IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NIGHT LIGHTS AND IN APPARATUS TO BE USED THEREWITH
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Fergusson Wilson, of Belmont,´
Vauxhall, in the County of Surrey, Managing Director of Price's
Patent Candle Company, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF NIGHT LIGHTS AND IN APPARATUS TO BE USED
THEREWITH."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Fergusson
Wilson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 1st April 1853.
I, GEORGE FERGUSSON WILSON, of Belmont, Vauxhall, in the County
of Surrey, Managing Director of Price's Patent Candle Company, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NIGHT LIGHTS AND IN APPARATUS TO BE USED
THEREWITH" to be as follows:-
There is an extensive trade in night lights, which are burnt in glasses.
made to fit them. These night lights and glasses have not been hereto-
fore made of a larger diameter than about one inch and an eighth, and
they are liable to flicker. I have found it to be advantageous to make
them wider and more shallow, for the following reasons: that the

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 1st October 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
GEORGE FERGUSSON WILSON, of Belmont, Vauxhall, in the County of
Surrey, Managing Director of Price's Patent-Candle Company, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the sixteenth 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 NIGHT LIGHTS AND IN APPARATUS TO BE USED
THEREWITH," 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

page_text: the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
There is an extensive trade in night lights, which are burnt in glasses
made to fit them. These night lights and glasses have not been here-
tofore made of a larger diameter than about one inch and an eighth,
and they are liable to flicker. I have found it to be advantageous to
make them, wider and more shallow, for the following reasons: that
the flickering of the light is greatly lessened, and that material of a
lower melting point may be employed. My invention consists of mould-
ing night lights, without cases, of a diameter larger than one inch and
three sixteenths of an inch, and in making incombustible casings to fit
them wider than that diameter.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, I will
proceed to explain the manner in which the same is to be performed.
I cause night lights to be cast in suitable moulds, of a diameter of
about one inch and five eighths of an inch, which I believe to be the
best for the purpose, though the diameter may be somewhat encreased
or decreased, and proportionably retain the advantages of this manu-
facture; and I employ similar wicks to those heretofore used for a like
weight of matter. By this arrangement night lights burned in cases
will be made of larger diameter and of less thickness than heretofore.
And I make incumbustible cases for such night lights by preference
of glass, and I recommend that the bottoms of such cases should be
made concave on the interior, in order that the cases may be deepest
in the middle.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Fergusson Wilson, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of September,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
Ce
T
GEO. F. WILSON. (L.S.)
Witness, JN° ALCOCK.