Flame cover
AssigneeChace Candles, Inc.
InventorWilliam Robertson Butler
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Abstract
A flame cover device for use with mechanical candle holders, especially for use with candle holders in which the candle is spring-driven to the top of a tube as the candle is consumed. The apparatus may be removably disposed upon the top portion of the tube of the mechanical candle holder, where it remains motionless while the candle is burned by combustion, yet provides protection from and to the burning flame. A base of the device is engaged with the tube of the mechanical candle holder, with vents in the base providing adequate ventilation to the flame. A transparent shell extends up from the base to provide flame protection. A ring damper is provided for covering the vents in the base to assist the flame in windy conditions.
Claims35
A removable flame cover apparatus comprising:
- a candle holder base comprising a plurality of air vents and spaced about a central hole;
- a hollow shell mounted on said candle holder base and defining a flame area therein;
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- a solid damper having no openings therein other than a central aperture removably disposable within said shell and upon said base to directly cover and directly close said air vents;
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- wherein when said damper is disposed upon said base said central aperture corresponds substantially to said central hole.
A removable flame cover apparatus for use in combination with a mechanical candle holder, the apparatus comprising:
- a mechanical candle holder comprising a rigid tube main shaft and an upper tapered end for disposing an upwardly-biased candle therein;
- a base comprising:
- a planar rim comprising a plurality of vents and a center opening;
- a cylindrical-shaped conduit depending downwardly from said rim and comprising a center opening;
- a planar lip of said rim extending slightly beyond said rim into said center opening of said conduit;
- said rim and said lip of said rim perpendicular to said conduit;
- said conduit disposable on the rigid tube main shaft of said mechanical candle holder and said lip disposable on the upper tapered end of said mechanical candle holder, thereby allowing the flame cover to be seated near the top of said mechanical candle holder while preventing the flame cover from sliding down said mechanical candle holder;
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- a hollow shell comprising an upper end and a lower end, said lower end coupled to said rim, and said shell defining a flame area therein;
- whereby said apparatus remains unmoving atop said mechanical candle holder while the candle is burned.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.