US515575A - Daniel ourran - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT @Erica DANIEL CURRAN, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

CANDLE-EXTINGUISHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 515,575, dated February 2'?, 1894.

Application filed May 3, 1893. Serial No. 472,869. (No model.)

.To ai? whom. et may concern.-

Be 1t known that I, DANIEL CURRAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of class that are used to extinguish candles that are placed toohigh to be reached by the person extinguishing them and is particularly adapted to be used in extinguishing candles as placed on church altare, and particularly as they are placed during the ceremonies of the Catholic Church, and consists in the oonstruction andcombination of parts set forth in the following specification and pointed out in the claims.

The object of my invention is to provide a candle extinguisher that. will enable the person using it to extinguish the candles placed high on the altar, quickly, and without pressing down the candle wicks or causing the tallow, wax or other material of which the candle is composed, to run down the candle sticks and drip on the altar cloths and ornaments. I attain this object by means of the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which similar letters of reference designate similar parts throughout the several views.

Figure l, is a perspective view of the entire device with a part of the handle broken away. Fig. 2, is a sectional view of a handle and portion of tubes showing a modification in the manner of attaching the flexible tube. Fig. 3, is a cross sectional view taken on the line a c: of Fig. 2. Fig. fi, is a perspective view of the funnel-like airoutlet showing its shape.

The handle A, is preferably of wood and provided with an opening a, into which is tted the lower end of the metal tube B, as shown in Fig. l. From the tube B, at a point a short distance above the handle A, a short tube h, projects downward at an acute angle.

Y The tube C, is formed of rubber or other ilexible material and is attached at one end to the short tube b, and is provided at the other end with a mouthpiece d. The tube B, which may be of any desired length is provided at its upper end with a removable elbow D. The elbow D, has a straight piece of tubing B" formed integral therewith. The funnel like air outlet E, is provided with the elbow D the free end of which is adapted to slip over the free end of the tube B. The air outlet E, is quandrangular in shape, as shown in Fig. 4, for the purpose of concentrating and producing an equal current or draft of air on the flame, it being found by tests that a conical shaped air outlet tends to spread the current or draft of air to such an extent as to render it inoperative.

In operation, the mouthpiece d, is placed in the mouth of the person operating the extinguisher, leaving both hands free to grasp the handle A, the air outlet E, is placed in position directly overthe iiame to be extinguished, when a puff of air blown through the tubes C and B, will extinguish the dame. The object in having the current of air come from above the flame, is to prevent the sparks from the wicks being blown aside, as would be the case were the current of air projected from one side.

A modification of the manner of attaching the flexible tube C, to the metal tube B, is shown in Fig. 2. f

The handle A, has the opening u., as shown in Fig. l, and the bottom of said opening is connected with the groove e, by an inclined opening j'. The flexible tube C, is attached to the lower end of the metal tube B, when the tube B is placed in the opening a., the iiexible tube C,passes out through the inclined opening f. The object of the groove e, is that the exible tube C may lie therein, when not in use as an extinguisher, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 2. The elasticity of the flexible tube is sufficient to hold it in position in the groove.

Fig. 3, shows the position of the groove c, in the handle A. It will be seen that the quadrangular air outlet E, is movable on the free end of the tube B which enables the operator to place the air outlet E, in such relative position to the tube B, that the jet ofair is projected from a point directly over the flame without regard to the 'angle at which the tube B is held. It is obvious the distance and elevation of the flame from the IOC operator must determine the angle at which the tube B isheld, and that, were the air outlet E, immovably fixed on the tube B, it would be impossible to project a current of air directly downward when the tube B Was held at certain angles.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In acandle extinguisher, the handle A provided with the opening a, extending a short distance in the end thereof, and having the groove e, on theside thereof, connected with the opening a, by means of aninclined opening f, said opening a, being adapted to receive the end of ametal tube and the inclined opening f, andgroove-e, being` adapted to receive and hold a exible tube as shownand described.v

2. In a candle extinguisher, the handle A,

having the opening 0L, the inclined opening'

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