US1583798A - Artificial candle - Google Patents

Description

- I and more particularly to artificial candles;

Patented May-11, 1926. I

- uNirEns-TATEs moon 1: nosmmnne, or cauonsnune, useu ABTII'ICIAI CANDLE.

Application filed mama, 1925. Serial m. 8,120. f

This invention relates to artificial candles which are adapted to burn a liquid fuel.

An object of this invention'is to provide manent body formed in the dinary candle which can" be decorated or colored in any desired manner and which is adaptedhto be used in any stick. 1

A further object is to providean' artificial' candle of thetype set foith'adapted to container .or cartridge which.

receive a fuel can. be easily replaced by a fresh container when thefuelth'erein is exhausted. A still further object is torprovide a liq uid fuel which is particularly adapted for use with an artificialfcaudle for thejmrposeof providing a colored flame.

I c A still further objectfis to provide an ar- I v tificial candle of the type described which Y manufacture, durable in will be cheap to construction and-easy and simple to use.

These and other objects which will be ap parent to those skilled in this are accomplished by means of this invention,

one embodimentof which is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which-Figure 1 is a vertical transverse section through a device, showing one form of this invention. 'Fig. 2 is a similar view of a replaceable fuel container or cartridge which is adapted to be used in conjunction with the candle shown in Fig. l; and, Fig. '3 is a similar view of cured to the fuel container.

, The particular embodimentjof thisinvene purposes tion which has been chosenforth of illustration includes a hollow bodymemher 5 which is preferably formed of one piece and has the upper end thereofshaped tip 6, having a" central In order to adapt the rigid to" various sized candle sticks, a p such pliable material as rubber, I like, is inserted in the lower'open end of I the hollow-bodyniember ordinary.

j WVherethe metal-or some material which will not; be in- -]U1'8d by the heat of, the flame, theQfuel can particular art latter from the heat of the fl I closed by the a wick supporting nozzle adapted to be semost desirable is a example, fasvniethanol; I as metal-,or glass a flame-of. any desired color can'be produced solventasalt which. i

.will impart the desired cork, or the 1 of borax will burn with I I I and 'h'asa tampered crossscction similar-to the bottom, of an; or-

dinai.y.5candle so that it will 'vai'ious sized candle sticks. a candle of the typeset-fOrthhaving a perq shape of an 'or-Y'I I inserted in the candle stick t I distance to'completely hide the plug 8 in orrcsemblance'bf Hidde- A shoulder 9 is providder to complete the viceto the ordinary. candlesi v outer bodymeinberis formed of be placed directly within the body member thereof. ;However, I preferably provi e a replaceableufuel, containing i.

I I is adapted to be threaded or otherwise secured to the top of the cartridge in place of the ordinary cover, 14 which comes uponthe latter thelnippl'e'extendsthrough the opening 7 of the body memberfin order I am'e, when the latter is formed of glass .or other which mightbe injured thereby. r

en the fuel is. removed and the nipple fresh cart-ridge wh within the j bod 12 secured to a ymeinberwl ose end resilient plu 8. I

itself burns with acolorlessflame such, for

by dissolving in such a I I color to'theflame. h a case thecolor of the "flame is due to protect the material While-any form of fuel may be used the 4 fuel which will burn with a colored flame. In order to provideka liquid fuel which willburu withsuch flame itis firstnecess'ary to 'provide, a fuel .wl'iich a v .Ihaveffoundf that and the -wick inserted in the openin 7 ,75 and the end of 1 is exh'austedthe czirtridge ich can be easily inserted to t e presence of the volatilized salt in the otherw se colorless flame of the liquid. 7 t It is well knownth at an alcoholicsolution a green ,flam'e. The

color of the flame will not be very intense,

unless the alcohol and the boraX are first warmed together, preferably in-the presence the wick. For example a concentration of approximately .5% of LiCl in'methanol will burn with a red flame Other salts which may be usedeither separately or in the same solution are those of sodium, potassium, rubidium,. casesium, calcium, strontium, barium, copper or thallium. Since very little of the salt is required the solubility of all these in methanol, for example, is sulficient for the production of a colored flame, the color of which depends upon the salt used. The solvent or fuel may, as above pointed out, be of any single liquid or liquid mixture which burns wit-h a colorless flame. This is essential because if the flame isluminescent its color wili mask the color imparted by the volatilized salt. The salt must be dissolved and not suspended in order that ift will be drawn up the wick with the "liquid ue I What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. An artificial candle having in combination a hollow body member provided with an open lower end and an upper end shaped to form a candle tip having an opening therethrough, a removable fuel cartridge adapted to be inserted through the lower end of saidbody member and provided with a wick supporting extension projecting through the opening in Said tip, a wick supported therein and aremovable'resilient plug in the lower end of said body member forming a base therefor and adapted to support said cartridge with its extension in predetermined spaced relation to said candle tip.

2. An artificial candle having in combination a hollow candle shaped body member provided with an open lower end and an upper end shaped to form a candle tip having an opening therethrough, a removable the lower end of said body member and provided with a separable wick supporting extension projecting through the opening in said tip, a wick supported therein and a removable resilient plug in the lower end of said body member forming a base therefor and adapted to support said cartridge with its extension in predetermined spaced relation to said'candle tip.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name this 6th day of February, 1925. I

JACOB r. nosnusnne;

fuel cartridge adapted to be inserted through

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