IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CANDLES, AND, IN MOULDS EMPLOYED IN SUCH MANUFACTURE
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Meyer and William Wainwright,
junior, of Paradise Street, Lambeth, and Thomas Phillipson Pascoe,
of Albany Road, Camberwell, in the County of Surrey, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CANDLES, AND, IN MOULDS
EMPLOYED IN SUCH MANUFACTURE."
Sealed the 25th January 1867,-and dated the 13th October 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Friederick Meyer,
William Wainwright, and Thomas Phillipson Pascoe at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 13th October
1866.
:
We, FREDERICK MEYER and WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, junior, of Paradise
Street, Lambeth, and THOMAS PHILLIPSON PASCOB, of Albany Road, Cam-
berwell, in the County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CANDLES, AND IN
MOULDS EMPLOYED IN SUCH MANUFACTURE," to be as follows:-
The object of the Invention is to form in moulds candles each with an
enlargement or boss at the bottom or lower end, such enlargement or loss
being of a cylindrical or it may be of a slightly conical form, in which latter
case the lower part of the cone is to be at the lowest end, whilst the smaller

page_text: end of the tapering or conical end of each candle is to be in connection
with the shaft or stem of the candle; and in constructing moulds for the
moulding of such candles each mould, in addition to the ordinary tube for
forming the stem or shaft of the candle, is formed with a cylindrical or slightly
tapering extension suitable for moulding the enlarged end or boss with moulds
constructed in this manner; the candles moulded therein will readily be
delivered or come away from the moulds, although the moulds are each in one
piece, as when making ordinary candles. The sides of the enlarged cylin-
drical or slightly tapering ends of the candles may be either plain or grooved,
the moulds being modified accordingly, and such candles will be found more
conveniently to fit into the sockets of candlesticks and burn up the lower or
last ends than candles made as heretofore, whether they be of a uniform taper
from end to end, or whether they be each formed with conical lower ends, the
base of the coned end being upwards and next to and connected with the stem
or shaft of the candle.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Frederick Meyer, William Wainwright, and Thomas
Phillipson Pascoe, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 13th April
1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, FREDERICK
MEYER and WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, junior, of Paradise Street, Lambeth, and
THOMAS PHILLIPSON PASCOE, of Albany Road, Camberwell, in the County of
Surrey, send greeting:
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Frederick Meyer, William Wainwright, and Thomas Phillipson
Pascoe, Her special licence that we, the said Frederick Meyer, William
Wainwright, and Thomas Phillipson Pascoe, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Frederick Meyer, William
Wainwright, and Thomas Phillipson Pascoe, our 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 MANUFACTURE OF CANDLES, AND IN

page_text: MOULDS EMPLOYED IN SUCH MANUFACTURE," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said Frederick Meyer, William Wainwright, and Thomas
Phillipson Pascoe, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and.seal of
one of us or them, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of thè
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 we,.the said Frederick Meyer, William Wain-
wright, and Thomas Phillipson Pascoe, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof, that is to say :-
The object of the Invention is to form in moulds candles each with an
enlargement or boss at the bottom or lower end, such enlargement or boss
being of a cylindrical or it may be of a slightly conical form, in which latter
case the lower part of the cone is to be at the lowest end, whilst the smaller
end of the tapering or conical end of each candle is to be in connection with
the shaft or stem of the candle; and in constructing moulds for the moulding
of such candles each mould in addition to the ordinary tube for forming the
stem or shaft of the candle is formed with a cylindrical or slightly tapering
extension suitable for moulding the enlarged end or boss with moulds con-
structed in this manner; the candles moulded therein will readily be delivered
or come away from the moulds, although the moulds are each in one piece as
when making ordinary candles. The sides of the enlarged cylindrical or
slightly tapering ends of the candles may be either plain or grooved, the
moulds being modified accordingly; and such candles will be found more
conveniently to fit into the sockets of candlesticks and burn up the lower or
last ends than candles made as heretofore, whether they be of a uniform taper
from end to end, or whether they be each formed with conical lower ends, the
base of the coned end being upwards and next to and connected with the stem
or shaft of the candle.
And in order that our said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, we will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto
aunexed.

page_text: Figure 3 is a longitudinal section of the mould for producing the said candle,
and Figure 4 is a transverse section of the same taken at the line 2, 2,
Figure 3.
a, a, is the enlargement at the lower end of the candle; it is by preference
fluted, as is shown, so that in case it does not fit the socket of the candlestick
it
may be more easily reduced. In some cases we make three (or it may be
more) of the flutes project beyond the others, as is shown in the transverse
section Figure 5, so that if the socket of the candlestick is larger than the
circumference of the ordinary flutes these projecting flutes will fit it, or if
the candle is required to be set up in a smaller socket these projections are
readily removed. It is not essential that the flutes between the three or other
number of larger flutes should exceed in diameter the shaft of the candle, or
the intermediate flutes may be altogether omitted. As candles of these forms
can with facility be set up without paper around them they may without
inconvenience or danger be burnt closer to the end than it is convenient to
burn candles of ordinary construction.
In witness whereof, we, the said Frederick Meyer, William Wainwright,
and Thomas Phillipson Pascoe, have hereunto set our hands and seals,
this Twelfth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-seven.
hundred and sixty-seven.
FRED MEYER.
Wч. WAINWRIGHT, JR.
(L.S.)
(L.S.)
THOMAS PHILLIPSON PASCOE. (L.S.)