ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS ON A SORT OF CANDLESTICK (IN COMMON USE,) AS WILL BE FOUND TO PREVENT ACCIDENTAL FIRES
Year: 1805

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
KENT, of the Borough of Plymouth, in the County of Devon, Merchant and
Agent, do send greeting
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Gicat Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Second day of July, in the forty-fifth year of His reign,
did give and grant unto me, the said William Kent, my exors, adñois, and
assigns, His special licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I,
the said William Kent, my exors, admois, and assigns, during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
"ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS ON A SORT OF CANDLESTICK (IN COMMON USE,) AS
WILL BE FOUND TO PREVENT ACCIDENTAL FIRES," in which Letters Patent there
is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said William Kent, under my hand
and seal to cause a particular desciption of the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be enrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery with one calendar month next and im-
mediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
same (relation being thereunto had) will more fully and at large appea
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Kent, do hereby declare that my said Invention is on a candlestick

page_text: maiked Number 1 in the margin, and the additions and improvements thereon
are described in Number 2, and are as follows:-
a, addition of water; b, iim, by which it may be conveniently removed with
the water therein, c, guard to be made of glass or horn, of an height accord-
ing to the use the candlestick is intended for, which, without destroying the
light conducts the sparks into the water, and also prevents the danger of
curtains, cloaths, or other articles communicating (sideways) with the candle.
The guard is made to take off occasionally, as is also the wire on which it
slides; d, conical socket, in which (slide or lifter is avoided,) that the candle
may on its burning down to the socket meet with no obstruction in instantly
dropping into the water and be thereby quite extinguished, (though the parties
may have fallen asleep); e, hole in the socket to admit the water; and, also to
take out the end of candle that drops into the candlestick, is added a pair
of snuffers and an extinguisher. These candlesticks may be made of silver,
brass, copper, tin, or other materials, and of various sizes, with one or more
sockets, for use on board of ships, in shops, warehouses, and other places.
The plan maiked Number 2 is taken fiom one manufactured of tin, but may
be made of silver or other materials (except tin,) with sides round or other-
wise shaped.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Kent, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-seventh day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and five
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-seventh day of July, in
the year of our Lord 1805, the aforesaid William Kent came before our
said Lord the King in IIis Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and five.