SOME SIMPLE ADDITIONS TO THOSE VERY USEFUL DOMESTICK MACHINES CALLED SNUFFERS, BY WHICH THE DISAGREEABLE CIRCUMSTANCE OF THEIR DROPPING THE WICK APTER SNUFFING THE CANDLES, SO GENERALLY COMPLAINED OF, IS TOTALLY PREVENTED
Year: 1776

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHRISTO-
PRER PINCHBECK, of Cockspur Street, in the Parish of Saint Martin's-in-
the-Fields, in the County of Middlesex, Toyman and Mechanician, send
greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Christopher Pinchbeck, did, by my Petition,
humbly represent to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the
Third, that after many years reflection and study, and from the repeated
complaints of many very considerable persons in the course of constructing
many useful pieces of mechanism, at last found out and compleated "SOME
SIMPLE ADDITIONS TO THOSE VERY USEFUL DOMESTICK MACHINES CALLED SNUFFERS, BY
WHICH THE DISAGREEABLE CIRCUMSTANCE OF THEIR DROPPING THE WICK APTER
SNUFFING THE CANDLES, SO GENERALLY COMPLAINED OF, IS TOTALLY PREVENTED;" and
flattering himself, from the opinion of several great persons and some ingenious
artists who have seen this Invention and its operation, that from its great sim-
plicity and utility there will be a very great demand for them, I therefore most
humbly prayed His said Majesty that he would be graciously pleased to grant
unto me, iny executors, administrators, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent

page_text: for the sole use and benefit of my said Invention, within His Dominion of
England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of four-
teen years, according to the Statute in that case made and provided; His
said Majesty, being willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions
which might be for the publick good, was pleased to condescend to my request,
and therefore, by His Royal Letters Patent, under His Great Seal of Great
Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Fourteenth day of March, in the
sixteenth year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and
meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did give and grant unto
me, the said Christopher Pinchbeck, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the
said Christopher Pinchbeck, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and
every of them, by myself and themselves, or by mine or their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Christopher Pinchbeck, my
executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend
my said Invention, within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said Christopher Pinchbeck, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or any of us, should in our discretions seem
meet, and that I; the said Christopher Pinchbeck, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole
profit, benefit, commodity and advantage from time to time coming, growing,
recrewing, and arising, by reason of the said Invention, for and during
the term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the
said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted or
mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Christopher Pinchbeck, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the fully end
and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and
ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended according to the Statute in such
case made and provided; in which said. Letters Patent is contained a
proviso, that if I, the said Christopher Pinchbeck, should not particularly
describe and ascertain the .nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters, and all liberties and

page_text: advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and
become void, anything, therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in
anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters Patent (relation being
thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Christopher Pinchbeck, in compliance
with the said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my
said Invention, and declare that the same is performed in manner following,
that is to say:-
:
The first improvement is a large recess or bottom markt A, fixt to the pan
of the common snuffers, as in the Drawing hereunto annexed, markt No. J ;
has the pressing plate markt B very nicely fitted in the pan, and to come
quite flush to the front; the bottom of the snuffers under the pan markt D is
open the whole width of the pan to let the wick fall into the recess A, and a
narrow rim markt E is soldered round the inside of the edge of the pan for
the common pressing plate B to shut against and stop at. By this Invention
the wick is not only thrown into the recess till it is full, but it will hold
vastly more than the common snuffers, and can never drop out.
The second improvement. To the common snuffers A, is added a cutter or
scraper B, in the following manner, as is shewn by the Drawing hereunto
annext, markt No. 2 :-The common pan is slit down at one third of its depth
from the front, the slit about the thickness of a shilling, and into this slit the said
cutter B is nicely fitted and acts on a center in a studd fixt, markt C, with a
thumb piece markt D at the other end of the cutter, towards the bowe, to lift
it up and down by, and a recess the thickness of a shilling made on the plate
at E, which the cutter B when pushed down goes behind. N.B.-The red
line is the cutter.
In witness whereof, I, the said Christopher Pinchbeck, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, and in the sixteenth
year of the reign of our said Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the
grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender
of the Faith, and so forth.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Twelfth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, the said Christopher
Pinchbeck came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknow-
ledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained
and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument aforesaid
was stampt according to the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year
of the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary of England,
and so forth.
Inrolled the said Twelfth day of July, in the year aforesaid.