A NEW KIND OF STEEL CANDLE SHUFFERS AND STAND, WHICH, BY MEANS OF SECRET SPRINGS ARTIFICIALLY DISPOSED, MAKE THEM BY FAR THE MOST CURIOUS, NEAT, AND USEFUL MACHINE OF THE KIND EVER EXHIBITED, AND ALSO THE CALCULATED AND CONTRIVED FOR PREVENTING DANGER BY FIRE, C A SEC SP TO SECURE A WA
Year: 1749

page_text: CARTWRIGHTS SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL. TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
CARTWRIGHT, of the Strand, in the Parish of Saint Martin's-in-the-Fields, in
the County of Middlesex, Steel Toymaker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Sacred Majesty George the Second, by the grace of
God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &
so forth, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain,
bearing date at Westminster, the Thirty-first day of January last past, reciting
that whereas the said Benjamin Cartwright had, by his Petition, humbly
represented to His said Majesty that he had, after long study, application, and
great expence, invented and brought to perfection "A NEW KIND OF STEEL
CANDLE SHUFFERS AND STAND, WHICH, BY MEANS OF SECRET SPRINGS ARTIFICIALLY
DISPOSED, MAKE THEM BY FAR THE MOST CURIOUS, NEAT, AND USEFUL MACHINE
OF THE KIND EVER EXHIBITED, AND ALSO THE BEST CALCULATED AND CONTRIVED
FOR PREVENTING DANGER BY FIRE, AS THEY, BY ONLY OPENING THEM, CUTT OFF
THE SHUFF OF THE CANDLE, AND RETAIN IT SO CLOSE THAT IT CAN NEITHER SETT
FIRE TO ANYTHING BY ITS SCATTERING, NOR BE OTHERWISE THE LEAST DANGEROUS
OR OFFENSIVE; ALSO, BY MEANS OF THESE SECRET SPRINGS, IMMEDIATELY DISCHARGE
THEMSELVES WITHOUT TROUBLE OR SOILING THE FINGERS, AND THEIR POLISH,
WHICH IS EXCEEDING BRIGHT AND ELEGANT, MAY BE LONGER PRESERVED THAN
ANYTHING OF THIS NATURE NOW IN USE, AS THEY REQUIRE LITTLE HANDLING.
THAT HE HAD LIKEWISE POUND OUT AND BROUGHT TO PERFECTION A SECRET
SPRING TO SECURE A WATCH, EITHER IN THE FOB POCKETT OF A MAN OR
HANGING BY A LADY'S SIDE, WHICH WILL PROVE A VERY USEFUL AND COMMO-

page_text: DIOUS SAGEGUARD TO PREVENT THE LOSS OF THOSE VALUABLE AND NECESSARY
CONVENIENCES;" His said Majesty did therefore, of His especial grace, certain
knowledge, and meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Benjamin Cartwright, my extors, adñiors, & assigns,
His especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, by myself
and themselves, or by mine or their deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or
such others as I, the said Benjamin Cartwright, my extors, adññiors, or
assigns, shall at any time agree with, & no others, from time to time and at
all times hereafter during the term of years therein expressed, to make, use,
exercise, and vend my said Invention within that part of the Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said Benjamin Cartwright, my
extors, admors, and assigns, or any of them, in their discretions seem meet,
to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and
advantages to me, the said Benjamin Cartwright, my extors, adñiors, and
assigns, for the term of fourteen years from the date of the said recited
Letters Patent; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I,
the said Benjamin Cartwright, should not particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of my said Inventions, and in what manner the same are to be
performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand & seale, and cause the
same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four
kalendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all libertys & advantages
thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, as by the
said Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Benjamin Cartwright, in pursuance of
the said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby describe and
ascertaine the nature of my said Inventions, and the manner in which the same
are to be performed, as follows; viz' :-
The candle suuffer is so artfully contrived that, by means of a secret spring
enclosed in a barrel annexed to the box of the said candle snuffer, and to the
bottom or back flatt thereof, the said bottom or back flatt is easily by the
finger drawn up or opened, and the snuff of the candle which is contained
within the said box instantly falls out, and the snuffer becomes clean, which
in the snuffers made heretofore the said bottom or back flatt is fixt and
immoveable. The stand for the candle snuffer is wrought into various forms
entirely new, and most beautifully and elegantly peirced.
The spring is made so that it may easily be fastened to the waistband of the

page_text: breeches, near the fobb pocket, or to a lady's petticoats, either by a string or by
two small screws, and by the man's chain falling into a loop, which, after its having
received the chain, by an easy pressure it locks so as to prevent the watch from
falling out of the fobb, or its being snatched out by pickpockets; but the person
who weareth the said spring at his will may, by touching a small knobb or button
which throws the said loop open easily, take out his watch, which before was
fastned within the fobb, and the lady, by placing the hook of her chain into
the loop above mentioned, and by the pressure as above, her watch cannot be
taken from her side unless the chain be broke, and by her touching the knobb
or button before described, will act in the same manner.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Cartwright, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourth day of April, in the twenty-second
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, by the
grace of God of Great Britain, France, & Ireland King, Defender
of the Faith, & so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and forty-nine.
JOHN DAVIS.
JACOB BANNISTER.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the said Fourth day of April, in the
year last above mentioned, the aforesaid Benjamin Cartwright came before the
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the above Instrument
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Instrument aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the
Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen
William and Mary of England, & so forth.
Inmolled the aforesaid Fourth day of Anril in the year above said