MAKING A CYLINDRICAL SPRING SNUFFER FOR CANDLES, WHICH CUTS OFF, .CONFINES, AND EXTINGUISHES THE SNUFF AT ONE MOTION
Year: 1801

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
WILKES, late of Sheffield, in the County of York, Gunsmith, send greeting..
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at.
Westminster, the Tenth day of July last, did give and grant unto me, the
said John Wilkes, His especial licence, that I, the said John Wilkes, during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might, solely and exclu-
sively, make, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Berwick:
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "MAKING A CYLINDRICAL SPRING SNUFFER FOR
CANDLES, WHICH CUTS OFF, .CONFINES, AND EXTINGUISHES THE SNUFF AT ONE
MOTION;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging
me, the said John Wilkes, under my hand and seal, to 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 Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after the date of
the said recited Letters Patent, as by the same, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Wilkes, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby declare that my said new-invented snuffer, which I
mean to call the Patent Horizontal Cylinder, Spring Snuffer, may be made of
iron, steel, silver, plated metal, or any metal or metallic substance, and the
construction and principle upon which, the same is made are and will be best
explained and comprehended by the above Drawings of the several parts

page_text: thereof, to which the following references and description will be requisite to
be added:
1 represents the large side of the snuffer with the outside cylinder or box,
and the small side, in part open, representing an inside screw at the end of the
box. 2 represents the small side with the rack in the upper side of the joint.
3 A represents the inside half cylinder, with the box to contain the spring.
3 B represents the inside half cylinder which conveys the snuff into the body
of the box or outside cylinder, with the box which contains the main spring,
the half pinioned wheel, the catch, the small spring, the fixed centre and stop
at one end, and the moving centre at the other. 4 represents the point with
the hole in the centre in which the moving centre of the half cylinder moves
or acts. The point is screwed or put on the box or outside cylinder at the end
of No. 1, and confines the half cylinder to its proper place. 5 represents: a,
the half pinioned wheel; b, the catch; c, the small spring; d, the screw on
which the catch moves, the. head of which serves for a stop to the half
cylinder, as shewn in No. 7, where it appears stopt by the bar. 6 represents
the end of the inside half cylinder next the joint, with the half pinioned wheel
on the fixed centre, the catch and the small spring put together, as they act
in contact with the rack on the joint of the small side No. 2. 7 represents
No. 6, or the end of No. 3, when in the inside of the box or outside cylinder,
the fixed centre passing through a square hole in the bar at the end of the
box next the joint, afterwards covered with the cap, as represented No. 9.
e is the point of a pin screwed through the outside cylinder which releases the
catch out of the half pinioned wheel. 8 represents the main spring; spring
cover, and fixed centre. The spring cover lies between the half pinioned
wheel and the main spring, which is fixed to the cover by the stud of the
spring at the oblong. hole, and the other stud is fastened to the spring box.
The half cylinder moves on the lower end of the fixed centre, and the half
pinioned wheel on the upper end. The centre is square where fastened to the
bar. 9 represents a cap, one of which is to cover the joint and another the
end of the box or outside cylinder next the joint, forming a right angle at the
section in the joint No. 2. 10 represents the snuffer complete. The piu
represented through a hole in the under side is put through when the half
cylinder is drawn open nearly to the full extent by the movement of the joint
to prevent the half cylinder from shutting, by which means the snuff is taken
out of the inside in the most simple and easy manner. The two. parts or sides
are screwed or rivetted together, as the common snuffer.
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The principle on which the horizontal cylinder spring snuffer acts, and
which the above Drawings and references will clearly exemplify, is this:--

page_text: The opening of the shanks as usual for snuffing to their full extent causes the
half pinioned wheel, which works in the rack on the upper side of the joint of the
small side, to move round till the tooth appointed for the catch is opposite to
the point of the catch which drops in by the assistance of the small spring;
then, by shutting the shanks together as usual for cutting off the snuff, the
half cylinder, the half pinioned wheel, the catch, and springs, move round to the
full extent, at which instant the catch is prest out of the tooth by the point of
the small pin for that purpose, represented in Drawing 7, and liberates the half
cylinder from the half pinioned wheel, and the main spring forces back the
half cylinder and conveys the snuff into the inside of the box.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Wilkes, have hereunto set my
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Eighth day of August,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid John Wilkes came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowle the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And
also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.
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