AN IMPROVEMENT IN CANDLESTICKS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Abel Carter, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Tin Plate Worker, and Charles Robert Edward Grubb,
of Dalston, in the County of Middlesex, Accountant, for the
Tantion of is A- T
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Abel Carter and Charles
Robert Edward Grubb at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 2nd January 1869.
We, ABEL CARTER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Tin
Plate Worker, and CHARLES ROBERT EDWARD GRUBB, of Dalston, in
the County of Middlesex, Accountant, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN CANDLESTICKS," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists in providing candlesticks with a receptacle
for a supply of matches, so that should the candle be extinguished
the means of re-igniting it are always at hand.
In making flat candlesticks, for instance, we form a suitable box or
receptacle for matches at the bottom of the central stem or holder which

page_text: is mounted thereupon, said box being fixed at the centre of the tray
forming the base of the candlestick. This box, which may be of any
convenient shape, we prefer to provide with a hinged lid at one or both
ends, which lid may be inclined and also carry the friction surface.
By this means the danger of dropping matches when carried loosely in
the tray, as hitherto is obviated, whilst the means of igniting the candle
are always at hand. Other kinds of candlesticks may also be similarly
provided with a match receptacle placed in the foot or pedestal.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Abel Carter and. Charles Robert Edward Grubb 1
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st July 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ABEL
CARTER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Tin Plate Worker,
and CHARLES ROBERT EDWARD GRUBB, of Dalston, in the County of.
Middlesex, Accountant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Abel Carter and Charles Robert Edward
Grubb, Her special licence that I, the said Abel Carter and Charles
Robert Edward Grubb, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or.
such others as we, the said Abel Carter and Charles Robert Edward
Grubb, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
usc, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, 'the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN CANDLESTICKS," upon the condition (amongst others).
that we, the said Abel Carter and Charles Robert Edward Grubb,
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
our, or their, or one of their hands and scals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed.
1

page_text: in the Great Seal Patent Offico within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Abel Carter and Charles Robert
Edward Grubb, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and,
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described.
and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had
to the Sheet of Drawings hercunto annexed, and to the letters and
figures marked thereon (that is to say):
Our Invention consists in providing candlesticks with a receptaclo:
for containing a supply of matches, so that should the candlò be
extinguished the means of re-igniting it may bo always at hand.
In making flat candlesticks, for instance, we provido a suitablo box
or receptacle for matches at the bottom of the central stem or holdor
(the latter being mounted thereupon), said box being fixed at the centro
of the tray forming the base of the candlestick. This box, which may
bo of any convenient shape, we prefer to provide with a hinged lid at
one or both ends, while the lid may be inclined and also carry the
friction surface. By means of this improvement the danger of dropping
matches when carried loosely on the tray as heretofore is obviated,
whilst the means of igniting the candle are always at hand. Other
kinds of candlesticks may also be similarly provided with a match-
receptacle placed in the foot or pedestal.

page_text: prevent accidental ignition of the contents of said box. Instead of
hinging the lid or lids they may be attached to the box by sliding or
in any other suitable manner.
In Figures 3 and 4 our Invention is shown as applied to a pedestal
candlestick. a is the match box as before mounted on or forming part
of the base or foot of the candlestick. The box is shown octagonal in
shape, but it may be made of any other convenient form and more or
less ornamental as desired. The match box is provided with one or more
lids d for closing the opening through which access is had to the
matches e shown in red lines.
Having described the nature of our Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, we declare that what we claim as our Invention
to be protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,
the combination of a match box or receptacle- and candlestick, sub-
stantially as shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Abel Carter, for myself and on
behalf of the said Charles Robert Edward Grubb, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.