CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CANDLES
Year: 1845

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DOMINIC
FRICK ALBERT, of Manchester; in the County of Lancaster, Doctor of Laws,
send greeting..
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date, at
Westminster, the Seventh day of April, in the eighth of the reign, and
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-five, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said.
Dominic Frick Albert, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and,
authority, that I, the said Dominic Frick Albert, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, and such others as I, the said. Dominic Frick Albert, my execu->
tors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make,, use, exercise, and vend, within England
and Wales and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in all the Islands of:
Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Man, and also within all Her Majesty's
Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CANDLES;" in which said Letters Patent, is contained
a proviso that I, the said Dominic Frick Albert, shall cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same

page_text: is to be performed, to be enrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months, next and immediately after the date of the said in
part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto
had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Dominic Frick Albert, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following explanation thereof (that
is to say):
My Improvements in the Manufacture of Candles consist,―
Firstly, in dipping an ordinary moulded candle (either made of pure tallow,
or any other composition or combination of materials) into the following
mixture; and,
Secondly, in the use or employment of the chief ingredient of such mixture
as applied to the manufacture of candles.
Take three parts, by weight, of gum damar (pinus dammara), which is a
colorless resinous gum, two parts of wax. or spermaceti, and one part of tallow,
melted together. The temperature required to melt these ingredients (which
are to be used as a coating or varnish) being higher than that to meet the
body of the candle, whether made of pure tallow, stearine, or composite of
any description; these candles burn with a rim or cup similar to that of
a wax candle, and to which they are equal in color, gloss, feeling, and
hardness.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner. in.
which the same is to be carried into. practical effect, I desire it to be under-
stood that I claim as my Invention, as secured to me by virtue of the above.
recited Letters Patent,-
Firstly, the dipping of a mould candle into the above-named mixture (or
that which is so near it in qualities as to have a similar effect), for the
purpose of coating or varnishing the candle, as aforesaid.
Secondly, the use of gum damar in my coating; wax, or varnish; and,
Lastly, the use of gum damar either in the body or coating of any kind. or
sort of candles whatever.
In witness whereof, I, the said Dominic Frick Albert, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-five..
V. •
DOMINIC FRICK (L.S.)
(L.S.) ALBERT.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Sixth day of October, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Dominic Frick Albert came before
our Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.
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