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  Layered candleUSPTO Application #: 20080070174Title: Layered candle Abstract: A composite candle structure is provided. A variety of color-scented hollow wax discs and a center filler wax form a laminated candle body providing a permanent base with mixed aroma for supporting a collection of removable tea-light candles in matching colors and scents. Each layer of wax disc may be distinguished by its color and scent and further by an inscribed pattern of words or messages for a spectator to read and get inspired. Also, a user can make swift changes among various illuminative as well as aromatic effects due to the simple fitting of interchangeable tea-light sections. (end of abstract) Agent: Law Offices Of Clement Cheng - Fountain Valley, CA, US Inventor: Robert Moeller USPTO Applicaton #: 20080070174 - Class: 431289 (USPTO) The Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20080070174. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001]A. Field of the Invention [0002]The present invention relates to wax candles. More particularly, the present invention relates to a laminated candle that holds a selection of interchangeable aromatic candle sections so as to provide variable illumination combined with inspirational messages and colors. [0003]B. Description of the Prior Art [0004]Candles provide warm ambient lights as they are combusted and can quickly fill a large space with a beneficial aroma infused at manufacture. They are relatively simple to manufacture using petroleum material like paraffin, natural products of stearin, beeswax, gel of resin and mineral oil, or some plant waxes. Candles are produced in various colors, shapes, sizes and scents. Most candle productions generally start with the liquification of the solid fuel by the controlled application of heat and ends with the insertion of a wick. The liquid fuel is poured into a mold to produce pillar candles, a fireproof jar to produce container candles, or a wick is repeatedly immersed in the liquid to create a dipped taper. Often, fragrance oils are added to the liquid wax prior to pouring. Natural scents of essential oils may be used to make some premium candles. Candles may also be colored by the addition of some sort of coloring agent. In practical terms this is almost always an aniline-based dye, although pigments can be used in some circumstances. [0005]It is also known to mold a stack of sectional pillars to form a candle assembly. U.S. Pat. No. 6,203,313 discloses a candle constructed of individual wax members, which are stacked one over another and strung by wick through holes formed in the wax members so that the wax members may form a strung pillar candle while permitting a user to realign the wax members about the wick to take various irregular lateral shapes. The wax members have respective colors and scents to form a combination candle. [0006]However, the candle of '313 patent suffers from its limitation in reconfigurations. Specifically, the order of wax members in a stack and thus their sequence to burn is firmly set between bottom and top knots of the wick which need to be carefully positioned to provide the reconfiguration without tipping over. Its rigid structure makes it difficult to reconfigure an already determined sequence of stack of the wax member. In other words, the candle falls short of offering a user ability to determine what scent of candle at its top burn at any moment. Instead, the candle structure requires the user to figure out ways to restring the candle by untying and tying the knots of the wick, rearranging the wax members, and restring them through the tight wick holes with the ideal distance kept between the two knots so that the wax members are not too loose or not too tight against each other to keep the right flexibility. Without sophisticated positioning of the knots the candle will not work properly. Overall, it calls for an overly complex manipulation of a supposedly simple piece of candle. [0007]There is clearly a need to improve the combination candle operation involving only steps intuitive to the masses. [0008]In view of this and other shortcomings of the prior art advancements, the primary object of the present invention is to provide a decorative pillar candle and a pool of easily replaceable tea-light candle sections wherein the majority of the candle is reused over a lengthy period for a decorative support of the dedicated combusting sections of tea-lights for illumination. With provided tea-lights at hand, no special consideration is necessary to vary the lighting effect through combinations of scent, color and pattern. [0009]Another object of the present invention is to incorporate into each candle lamination an individual color and a pattern design matching with scented tea-light candle sections to enhance the expression of a created theme of the candle through more diversified ways than before. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0010]A variable candle according to the present invention generally comprises a composite wax base having a predetermined number of hollow discs laminated in a longitudinal stack and a group of interchangeable fuel sections each contained in a transparent pot shaped to mate with the wax base, each of the fuel sections having a wick inserted therein. [0011]The wax base is in the form of a pillar having elongated side walls and flat top and bottom surfaces and the hollow discs are made of two or more different wax compositions including distinctive mixtures of coloring agent and fragrance. On the outer surfaces of the hollow discs designed patterns are inscribed for conveying a meaning to be carried and highlighted by the candle. A wax filler extends partially though the hollow space of the discs and fused thereto but stopped short of the top surface of the pillar wax base to leave a top recess for receiving the removable fuel section therein. [0012]Each layer of the wax discs is distinguished by its color and scent before and after combustion of the candle and further by an inscribed pattern of word or message for an illuminated spectator to read and get inspired. The inscribed pattern is provided with colored ink. The fuel sections are formed of the same materials used to make the hollow discs so that the fuel sections correspond to the layers of the wax discs in number as well as composition. The fuel section positioned in the top recess of the wax base protrudes above the flat top surface of the wax base to facilitate removal and replacement of the fuel sections. [0013]The transparent pot containing the fuel section has three or more legs for raising the pot from the bottom of the top recess to avoid a vacuum pull acting against its removal due to a tight fit between the pot and recess of the wax base. [0014]The laminated candle pillar provides a permanent base with mixed aroma for supporting a collection of the tea-light candles in matching colors and scents. Each layer of the wax discs may be distinguished by its color and scent and further by an inscribed pattern of words or messages for an illuminated spectator to read and get inspired. Also, a user can make swift changes among various illuminative as well as aromatic effects due to the interchangeable tea-light sections in differentiated colors. [0015]The manufacture of the inventive candle starts with providing a specially designed mold for making the multiple layered structure of the candle body. A dual mold may be used for forming both the core and the layers consecutively. Alternatively, because the main purpose of the core is to partially fill the hollow center of the layers, it can be made of waste wax independently of molding the layers and supplied from elsewhere so that the layers in liquid state are molded thereto. In such case, the core may be a simple pillar having flat top and bottom without the sleeve. The layers at the top area will seat the tea-light. Then, molding the core may be skipped and the manufacturing process may start with pouring the liquidized layers. [0016]The same composition for a layer may be used to make the matching tea light candle, which is contained in a designated clear pot printed with the same message as inscribed in the main candle body. The main candle body is isolated from a flame to work as a durable candleholder for the tea-lights. [0017]Embodiments of the invention will now be described by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS [0018]FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a variable candle according to the present invention. [0019]FIG. 2 is a perspective view with a vertical section of the center of the candle of FIG. 1. [0020]FIG. 3 is a partly sectional view of a mold for making the variable candle of the present invention showing a first step of molding the central core. [0021]FIG. 4 is a partly sectional view of the mold of FIG. 3 in its second step of molding surrounding layers of the variable candle. Continue reading... Full patent description for Layered candle Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims Click on the above for other options relating to this Layered candle patent application. ###  How KEYWORD MONITOR works... a FREE service from FreshPatents1. Sign up (takes 30 seconds). 2. Fill in the keywords to be monitored. 3. Each week you receive an email with patent applications related to your keywords. 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