AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NIGHT LIGHT BOXES OR CASES
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Westerton, of Earl's Court Road, Brompton,
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF NIGHT LIGHT BOXES OR CASES."
Sealed the 14th July 1854, and dated the 21st January 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Westerton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 21st
January 1854.
I, JOHN WESTERTON, of Earl's Court Road, Brompton, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NIGHT LIGHT BOXES OR CASES" to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object the manufacture of the boxes or cases for
night lights, by employing pipe or other suitable clay. For this purpose I
mould or form boxes or cases of pipe or other clay with bottoms and receivers
or holders for the wicks, all complete; or I mould them without bottoms or
holders for the wicks, and when dry the boxes or cases are to be burned or
fired. By this means cheap night light boxes or cases may be made which
are not combustible, and are therefore more safe than boxes or cases made of
paper.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Westerton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st July 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
WESTERTON, of Earl's Court Road, Brompton, in the County of Middlesex,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said John Westerton, Her special licence that I, the said John
Westerton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said John Westerton, 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 "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NIGHT LIGHT BOXES OR CASES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Westerton, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, 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 John Westerton, 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 the manufacture of the boxes or cases for
night lights, by employing pipe or other suitable clay. For this purpose I
mould or form boxes or cases of pipe or other clay with bottoms and receivers
or holders for the wicks, all complete; or I mould them without bottoms or
holders for the wicks, and when dry the boxes or cases are: to be burned or
fired. By this means cheap night light boxes or cases may be made, which
are not combustible, and are therefore more safe than boxes or cases made of
paper.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed to
describe the manner of performing the same.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows the section of a night light box or case made of clay, it
being made with a holder for the wick. In making a night light the wick is
placed in the holder, and the material for the night light is run in in the
melted state. These clay boxes or cases I prefer to mould by moulds, such as
are shewn at Figure 2, and I prefer the use of pipe clay to other clay; and
having moulded and dried the clay boxes or cases, they are burned or fired as
heretofore when making the articles of like clay.
Figure 3 shews a box or case moulded or formed without a bottom, and
which I prefer to express in the form of a tube from a moulding orifice, such
as is shewn at Figure 4, to be afterwards cut into suitable lengths, and when
burned or fired, night lights are made in them by introducing wick holders, in
like manner to that practised when making night lights in boxes or cases of
paper without bottoms.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself
to the methods described for making suitable boxes or cases of clay to be
used in the manufacture of night lights, as other forms of moulds or apparatus
may be employed, and the form of the box or case may be varied from those
shown. What I claim is, the manufacture of the night light boxes or cases
of pipe or other clay.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Westerton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Witness,
W. CARPMAEL, JUN.
JOHN WESTERTON. (L.S.)