US2464361A - Drip candle - Google Patents

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L. F. WILSON` March 15, 1949.

DR I P CANDLE Filed March 15, 1945 TTOP/vfr Patented Mar. 15, 1949 s PATENT oFF-rc1:

y Dal? CANDLE Lester F. Wilson, sancabriel, Calif, Application March 13, 194,5', :SerialV No.. 582,572

This invention has for its lgeneral object to provide a Lnovel anddistinctivelyunique drip candl'jcharacterizedfby 'its ability to Vform multicolored'drippings notwithstanding the fact that to all outward indications, and even upon closest inspection, the candle may appear the Ysame as anyordinary candle, the drippings from which correspond to the color of the candle.

.'fheiusual drip candle is of course made of a waxorbody material, the color of which determines the colorof the vdrippings, since the latter form Afrom melting of'thewax and'its solidicationinto drippingswhich contain whatever colorimgjma'terial that may be used to color the body oifthefjcandle. Thus the ordinary drip candle producesdrippingscolored corresponding to thev normaloutside coloringof thecandle, and usuallythe drippings, like the body of the candle, are

, of a single color.

One of my major purposes is to provide a candle the drippings of which may not only be at any. selected variance with the outside coloring of the candle, but also may be multi-colored, so that different individual drippings may have any desired individual colors.

Another object of the invention is to permit thei coloring of the drippings to bepredetermined "and controlled independently of the color or composition of the wax body of the candle. In this respect the invention contemplates coloring of the drippings by suitable coloring material carried by the candle wick, all in a manner such that progressive burning of the candle produces drippings of any desired color or color combinations.

For the purposes of the invention I may use candles of any desired body or wax composition. Preferably I employ body wax compositions used in the well-known types of drip candles, characterized by the relatively large proportion of the wax carry-over as drippings, instead of burning at the flame. In the broad aspects of the invention, the body of thecandle, or its exterior, may be colored as desired. It is found particularly advantageous to give the candle a single body or exterior color selected for whatever contrast desired between the normal color of the candle and the color or colors of the drippings. A candle of white exterior or White body is highly effective because of its greater and clearer color contrast with colored drippings. In this connection it may be mentioned that as interpreted for the purposes of this invention, white is to be regarded as a. color.

l As previously indicated, the drip coloring material preferably is applied to or incorporated in the wick, all ina manner such that the candle mayv to all' appearances resemble the ordinary candle. As the candle burns, the formation of colored or multi-colored drippings in contrast Iwith ,the ,apparent coloring of the candle, is both very surprising and highly decorative.

In accordance with my ,preferred practice and embodiment of the invention, I impregnate the candle wick with any suitable coloring material,

,stain or dye, selected in keeping with the predetermined coloring of the drippingsto'be formed.

green, orangered, violet, etc. The sequence in the wick of the particular colors used may be selected for the most pleasing color eiects in the successive formation and superposing of the drippings.

In orderto prevent interblending of successive coloring materials carriedby the wick and at the .transition from one, to the next color as the canjdle burns, the impregnated or coated lengths of the wick may be spaced apart. My preferred procedure is rst to coat, orA impregnate successive spacedlengthsof the Wick `with wax or other material preventing blending together of the dyes, and to impregnate the intervening uncoated lengths with the dyes. The wax-coated and dyeimpregnated sections of the wick may have any desired lengths, typically in an average size candle, around one-half inch, which may be increased or decreased in accordance with the desired number and frequency of colored drippings to be formed. `The wax body of the candle then is formed by any of the usual methods about the prepared wick.

As a further observation, it will be noted that spacing apart of successive color-impregnated sections of the wick results in the formation, While the wick is burning between those sections,

of drippings having the color of the candle wax,-

which may add to the ydesired eiects by the alternate superposing of such drippings lon the wick-colored drippings.

The invention is further illustrated and described in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is an elevation view of the candle With the wick and impregnated sections appearing in dotted lines; and

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary enlarged sectionalview of the candle.

The candle is shown to comprise a Wax body I which may have the usual wax composition adapted to form a profusion of drippings as the candle burns, the body typically being built by successive clippings of the Wick H in a melted body of the wax. Spaced segments l2 of the wick may be impregnated with a suitable material, such as a relatively high melting point Wax, as and for the purposes previously described. Between these segments l2, the wax segments I3 may be impregnated with the suitable Wax soluble dyes in whatever color sequence desired. Thus as the candle burns, the die carried by the wick segments I3 dissolves in the melted body wax, coloring the drippings overflowing down the side of the candle. The drippings formed as a result of extended burning of the candle, thus present arprofusion of colors (preferably against the background of a White body Wax) with highly ornamental and decorative eiect.

It is desirable that in the application of dyes to successive lengths or sections of the wick, provision be made for preventing the dies from running or being drawn by capillarity longitudinally of the Wick beyond the particular section to carry the coloring. For this purpose means is provided for physically stabilizing or conning each individual die to its particular Wick section. By

Vincorporating the dye in a relatively high melting point Wax and applying the resulting melted mixture to the wick, the dye is effectively confined upon solidication of the wax. The wax may have suiciently high melting temperature that when the Wick is dipped in the melted wax to form the body of the candle, the color-containing wax will not melt or soften su'iciently to spread longitudinally of the wick, but will remain in andcondition such that it will not run or will not be 4 displaced by the wick capillarity during the candle dipping operation.

I claim:

l. A drip candle comprising a wax-like body. different wax-soluble dyes normally concealed within the interior of the body at different locations longitudinally thereof and normally undissolved in the wax of said body, said dyes dissolving in the melted Wax of the body to form multi-colored drippings as the candle progressively burns.

2. A drip candle having a wax body and a wick containing a coloring material which dissolves in the Wax as the candle burnsv to form dripplngs colored dilerent from the normal exterior color of the candle.

3. A drip candle having a Wax body and a wick containing diierent coloring materials which dissolve in the Wax as the candle burns to form multi-colored drippings.

4. A drip candle having a Wax body .and a. wick, spaced successive portions of which are impregnated with coloring material which dissolves in the wax as the candle progressively b urns to color the drippings diierently from the exterior color of the candle.

5. A drip candle having a Wax body and a Wick, successive portions of the Wick being impregnated with different colored dyes which dissolve in the wax to produce multi-colored drippings as the candle progressively burns.

6. A drip candle having a Wax body and a wick, successive portions of which are impregnated alternately with wax and diierent colored dyes which dissolve in the Wax to produce multicolored drippings kas the candle progressively burns.

LESTER F. WILSON.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the le of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,701,344 Funke Feb. 12, 1929 1,908,044 Nelson May 9, 1933

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