IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CANDLES
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Fergusson Wilson, of Belmont, Vauxhall,.
in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF CANDLES."
Sealed the 24th March 1857, and dated the 23rd January 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Fergusson Wilson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd January 1857.
I, GEORGE FERGUSSON WILSON, of Belmont, Vauxhall, in the County of
Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF CANDLES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
candles, and consists in the combination of cocoa-nut, or calhoun, or palm
kernel oils, or their stearines, with the solid matter obtained from Rangoon or
such like petroleum, and applying compounds thereof in the manufacture of
candles.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Fergusson Wilson in the Great Seal. Patent Office
on the 23rd July 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
FERGUSSON WILSON, of Belmont, Vauxhall, in the County of Surrey, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said George Fergusson Wilson, Her special licence that I, the said George
Fergusson Wilson, my executors, .administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said George Fergusson Wilson, 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 THE MANUFACTURE OF CANDLES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said George Fergusson Wilson, my executors or adminis-
strators, 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 George Fergusson Wilson, 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 the manufacture of
candles, and consists in the combination of cocoa-nut, or calhoun, or palm
kernel oils, or their stearines, with the solid matter obtained from Rangoon or
such like petroleum, and applying compounds thereof in the manufacture of
candles.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
In distilling Rangoon, or such like petroleum, amongst other matters a hard
distilled product is obtained, which being pressed and purified resembles sper-
maceti in its appearance, but which when formed into a candle has a great

page_text: tendency to give off smoke when being burned. Now, I have found that by
combining with such hard distilled product of Rangoon or such like petroleum
a quantity of cocoa-nut, or calhoun, or palm kernel oil, or their stearine, that
this property may be overcome, and very useful compound candles produced from
such mixtures. The relative proportions of the matters above mentioned may
be varied, but I prefer to employ from ten to thirty per cent. of any one or more
of the oils above mentioned (according to the degree of hardness desired to
be given to the composition) with from ninety to seventy per cent. of the
distilled products above mentioned, or the stearine of the oils may be used in
place of the oils.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Fergusson Wilson, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
5 Witness,
JNO. COOK.
GEO. F. WILSON. (L.S.)