CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MAKING OR MANUFACTURING OF CANDLES
Year: 1830

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
TAVERNER MILLER, of Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Wax Chandler,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His late Majesty King George the Fourth did, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fourth day of February, in the eleventh year of His
reign, give and grant unto me, the said Charles Taverner Miller, His
especial licence that I, the said Charles Taverner Miller, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, and such others, as I, the said Charles Taverner
Miller, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MAKING OR MANUFACTURING OF CANDLES;" in
which said Letters' Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said Charles
Taverner Miller, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed; to be inrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as

page_text: in and by the same, reference being thereunto, had, will more fully and at
large appear,
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Charles Taverner Miller, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my
said-Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, by the
following description thereof (that is to say):
My Invention relates to wax, spermaceti, and composition candles, and
consists of a glass ring being introduced round the wick at-the neck of each
candle, thereby forming a fence round the wick.
In the manufacture of wax candles I introduce the ring by passing it over
the top, and putting it on the neck of the candle at the half-making; and in
other respects these candles are to be made in the usual manner.
With respect to the spermacetu and composition candles, the mode of intro-
ducing the ring is as follows:-I cotton the frames in which the candles are
made in the usual manner. I then put a ring round each wick at the top
part of the frames, that is, at the part which forms the bottoms of the candles.
When the frames are turned down the rings fall to the bottoms of the pipes,
that is, to the parts which form the tops of the candles, and when the melted
ingredient is poured in the ring will be properly fixed in the neck of the
candle...
In the spermaceti and composition candles I use the platted wicks which are
now in general use; but I do not claim this kind of wick as my Invention.
The rings which I use are;made of solid round glass, and I. use three sizes,
designated as under by the numbers 1, 2, and 3.
No. 1, the largest, I use for short twos; No. 2 for long twos and short threes, 25
and for all candles of the same thickness; and No. 3 for all candles not so thick
ás short threes.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Taverner Miller, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Second day of August, in the first year
of the reign of our Sovereign Lord William the Fourth, by the grace -30
⚫ of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain King, Defender of
the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and thirty.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Second day of August, in the
year 1830, the aforesaid Charles Taverner Miller came before our said Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of
the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Third day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and thirty.