US539199A - Candlestick - Google Patents

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' T. J. 9 0. ,Q. STILLE.

OANDLESTIGK.

1 (No Model.)

Patented May 14, 1895.

YHL NORRIS PETERS 60., Pno-rm tnm wAsnmmo n c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC THEODORE J. STILLE AND OSCAR Q. STILLE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

CANDLESTICKL SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 539,199, dated May 14, 1895. Application filed January 11, 1894. Serial No. 496,523. (No model.)

72) all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, THEODORE J. STILLE and OSCAR Q. STILLE, of the city of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvement in Candlesticks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The present improvement relates mainly to candle-sticks used upon Christmas trees or other supports more or less unhorizontal, and it consists mainly in the means whereby the candle can be held uprighthowever the stick support maybe arranged, substantially as is hereinafter set forth and claimed, aided by the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure Tie a side elevation of the improved candlestick without the drip-cup; Fig. 2, a

. similar elevation of the stick with the drip cup attached; Fig. 3, a side elevation of the candlestick complete and containing a candle and attached to a support as in use; Fig. 4, a view of the candlestick having the dripcup, looking in the direction of the arrow 01:, Fig. 3; Fig. 5, a bottom View of the candlestick having the drip-cup attached or a view in the direction of the arrow 00, Fig. 2; Fig. 6, a plan of the drip-cup, and Fig. 7 a section on the line 7 7 of Fig. 6.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

We have heretofore made an improvement in candle-sticks of the class under consideration, patented to us July 11, 1893, and numbered 501,473, in which the stick is composed mainly of a wire wound spirally. We have also made another improvemont in which the stick is composed mainly of two united wire coils, and for this last named improvement application Serial No. 480,013 is pending. In the first construction referred to the coil extends inone direction only, and but a limited adjustment of the candle stick is provided for. In the second of said constructions one of the coils, the one to which the candle is immediately attached, can be turned upon the other of the coils, and, to accomplish the adjustment of the candle stick, the base-coil is turned upon its support, and the other coil is turned upon the base coil, and to this end the two coils are peculiarly relatively constructed to enable them to be relatively adjusted.

In the present improved construction but a single piece of wire is or need be used to portion, and any desired adjustment of the candle-stick is accomplished by turning the stick only at the base thereof, substantially as is hereinafter more fully described.

, A represents a coil that forms the base portion of the candle-stick, and B the candleholder portion thereof. The portion A is preferably in the form of a helical coil and the portion B is preferablyin the form of a spiral; but however made the two coils are relatively arranged substantially as shown-that is, the

axes of the two coils when projected cross each other, and the coils in the portion B, when that part is upright, are horizontal, and the two parts A and B are connected by extending and bending the wire, of which the candle-stick is formed, out of the'plane of the end coil of the part A into the plane of the opposing coil of the holder-portion, substantially as shown.

In practice the two parts A and B are arranged at right angles to each other as shown, and the adjustment of the candle-stick upon the branch D is accomplished by turning it at the base in either one or both of the directions of which one is indicated by the arrows y,Figs. 1,2 and 3, and the other by the arrow y, Fig. 4:.

0 represents a drip cup that is preferably used. It issimilar in its shape and mode of attachment to the coil B to that employed in the construction previously patented by us saving in respectto the raised portion (1-- that is, the cup is dish-shaped and it is perforated at o to admit the wire and enable the cup to be screwed onto the coil B substantially as in the construction referred to, but 'to enable the cup to be held horizontal upon the coil a portionof the cup is raised substantially as shown at 0. tion inclines gradually upward until the perforation c is reached and by this means the particular fake of the coil which passes through the perforation in the cup can beinclined more or less without aifecting the hori-' zontality of the cup.

The present candle-stick, saving its drip. cup, is preferably made of springy wire; but we do not desire to be restricted to wire as any equivalent form of metal will answer.

In carrying out the improvement We prefer. to make the base portion and the candleholder of a single continuous piece of wire. e however consider two or more pieces of wire spliced to be the equivalent of a single piece when arranged su bstantiallyin the manner of the single piece shown.

We claim- The portion in ques-i structed except by said support substantially as described.

TVitness our hands this 8th day of Jan uary,

THEODORE J. SPILLE. OSCAR Q. STILLE. Witnesses:

C. D. MOODY,

A. BoNvILLE.

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