US801677A - Candelabrum. - Google Patents

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after/mugs PATENTED OCT. 10, 1905.

/ mvemtoz R. c. MCKILIGET,

OANDELAB RUM APPLICATION FILED MAY 26, 1905.

Qvibmmwo RICHARD O. MGKILIGET, OF NEIV ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

CANDELABRUNI.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 10, 1905.

Application filed May 26, 1905. Serial No. 262,483.

T 0 all whom it Huey concern.-

Be it known that I, RICHARD O. MoKILreE'r, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Candelabra; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in candelabra, and has for its principal object to provide a knockdown construction composed of a plurality of sections whereby a varied number of sections may be employed in assembling the parts to produce a set-up candelabrum of diiferent heights and numbers of lights, as occasion might require.

To more fully describe the invention, reference is had to the accompanying drawings, illustrating an application of same, in which like numerals designate the same parts in the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of an assembled eandelabrum. Fig. 2 is a vertical section, the branch arms being shown in elevation; and Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the cross-arms and candlesticks, partly in section and showing the connection between the candlesticks, cross-arms, and branch arms.

In carrying out the invention an upright or standard composed of a plurality of sections is supported on a suitable pedestal or base 1.

Each section 2 of the standard is preferably provided with a tenon 3 at one end and a mortise i at the other, the tenon of the lowermost section being adapted to fit within a mortise 1 of the base member and the tenons of the other members being correspondingly fitted within the mortise of its adjacent section.

The cross 5, superposed at the top of the standard, is similarly provided with a tenon fitting within the mortise of the uppermost section.

As the parts are assembled the respective sections may be held more securely together by set-screws 6, operating adjacent the m0rtise of the respective sections and adapted to be brought in engagement with the tenon members. The branch arms 7 are similarly connected to the respective sections by mortise-and-tenon joints and may be securely held in position by the similarly-operating setscrews 8.

The cross-arms 9 may he detachably aflixed to the branch arms, as shown in Fig. 3, by a tenon-and-mortise joint,(designated by the numeral 10,) and similarly the candlesticks are attached to the cross-arms, as indicated at 11.

It is obvious that any number of branch arms may be employed, and their general arrangement, design, and disposition relatively to the standard may be changed at will for a more esthetic effect without departing from the spirit of the invention; but

\Vhat I claim is A candelabrum, comprising a pedestal, a standard mounted on said pedestal composed of a plurality of so perposable sections detachably connected together, radially-disposed branch arms of different lengths detachably connected to the several sections, a cross-arm secured to each of said branch arms and each provided with a plurality of sockets, and candle-holders provided with tenons fitting in said sockets, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

RICHARD O. MOKILIGET.

WVitnesses:

HUBERT \V. ANSL'EY, JAS. H. QUAID.

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