IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NIGHT LIGHTS AND THEIR CASES
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Fergusson Wilson of Belmont, Vaux-
hall, in the County of Surrey, Managing Director of Price's Patent
Candle Company, and James Freeman Lee, of the same place, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NIGHT
LIGHTS AND THEIR CASES."
Sealed the 27th May 1853, and dated-the 1st April 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Fergusson
Wilson and James Freeman Lee at the Office of the Commis-
sioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 1st April 1853.
We, GEORGE FERGUSSON WILSON, of Belmont, Vauxhall, in the County
of Surrey, Managing Director of Price's Patent Candle Company, and
JAMES FREEMAN LEE, of the same place, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NIGHT
LIGHTS AND THEIR CASES" to be as follows:-
Two descriptions of night lights are now in extensive use; one which
is made by the material being poured into a paper casing or box, in
which it is burnt; the other, which is moulded without a casing, and
which is burnt in a glass. Our Invention consists in constructing and
applying a case which takes little room, like the paper case; is incom-
bustible, and capable of being used over and over again, like the glass
one. We prefer to employ either a thin casing of metal, or a paper
casing, with a thin metal lining; and: to manufacture the night-light

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Fergusson Wilson and James Freeman
Lee, in the Great Seal- Patent Office, on the 1st October 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
GEORGE FERGUSSON WILSON, of Belmont, Vauxhall, in the County of
Surrey, Managing Director of Price's Patent Candle Company, and
JAMES FREEMAN LEE, of the same place, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of April, in the year of our
Lord One- thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the sixteenth
year of 'Her reign; did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said George Fergusson Wilson and James Freeman
Lee, Her special licence that we, the said George Fergusson Wilson
and James Freeman Lee, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we; the said George Fergusson Wilson and James
Freeman Lee, 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
inake, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an In-
vention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NIGHT LIGHTS AND
THEIR CASES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
George Fergusson Wilson and James Freeman Lee, by an instrument
in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one
of us, 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 in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Fergusson Wilson, for
myself, and the said James Freeman Lee, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention; and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:
:

page_text: Two descriptions of night lights are now in extensive use; one,
which is made by the material being poured into a paper casing or box
in which it is burnt; the other, which is moulded without a casing, and
which is burnt in a glass. Our Invention consists in constructing and
applying a case which takes little room, like the paper case; is incom-
bustible, and capable of being used over and over again, like the glass one.
We prefer to employ either a thin casing of metal, or a paper casing with
a thin metal lining; and to manufacture the night-light material of a
rather higher melting point than that ordinarily employed.
Having thus stated the nature of our said Invention, we will proceed
to describe the manner of performing the same.
We employ thin metal for making the boxes or vessels in which
night lights are made; for this purpose, we cause thin metal to be
raised by stamping or by pressing, as is well understood in making
capsules for covering bottles and other uses; and such thin metal may
be of a strength suitable to retain its figure when subjected to the
ordinary usage of night lights; or the metal may simply constitute the
lining of a paper box; in which case, the lining may be of very thin
tin, or it may be of other metal, raised to a proper form, and introduced
into paper boxes as a lining. By thus using metal cases in the manu-
facture of night lights, the same may be used over again and again;
and they are incombustible. We also prefer that the matters should
melt at a higher temperature than those ordinarily employed; and
for this purpose we add about one per cent. of the vegetable wax of the
Brazils.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Fergusson Wilson, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of September,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
GEO. F. WILSON. (L.S.)
Witness, JNO. ALCOCK.