Abstract: Combined candle holder and mold apparatus includes a free-standing container having an open upper end and within which candle supporting structure is provided on which a burning candle is adapted to be supported so as to extend upwardly through and beyond the open container end. A wick has one of its ends connected to the candle supporting structure and its other end connected to a removable bottom closure member of the container so that the wick extends in the direction of the axis of the container through the substantial height thereof. In use, a burning candle is mounted on the supporting structure so that the apparatus functions as a candle holder. As the candle continues to burn the molten wax dripping therefrom falls into the container where it accumulates and solidifies around the wick so that the container thereby acts as a mold for the newly-forming candle.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for injecting viscous materials. The apparatus includes a vertically adjustable manifold valve which receives a continuously circulating supply of pressurized viscous material. The manifold valve is positioned above a container or mold cavity to be filled with the viscous material. When the manifold valve is opened, the viscous material is injected into the containers or molds.

Abstract: Discontinuous fibers are entrained in a gaseous medium and coated while entrained with a substantially continuous coating of a binder material. Plural coatings of various binder materials may be applied to the entrained fibers. Also, one or more solid particulate materials may be adhered to the fibers by the binder material as the binder material dries. The binder material may be heat bondable and mixed with other fibers for use in producing a wide variety of products.

Abstract: In a method and an apparatus for producing filler sticks for cosmetic sticks, in particular those having a swiveling mechanism for extending the filler sticks from a protective sheath, including a mold for casting the filler sticks, it is provided, in order to attain filler sticks that are optimally suitable for such swiveling mechanism and to attain a filler stick structure that assures favorable properties for use, that the filler stick is cast in a horizontally disposed mold recess open along at least a portion of its jacket face. For performing a method of this kind, an apparatus is used that is distinguished in that the mold has a plurality of horizontally disposed mold recesses, which are open along at least a portion of the jacket face, and that an expulsion device for the hardened, cast filler sticks is provided, acting in the axial direction of the mold recesses.

Abstract: A candle composition consisting essentially of about 10 to 90 volume percent of a first paraffin wax with a melting point of 120.degree. to 125.degree. F. and having a maximum of 2 percent oil, about 10 to 90 volume percent of the second paraffin wax with a melting point of 125.degree. to 130.degree. F. and having a maximum of 0.2 percent oil, and about 0.1 volume percent of stretchability enhancer and a method of forming a candle therefrom. A method of forming a candle comprising submerging a plurality of wax pieces consisting essentially of about 10 to 90 volume % paraffin wax with a melting point of 120.degree. F. and having a maximum of 2.0% oil, about 10 to 90 volume % paraffin wax with a melting point of 125.degree. to 130.degree. F. and having a maximum of 0.2% oil and about 0.1 to 1.0 volume % of a stretchability enhancer in water having a temperature between about 100.degree. and 120.degree. F.

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for automatically stamping designs onto candles under computer control. For a given stamped mark, a turret selects the tool with a specific die is to be stamped. The turret orients the tool angle about the axis defined by the tool's travel line during stamping by use of a planetary gear system. A rotatable chuck mounted on a movable bed selects the location on the candle surface to receive the die. A linear solenoid plunges the selected and oriented tool onto the candle. This process is repeated until all marks in a desired design are completed. The planetary gear system is designed so that all tool orientations are controlled by one motor, and tool anti-rotation during travel is controlled by the face length of a sun gear.

Abstract: An apparatus for making candles which includes one or more receptacles. Support means are provided to support a length of wick material strung across each receptacle. The apparatus also has posts where a continuous length of wick material is secured across each receptacle and around the posts.

Abstract: Apparatus for molding stick cosmetics, which comprises:closely fitting a molding block into a vertically extending annular member formed around a container charged with a liquid feed composition for solid cosmetics, said molding block having therethrough a plurality of longitudinal slots which are open at both ends;filling said liquid feed composition into said longitudinal slots; and, thereafter,solidifying and drying the thus filled liquid feed composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus intended for use in manufacturing candles of a type comprising an open container with candle wax composition, wick and wick holder. The invention is particularly related to wick advancing means and mating means in an apparatus for manufacturing such candles.

Abstract: A decorative candle and a process for manufacturing said candle wherein a central core including a wick is first formed, and decorative elements, for example flowers made of a wax having generally the same melting temperature as the central core, are caused to be adhered to the surface of the central core, and an outer shell of a wax composition which melts at a somewhat higher temperature and which is poured about the decorative elements to encase them within an outer shell.

Abstract: Apparatus for molding crayons and the like having particular utility in reclamation of broken and worn crayons and molding thereof into new crayons. Means for supplying radiant and convective heat are surrounded by a housing, with a plurality of chutes positioned beneath the heat supply means, each chute having an orifice communicating with a mold cavity into which molten wax flows by gravity. The apparatus has no moving parts and is simple and safe for use by children.

Abstract: Machine for making crayons or the like comprising means for supplying fluid material to a series of mold cavities in a horizontally rotatable mold table, means for controlling the temperatures of the cavities, means for ejecting the molding products from the cavities, means for receiving the ejected products and conveying them to one or more delivery points and means for removing excess material from the mold table and recycling it, with suitable controls for operating the several elements according to a desired program and with specific improvements in the apparatus and in the method of operation.

Abstract: A device for compressing a wax-type material comprising a piston disposed within a chamber wherein channels are provided along the lateral surface of the piston for venting gases during the compressing operation.

