CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN LUSTRES, CHANDELIERS, PENDANTS, AND APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH. TO BE USED WITH GAS, OIL, OR OTHER SUBSTANCES, WHICH INVENTION IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1843

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ANDREW
BARCLAY, Engineer and Brassfounder, Kilmarnock, in the County of Air,
Scotland, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-fourth day of March, in the sixth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Andrew Barclay, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said Andrew Barclay, my executors, administrators and assigns,
or such others as I,the said Andrew Barclay, my executors, administrators, or
assigns,should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, and Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, iny Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
LUSTRES, CHANDELIERS, PENDANTS, AND APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH. TO BE
USED WITH GAS, OIL, OR OTHER SUBSTANCES, WHICH INVENTION IS ALSO APPLICABLE
TO OTHER PURPOSES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso,obliging
me, the said Andrew Barclay, to cause an instrument in writing under my

page_text: hand and seal, to be enrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancellary in
England within six calendar mouths next and immediately after the date of
the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,reference being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Andrew Barclay, do hereby declare that my Invention consists in an improved
method of suspending lustres and pendants of every description, whereby 1
dispense with the ordinary weights hitherto in use, for raising and lowering gas
lamps, lustres, pendants and chandeliers. In my improvements Imake use of
one, two, or more fusees, with coiled springs contained therein.
In the Drawings hereunto annexed, A represents the fusees containing the
springs; B being the pendant, which is connected by a cord, gut, chain, or
other flexible substance, to a tube C, which tube is affixed, in the ordinary way,
to the ceiling of the apartment or place of suspension. The Drawing represents
the lustre or pendant at its highest position, in which the springs are at their
minimum of exertion; the connecting cord or other flexible substance is then
wound on the fusee. The effect of my improvements is, that lustres, chandeliers,
or pendants, may be raised or lowered with uniform counteraction. The action
of a fusee and spring being that an equal motive power is exerted throughout
by reason that the more the spring is distended the greater leaverage is exerted
by the cord on the increasing diameter of the fusee,a principal well known and
familiar to mechanics. Therefore, when the lustre or pendant is at its lowest
position, the fusee will be discharged of the cord or gut, and the spring will be
at its greatest tension, and vice versa, when returned to its elevated position.
Having now described my Invention in such a manner as to enable any
competent workman to construct and apply it, it is unnecessary to be more
explicit; but in order to avoid misapprehension, I have exhibited one of these
fusees containing the spring in section D,shewing the spring in blue lines, with
the tube for affixing on the cross bar. E is an end view of the same, to
exhibit more clearly its construction. I have herein assumed the spring to be
one and a half inches broad and six feet long, and when at its minimum state
occupies a space of about two inches in diameter, and is capable of admitting
of a range of action of three feet, or thereby, and to sustain eighteen pounds
weight with efficiency. By using one, two, or more springs, and of various
breadths, I am enabled to apply my Invention to any lustre or pendant, and
although the annexed Drawing shews the position of the springs and fusees, of
which I most approve, yet I do not restrict my Invention to this or any other

page_text: form, but to whatever position the fusees may be applied to the raising aud
lowering of lustres, pendants, and other suspending lamps. In conclusion, I
would have it understood, that although I have given particular sizes offusees
and springs, yet I do not confine myself thereto, and that I limit
my claim
solely to the application of fusees and coiled springs to the raising and lowering
of lustres, pendants, and chandeliers, and that I claim exclusive right and
privilege to the same.
In witness whereof, I, the said Andrew Barclay, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of August, in the year ofour Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-threc.
ANDREW (L.S.) BARCLAY.
Taken and acknowledged by Andrew Barclay (party
hereto) at Kilmarnock, in the County of Ayr, this
Seventeenth day of August 1843, before me,
MATHEW STRANG,
One of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Ayr.
I, Neville Ash, of No. 32. Great Winchester Street, in the City of London,
Insurance Broker,do solemnly and sincerely declare, to the best of my know-
ledge and belief, that the signature "Matthew Strang," set and subscribed at
foot of the annexed document, is the real signature and properhandwriting of
Mathew Strang, one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County
Ayr; and I make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the same
to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act made and passed in the
sixth 1 year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled
"An Act to repeal an Act of the present Session of Parliament, intituled An
"Act for the more effectual Abolition ofOaths and Affirmations taken and made
"in various Departments of the State, and to substitute Declarations in lieu
"thereof,and for the inore entire Suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial
"Oaths and Affidavits, and to make other Provisions for the Abolition of un-
"necessary Oaths"
This solemu declaration, made at No. 32, G* Win-
chester St., this 23rd day of Sept", 1843, before
me.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that upon the acknowledgement of the said
Andrew Barclay before the said Mathew Strang, and upon the declaration
aforesaid, the instrument aforesaid was inrolled, word for word, in form above
written. And also the instrument aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made in the fifty-fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty
King George the Third.
Inrolled the Twenty-third day of September, One thousand eight hundred