US1331709A - Candelabrum - Google Patents

Description

l. HARMATA.

CANDELABRUM.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.30. 1919.

1,331,709. I Pai-,mwa Fen-24,1920.

l wfg/amb f'ILKoviiAnMA'iApoii Boylan ALBERTA, CANADA.

, f 'cAiqiJELAinnivL Y Y To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ILKo HARMATA, a citizen of Poland, residing at Boyel, Province of Alberta, and Dominion of Canada, .have

invented certain new and useful Improve- Vments in Candelabra, of which the following is a specification. Y

This invention has for its principal ob- `ject the provisionrof means for supporting .candles iiiavvertical positionirrespective of Avarying diameters of the candles.

Arfurtlier object is to-provide a candela.-`v

brum of ncveldesign and `constructioncapable of -v engaging 'with candle diameters varying considerable in their size and sup- ,K porting the saine in a lirm and practical These objects are yattained 'by the novel.

construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and. shown in the accom-.-

panying drawings, forming `a -material part of this disclosure, and in which--` Figure 1 is a side elevational view show-4 ing a candelabrum made in accordance with theV invention, parts being broken away in orderto disclose the interior construction,

and Y Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same parts also being broken away lin order, to disclose l numeral 10 designates the baseof a standV the interior. Y

Referring to the drawings in detail, the

having three ornamental supports 11,;here shown to simulate the clawsl of an animal, the tripod base being connected by screws or Vrivets 12, with a circular plate 13, having a downturned marginal flange 14..

Supported by the flange 14 is a cylindrical casing 15, havingengaged at its upper edge a ring` 16, having a Z shaped crosssection, having fixed at its upper edge a flat washer-like plate 18, the same having -a central opening 19 of considerablev magnitude. v n

Secured in the cylindrical casing 15, iin-k iiiedi'atelyabovethe plate'l, is a filler 20,y

having a convex upper surface, while secured centrally in the casing15 is another filler element 21, formed with double con,

Vex surfaces and containing an opening 22, substantially uniform witlithe opening 19,

and a third filler plate' 23 extends across the upper end of the cylinder, the same having an opening 24. Y

`A plurality of conically wound, helical expansion springs 25 are secured within the lPatented Felice, 192e.

Application 1aed August 30,1919.' semi-ivo. 320,877.y

cylinder,` their smaller inner end projecting radially toward thefcenter, while the bases of the springs make contact with the interior of the `cylinder in the manner indicated. v Pivoted by pins 26 in the horizontally disposed annular space of the ring 16 to the fiat l surface thereof, are a plurality of plates 27,

having convexly curved edges 28, andf straight backs 29, the inner edges being adapted to make contact with the candle 30 and are normally drawn thereagainst by helically coiled springs 31, one end of which is engaged by the plate and the other to the Lraised upper flanged portion of the ring 16,

the springs holding the pivoted plates in engagementrwith thecandle so asto maintain itcentral of tion.

.In operation, the several pivoted plates 27 are moved outwardly kin any convenient manner and the candle inserted so that it,v

comes in contact with the inner kend of the coiled springs 25, pressing the candle toward the center whereupon the plates 27 are released, the same swinging outward under they washer plate 18, making' contact the casing in a rigid posil with the surface of the candle holding it l ,against slipping or side movement in a manner which will be clearly apparent.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new yand desire to secure by Let- 4 ters Patent, is-- Y 1. In a candelabrmn, the combination with a tripod base, a cvlindrical casing `mounted thereon, a plurality of spring elements engaged in said casing their inner ends extending radially adapted to make contact with an entered article whereby lit may be held in a verticalposition therewithin and washers interposed between rows of said springs.

2.111` a candelabrum, the combination -with a tripod base, a cylindrical casing :mounted rigidly thereon, a plurality of `conically wound spiral. springssecured in said casing, their smaller ends extendingtoward rthe center, spacefelements secured in saidV casing having' openingsfthrough the center,

aicover secured over said casing, said cover having an openingthrough which 'a candle ico may pass` and a plurality of spring impelled o plates adapted to engagewith the exterior ofthe candle forminga yielding support.

3. `A candelabrum comprising a base, a

hollow cvlindrical casing` mounted thereon, acover for said casing, said coverhaving a 2 p Y n 1,331,709V

central opening,'a plurality of spacer elepivoted` below said oover plat@` springs ments secured to said erasing, said spacer ele-J adapted to draw saidV arcuate plates in 10 ments having openings corresponding toY wardlyvforininga partialv cover below thev the openings in the cover plate, a plurality" main cover and adapted to support a candle Y of conieally wound springs arranged in when position therebetween.

upper and lower rows securedv to the Walls In testimony whereof I have r n of said easing extending radially therein, aV signature.

plurality of plates having arcuate faces

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