US820209A - Candle holder and stick. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED MAY 8, 1906.l

P. M. KNIPPENBE'RG.

CANDLE HOLDER AND STICK.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 1B, 1905. RENEWED OCT. 2, 1905.

ATTURNEYS UNITED sTATns PHILIP IVI. KNIPPENBERG,

OF OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN.

CANDLE HOLDER AND` STICK.

Specication of Letters Patent. i

ratented. May 8, 1906.

Application filed January 18, 1905. Renewed October 2,1905. Serial No 281,081.

To all whom it muy concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP M.KN11 PEN- BERG, residing at Oshkosh,l in the countyof Winnebago and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and Improved Candle Holder and Stick, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is in the nature of an improved combined holder and stick for miners7 candles or lamps; and it seeks to provide a simple and ineX ensive means for olding a candle and a stic for the same, which is also adapted for being connected with the ordinary types of miners lamps; and in its general nature my invention comprehends a peculiar construction of holder formed of a single piece of spring metal bent into shape at one end to act as a spring clamp-socket to hold the candle, it having the other end shaped to conveniently interlock with the stick or picker; and `in its subordinate features my invention embodies certain details of construction and peculiar combination of parts, all of which will be hereinafter fully described, specifically pointed out in the appended claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure l is a view of my improved candle holder and stick'as applied for use. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the same. Figs. 4 and 5 are horizontal sections thereof, taken, respectively, on the lines 4 -4 and 55 on Fig. 8. Fig. 6 is a detail view of the stick or picker. Fig. 7 illustrates the same as applied to a miners lamp, and Fig. 8 is a vertical crosssection of the lamp with the picker-stick applied. Fig. 9 is a detail view` of a modified arrangement of the icker or stick holding keeper on the miners amp.

In carrying out my invention I form the candle-holder A out of a section of thin springmet-al tubing. The upper end of the tube A is cut horizontally, as at a, and the said cut extends nearly the full transverse width of the tube, whereby to leave but a small portion of the upper end of the tube integral with the lower portion. The upper end of the tube A is bent to form a socket a2 for receiving the candle, and one of the free ends of the -upper portion is bent radially outward to miners cap. (See Fig.. 1.) At a point below the hook B the rear side of the tube A has two horizontally-elongated slots 0.3 a3, arranged lone at each side of the hook-attached portion of the tube, and the said slots are in alinement, so as to form keeper-slots to receive the stick or picker device O, which consists of a single piece of spring metal bent upon itself to form a loop or ring O and with its ends bent back upon themselves in the manner `clearly shown in Fig. 6, from which it will beY noticedone end, c2, is longer than the other and is pointed, as at c3, to readily enter a post, wall, or other abutment on which it may be desiredto support the candle or lamp, the pointed end also serving as a simple means for picking the wick.

One of the spring members of the device C, preferably the short or outer one', has one or lmore notches O5 of a length slightly greater than the solid part of the tube A between the slots 0.3 therein, whereby when the two members of the picker or stick are closed together under pressure and slid through the slots a3 a3 the edges of the said notch C5 will snap into engagement withthe adjacent edges X X of the slots a3, and thereby firmly lock the said picker or stick into the holder A from accidental displacement.

The form of picker or stick shown when used in connection with a lamp cooperates with a keeper D, secured up on the rear side of the lamp L, as shown in Figs. 7 and 8, by reference to which it will be seen the said keeper D is formed by bending up a single piece of brass or other metal to form a longitudinal socket d, whose inner wall is in vertical alinement with the vertically-extended end d', whereby to bear solidly against the lampbody, to which the keeper is made fast by rivets, as shown. The socket d is of such length that when the stick ends are slid therein the notched portion thereof will snap into engagement with the ends of the socket portion, as shown.

Instead of forming the keeper D in the manner shown in Figs. 7 and 8 the said kee er may be formed by making the attachingooks B5 of a single piece of rod-wire bent upon itself to form a loop 5b and bending the loop end to form the keeper D5. (See Fig. 9.) By this arrangement the lamp-holding hook and the keeper can be economicallymade and readily attached to the lamp-body by soldering.

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From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the drawings, it is believed the advantage or full manner of use of my invention will be readily apparent.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An improved holder for the purposes described consisting of a tubular metal section, the upper end of which is slit horizontally nearly its entire transverse width, the said upper portion being vertically slitted and bent to form a spring-socket, one end of the vertically-slitted portion being bent radially outward, a hanger-hook secured to the rear of the lower part of the tube, said lower part of the tube having a pair of alining horizontally elongated openings and a combined stick or picker device, which includes an expansible member vertically recessed and adapted to be passed through the two openings in the tube and to interlock therewith when the recessed portion registers therewith substantially in the manner shown and for the purposes described.

2. An improved holde` for the purpose described; which comprises a tubular metal section whose upper end is formed to frictionally engage a candle or similar torch and whose lower part has a pair of alining horizontal openings, and. a picker-stick which includes an expansible member vertically recessed and adapted to be passed through the openings in the tubular metal section to interlock therewith when the recessed portion of' the stick registers therewith, as set forth.

3. A holder of lthe character described; formed of a tubular section of spring metal, the upper part of which is cut in the horizontal plane and vertically, whereby the said upper end is bendable to form a spring-socket of less diameter than the body portion and located wholly within the circumference of the said body portion, the lower end oi' the main body portion having alining horizontal openings adapted to receive a picker-stick.

l PHILIP M. KNIPPENBERG.

Witnesses:

EBEE SIMPSON, GEORGE A. SARAU.

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