IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS FOR IGNITING THE WICKS OF CANDLES AND LAMP WICKS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT, to Henry Lamplough, of No. 113, Holborn Hill, in
the County of Middlesex, Chemist, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MEANS FOR IGNITING THE WICKS OF CANDLES AND LAMP WICKS."
Sealed the 16th April 1862, and dated the 21st October 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Lamplough at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 21st
October 1861.
I, HENRY LAMPLOUGH, of No. 113, Holborn Hill, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS FOR IGNITING THE WICKS OF CANDLES AND LAMP
WICKS," to be as follows:-
My improvements consist in applying to the ends of the wicks of wax,
tallow, or other candles, and also to the ends of the wicks used in lamps, at
which they are intended to be lighted, any of the known compositions which
are used on wax taper lights or matches for ignition by friction or percussion,
so that candles or lamp wicks having such composition thereon may be readily
ignited by friction or percussion properly applied to the composition; such
composition may of course be applied at each end of the wick of a candle, so
that after one end has been ignited and extinguished, the other end of the
wick may be ignited by the means of the composition applied thereon.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Lamplough in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st April 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS. SHALL COME, I, HENRY
LAMPLOUGH, of No. 113, Holborn Hill, in the City. of London, Chemist, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Henry Lamplough, Her special licence that I, the said Henry Lamplough,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry
Lamplough, 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
MEANS OF IGNITING THE WICKS OF CANDLES AND LAMP WICKS,"
upon the condi-
tion (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Lamplough, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, 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 Henry Lamplough, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My improvements consist in applying to the ends of the wicks of wax,
tallow, or other candles, and also to the ends of the cotton wicks used in
lamps, at which they are intended to be lighted, any of the known composi-
tions which are used on wax taper lights or matches for ignition by friction
or percussion, so that candles or lamp wicks having such composition thereon
may be readily ignited by friction, pressure, or percussion properly applied to
the composition in the usual way, and such composition may of course be
applied at each end of the wick of a candle, so that after one end has been
ignited and extinguished, the other end of the wick may be ignited by means
of the composition applied thereon. The ends of the wicks of the candles or

page_text: lamp wicks are to be dipped in the usual way in any of the known solutions
or mixtures, which are now applied to the ends of vesta, lucifer, or other taper
lights or matches for the purpose of ignition by friction, pressure, or percus-
sion. For dwarf 'nights, such as are publicly known as Child's night lights, I
sometimes insert a wick which has been previously prepared with such like
composition at one end thereof into the wax, tallow, or other material, of
which the body of the night light is composed after it has cooled. I also use
wicks prepared with such like composition for floating wicks in lamps in which
oil or other suitable liquid is burnt.
Having described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is or may be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do not
claim as my Invention the application of any composition for the purpose of
ignition, as aforesaid, at the end or ends of wicks separate from the tallow,
wax, or other material of which the body of the candle is composed, or separate
from the oil or other liquid which may be in the lamp to be burnt; but that
what I claim as my Invention is, the arrangement and combination of the
means for igniting the wicks of candles and lamp wicks, as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Lamplough, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
HENRY LAMPLOUGH. (L.8.)