IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CANDLES AND NIGHT LIGHTS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Fergusson Wilson, of Belmont,
Vauxhall, Managing Director of Price's Patent Candle Company,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
CANDLES AND NIGHT LIGHTS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Fergusson
Wilson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 10th October 1853.
I, GEORGE FERGUSSON WILSON, of Belmont, Vauxhall, Managing
Director of Price's Patent Candle Company, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF CANDLES AND NIGHT LIGHTS" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of preparing a material for the making of
candles and night lights by combining or mixing unbleached stearine
of palm oil with cocoa nut oil or its stearine, and with fatty acids; for
the manufacture ofcandles and night lights.

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 10th April 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, 1,
GEORGE FERGUSSON WILSON, of Belmont, Vauxhall, Managing Director
of Price's Patent Candle Company,, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seventeenth
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, admi-
nistrators; and assigns; or stich others as I, the said George Fergusson
Wilson, my exécutors, 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 AND NIGHT LIGHTS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Fergusson
Wilson, 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 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) r
"
This Invention consists of preparing a material for the making: of
candles and night lights by combining or mixing unbleached stearinė
of palm oil with cocoa nut oil or its stearine, and with fatty acids, for
the manufacture of candles and night lights.

page_text: Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed
to describe the manner of performing the same; and in doing so I
would state that the above-named matters may be combined in varied
proportions, but I believe the following to be the best proportions:-
One part by weight of unbleached stearine of palm oil, one part by
weight of cocoa nut oil or its stearine, and one part by preference of
distilled acidified palm oil, but other fatty acids may be used. These
matters boil together in water slightly acidulated by sulphuric acid
for about half an hour by the aid of free steam. The combined
matters are then allowed to settle and to cool; they are then in a
state to be used in the manufacture of candles and night lights in the
ordinary manner when using other similar matters.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, I would have it understood that what
I claim is, the employment in the manufacture of candles and night
lights of a combination of unbleached stearine of palm oil with cocoa
mut oil or its stearine and fatty acids.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Fergusson Wilson, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Witness,
B. GOBEY,
4, Old Square,
Lincoln's Inn.
10
GEO. F. WILSON. (L.S.)