A METHOD OF MAKING CANDLESTICKS, LAMPS, AND GIRANDOLES, BY MEANS OF SLIDING PILLARS, SO THAT THE LIGHTS MAY BE RAISED OR CONTRACTED TO ANY REQUISITE HEIGHTS, LIKEWISE HAVING THE ADVANTAGE OF AN EXTINGUISHER, WHICH COMPRISES A PART OF THE INVENTION
Year: 1797

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ANTHONY
GEORGE ECKHARDT, of Charing Cross, in the County of Middlesex, Manu-
facturer, and RICHARD MORTON, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Manufac-
turer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty, in and by His certain Letters Patent
under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the
Twenty-third day of January, in the thirty-seventh year of His reign, did, of
Iis especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, for Himself, His heirs
and successors, give and grant unto us, the said Anthony George Eckhardt
and Richard Morton, our exors, adñiors, and assigns, especial licence, full power,
sole priviledge and authority, that we, the said Anthony George Eckhardt and
Richard Morton, our exors, adñiors, and assigns, and every of them, by
ourselves and themselves, or by our and their deputy or deputies, servants or
agents, or such others as we, the said Anthony George Eckhardt and Richard
Morton, our exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, our
Invention of "A METHOD OF MAKING CANDLESTICKS, LAMPS, AND GIRANDOLES, BY
MEANS OF SLIDING PILLARS, SO THAT THE LIGHTS MAY BE RAISED OR CONTRACTED TO
ANY REQUISITE HEIGHTS, LIKEWISE HAVING THE ADVANTAGE OF AN EXTINGUISHER,
WHICH COMPRISES A PART OF THE INVENTION," within that part of Great Britain
called England, the Dominion of Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, in such manner as to us, the said Anthony George Eckhardt and
Richard Morton, our exors, adñiors, and assigns, should seen meet, and that

page_text: we, the said Anthony George Eckhardt and Richard Morton, our exors,
adiors, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the
whole profit, benefit, commodity. and advantage from time to time
coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for
and during the term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and
enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges, and advantages therein-before
granted or mentioned to be granted unto us, the said Anthony George
Eckhardt and Richard Morton. our exors, adiiors, and assigns, for and
during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the
said Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be complete
and ended, according to the Statute in such case made and provided; in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, declaring that the same
should be void unless we, the said Anthony George Eckhardt and Richard
Morton, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of our snid
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, by an instrument
in writing under our hands and seals, and cause the same to be inrolled in the
High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Anthony George Eckhardt and Richard
Morton, in pursuance of the said proviso, do hereby particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of our Invention as follows:-
The novelty and useful part of this Invention is in making the candlestick
pillar consisting of various sliding tubes; these tubes are inserted one within
another, and may consist of any number that the circumference of the outer
tube will admit of, and may be made either of a round, square, oval, octagon,
or any other shape proper for the pillar of a candlestick. The outward or
external tube is soldered, screwed, or otherwise fixed to the foot of the candle-
stick; the inward or smallest tube is fixed to the capital or to any other
ornament that may be proper; the tubes above doscribed, by sliding one
within another, when drawn out elevate the candlestick to any extent required,
and the height of the candlestick may be again reduced so as to furnish a
convenient and appropriate light according to the size of the room, or the
purpose for which it may be wanted, or convenient for the person using it; the
above tubes or pillars may be drawn out of and returned into each other by
various modes, all of which it is unnecessary to enumerate, but drawings of
several are hereunto annexed.
Figure 1 is a section of a cand'estick with four tubes; Figure 2 is the
external appearance of the same candlestick; Figure 3 is the same candlestick
when shut up or compressed to its lowest size. The letters A, B, C, D,

page_text: represent the tubes; E, the foot; F, the nozel. a, a, b, b, c, c, is the top of each
tube, on the inside of which are fixed springs on an hoop, lining the same as
represented by section of a single receiving tube, Figures 4, 5; Figure 4 is a
section of a receiving tube; Figure 4 A is a sliding tube inserted in the
tube represented by Figure 4; a, a, the springs of both tubes; the springs of
Figure 4 compressing and acting upon the outside of the tube 4 A, the springs
of the tube 4 A compressing and acting upon the inside of the tube 4, and so
on to any number of tubes the maker pleases. Figure 5 is a receiving tube;
Figure 5 A is a sliding tube; a, a, an hoop with a groove cut in, fixed on the
inside of the receiving tube, Figure 5; and upon the bottom of the sliding tube
5 A, a substance of wool, cotton, linen, or any other thing that will answer the
purpose, is put round the groove of the hoops, or may be put round without a
groove, to make the tube ascend or descend smoothly and steadily, each tube
acting one upon the other, Number 5 A acting upon the inside of Number 5 in
the same manner as a common piston, and the hoop on the inside of Number 5
acting on the outside of the tube 5 A. Hoops of this construction, or
springs as represented Figure 4 and 4 A, will do at the top of the receiving
tubes only, or at the bottom of the sliding tubes only, Figure 5 AB. The
tubes are made to move up and down by the means of springs a, a,
soldered, screwed, or otherwise fixed to the top of each receiving tube. Tho
tube b, b, is inserted into the spring a, a, which act upon the tube as in a
common telescope, or they may be made to move up and down by means of
double tubes as represented by Figures 6, 7, 8. Figure 6 is the external
appearance of a candlestick at full length; A, B, C, D, shew the tubes; E, the
foot; F, F, a, a, b, b, c, c, are ornaments which may be varied at pleasure,
fixed on the top of each tube. Figure 7 is a section of the inner tubes acting
upon a rod or tube fixed in the centre of foot as K, K, the tube I sliding
upon the rod K, K, the tube I upon the tube I, the tube G upon the tube
H, down from the dotted line O, O, to the dotted line N, N, the tube I
sliding on the rod K, K, down to the dotted line R, R, the tube G when down
forming the line Q, Q. The dotted line P, P, is the height of the candlestick
when extended. These tubes act one upon another in all the various manners
shewn and described before by Figures 4, 4 A, 5, 5 A, and 5 AB. Figure 8,
a section of the whole candlestick; E, the foot; D, D, the outermost tube;
C, C, the next outermost tube, fixed to the first sliding tube I by a piece of
metal M, M; B, B, the third outermost tube fixed to the inner sliding tube
H by a piece of metal L, L; A, A, the fourth outermost tube fixed in the
same manner to the sliding tube G; F the nozel. The tubes may likewise
be raised by means of a screw or worm fixed upon the rod or upon the inside

page_text: of the inner tube. An extinguisher may be let into the capital of the
candlestick, receiving the bezil of the nozel, as represented by section of
Figure 9. a, a, the extinguisher; c, c, the capital of candlestick; d, d, tho
nozel of candlestick; B the bezil of nozel. The application of the Invention
in girandoles, lamps, and other lights is the same as in common candlesticks,
and therefore an artist will requiro no directions upon that head, as it will only
be necessary to vary the component parts according to the shape and size
required.
In witness whereof, we, the said Anthony George Eckhardt and Richard
Morton, have hereunto set our hands and seals, the Eighteenth day of
February, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
ninate covon