A NOSSEL AND CANDLESTICK
Year: 1768

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHRISTOPHER
PINCHBECK, of Cockspur Street, in the Parish of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, in
the County of Middlesex, Toyman and Mechanician, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Christopher Pinchbeck, did, by my Petition, humbly
represent to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that
I had, with infinite application, loss, expence, and attention in the course of
constructing several curious and useful pieces of mechanism, which I had
thitherto always given to the publick, invented and compleated "A NOSSEL
AND CANDLESTICK," of so singular, beneficial, and different a construction
from anything for the purpose of holding candles now in use, that I had
been advised to introduce it to the publick; and as I believed it would
be of great utility and benefit to His said Majesty's subjects, I being the first
Inventor thereof, I most humbly prayed His said Majesty to grant unto me, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for the sole
benefit and advantage of my said Invention, within that part of His said
Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years, according
to the Statute in that case made and provided; His said Majesty, being
willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions which might be for
the publick good, was graciously pleased to condescend to my request, and
therefore, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the
Twenty-ninth day of February, in the eighth year of His reign, of His
especial grace, certain knowledge, aud meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, did give and grant unto me, the said Christopher Pinchbeck, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that I, the said Christopher Pinchbeck, my exe-

page_text: cutors, administrators, and assigns, and every of us, by myself and ourselves,
or by mine and our deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I,
the said Christopher Pinchbeck, my executors, administrators, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention, within that part of His
Majesty's said Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the
said Christopher Pinchbeck, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any
of us, should in our discretions seem meet; and that I, the said Christopher
Pinchbeck, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might
have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time
to time coming, growing, accrewing, and arising, by reason of the said Invention,
for and during the term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise,
and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-before
granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Christopher Pinchbeck,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end
and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and
immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the
Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso that if I, the said Christopher Pinchbeck, should not
particularly describe and ascertain 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 inrolled in His said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within four 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, should utterly
cease, determine, and become void, anything therein-before contained to the
contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters
Patent (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Christopher Pinchbeck, in complianco
with the said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of the afore-
said Invention, and declare that the same is to be performed in manner
following (that is to say):-
To the pan of the candlestick, which is the same as to every other hand
candlestick, is fixt a bow or arm, which arises about five inches above the
bottom of the pan, and at the end of which bow or arm, exactly over the center
of the pan, is a round hole, about three quarters of an inch diameter, which stands
parallel with the pan. Then the socket which holds the nossel has half a

page_text: globe at its bottom, which plays in the said hole; and having a wire screwed into
the center of this half globe, at the lower end of which wire is fastned a flat
weight, which must weigh about two ounces more than the largest candle you
intend to use, it will always keep the candle upright, though the candlestick
be held out of flatt, and by this means the dropping wax or tallow on the floor
is prevented.
This is the whole of the Invention in regard to the candlestick, except that
it may be suspended on a point instead of the half globe; and the upright
wire, with the lead to it, may be a flat piece, peirct to hold a pair of snuffers
and extinguisher, as some I have made are; and likewise, by fastning the pan
itself to the upright wire, and having a loose handle, with the aforesaid hole of
three quarters of an inch at the end of it, it answers the same purpose in the
band, without the weight.
As to the nossel, it has pieces of watch springs fixt both withinside or with-
out, or both, to hold the nossel firm in the socket, and the candle in the nossel
quite firm, without being papered, though the candles are of different sizes.
These springs are fastned on with screws, and pass through holes made in the
nossel to keep them from accidents.
In witness whereof, I, the said Christopher Pinchbeck, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight, and in the eighth
year of the reign of His said Majesty King George the Third, of
Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and so forth.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Twenty-fifth day of June, in
the year last above written, the aforesaid Christopher Pinchbeck came before
the said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the above In-
strument, 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, and so forth.