Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Jan., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 19th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 19th Oct., 1888
I, JOHN SIMONTON Comber Co. Down Branch Bank Manager do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
It is an appliance by which any candle can be instantaneously and effectively
fixed and secured to any candlestick or other candle holder without the aid of packing
or wedging and so as to have the advantage and use of its light till it burns itself
out to the end.
Referring to drawings herewith the appliance consists of a frame or carriage A
which may be attached by its lower side to any candlestick or other candle holder
by a plug B or other ordinary method.
On the upper side of the frame or carriage A are two or more (preferably three)
pillars or projections CCC. On each of these pillars or projections I suspend
vertically and radially from the centre of the plate A, by a pivot near its centre, a
clip or tumbler of a form similar to D D D.
These clips or tumblers are capable of rocking on their pivots sufficiently to allow
a candle to be placed between their upper points and are arranged so that when a
candle is placed vertically between them and pressed downwards on the lower points
of the clips or tumblers these being depressed, bring by the rocking motion on their
pivots their upper points also into contact with the candle so that being nipped by
both upper and lower points of the clips the candle when pressed down will be securely
fixed and will remain so till it burns itself out.
Dated this Tenth day of January 1888.

page_text: I, JOHN SIMONTON of Comber in the County of Down, Branch Bank Manager, 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:-
It is an appliance by which any candle can be instantaneously and effectively fixed
and secured to any Candlestick or other Candleholder without the aid of packing or
wedges and so as to have the advantage and use of its light till it burns itself out to
the end.
Referring to drawings (those left with the Provisional Specification) the appliance
consists of a frame or carriage A. which may be attached by its lower side to any
Candlestick or other Candleholder by a plug B. or other ordinary method.
On the upper side of this frame or carriage A. are two or more (preferably three)
pillars or projections, C. C. C. On one or more of these pillars or projections I
suspend vertically to, and radially from the centre of, the frame or carriage A. by a
pivot near its centre, a rocking lever of a form similar to D. D. D.
These rocking levers are capable of rocking on their pivots sufficiently to allow,
when open, a candle to be placed between their upper ends, and are arranged so that
when a candle is placed vertically between them and pressed downwards on the
lower ends of the rocking levers, these, being depressed, bring, by the rocking motion
on their pivots, their upper points also into contact with the candle, so that being
grasped by both upper and lower points of the rocking levers the candle when pressed
down on the stand will be securely fixed and will remain so till it burns itself out.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1st. The use of the Rocking Lever or Levers as described as an appliance for
holding a candle.
2nd. The position of the Rocking Lever or Levers, being arranged vertically and
radially or nearly so to the centre of the candle.
3rd. The ends of the Rocking Lever or Levers which grasp the candle are knife-
edged on their upper and inner edges towards the candle.
4th. The lower end of the Rocking Lever or Levers is arranged to act as a stopper
when closed.
5th. The spur on the outer edge of the rocking lever or levers is arranged to act
as a pull-back and also as a stopper when open.
Dated this Seventeenth day of September 1888.