US1067184A

US1067184A - Candle.

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Publication number: US1067184A
Application number: US72138312A
Authority: US
Inventors: Thomas A Lynch
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1912-09-20
Filing date: 1912-09-20
Publication date: 1913-07-08
Anticipated expiration: 1930-07-08

Description

ATTORNEY? T. A. LYNCH.

CANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 20, 1912.

1,067,184. Patented July 8,1913. 7

WITNESSES INVENTOR IINIE THOMAS A. LYNCH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CANDLE.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS A. LYNCH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of the Bronx, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Candle, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view is to provide a simple and efficient means for preventing the burning of candles below apredetermined section thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is aside elevation, partly in section, of a candle constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention; Fig. 2 is a section showing the lower end fragment of a candle which has burned below the feeding point for the wick; and Fig. 3 is a vertical section showing the lower end fragment of a candle constructed in accordance with a modified form of the present invention.

The candle 8 is of conventional design and construction. The wick 9 is formed. to any desired length, being governed by the extent to which it is predetermined the candle shall burn. To hold the wick 9 above'the melted wax, a short wire support 10 is provided, fixedly attached to the end of the wick, any suitable means for effecting the attachment being employed. As shown in the accomp-anying drawings, the means employed is to form a small spiral 11 at the end of the support 10.

As is well known, candles are usually constructed in pairs, each candle extending from a median section which, after the candles have been manufactured, is severed. It is in order to permit this severance that I provide a connecting section 12 which is preferably constructed of wick material. It will be understood, however, that any mate rial which will not melt when the hot wax is poured into the mold and which may be readily severed by the cutting tool which subsequently parts the two candles, may be employed. I use the wick material merely Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 20, 1812.

Patented July 8, 1913.

Serial No. 721,383.

because the same is more convenient. The section 12 is secured at each end of duplicate supports 10 by any suitable means, that shown in the drawings being a spiral 13.

In Fig. 3 0f the drawings, a modified form is shown, wherein the support 14 is employed. The support 1% differs from the support 12 only in that it is formed of alength suitable to extend through the candle, to form an anchorage in the mold for the wick 9. In manufacturing candles of the description in which the support 14 is employed, the candles are each singly molded.

It will be understood that the supports 10 and 1% may be of any length desired. It will be understood that certain candles, such as those employed in sacred rites, are unusually long, and where unprotected, are apt to burn for a great length of time, destroying the candle and limiting its use to a single function. When manufactured in conformity with. the present invention, the length to which the candle will burn may be limited to the known length of time occupied by the particular service. In other cases, the supports are formed to a length which prevents the burning wick to fall below the upper edge of and within the wall of the metal or other holder 15, thus avoiding the generation of heat therein which effects a marring of the holder.

In its operation, the candle burns as usual until the wick is consumed to the support 10 and the holding end 11 thereof. The unconsumed portion of the wick is held suspended and prevented from following the melted wax below the holding portion of the support 10. hen the melted material passes below and out of contact with the wick, the capillary action of the latter is suspended and the light of the wick therefore fails.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A candle, comprising a body portion formed of suitable material; a plurality of wick sections embedded in said body portion and exposed at each end of said body portion, said wick sections being spaced apart within said body portion; and a wire connection engaging said wick sections and em bedded in said body portion.

2. A candle, having a body portion formed completely of oleaginous material; a In testimony whereof, I have signed my wick shorter than said body portion and exname to thls specifieatlon 1n the presence of tending through one end thereof; and a nontwo subscribing Witnesses.

combustible support rigidly engaging the THOMAS A. LYNCH. 5 inner end of said wick and extending Vitnesses:

through the butt end of said body portion to r E. F. HURDOOK,

rest on the base support for said candle. PHILIP D. RoLLHAUs.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Eatencs,

Washington, I). C.