Picture a stack of tea candles interlinked so they can rotate
on a central hub.
Now put the wicks of all these stacked candles off center to
that hub.
To use it, you'd dial the time you wanted the candle to burn
by lining up however many wicks you wanted. if each
candle
segment burned
30 minutes for instance, you'd dial 4
candle
wicks in alignment with each other for the candle to burn
for
2 hours.
Dial a candle. A solution in search of a problem? Maybe, but
it
would work.