US312291A

US312291A - Leof coediee pikel

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Publication number: US312291A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-02-17
Anticipated expiration: 1902-02-17

Description

(No Model.)

L. O. PINEL. APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY EXTINGUISHING GANDLBs.

N0. 312,29 Patented Feb. 17,1885.

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APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY EXTlNGUlSl-HNG CANDLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,291, dated February 17, 1885.

Application filed June 4, 1884. (N0 model.) Patented in France February ll, 1884, No. 160,479.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEON Gonmnn PINEL, a citizen of France, residing in the city of Paris, in the Republic ofFrance, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Automatically Extinguishing Candles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to extinguish candles automatically, so that any one can go to bed and leave the candle to be put out safely by the apparatus.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 3 are face views of the apparatus. Fig. 2 is a side View; Fig. 4, a top view of the same. Fig. 5 is a face view of the same, showing it combined with a shade-holder.

The apparatus is made of iron, steel, or brass wire. The lower portion is in form of a ring, a, which is passed over the candle b and branches out at the sides 0 c, which with the parts d d forms a kind of elastic triangle. At the upper part the spring sides 0 c are bent horizontally at ff, so as to rest against thecandle,asshown.' (Figs.1,2,and4.) These horizontal parts ff form the extinguishers, and may, if desired, also carry flat metal plates or enlargements p p, which are soldered or otherwise secured to them. These parts ff are bent back at g g'in form of cars which terminate in the loops h h of any form.

The action of the apparatus is as follows: Having placed the ring a over the candle b, the spring sides 0 c are opened by drawing them apart by aid of the rings hit. The nipping parts ff are then pressed down as lo as required on the candle, or as low as it is intended the candle shall burn before being extinguished, and the position the partsff occupy will be the point of extinction of the flame, as the tallow or wax being consumed offers no further support to the parts ff, so that the said parts ff or their enlargements p p nip the wick between them and put out the light without any smoke and prevent the fat from running over. Fig. 3 shows the candle extinguished by this means. The enlargements p 19 may be sufficiently large to prevent the wick smoking. If the candle burns more on one side than the other, then on the side that is burned away the spring or side 0 or c, as the case may be, alone advances the partf orf to the wick; but the ears g or g (on whichever side of the candle is burned away) come into play and rest against the candle, and so check the further advance of the extinguishing part f orf. In this manner the said part f or f remains till the other side of the candle burns level, when the other plate meets it and the candle is extinguished. The two parts i t, which are suspended from the ears g g, may serve to hang a watch, at, upon by aid of the hook t. (See Fig. 5.)

To the rings h It may be fixed the supports 8 s of a shade, A, Fig. 5. The wire forming the support to the shade may be of a piece with that forming the extinguisher.

I claim nothing that is shown in German Patent No. 12.063, of 1880, which shows a lam p-extinguisher that is inapplicable to .a candle in having no ears 9 g or external means for spreading the jaws apart. In my construction, moreover, the parts a, (Z d, c c, andff can all be made of one continuous wire, as shown in Fig. 4.

Having thus described the invention and its mode of action, I clain1 l. The apparatus formed of a wire ring, a, arms (I (1, spring branches 0 c, and horizontal arms ff, all made of one continuous wire, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown an I described.

2. The ring a, arms a 0, horizontal partsf f, ears 9 g, and eyes h h, combined with the suspenders t t and hook i, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. The combination ot'the ring aand arms 0 0 andff with the ears 9 9, eyes h h, supports 8 s, and shade A, substantially as herein shown and described.

4. The combination oftheringa and arms cc and ff with the ears 9 g and eyes it h, substantially as and for the purposes herein specified.

LEON OORDIER PINEL.

\Vitnesses:

A. BLETRY, Boer. M. Hoornn.