IMPROVED METHODS OF RAISING OR SUPPLYING TUBES OR LAMPS WITH OIL, SO AS TO REMOVE AWAY THE SHADE OF THE VESSEL CONTAINING THE OIL, AND IN FORM AND USE EQUAL TO ANY MOULD OR WAX CANDLE WHICH HE DENOMINATES 'PROCTOR'S SPIRAL ARGAND AND CANDLE LAMP
Year: 1809

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
PROCTOR, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Optician, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Ninth day of March,
in the forty-ninth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said
William Proctor, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said William Proctor, my
exors, admors, and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVED METHODS OF
RAISING OR SUPPLYING TUBES OR LAMPS WITH OIL, SO AS TO REMOVE AWAY THE
SHADE OF THE VESSEL CONTAINING THE OIL, AND IN FORM AND USE EQUAL TO ANY
MOULD OR WAX CANDLE WHICH HE DENOMINATES 'PROCTOR'S SPIRAL ARGAND AND
CANDLE LAMP;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso,
obliging me, the said William Proctor, by an instrument in writing 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 after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation
being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Proctor, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in
manner following, that is to say :-

page_text: I take a tube of brass, plated metal, or silver, or any other metal tube
drawn or bored, which tube shall bo so true as to admit a plug or piston of
leather, cork, or any other clastic or tight-fitting substance to contain the oil
it as a piston, which shall be so constructed as to either ascend the tube
called the candle part (or suffer the tube or candle part to move either up or
down over the said plug or piston) for the purposes of raising or forcing the
oil so as to ascend to the upper part of the tube or candle.
upon
Appearance of the machine called Proctor's spiral argand and candle lamp.
This machine or candle lamp may be applied to one or more lights in one
instrument or machine, or to the working part of my machine, so as to lubricate
it or prevent wearing of the parts by friction. And the above machine for
lights is intended to wear a similar appearance to common mould or wax candles
mounted or fitted in any kind of sticks. The body of the candlestick may
contain the screw, of either male or female, for the purposes of being attached
to the candle part or containing the oil. In such case the candle part must
act as counter or contrary screw to that of the body of the stick, and must fit
each other, so as to give the mechanical motion; or, if without the spiral screw,
the ascent of the piston, or descent of the candle, passing up or down cach
other through plane tubes vertical or artificially spiral, either with or without
springs or collars to steady their motion. Observe to dress the lamp with oil
and cotton, and unscrew the top of the candle.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Proctor, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the First day of April, in the year of our Lord One
1.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixth day of April, in the
year of our Lord 1809, the aforesaid William Proctor came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.