IMPROVEMENTS IN CANDLES AND NIGHT LIGHTS, AND IN THE TREATMENT OF MATERIALS THEREFOR.
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Absalom Elijah Webb, of No. 3, Redman's Row,
Stepney, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CANDLES AND NIGHT LIGHTS, AND IN THE TREATMENT OF
MATERIALS THEREFOR.
"
Sealed the 15th April 1873, and dated the 27th February 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Absalom Elijah Webb
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 27th February 1878.
I, ABSALOM ELIJAH WEBB, of No. 8, Redman's Row, Stepney, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CANDLES And Night LighTS, AND IN THE TREATMENT OF
MATERIALS THEREFOR," to be as follows :-
My Invention consists in the production of candles and night lights
which in burning shall give off gases or vapours of a disinfecting
O nature by mixing with the candle material chloride of iodine, or
carbolic acid crystals, or other suitable known substances that will mix
with the candle material, and that in burning will give off gases or

page_text: vapours of a disinfecting character. For this purpose I prefer to mix
with every pound weight of candle material about one drachm, more or
less, of chloride of iodine, or carbolic acid crystals, or other disinfecting
material, such as before mentioned, and I also sometimes add a small
quantity of scent to the material so that the candle in burning will give 5
off a pleasant perfume as well as the disinfecting gases before mentioned.
Candles and night lights prepared according to my Invention will be
found very desirable for a sick room, and will serve the double purpose
of lighting and disinfecting.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Absalom Elijah Webb in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 16th May 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ABSALOM
ELIJAH WEBB, of No. 8, Redman's Row, Stepney, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Absalom Elijah Webb, Her special license
that I, the said Absalom Elijah Webb, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Absalom Elijah Webb,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN CANDLES AND NIGHT LIGHTS, AND IN THE TREATMENT OF MATERIALS,”
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Absalom Elijah
Webb, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Absalom Elijah Webb, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in the production of candles and night lights
which in burning shall give off gases or vapors of a disinfecting
nature by mixing with the candle material chloride of iodine, or carbolic
acid crystals, or other suitable known substances that will mix with the
candle material, and that in burning will give off gases or vapours of a
disinfecting character. For this purpose I prefer to mix with every
pound weight of candle material about one drachm, more or less, of
chloride of iodine, or carbolic acid crystals, or other disinfecting material,
such as before mentioned, and I also sometimes add a small quantity of
scent to the material so that the candle in burning will give off a
pleasant perfume as well as the disinfecting gases before mentioned.
Candles and night lights prepared according to my Invention will be
found very desirable for a sick room, and will serve the double purpose
of lighting and disinfecting.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I
do not claim the admixture of scents with candle material as I am
aware that this has been done before; but I claim, the manufacture of
candles and night lights which in burning shall give off gases or vapors
of a disinfecting nature by mixing with the candle material chlorido of
iodine, or carbolic acid crystals, or other suitable substances that in
burning will give off gases or vapours of a disinfecting character, sub-
stantially as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Absalom Elijah Webb, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of May, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.