Improvements in Stick Sealing-wax.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 15th July, 1896-Accepted, 15th Aug., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stick Sealing-wax.
We, JACOB WILLIAM STEIGER, of Whitewater, in the State of Kansas,
United States of America, Merchant, and PETER DAVID MCARTHUR of
Whitewater, aforesaid, Railway Agent do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object to facilitate sealing of letters, packages, fruit
jars, cans, bottles and the like by combining with the wax forming a stick, a wick,
which when ignited melts the wax, whereby sealing can be continuously carried
on until the stick of wax is consumed or until the flame is extinguished, the wax
while the wick is burning dropping from the stick to the place to be sealed; the
wick being of such a nature as to sustain combustion to a degree relative to the
melting of the wax.
The invention consists of a stick of sealing-wax having embedded therein longi-
tudinally a wick saturated or coated with paraffine, so that said wick will
continuously burn while in use and by holding the stick inclinedly the flame will
melt the wax, whereby it can be dropped to the place desired, and when held erect
the paraffine will support combustion without melting the wax to any appreciable
degree at intervals of time.
Referring to the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1, represents a stick of sealing-wax, having the wick herein referred to
and exposed at one end, and
Fig. 2, is a longitudinal section of the same.
A, represents a stick of sealing-wax as compounded of the ordinary materials,
and B, a wick of cotton, fibrous material or other suitable substance, which wick
is saturated or coated with paraffine when in a melted state to support combustion,
and said wick is embedded, enclosed or surrounded by the sealing-wax whereby it
will occupy a central location in the stick, longitudinally, and is so placed when
molding or forming the stick.
When the wick is ignited, the paraffine will be consumed, and support com-
bustion while the stick is held upright, and when the stick is held inclinedly the
flame will melt the wax so that it can be dropped while the wick is burning, upon
the place to be sealed.
Practically the size of the wick and the thickness of the stick should be
relative to effect the proper degree of combustion of the wick and dissipation
of the wax, for it is not intended that the wax should burn at any stage of
sealing.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is :-
1. As an improved article of manufacture, a stick of sealing-wax having a
fibrous wick coated or saturated with paraffine, surrounded by the sealing-wax,
longitudinally of the stick, as and for the purpose set forth.

page_text: 2. A stick of sealing-wax having a waxed wick extending through its length, as
and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 15th day of July 1896.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,.
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.