IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NIGHT LIGHTS
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Render, of Liverpool, in the County Palatine
of Lancaster, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF NIGHT LIGHTS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Render at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st December 1854.
I, HENRY RENDER, of Liverpool, in the County Palatine of Lancaster,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NIGHT LIGHTS" to be as follows:—
To the lower end of the short tapers, called night lights, I attach a disc of
card, wood, or any suitable material, so that the edge of the disc shall protrude
the one-eighth of an inch, or thereabouts, all around.
I next provide a short glass tube, rather longer than the night light, which
easily slips over it, and rests on the protruding edge. of the disc. The tubes
may also be made of horn or other convenient material.
The novelty of my said Invention consists in the simple and cheap arrange-
ment, by which I dispense with the usual fixed paper covering round night
lights, and am enabled to supply one glass or other covering with each dozen
or more night lights.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Render in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th June 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
RENDER, of Liverpool, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Henry Render, Her special licence that I, the said Henry
Render, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Henry Render, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NIGHT LIGHTS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Henry Render, 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 Henry Render, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My said Invention consists in the peculiar application of a short wide glass
tube, or other like suitable tube, to night lights, instead of paper, gelatine, or
other materials usually employed for forming the wrappers of night lights,
and which are unfit for use a second time; whereas my improved covering
being of glass, a single tube will suffice for the consumption of a number of
night lights.
For the better understanding of my said improvements I will now proceed
to describe the details thereof. To the lower end of the short tapers, called
night lights, I attach a disc of card, wood, or any suitable material, so that the
edge of the disc shall protrude the one-eighth of an inch, or thereabouts, all

page_text: round. I next provide a short glass tube, the same length or rather longer
than the night light, and which, easily slipping over it, rests on the protruding
edge of the disc or false bottom. I sometimes dispense with the disc at
the lower end. In either case I recommend the glass tube containing the
night light to be placed in the hollow of a small saucer, plate, or dish, hold-
ing a little water, the water serving to seal it sufficiently against the escape
of wax, tallow, or other material used. The disc or false bottom has the
advantage of further preventing the water from reaching the flame, thereby
avoiding an inconvenience to which the ordinary night lights burnt with a
paper or wood casing are liable. The tubes may also be made of horn or
other convenient materials.
Having thus described the particulars of my said Invention, I would here
observe that its novelty consists in the simple and cheap arrangement, by
which I dispense with the usual paper or other coverings round night lights,
and am enabled to supply one glass tube with each box or other package of
night lights. It is obvious that the transparent tubes may be made of various
designs and colours; I do not, therefore, limit myself in respect thereof, or to
materials or dimensions; but what I do claim as my Invention is, namely, the
transparent tubular coverings applied to night lights, as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Render, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
1855.
HENRY RENDER. (L.S.)