IMPROVEMENTS IN INSTRUMENTS USED IN THE SOCKETS OF CANDLESTICKS TO SECURE CANDLES THEREIN
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Wootton, of No. 126, Westminster Bridge
Road, in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
INSTRUMENTS USED IN THE SOCKETS OF CANDLESTICKS TO SECURE CANDLES
THEREIN."
Sealed the 10th September 1867, and dated the 13th March 1867..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Wootton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 13th
March 1867.
I, WILLIAM WOOTTON, of No. 126, Westminster Bridge Road, in the
County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN INSTRUMENTS USED IN THE SOCKETS OF CANDLESTICKS TO SECURE
CANDLES THEREIN," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in instruments used in the
sockets of candlesticks to secure candles therein. For this purpose narrow
slips of stiff corrugated paper (which may be made non-ignitable) are use:1,
which will assume a conical shape when twisted together, or may be made up
in a conical shape with ridges or projections on the inner surface, so that a
candle of less diameter than the socket of a candlestick will by the use of
such paper conical instrument be centered therein, and by reason of the ridges.
or projections being compressed between the interior of the socket and the
exterior of the candle the end of the candle will be securely held in the
socket. It may be remarked that the Invention consists in the employment
of paper instruments of comparatively very small cost to facilitate the setting

page_text: up of candles in candlesticks, so as to ensure the candles being placed and
held in central positions, and yet, by reason of the very small cost of the
instruments, admit of their being thrown away after having been once used.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Wootton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th September 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
WOOTTON, of No. 126, Westminster Bridge Road, in the County of Surrey,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Wootton, Her special licence that I, the said William
Wootton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said William Wootton, 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 "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN INSTRUMENTS USED IN THE SOCKETS OF CANDLESTICKS TO SECURE
CANDLES THEREIN," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
William Wootton, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Wootton, 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:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in instruments used in the
sockets of candlesticks to secure candles therein. For this purpose narrow
slips of stiff corrugated paper (which may be made non-ignitable) are used,
which will assume a conical shape when twisted together, or may be made up

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a side view, Figure 2 a plan, and Figure 3 a perspective view
of an instrument constructed according to my Invention for securing candles
in the sockets of candlesticks. It is produced by forming a tube of paper by
lapping and pasting or gumming paper around a mandril until a thickness is
accumulated equal to that of a stout card. The tube whilst still moist is
slipped off the mandril and cut into suitable lengths; these lengths are after-
wards separately stamped into the required form by a suitable matrix or mould
and plunger, they are then dried at a gentle heat, and are ready for use. The
form of the ridges and projections may be varied, but the form shown in the
Drawing is usually preferred.
It is not essential (although I prefer it) that the instrument should be
formed as a tube, it may be open at the side, as is shown in plan at Figure 4,
and in perspective view at Figure 5, and other means may be used for giving
it the form in lieu of the mould and plunger, thus conical rollers with ridges
and projections upon them may be used, but I believe less conveniently..
In witness whereof, I, the said William Wootton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
WILLIAM WOOTTON. (L.S.)
.