Abstract: Apparatus used in candle manufacture including means for dispensing and holding a length of wick material threaded through an upright needle, and means for clamping a candle mold in surrounding relation to the needle and wick material. After the candle hardens in the mold it is removed from the needle and the wick material remains in the candle.

Abstract: A candle having on the periphery thereof circumferentially spaced, vertical ribs respectively provided therein with circumferentially spaced, vertical, opposed grooves which face each other circumferentially and which are respectively adapted to receive vertical edges of a card, or similar article.

Abstract: In an apparatus for pressing paraffin granules or paraffin powder into candles wherein a candle which tube containing a candle wick is concentrically disposed within a candle-making tubular chamber, said tubular chamber also housing a piston which is slidably disposed therein and adapted to compress the paraffin granules or paraffin powder into a candle, the improvement which comprises providing a recess in the end face of the piston for receiving and centering the end of the wick tube containing said candle wick in said tubular chamber to ensure that the wick is centered in the tubular chamber and subsequently in the candle from one end to the other end thereof.

Abstract: A candle mold is described having a barrel open at each end, with a plate in sealing contact with one end removably held thereto by a flexible end cap which fits over the barrel and plate forming a mold into which wax can be formed. The end cap has a centrally located hole for engagement of a wick which passes therethrough and through a centrally located hole in the plate to the end of the barrel where it may be retained by a wick holder.

Abstract: A method for making a candle is disclosed. The candle is made by filling an open-topped jar with a solidifiable fuel, suspending in the fuel a rod having a sheet metal plate connected to its lower end concentrically with the jar, allowing the fuel to solidify around the rod, removing the rod, inserting a wick into the hole left by the rod and into said plate and completely filling the jar.The wax is dispensed into the jar by an improved circuit which includes a tank containing the heated wax and a pump which recirculates liquid wax through a pressure regulating valve. The wax is dispensed to the jars by timing valves.

Abstract: This application discloses a method for making a candle with stones, or other desired articles, cast into the candle about the periphery thereof. This is accomplished by the use of a two step casting process, wherein a smaller core of the candle is first cast, and this core is then placed in a larger mold of substantially identical shape. The stones or other articles are then placed in the larger mold between the smaller core and the inner wall of said mold until the space therein is completely filled. Wax is then poured into the larger mold to cast these articles into the surface of the candle. Since the wax at this point will almost completely cover the articles, which are of a decorative nature and of which more of the surface should be exposed, the candle, after it has cooled, is repeatedly dipped in hot wax to remove some of the surface wax from the candle with each dipping, and then cooled by dipping the candle in water.

Abstract: Candles are cast in multiple, tubular, upright molds set in a housing having a normally horizontal top plate, the molds having spherically arcuate top end portions which slightly project beyond the top plate so that a unitary body of molten wax which initially fills the molds and covers the top plate shrinks during its solidification sufficiently that the top end portions of the molds are exposed, and the wax in the molds pulls away from the wax on the top plate, whereby manual finishing of the candle ends may be avoided.

Abstract: A mold for candles having a three dimensional surface pattern is formed of a split elongated shell having juxtaposed edges detachably connected together. Lining the shell is a split sleeve having an inner surface bearing the selected three dimensional pattern and longitudinal edges in close face to face juxtaposition. The sleeve is formed of silicone rubber initially formed in its final molding configuration so that after molding, the shell may be removed from the sleeve and the split sleeve may be peeled back from the molded article, resiliently returning to its mold configuration when the article is removed. Flexibility of the sleeve permits it to be removed from undercut surface of the pattern.

Abstract: A machine is provided for producing decorative candles of the type having a main body portion and an insert extending for substantially the entire length of the candle. The machine includes a first conveyor and a second conveyor with a horizontal section of the second conveyor path extending parallel to and spaced vertically above a horizontal section of the first conveyor path. At least one candle insert mold base is carried by the first conveyor and at least one candle insert mold is carried by the second conveyor with the conveyors being so aligned that the insert mold is deposited on the base at the upstream end of a portion of the machine and removed from the base at the downstream end of the machine portion. A first casting station is provided along the machine portion to cast the candle insert. Means are provided along the machine portion for forming a bore extending through the insert with a countersink at one end.

Abstract: Machine for making crayons or the like comprising means for supplying fluid material to a series of mold cavities in a horizontally rotatable mold table, means for controlling the temperatures of the cavities, means for ejecting the molded products from the cavities, means for receiving the ejected products and conveying them to one or more delivery points and means for removing excess material from the mold table and recycling it, with suitable controls for operating the several elements according to a desired program and with specific improvements in the apparatus and in the method of operation.

Abstract: A decorative candle molded from candle material wherein the surface of the candle has a plurality of randomly distributed pores adjacent the surface thereof only and said pores are less than 4 millimeters diameter in size and form an attractive random pattern. There are at least 5 said pores per said centimeter of the surface of said candle and the central portion of the candle is substantially pore-free.The candle is made by melting candle material and then cooling the liquid candle material to a temperature and for a time such that a thin film is formed on the surface of the liquid candle material, then mixing the liquid and film phases until the mixture is bubbly and thereafter pouring the candle material into a candle mold from a height at least 50% greater than the height of the mold, cooling and removing the candle from the mold.

Abstract: An elastic candle mold has a plurality of circumferentially spaced metal plates embedded in the side walls of the mold and which are pulled radially outward simultaneously by individual pull cables, each cable having one end attached to the plate and the opposite end attached to the movable element of an air powered piston-cylinder or other actuator device. A spring mounted on each cable attachment at the mold serves to return the mold and cables to a contracted position for the mold when the piston-cylinder device is reversed.