AN APPARATUS FOR THE MORE USEFUL, SAFE, PLEASANT, AND ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT AND USE OF CANDLES, AND ALSO IMPROVEMENTS IN THE APPARATUS NOW IN USE FOR PART OF THE SAME ENDS
Year: 1817

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
SALMON, of Woburn, in the County of Beds, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Seventeenth day
of May, in the fifty-seventh year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the
said Robert Salmon, my exors, adñors, and assigns, His especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Robert Salmon, my exors,
adniors, and assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term of years
therein mentioned, make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN APPARATUS FOR
THE MORE USEFUL, SAFE, PLEASANT, AND ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT AND USE OF
CANDLES, AND ALSO IMPROVEMENTS IN THE APPARATUS NOW IN USE FOR PART OF
THE SAME ENDS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
that if I, the said Robert Salmon, should not particularly describe and ascer-
tain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, by an instrument in writing, under my hand and seal, and cause
the same to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages
whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly, cease, determine, and become void,
as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and
at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with. the said proviso, I, the said
Robert Salmon, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in and by the Drawings hereunto annexed, and the following
description thereof (that is to say):-
First, my apparatus for the more useful, safe, and pleasant management and
use of candles, I do denominate a candle gaurd, parlour lanthern, or reading
shade, and wax and tallów preserver.
Secondly, my improvements in the apparatus now in use are, an improved
savcall or adjusting clasp nozzle, applicable to any candlestick at pleasure, so as
to receive and firmly fix the candle without paper, and admit of the consumption
of the whole without moving or shifting of it.
Thirdly, my improvement to candlesticks is, the addition of the adjusting clasp
nozzle fixed in the socket, so as to make them hold the candle without paper, and
consume the whole; and this improvement may be added to old candlesticks.
The principle and construction of these my Inventions are described by the
following description, and Drawings thereto referring :-
Fig. 1, my candle guard and tallow preserver.-A, a slight clastic nctal
band or artificial rim to clasp the uppermost part of the candle, and by its
adhesion on the side of the candle to rest thercon. B, four or more or less
wires, fixed to the artificial rim, and bearing also on the sides of the candle,
so as to guide and ensure its perpendicular descent. C, shade, made. of glass,
paper, or any other material, resting on the lower part of the guides B, and
removable at pleasure; so as to snuff the candle without dismounting the
artificial rim. The security from fire, and from the frequent unpleasant wasto
of wax and tallow.thus. afforded must be manifest, and it will also appear
that by adding a small metal weight or ring on the guides instead of the
shade, the metal rim may be retained and used without the shade, and in
this way any number of candles, at a trifling expence, may be preserved from
guttering. To understand this my Invention, and distinguish it from other
propositions for burning of candles under caps of metal, it should-be known
that-those-have square or sperical tops, with holes in them for admitting the
wicks to pass, and those rest on the top of the candle and melting tallow, and
descending as the fluid tallow consumes and runs under the cap to the wick,
whilst this my Invention has no such top, nor rests on the fluid tallow, but
consists of an artificial. rim to the candle, entirely open at the top, with a clasp
joint in the circumference, admitting of it to expand or contract, and by its
elasticity bearing on the circumference of the candle, and adjusting itself. to
the irregularity that may happen in the size of the candle. The operation and

page_text: descent of this apparatus may be thus understood:-The artificial rim must in
all cases be somewhat less than the candle for which it is intended, it being
forced on the top of the candle; the guide wires will open the rim till it slips
on the candle, where it will rests till the heat of the flame, the weight of the
shade, and elasticity of the band, do equalize themselves, force down the rim,
and concenter the tallow towards the wick.
Fig. 2, the improved saveall or adjusting candle holder.-A, the nozzle of
my candlestick; B, metal cone, tapped and screwed all thro' its center; C,
metal cap, armed with three small points to receive the bottom of the candle,
and a screw fixed fast in its center to screw into the cone B; D, three or
more metal clasps movable on pins in the cup C.
Fig. 3, the improvement to candlesticks.-A, nozzle of the candlestick; B,
cone the same as to the savcall, but fixed in the nozzle of the candlestick ;
C, cup as to the savcall; D, metal clasps as to saveall; E, the candle.
The difference in Figs. 2 and 3 is that the saveall is moveable and applicable
to any candlestick, and Fig. 3 is fixed and part of the candlestick. To use
the savcall or candlestick it is only necessary to turn back the cup and clasps,
so that the cone admits the clasps to open freely to receive the bottom of the
candle; this done, it is only necessary to turn the candle forward and it will
become firmly fixed; and if wanted to be taken out, by turning it the reverse
way it will immediately come out; and as in either case the candle may be
retained wholly above the socket of the candlestick, it is manifest that the
candle may be entirely consumed without removing of it.
In witness whercof, I, the said Robert Salmon, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Eleventh day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and covontoon.
ROBERT (L.s.) SALMON.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eleventh day of November,
in the year of our Lord 1817, the aforesaid Robert Salmon came before our
O said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twelfth day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventeen.