US1101296A - Automatic candle-extinguisher. - Google Patents

Description

G. LIAGI. AUTOMATIO CANDLE BXTINGUISHER.

APPLIOATION FILED NOV.14, 1913.

Patented June 23, 1914.

I a Kwanzaa Witnesses lnventor flfi D $11M Attorneys CQSMO LIACI, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

AUTOMATIC CANDLE-EXTINGUISHEB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 2a, 1914.

Application filed November 14, 1913. Serial N 0. 801,040.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GOSMO LIAOI, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Automatic Candle-Extinguisher, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention appertains to an automatic candle extinguisher, and aims to provide a novel and improved device of that character.

The object of the present invention is to provide a device of the nature indicated, which shall be simple, compact and inexpensive in structure, and which shall be readily applicable to a candle, the device embodying a flame extinguisher adapted to be held in elevated poise or inoperative position by the candle, in order that when the candle burns a predetermined amount, the extinguisher will be released so as to extinguish the flame.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

The invention has been illustrated in its preferred embodiment in the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device as applied to a candle, with the extinguishing cap supported in inoperative position. Fig. 2 is a back view of the parts depicted in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation, looking from the side opposite the near side of Fig. 1, the extinguishing cap being shown in section.

In carrying out the present invention, there is provided a sheet metal band 1 forming a clamp or clip to embrace the candle C, and having the angular cooperating ends or cars 2 and 3, the end or ear 2 being provided with a flat offset upstanding standard or bracket 4:. The said parts are preferably stamped from one blank of sheet metal, and may be inexpensively produced, the angular ends or ears 23 of the clamp 1 being connected by a clamping screw 5 for drawing the said ends together to cause the clamp 1 to snugly embrace the candle to be supported in position.

Carried by the upper end of the standard or bracket 1 is the extinguishing element, which embodies an angular or L-shaped member 6, pivoted at its elbow to the upper end of the standard 4: by means of a fulcrum or pivot screw 7 one arm of the angular member 6 being formed into a candle engaging prong or tooth 8, while the other arm 9 is provided with a flame extinguishing cap 10. The angular member 6, together with the cap 10, is preferably stamped from sheet metal, as will be obvious, the arms of the angular member lying in the same plane, and the arm 9 having the pressed cap at its free end, the said cap being twisted at right angle to the said plane. The elbow of the angular member rests against one side of the standard at the upper end of the standard, and the pivot member 7 engages through the said elbow and standard. A stop 11 is carried by one side of the standard 4, against which the spur or tooth 8 i adapted to strike, when the cap 10 drops over the wick or snuff as will hereinafter appear.

In use, the device may be readily applied to a candle, the clamp 1 being slipped over the candle to the proper position, and being maintained in position by tightening the clamping screw 5. The spur or tooth 8 is then engaged into the candle, as illustrated in Fig. 1, at the point at which the flame is to be extinguished, it being evident that the spur or tooth 8 may be engaged at any suitable point to the candle by adjusting the clamp 1 along the candle. The extinguishing cap 10 is thus maintained in an elevated poise by the spur or tooth 8, without interfering with the burning of the candle. When the candle burns down to the point engaged by the spur or tooth 8, the spur or tooth will be released, and as a result, the cap 10 will swing downwardly by gravity, over the wick or snuff, to extinguish the flame automatically. The spur or tooth 8 is designed to engage the stop 11 in order to limit the downward movement of the cap 10. whereby the cap will not engage the candle, which will prevent the cap from being coated or filled with tallow, which would be objectionable. When the candle is to be used and eflicient in operation, the device being devoid of any complex parts, such as springs, and the like.

Having thus described the invention What is claimed as new is A candle attachment embodying a sheet metal candle embracing clamp having anguangular memberbeing arranged to engage I a candle, a stop carried by one side of the standard and arranged to be engaged by the last mentioned arm of the angular member to support the cap above the candle after the angular member is releasedtherefrom, and means connecting the angular ends of the clamp for contracting the same.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing" & as my own, I have hereto aifixed my sign-alar ends and an upstanding standard carfture in the presence of two witnesses. ried by one angular end, a heet metal angular member having one of its arms provided with a pressed cap at its free end, the elbow of the angular member resting against one side of the standard at its upper end, a 1

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Witnesses 7 Rev. B. MARENcmNo, LUDovIoo ABATE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five 68111752681311, by addressing the Commissioner of I'atents, Washington, D. 0.

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