CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON SNUFFERS
Year: 1837

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
NEEDHAM SCROPE SHRAPNEL, of Bayswater Terrace, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS His late most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Nineteenth day January, in the seventh year of His reign,
did, for Himself, his heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Henry Needham Scrope Shrapnel, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said Henry Needham Scrope Shrapnel,
my exors, adñors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Needlanı
Shrapnel, my exors, admors, 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 the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON SNUFFERS;" in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso that I, the said Henry Needham Scrope Shrapnel, 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 said 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 in and by the same, refe-
rence being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Henry Needham Scrope Shrapnel, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully

page_text: described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference
being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters
marked thereon, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in the application of an apparatus to snuffers, con-
sisting of a series of spikes or projections amongst and between which the
snuff taken from the candle by the act of using the snuffers is pressed, and
there is held, and in the act of again using the snuffers the snuff is not so liable
to fall out as was heretofore the case. In addition to which advantages the
snuffers, when constructed according to my Invention, may have the snuff
removed with great facility, as will be hereafter described.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a front view
applied thereto. Figure 2
of a pair of snuffers, having my improvements
a plan thereof.
Figures 3 and 4 shew two views of the apparatus for receiving and retaining
the snuff. a is a plate on which are formed or fixed a series of projections or
spikes b, b. In a groove on the surface of this plate is formed a female
screw c, by which the plate a is fixed to the snuffers, as is clearly shewn in
Figure 2, there being a male screw formed on the snuffers on to which the
plate a is screwed. It will be seen that the series of spikes or projections 6
enter into the back of the snuffers, and, consequently, as the snuff is pressed
towards the back of the snuffers, it will enter amongst the spikes or projec-
tions b, b, and be retained thereby till the space is full, when the accumulation
of snuff may be removed by unscrewing the plate a, and by the aid of the
point of the snuffers, or any other pointed instrument, the snuff may readily
be withdrawn from amongst the projections or spikes b.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, I would remark, that
I lay no claim to the parts of the snuffers uncombined with my improve-
ments; and I would further state that variations may be made in the shape of
the same and in the manner of attaching the series of spikes or projections
thereto without departing from the Invention. Thus, instead of being of a
round shape, the plate a and the snuffers may be square, or oblong, or oval,
and the plate may be secured by a small catch or clip, so as sufficiently to
retain it in its place. I would have it understood that what I claim as my
Invention is the application of a series of spikes or projections to snuffers,
amongst which spikes the snuff is pressed and retained, as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Needham Scrope Shrapnel, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of July, One thou-
sand eight hundred and thirty-seven.
H. N. S. (L.S) SHRAPNEL.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fifteenth day of July, in the
year of our Lord 1837, the aforesaid Henry Needham Scrope Shrapnel came
before our said Lady the Queen in Her 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.
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Inrolled the Nineteenth day of Ju
eight hundred and thirty-seven.
the year of our Lord One thousand