AN IMPROVED MODE OF PACKING CANDLES FOR THE MARKET
Year: 1877

page_text: : LETTERS PATENT to Charles Thomas, of the City of Bristol, Merchant, for
the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MODE OF PACKING CANDLES FOR THE
MARKET"
Sealed the 29th April 1878, and dated the 5th November 1877.
Sealed the 29th April 1878, and dated the 5th November 1877.
T
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Thomas at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th November 1877.
CHARLES THOMAS, of the City of Bristol, Merchant.
PACKING CANDLES FOR THE MARKET."
"AN IMPROVED MODE OF
The chief object of this Invention is to facilitate the packing up of mould candles
in packages of one or more pounds.
Hitherto the plan has been to lay them in an adjustable frame, and pile them up
so as to form an hexagonal or other convenient figure, then to secure them in this
position by a band, and to cover them by folding over the packet, first, a lining
paper, and then an outside paper, which operation not only requires considerable skill
in the operators to perform the work rapidly, but also necessitated the use of
considerably more paper than was absolutely needed to embrace the packet.
I now propose to assemble the candles in a sliding frame, piling them up into a
hexagonal or other desired form, and without applying a band for giving the packet
a temporary cohesion, to insert them at once in a wrapper which will maintain the
form of the assembled candles, and serve also to cover them like the wrapping
papers before mentioned. In doing this I avail myself of the taper form of the
candles which have a larger diameter at the butt than at the pointed end, and I
form for the reception of the packets taper-shaped sleeve envelopes, some three or
more inches longer than the candles to be packed, and of two thicknesses of paper,
the inner or lining paper falling somewhat short of the edges of the outer paper.
The piled packet of candles which in the frame I present endwise to the opened out
sleeve envelope, the pointed end of candles entering the larger end of the envelope;
then by pushing forward the candles I slide them readily into the envelope, which
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page_text: by its gradually contracting form binds tightly upon them and holds them firmly in
place. The open ends of the sleeve envelope are then folded inwards, and the candles
are secured in the form of a neat package ready for the market.
Besides the facility
of working and the saving of paper thus ensured, an incidental advantage is
provided in the fact that when the package is opened by the purchaser, the candles
may be withdrawn as required without the remainder falling abroad.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Charles Thomas in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd May
1878.
"
CHARLES THOMAS, of the City of Bristol, Merchant. AN IMPROVED MODE OF
PACKING CANDLES FOR THE MARKET."
:.
The chief object of this Invention is to facilitate the packing up of mould candles
in packages of one or more pounds.
Hitherto the plan has been to lay them in an adjustable frame, and fill them up
so as to form an hexagonal or other convenient figure, and then to secure them in
this position by a band, and to cover them by folding over the packet, first, a
lining paper, and then an outside paper, which operation not only requires con-
siderable skill in the operator to perform the work rapidly, but also necessitates
the use of considerably more paper than was absolutely needed. to embrace the
packet.
I now propose to assemble the candles in a sliding frame, filling them up into a
hexagonal or other desired form, as shewn in the accompanying Drawing, Fig. 1, and
without applying a band for giving the packet a temporary. cohesion, I insert them
at once in a wrapper which will maintain the form of the assembled candles and
serve also to cover them like the wrapping papers before mentioned. In doing this
I avail myself of the taper form of the candles which have a larger diameter at the
butt than at the pointed end, as is clearly shewn in the plan view, Fig. 2, and I form
for the reception of the packets taper-shaped sleeve envelopes, some three or more
inches longer than the candles to be packed, and of two thicknesses of paper, the
inner or lining paper falling somewhat short of the edges of the outer paper; Fig. 3
shews in plan view one of these envelopes. The filled packet of candles while in
the frame I present endwise to the opened out sleeve envelope the pointed end of
the candles entering the larger end of the envelope; then by pushing forward the
candles I slide them readily into the envelope which by its gradually contracting
form binds tightly upon them, and holds them firmly in place. The open ends of
the sleeve envelope are then folded inwards, and the candles are secured in the form
of a neat package ready for the market. Besides the facility of working and the
saving of paper thus secured, an incidental advantage is presented by the fact that
when the package is opened by the purchaser, the candles may be withdrawn as
required without the remainder becoming disarranged.
Having now set forth the nature of my Invention for "An Improved Mode of
Packing Candles for the Market," and explained the manner of carrying the same

page_text: into effect, I wish it to be understood that under the above in part recited Letters
Patent, I claim the mode herein-described of securing candles in packages suitable
for the market.
In witness whereof, I, the Charles Thomas, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, the Second day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight.
CHARLES THOMAS. (L.S.)