical candle
may be used, without departing from the essential features of our said invention.
Dated this 5th day of September 1895.
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FREDK. WALKER,
73, St. Stephen's Road, Upton Park, London, E.,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Holders and Supports for Electrical Candles.
We, HUGO HIRST, Electrical Engineer and WILLIAM EVERETT GIBSON
Electrician both of 69-71 Queen Victoria Street in the City and County of
London 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 :-
Our invention relates to certain improvements in holders and supports for
electrical candles, and has for its object the ready adaptation of candles of any
length and also providing means for fitting said holder, and support it by means of
a voluted plug of resilient or elastic material.
In order that our said invention may be clearly understood, we have appended
the accompanying sheet of drawings in which Figure 1 is an elevation, Figure 2 a
sectional elevation, and Figure 3 a sectional plan upon line A B (Figures 1 and 2,)
of the electrical candle holder. Figure 4 is a view, or front elevation of the candle
clip, shown detached.

page_text: In carrying our invention into effect we use a plug P, said plug being of india
rubber or any composition thereof, or of any material or substance possessing
elasticity and tapered to fit any candle socket. Said plug P is voluted as shown
by v Figures 1 and 3. A screwed stalk or spindle S passes through said plug P,
and is rigidly adjusted by means of a washer C, over which the end of the stalk
is burred or otherwise fixed. A fly nut N or equivalent is tapered or coned at its
base, so as to impinge upon a loose washer W and so compress the elastic plug P
when fitted in its place within the socket. The stalk or spindle S is hollow, and a
second hollow spindle T is arranged to telescope within it a milled or other nut M
being fitted to the upper end to afford a certain degree of tension upon T so that
the telescopic or sliding movement may be exactly adjusted, and the screwed part
of S is slit as shown by s to allow of compression when the nut M is screwed upon
the slightly tapered screwed end of S. A lamp holder H of any suitable design
is fixed upon the end of the hollow spindle T, and the requisite leads or wires are
carried through the bore thereof. A. spring clip D, shown in elevation by Figure 4,
has elastic horns or clips formed upon it, and is fixed to the spindle T by a trans-
verse bend E connecting the two members, and held in position by a screwed
collar, nut, or equivalent F.
We
e may modify the shape and arrangement of the spring clip D, to suit various
cases of adaptation.
An electric candle of porcelain china or other substance to imitate an ordinary
candle may be placed in position and adjusted within a socket, irrespective of its
length so that this is within the limits of the telescopic action of T within the
stalk or spindle S. The nut M being adjusted to produce the necessary degree of
compression, and the nut N screwed downwards so as to cause the plug P to fit the
socket, the candle may be placed over the clip D, and the holder H screwed down
upon the spindle T tightly gripping D by the transverse E against the nut F. and
at the same time exactly fitting the candle aforesaid.
Our invention enables electric candles to be immediately placed in position, of
any length within the reasonable compass of a telescopic movement of 6 inches in
extent, and also affords a means for securely holding the device in the candlestick,
chandelier or electrolier by the compression of the elastic plug P as herein before
described.
We may use the clip D, and telescopic hollow or tubular spindles S and T
independently of any other part of the said device for the purpose of adjusting
electrical candles of any length, and adapting them to ordinary candle sockets.
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 :-
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First. In an electrical candle holder or support, the combination of parts
substantially as and for the purposes herein described and shown by the appended
drawings.
Second. In an electrical candle holder or support, the combination of a hollow.
stalk or spindle S, with another hollow stalk or spindle T carrying au incandescence
lamp holder H, working telescopically within S, controlled by a nut M substantially
as and for the purposes herein set forth and shown by the appended drawings.
Third. In an electrical candle holder or support the combination of a spring
clip D with the telescopic spindles or stalks S and T and a coned and adjustable
plug P substantially as and for the purposes herein described.
Dated this 4th day of June 1896.
FREDK. WALKER,
73 St. Stephen's Road, Upton Park, London, E.,
Agent for the Applicants.