Swedish Candle Snuffer

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Swedish Candle Snuffer

Grand Illusions

2013 May 30

These candle snuffers are a neat idea that allow you to automatically extinguish a candle after a predetermined time interval. Simply slip the device onto a candle, and the spring loaded cap or lid will automatically be held in the open position. However as the candle burns down, there will come a point where the spring loaded cap will no longer be held open, and the spring will cause it to close, over the flame, and put the candle out.

You could use it to extinguish the candle after a set period of time, or as Tim suggests in the video, you could use these as a safety feature if the candles were placed in a wreath or decoration, and you didn't want the candle to burn down so far that there was a danger of setting the decoration on fire.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Pro tip: just don't put candles in wreaths or decorations, unless they are electric. . . . nt

[Old Crank]

2. Here in Munich

All, or almost all, Advent wreaths have candles. They tend to be the wide ones so I don't think this would work for them.
We also put real candles on Xmas trees.

[IronLionZion]

4. And then burn the tree down?

It sounds like that could go wrong easily

[Old Crank]

9. One has to be responsible.

The candles in the tree are lit once and only for a fairly short period of time. A couple of hours on Xmas eve. You stay in the room with a bucket of water handy.

Wreath example here:
https://www.etsy.com/de/listing/1317168833/adventskranz-weidenkranz-dauerhaft?gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_de_de_de_a-home_and_living-home_decor-wreaths_and_door_hangers-wreaths&utm_custom1=_k_Cj0KCQiAqOucBhDrARIsAPCQL1YsEKfmFqs1YH8DNd3uGIvfW1Q5g9lXFM4jde4BQWnrigtPMVKq89AaAg6rEALw_wcB_k_&utm_content=go_6481804037_77485670323_381013206153_pla-307787520145_c__1317168833dede_102852917&utm_custom2=6481804037&gclid=Cj0KCQiAqOucBhDrARIsAPCQL1YsEKfmFqs1YH8DNd3uGIvfW1Q5g9lXFM4jde4BQWnrigtPMVKq89AaAg6rEALw_wcB

[mysteryowl]

3. Fantastic!

[Prendy]

5. Can't find anywhere

These were sold out everywhere on-line. Anyone have ideas on where you can buy them?

[quaint]

7. Amazon, if you go there.

link

[mitch96]

6. This is slick.. Too simple, not "high tech" either.. Like mouse trap simple...nt

[progressoid]

8. Snuffing a candle used to mean to trim the wick so it burns better.

As in this passage from Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist:

He remained lost in thought for some minutes; and then, with a heavy sigh, snuffed the candle, and, taking up the book which the Jew had left with him, began to read.

Here is a candle snuffer:



And from the Oxford English Dictionary

1. a. trans. To free (a candle, wick, etc.) from the snuff, by pinching or cutting this off, or removing it with a special instrument.
1887 T. A. Trollope What I Remember I. i. 26 Two tallow candles, requiring to be snuffed by snuffers lying in a little plated tray.

[rubbersole]

10. Looks like something Ben Franklin would have invented.

Clever.