IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR BURNING NIGHT LIGHTS OR MORTARS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Clarke, of 55, Albany Street, Regent's Park,
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR BURNING NIGHT LIGHTS OR MORTARS."
Sealed the 18th December 1857, and dated the 29th September 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Clarke at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
29th September 1857.
I, SAMUEL CLARKE, of 55, Albany Street, Regent's Park, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR BURNING NIGHT LIGHTS OR MORTARS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for burning
night lights or mortars. For these purposes a tray, with raised sides with a
handle, is formed of such size as to conveniently receive in the centre of it the
small dish containing water, in which a night light or mortar is placed. The
dish is raised off the bottom of the tray by studs, and when the night light or
mortar is placed in a glass the studs receive the bottom of the glass between.
them. The turned up or raised edges of the tray are made suitable to act as
a gallery for a glass which is cylindrical, and is made with a comparatively
small hole at the domed top. The gallery is perforated with numerous small
holes, so as to supply air to the interior of the glass, which is nearly as large
in diameter as the tray. By this combination the light may be carried about
freely, and thus serve in place of a small night lamp.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Clarke in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
29th March 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
CLARKE, of 55, Albany Street, Regent's Park, in the County of Middlesex,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Samuel Clarke, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel Clarke,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel
Clarke, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR BURNING NIGHT LIGHTS OR MORTARS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Samuel Clarke, my executors or adminis-
trators, 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 Samuel Clarke, 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 apparatus for burning
night lights or mortars. For these purposes a tray, with raised sides with a
handle, is formed of such size as to conveniently receive in the centre of it the
small dish containing water, in which a night light or mortar is placed. The
dish is raised off the bottom of the tray by studs, and when the night light or
mortar is placed in a glass the studs receive the bottom of the glass between
them. The turned up or raised edges of the tray are made suitable to act as
a gallery for a glass which is cylindrical, and is made with a comparatively
small hole at the domed top. The galerly is perforated with numerous small
holes, so as to supply air to the interior of the glass, which is nearly as large

page_text: in diameter as the tray. By this combination the light may be carried about
freely, and thus serve in place of a small night lamp.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows an external view of apparatus constructed and combined
according to my Invention; and Figure 2 shows a vertical section thereof.
a is a dish containing water, into which the night light covered with paper or
other material is placed. When the night lights which are to be burned are
made without paper or other coverings, then the dish a may be dispensed with,
and the glass in which such a night light is burned, is placed on the centre of
the tray. To neither of these forms of night lights, nor to the dish a, do I
make any claim.
The tray 6 is made by preference in form shewn by the Drawing, with a
ledge to receive a glass c, which has a comparatively small opening at its
upper end. The lower edge of the glass rests on the ledge b', which, together
with the raised rim 6³, forms a gallery to hold and retain the glass. In the
ledge b', and within the glass, are formed rumerous small holes, to admit air
into the interior of the glass; 63 is a handle.
What I claim is the combined apparatus herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Clarke, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
GEO. PITT.
SAMUEL CLARKE. (L.S.)