AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GAS AND OTHER CHANDELIERS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Hunt, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Brassfounder, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OR
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GAS AND OTHER CHANDELIERS."
Sealed the 8th April 1862, and dated the 28th January 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Hunt at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 28th
January 1862.
I, JOHN HUNT, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Brassfounder,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT
OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GAS AND OTHER CHANDELIERS," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists in manufacturing gas and other chandeliers of square
or angular tubes, as herein-after explained. In making a chandelier according
to my Invention I take a series of the said square or angular tubes and bend
them into such forms that when they are symmetrically arranged about a common
axis they form a skeleton or framing of the general figure which it is intended
the finished chandelier shall have. The tubes are fixed together by screwing
or brazing, or otherwise; and the chandelier is finished by the addition of
such ornamental or other parts as the particular design of the chandelier may
require.

page_text: In sliding chandeliers made according to my Invention, one central balance
weight may be employed instead of the two or more balance weights ordinarily
employed. The said central balance weight works in the axis of the tubular
framing, and may be connected to the chandelier by two or more chains.
The tubes which I employ are angular or prismatic, and may either be plain
or ornamented.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Hunt in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 25th
July 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM. THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HUNT, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Brassfounder, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said John Hunt, Her special licence that I, the said John
Hunt, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said John Hunt, 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 "AN
IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GAS AND OTHER
CHANDELIERS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John
Hunt, my executors or administrators, 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 John Hunt, do hereby declare the
nature of the 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 thereof, that is to say:-
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My Invention consists, firstly, in manufacturing gas and other chandeliers

page_text: of square or angular tubes, as herein-after explained and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawing. In making a chandelier according to my Invention
I take a series of the said square or angular tubes and bend them into such
forms that when they are symmetrically arranged about a common axis they
form a skeleton or framing of the general figure which it is intended the
finished chandelier shall have. The tubes are fixed together by screwing or
brazing, or otherwise; and the chandelier is finished by the addition of such
ornamental or other parts as the particular design of the chandelier may
require.
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawing represent in elevation two
gas chandeliers made according to my Invention. The square or angular
tubes of which the framing of the chandelier is made are marked a in both
Figures. The gas is conveyed down one of the said tubes to a central junc-
tion b, and from thence to the arms and jets. The other tubes, are closed or
stopped at the points c, or above the points at which the arms branch out.
Figures 3, 4, 5, and 6 respectively represent in elevation and cross section
square and angular tubes such as I employ in carrying my Invention into
effect. The sides of the said tubes may either be plain or may be panelled, or
ornamented in any desired way.
My Invention consists, secondly, in making chandeliers having a balance
weight in the manner illustrated in Figure 2. In chandeliers made according
to this part of my Invention I make the balance weight central, and place it
within the tubular framing of the chandelier. I connect the balance weight
with the chandelier by means of two or more chains. In Figure 2 the central
balance weight is marked d; the said balance weight d is situated within the
framing of tubes a, a, and has a hole in its axis through which the central
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tube e passes. The gas is supplied through the said central tube e.
part of my Invention is applicable to chandeliers, the framing of which is
made either of square or angular, or of cylindrical or other formed tubing.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do not
limit myself to the precise details herein described and represented, as the
same may be varied without departing from the nature of my Invention; but
I claim as my Invention,―
Firstly, constructing the framing of gas and other chandeliers of square or
angular tubing, as herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawing.
Secondly, suspending or balancing chandeliers, having a framing of angular
or other tubing, by means of a single balance weight situated within the

page_text: framing and connected to the chandelier by two or more chains, as herein
before described and illustrated in Figure 2 of the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said. John Hunt, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,..
Clerk to George Shaw,
Birmingham.
JOHN HUNT. (L.S.)