AN IMPROVEMENT IN WICKS FOR CANDLES AND NIGHT LIGHTS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Clarke, of 55, Albany Street, Regent's
Park, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN WICKS FOR CANDLES AND
NIGHT LIGHTS."
Sealed the 12th February 1858, and dated the 9th December 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Clarke at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th December 1857.
I, SAMUEL CLARKE, of 55, Albany Street, Regent's Park, do hereby declare
the nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN WICKS FOR CANDLES AND
NIGHT LIGHTS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in wicks for candles and
night lights. For this purpose, in using rushes for wicks the bark is partly
removed on two opposite sides, and the rush is divided or nearly divided
longitudinally, so that in burning the two parts turn out from each other,
and from the flame; or each rush may be divided longitudinally into more
than two parts, so that when used as a wick in a candle or night light the
parts will turn outwards from the flame and from each other.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Clarke in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th June 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
CLARKE, of 55, Albany Street, Regent's Park, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Samuel Clarke, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel Clarke,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Samuel Clarke, my 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, use,
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 WICKS FOR CANDLES AND NIGHT LIGHTS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Samuel Clarke, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
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 Samuel Clarke, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the; following
statement thereof, that is to say
This Invention has for its object an improvement in wicks for, candles, and
night lights. For this purpose, in, using, rushes for wicks the bark is partly
removed on. two opposite sides; and the, rush, is divided or nearly divided
longitudinally, so that in burning, the two parts turnout from each other
and from the flame; or each rush may be divided longitudinally into more
than two parts,, so, that, when used, as a wick in a candle, or night light the
parts will turn outwards from the flame and from each other.
Having thus stated the, nature of my. Invention,, I will proceed more fully
to describe the manner of performing the same.
If a candle is to consist of two wicks, then the rush or part of the rush to
be used is to have the bark removed on its two opposite sides, leaving the

page_text: bark on the other two opposite sides. The rush is also to be divided or nearly
divided by a longitudinal cut or cuts along the sides where the bark has been
removed, and the wick is then to be made up into a candle or a night light,
in the ordinary manner, by which the two surfaces where the bark remains
will cause the wicks to turn out of the flame.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Clarke, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
CHARLES RABNOTT.
SAM CLARKE. (L.S.)