IMPROVEMENTS IN THE INSTRUMENTS OR-APPARATUS USED WHEN BURNING CANDLES
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Fergusson Wilson, of Belmont, Vaux-
hall, Managing Director of Price's Patent Candle Company, and
Edward Partridge, of Wandsworth, Gentleman, for thé Invention
of IMPROVEMENTS IN THE INSTRUMENTS OR-APPARATUS USED WHEN
BURNING CANDLES."
Sealed the 17th January 1853, and dated the 30th October 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Fergusson
Wilson and Edward Partridge at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents, with their Petition, on the 30th October 1852.
We, GEORGE FERGUSSON WILSON, of Belmont, Vauxhall, Managing
Director of Price's Patent Candle Company, and EDWARD PARTRIDGE,
of Wandsworth, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE INSTRUMENTS OR APPARATUS USED::
WHEN BURNING CANDLES" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of forming tubes of glass, china, or other
materials, with the upper parts formed into suitable nozzels for burning
candles therein, the lower ends being so formed as to have the candles
introduced there, together with springs and apparatus for raising the

page_text: candles up to the nozzels, the lower ends being also formed suitably for
being placed in a candlestick, whereby the flame in each case will at all
times be at the same elevation, in like manner to a candle lamp. The
exterior surfaces of such candle cases may be made to represent candles,
or be ornamented or otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Fergusson Wilson and Edward Partridge
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 30th April 1853.*
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
GEORGE FERGUSSON WILSON, of Belmont, Vauxhall, Managing Director
of Price's Patent Candle Company, and EDWARD PARTRIDGE, of Wands-
worth, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the six-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said George Fergusson Wilson and Edward
Partridge, Her special licence that we, the said George Fergusson
Wilson and Edward Partridge, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said George Fergusson Wilson and
Edward Partridge, our 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE INSTRUMENTS OR APPARATUS
USED WHEN BURNING CANDLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said George Fergusson Wilson and Edward Partridge, or one
of us, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under
the hand and seal of one of us, should particularly describe and ascer-
tain the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great

page_text: Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent..
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said George Fergusson Wilson and
Edward Partridge, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof,
that is to say:
This Invention consists of forming tubes of glass, china, or other
materials, with the upper parts formed into suitable nozels for burning
candles therein, the lower ends being so formed as to have the candles
introduced there, together with springs and apparatus for raising the
candles sup to the nozels; the lower ends being also formed suitably for.
being placed in a candlestick, whereby the flame in each case will at all
times be at the same elevation, in like manner to a candle lamp. The
exterior surfaces of such candle cases may be made to represent candles,
or be ornamented or otherwise.
And in order that our Invention may be more fully understood we
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent..
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said George Fergusson Wilson and
Edward Partridge, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof,
that is to say:
This Invention consists of forming tubes of glass, china, or other
materials, with the upper parts formed into suitable nozels for burning
candles therein, the lower ends being so formed as to have the candles
introduced there, together with springs and apparatus for raising the
candles up to the nozels; the lower ends being also formed suitably for.
being placed in a candlestick, whereby the flame in each case will at all
times be at the same elevation, in like manner to a candle lamp. The
exterior surfaces of such candle cases may be made to represent candles,
or be ornamented or otherwise.
And in order that our Invention may be more fully understood we
will proceed to describe the means pursued by us..
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, is an external view of an apparatus constructed and com-
bined according to our Invention. Figure 2, is a section thereof. a, is
the external case, which we prefer to be made of white opaque glass,
but it may be of china or other material, and is formed or contracted
at the upper end into the shape shewn; b, is a metal tube, within which
is the spring c, and into which tube the candle is placed, and within
which it is slided by the spring as it is consumed; and we would state
that we prefer that this tube b,should ascend nearly to the upper part
of the tube a, as is shewn, though this is not essential. This tube. at

page_text: make no claim to any of the parts separately; but what we claim is,
the mode of constructing and combining the parts as herein described.
In witness whereof, we, the said George Fergusson Wilson and
Edward Partridge, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Twenty-ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thou-
sand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Witness,
JNO. G. ALCOCK.
GEO. F. WILSON.
(L.S.)
EDWARD PARTRIDGE.