CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN SNUFFERS
Year: 1839

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
GREENWAY, of Douglas, in the Isle of Man, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Fifth day of September, in the third year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Charles Greenway, Her especial licence, that I, the said Charles Greenway,
my exors, adiñors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Green-
way, my exors, admors, or 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, Wales, and the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN SNUFFERS;" in which said Letters Patent there
is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Charles Greenway, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
fornied, and to cause the same to be enrolled in Her said 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, may more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Charles Greenway, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention to
consist in a well or box or receptacle formed in and under the box or main
part of the snuffers, for receiving and securely or safely retaining the candle
snuff in, and which well or box may be added to many kinds of snuffers
now in use.
And in further compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Charles
Greenway, do hereby describe the manner in which my said Invention is to
be performed, by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
Drawing annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, similar
letters being used to denote similar parts in all the Figures.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is an elevation of my snuffers. The lower portion of the box,
which I have marked A, B, C, D, is the well or receptacle for the candle
snuff; Figure 2 is a plan of my snuffers, shewn with the upper part
E, F, G, H (of Figure 1), removed; Figure 3 is cross section of my
snuffers taken at the line J, K (on Figures 1 and 2). The door or cutter L
is here closed, having cut and removed the snuff' M from the candle N, and
the snuff M is seen falling into the well or receptacle A, B, C, D, where, by
the depth and shape of the well, it is securely retained, and cannot fall out
on a subsequent snuffing of the candle; but it may easily be shaken out
when the quantity of snuff has accumulated more or less, so as to render its
removal desirable, the easiest way of doing which is by merely opening the
door or cutter L, and shaking out the loose snuff. In the operation of snuff-
ing, the door L, acting on the edge of the plate O, cuts the wick, pushes the
snuff inward until the snuff falls into the well. And I declare that I do
not claim as my Invention any other well than the one above described, and
herein-after more distinctly claimed.. But I do claim as my Invention the
application of a well of the above description, placed so far from the line
where the snuff is cut off the candle, that the said well shall be clear of
the melted or soft tallow or wax or other candle when the snuffers are in
operation.
I claim the well for .holding the snuff loosely when the said well is made
with such an angle O, P, Q, as shall preserve the side P, Q, parallel or nearly
parallel with, but not in contact with the side of the candle S, T, in the act
of snuffing. And I claim the same, whether the said well be made of a
rectangular figure or other figure, and whether the said well be provided with
any sliding door at its bottom, or other contrivance for removal of the snuff.

page_text: And I claim the same, whatever be the shape and general appearance of the
other parts of the snuffers common to such instruments.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Greenway, have hereunto set my
band and seal, this Twenty-eight day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight bundred and forty.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the
said Charles Greenway, on the
Twenty-eight day of February, in
CHARLES (L.B.) GREENWAY.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of February,
in the year of our Lord 1840, the aforesaid Charles Greenway came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her 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 stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.