US767892A - Candle-extinguisher. - Google Patents

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No. 767,892. PATENTED AUG. 16, 1904. G. B. ISAKSON.

CANDLE EXTINGUISHER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.13, 1903.

N0 MODEL;

A TTOHNE VS UNITED STATES Patented August 16, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES B. ISAKSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN E. D. ISAKSON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CANDLE-EXTINGUISHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 767,892, da ed August 16, 1904.

Application filed November 13, 1903. Serial No. 181,040. (No model) To [1,7 whom, it rnru concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES B. IsAKsoN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented anew and Improved Automatic Candle-Extinguisher, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved automatic candleextin guisher which is simple and durable in construction, cheap to manufacture, easily applied to a candle at any point of its length, and arranged to automatically extinguish the candle after a predetermined length of the candle has been burned.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, as will be more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in 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 a perspective view of the improvement as applied. Fig. 2 is a like view of the same, showing the parts in a closed position and the candle-flame extinguished. Fig; 3 is an enlarged inverted sectional plan view of the same on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. is an enlarged side elevation of the same, and Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the improvement as applied to a candle and arranged as an attachment to a Christmas-tree candle-holder,

The candle-extinguisher is preferably madefrom a single piece of spring-wirebent to-form a clamp having connected clamping members A A for engaging and clamping the opposite sides of a candle B to support the candle-extinguisher on the candleat any desired point of its length. From the terminals of the clamping members Aand A extend upwardlyconverging rods O O, crossing each other and terminating in extinguishing-jawsD D, adapted to engage opposite sides of the candle, as plainly shown in Fig. 1, and to engage and clamp a wickB when the candle is burned down, so that the liquid fuel to the wick B is Fig. A-

cut off, and consequently the flame above the 5 clamping jaws D and D is extinguished. From the-free end of the extinguishing-jaw D extends downwardly a lug D adapted to abut against the extinguishing-jaw D atthe time the jaws close to extinguish the flame, as above described, thus limiting the closing movement of the jaws.

In using the device the clampingmembers A and A are pressed by the operator in contact with the candle, so as to engage the clamp- 6O ing members with opposite sides of the candle. and at the same time the operator presses the rods O C. so as to move the extinguishingjaws D and D apart to engage opposite sides of the candle B a distance above the clamping 5 members A and A.

The distance from the upper end of the candle to the extinguishing-jaws D and D regulates the length the candle is to burn, as it is evident that when the candle is consumed down 7 to. the jaws D and D then the resiliency of the spring-wire of which the candle-extinguisher is made causes the jaws to close and move in contact with the opposite sides of the wick B to squeeze the same sufficiently to prevent liquid fuel from rising in the wick to feed the flame.

The device is very simple and durable in construction and can be readily applied to the candle at any desired point of its length, so as to bring the jaws D and D nearer to or farther from the top of the candle, according to the length to which the candle is desired to burn.

The candle-extinguisher may form an attachment for the holder F, supporting the can- 5 dle B, as illustrated. in Fig. 5, in which the holder F is in the form of an ordinary Christmas-tree candle-holder having a disk F, retaining-arms F for the candle, and an attaching device F for fastening the holder to a twig 9 or limb of the Christmas tree. From the free end of the clamping-jaw D extends downwardly a rod E, mounted to turn loosely in the disk F of the candle-holder, so that the candleextinguisher can be moved up or down on the candle B and still remain connected to the candle-holder. A knob E on the lower end of the rod E prevents the rod from slipping out of the disk F. The use of the candle-extinguisher when forming an attachment of the candle-holder Fis the same as above described, and consequently further description of the same is not deemed necessary, it being understood, however, that the rod E is of sufficient length to allow of engaging the candle-extinguisher with the candle at any point of the latters length, the rod conforming in length to the ordinary candles used on Christmas-tree candle-holders.

Having thus described my invention,1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. An automatic candle-extinguisher, comprising connected clamping-jaws for clamping the candle, extinguishing-jaws spaced from the clamping-jaws, and connecting-rods connecting the terminals of the clamping-jawswith thesaid extinguishing-jaws, the said connecting-rods crossing each other, as set forth.

2. An automatic candle-extinguisher comprising connected clamping-jaws for clamping the candle, extinguishing-jaws spaced from the clamping-jaws, and connecting-rods connecting the terminals of the clampingjaws with the said extinguishing-jaws, the said connecting-rods crossing each other, one of the extinguishing-jaws having a stop for engaging the other extinguishing-jaw, to limit the closing movement of the eXt1ngu1sh1ngjaWs, as set forth.

3. An automatic candle-extinguisher, comprising clampmgaws, rods extendmg from the jaws and crossed, and extinguishing-jaws on the ends of the rods, one of the jaws having a downwardly-extending lug at its free end forming astop for the other jaw, the whole being formed of wire, as set forth.

4. An automatic candle-extinguisher formed of a single piece of wire bent to form clamping members for holding the extinguisher on the candle, and having its ends terminating in eX- tinguishing-jaws, as set forth.

5. The combination with acandle-holder, of a candle-extinguisher comprising a clamp, self-closing jaws, and a rodsecured to one jaw and having a sliding connection with the said candle-holder, as set forth.

6. The combination with a candle-holder having an apertured base, of a candle-extinguisher having clamping members for securing it to a candle and extinguishing-jaws, and a rod secured to one jaw and extending loosely through the apertures of the base of the candle-holder, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

OHARLES B. ISAKSON.

Witnesses:

THEO. Gr. HOSTER, J NO. M. Rrrrnn.

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