US1425080A - Candle extinguisher - Google Patents

Description

T. CULLEN.

CANDLE EXTINGUISHER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.4'| 1920.

Patented Aug. 8, 1922.

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CANDLE EXTINGUISHER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 8, 1922,

Application filed August 4, 1920. Serial No. 401,160.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS CULLEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Amboy, in the county of Lee and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Candle Extinguishers, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an efficient candle extinguisher, which will eliminate the dripping of wax or grease upon altar cloths and other objects beneath the candles.

Another object of my invention is to provide such an extinguisher with a drip receptacle positioned and arranged to receive melted candle material which may fall from the inverted extinguisher cap.

A further object is to adapt such an extinguisher for efficient use in combination with a candle lighter.

The extinguishers now in general use cause much damage to alter cloths and other objects beneath the candles by allowing melted wax, or other material of which the candles are composed, to drip from the extinguishers. This old type of extinguisher usually includes a conical cap upon a staff and is without any receptacle for the drip from said cap. The inner surface of such a cap coming in contact with the melting upper end of a lighted candle, always collects by adhesion a large amount of wax or grease and this, when the cap is lifted from the candle, drops upon whatever is beneath it. I have found that by providing a deep cylindrical extinguisher cap very much less wax will adhere to the cap and by arranging such a cap at a proper obtuse angle with a tubular drip receptacle mounted on the staff under the cap any liquid material which is free to fall will be received by said tubular receptacle Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved candle extinguisher; Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same as it appears from the left of Figure 1; Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the upper portion of the same and Fig. 4 is an elevation of an extension rod designed to be interposed in the staff for lengthening the same.

In the drawings 1 have used the numeral 10 to indicate the extinguisher cap of my device, 11 the brace, 12 the drip tube, 13

the staff or support, 14: the taper socket, 15 the grip and 1.6 an extension rod for length ening the stafi.

The cap 10 is a hollow cylinder, closed at its upper end, open at its lower end and rigidly mounted on a tongue 12*, formed on the tube 12, with the axis of the cap at an obtuse angle with the axis of said tube. The closed upper end of the cap 10 is preferably formed with an annular flange 10*, and the brace 11 is soldered at its ends to the periphery of said cap and the tube 12 to reinforce the tongue 12 This tongue forms a trough from the cap 10 to the tube 12.

The staff 13 is hollow and fits snugly over a stud 15 formed on the upper end of the grip 15. The upper end of the staff 13 is designed to receive telescopically the lower end of the tube 12 and to make a rigid connection therewith. The extension rod 16, may be interposed between the grip 15 and staff 13 when it is desired to reach candles at unusual heights. The stud 15 on the grip 15 is made to fit into the central cavity of the lower end of the rod 16 and a stud 16 on its upper end, similar to the stud 15, is adapted to telescope with the lower end of the staff 13.

The socket 14 for the lighting taper is of common type, consisting of a curved pipe open at the top and having a slot 14 extending substantially its entire length. This socket 1 1 is soldered at 14 to the side of staff 13 and a small spring catch 17 is slidable in the slot 145 and provided with suitable means for engaging one end of a parafiine taper within the socket. The other end of the taper projects from the upper end of the socket 1a where it is lighted and may be used to light candles. As the taper is consumed it may be moved upwards by means of the catch 17 in the usual manner.

It is to be understood that in use the cap 10 is brought into vertical position (open end down) over the wick of a lighted candle and when the light has been thus extinguished the cap is raised from the candle and the staff 13 with the tube 12 are moved into upright position as shown in Figure 1. In this position any wax or grease, which may be in the cap 10 and in sufficiently fluid condition to run out, will flow over the tongue 12 into the tube 12.

guished candles in good condition to be relighted as, unlike other extinguishers, it

does not submerge the wick in the meltedmaterial composing the candle.

' Having described my invention what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

1. In a candle extinguisher, a staff, a cylindrical cap mounted at the upper end of said staff at an angle with said staff, and a tubular drip receptacle, with its opening beneath that of said cap, secured to said staff.

2. In a candle extinguisher, a staff, a cylindrical cap rigidly mounted at the upper endof said staff, the axis of said cap mak-- ing an obtuse angle with the axis of said staff, and'a tubular drip receptacle integral with the stafl and having: an opentop beneath the opening of the cap.

3. In a candle extinguisher, a staff, a cylindrical cap. rigidly mounted at the upper end of said staff, a drip receptacle with its opening'beneath that of said cap and at an obtuse angle thereto, and a tongue connecting the lower side of said cap.. with the opening in said receptacle.

4; 111 ai candl'eextinguisher, a staff, a cyl-- inder having a closed top and openbase, rigidly mounted at the upper end of said staff, the axis of said cylinder. making an obtuse angle with the axis of? said stafi',"a dripreceptacle open at its top, beneath said cylinder, secured in axial alignment with

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