DE2316169B1 - Decorative candles for lighting purposes with a decoratively designed surface and process for their manufacture - Google Patents

Description

To produce the jewelry candle according to the invention are best used in a known manner displacement body made of ice when filling the candle mass which causes immediate solidification in the contact zone. Nevertheless, they can Displacement body also made of a low temperature, for example below 300, fusible organic matter exist, but their selection carefully must be taken, as it does not melt with the candle mass may be mixable. Displacement bodies made of solid carbon dioxide (so-called Dry ice).

It is within the scope of the invention by using displacement bodies uniform, regular shape, e.g. B. Balls of the same size, jewelry candles with a regularly designed surface structure. Since there are such displacement bodies Arrange in the form of a candle in a so-called ball packing, creating candle structures with approximately spherical cavities of the same size and at equal intervals, with the outer surface only approximately circular openings approximately the same Large and regular displays.

However, it corresponds to today's taste in terms of taste more of a randomly designed surface. To generate them, small-piece Displacers of irregular shape and size, such as chopped ice, used. The resulting cavities and their openings to the outside are perfect formed randomly, so that each individual piece is an individual, non-repeatable one Has design.

In the drawing are embodiments of jewelry candles according to the invention shown, namely Fig. 1 shows a first embodiment in side view, partly in vertical section, FIG. 2 shows a second embodiment in the same manner of representation.

Both embodiments consist of a wick 2 supporting core resp.

Stump 4, which is surrounded by a thick cylindrical shell body 6 is, the outer boundary surface is designed in a decorative way in a special way.

The candle shown in Fig. 1 has on her Outer surface (right below) small circular openings 8 at regular intervals from one another, which open inwardly to form larger, approximately spherical cavities 10. These are created by the fact that the annular space in which the casing body 6 is formed, first filled with ice balls of the appropriate size and then the candle mass was filled. The ice balls are stored in a tight ball packing, whereby they only touch the wall at one point, so to speak.

As a result of the melting that starts immediately at the point of contact the contact points develop into small disks, the diameter of which is the the openings 8 remaining after the ice has melted. In the same Ways will be the size, shape and arrangement of the spherical cavities that are formed 10 by the size, shape and arrangement of the ice balls that were originally there certainly. Since the cutting plane does not roughly coincide along these cavities its »equator«, but along the various »latitudes«, are, as shown in Fig. 1, upper left part, the cut surfaces of the cavities of course different sizes, while conversely the openings 8, as from the contact points of the balls, must be of the same size.

In the embodiment shown in Figure 2, however, was for Formation of the cavities chopped ice used in random fragments.

Both the recesses visible on the outer surface are accordingly 12, as well as the internal cavities 14 completely random with reference on shape, size and arrangement.

Claims (3)

Claims: 1. Decorative candle for lighting purposes with decorative designed surface in the form of cavities, characterized in that a as Wick carrier serving core (stump) is surrounded by a candle mass, which is known in Way after their filling by melting out lumpy displacement bodies is formed leaving behind a network. 2. jewelry candle according to claim 1, characterized in that the Network of the candle mass through irregular or regular cavity design Use of displacement bodies of uneven or even size and Has shaping. 3. Process for the production of jewelry candles according to the claims 1 and 2, characterized in that the displacement body consists of solid carbon dioxide, or from an insoluble in the melted candle mass, at low temperature melting organic substance can be used. The invention relates to a jewelry candle with a decoratively designed Surface in the form of cavities and a method for their manufacture. For years, in the countries of the European-American Culture, at least in their industrialized countries, candles only occasionally used for lighting purposes, either as a stopgap measure, for example in the event of a breakdown of the electric current, or else and on a much larger scale with special Festive occasions as the sole or additional source of light. At this The original material purpose of use occurs behind the motive of the use Environment design and the creation of a festive mood back, since general the candlelight is given a festive or atmospheric character. This use has in the course of the recent development of the gregarious Experience a significant upswing in life. It is obvious that for this often specially designed candles are used, which are either through a shape deviating from the generally customary slim cylinder shape or else characterized by a decorative surface design for their special purpose. Such surface design can, for example, be defined pictorial ornaments either mechanically by means of matrices or Casting molds, or can be produced individually by hand and mostly carry ecclesiastical motifs; in addition, more recently, they have decorative candles entered the market as products of various manufacturing processes, whose surface design turns out to be a process-related chance result by itself results and the targeted intervention to create a defined design largely withdrawn. There are already jewelry candles known that are made by that in those with a wicked candle shape before filling Small-sized displacement bodies made of ice (frozen water) are filled into the candle mass the melt flowing into the cavities between the displacement bodies Bring the candle mass to solidify immediately, melting it out by itself. After this When the candle is removed from the mold, the water runs off and a decorative candle remains with it irregularly fielded by the cavities opening towards the outer surface Surface. The decorative effect of such a candle corresponds to that on irregular, contemporary tastes emerging as random products of patterns. However, the well-known jewelry candles have a disadvantage of crucial Meaning due to the way in which they are produced. When filling the displacer from ice it is inevitable that the centrally drawn wick will remove water from the melting Absorbs ice that is later no longer displaced by the candle mass and through this is even prevented from evaporation. When burning such a candle with water damp As is easy to see, wicks pose a wide variety of inconveniences up to explosive splashing of the candle mass. Even if the wick is through previous, z. B. multiple times Immersion in melted candle mass reliably prevents the ingress of water moisture is protected, it cannot be ruled out that this production method in the immediate vicinity of the wick, closed to the outside, from the for production the ice that is used, the content of which naturally tends to be in In the direction of the flame and the discomfort described in to cause even more extreme ways. Based on this, the invention proposes a jewelry candle of the type mentioned at the beginning described genus, in which the wetting of the wick with water and inconvenience caused by the retention of water sacs near the wick and dangers are reliably avoided in that a serving as a wick carrier Core (stump) is surrounded by a candle mass, which in a known manner according to her Filling in by melting out lumpy displacement bodies, leaving them behind a network has been formed. The use of a stump of some thickness as a wick carrier prevents not only the wetting of the wick by water, but also the lingering of water-filled cavities so close to the wick that the candle dies There is a risk of the water running off in the direction of the wick.