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US 4,131,415 AGranted
Candle manufacturing system and method
AssigneeAmerican Greetings Corporation
InventorsRobert W. Flinn, Roy D. Robinson
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AssigneeAmerican Greetings Corporation
InventorsRobert W. Flinn, Roy D. Robinson
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A system for the production of dipped taper candles, including an overhead conveyor system supporting mobile carrier racks for formation of the candles in suspended relation from the rack, and including a wicking station for providing rows of candle wicks in generally tensioned suspended relation from a carrier rack, a dipping station for automatically dipping said wicks on the rack through a predetermined number of dipping cycles, a cutoff station for cutting off the bases including the wick tensioning weights of the candles suspended from the carrier rack, a butt forming station for heat forming the cut butt ends of candles suspended from the carrier rack, and a cut down station for expeditiously cutting down the carrier rack rows of the candles formed on the candle wicks and for collecting the same for further processing. The invention also provides a novel method of producing physically uniform candles in mass production batches.
In a method of producing dipped taper candles including an overhead conveyor system with a mobile rack suspended therefrom, comprising providing rows of candle wicks on the rack in generally weight tensioned suspended relation therefrom, reciprocating the rack with the suspended wicks and associated tensioning weights through a predetermined number of dipping cycles at a dipping station including a tank of melted wax, to build up candle formations about the wicks, moving the rack and suspended candle formations to a cutoff station, clamping the candle formations to hold the latter stationary, including clamping said weights and holding the latter stationary from opposite ends thereof, and during said clamping cutting off the bases of the candle formations including the wax coated weights, to free the candle formations from the tensioning weights.
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