IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SEALING WAX
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Frederick Morrell, of Fleet Street, in the
City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF SEALING WAX."
Sealed the 12th September 1861, and dated the 25th March 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Frederick Morrell
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
25th March 1861.
I, GEORGE FREDERICK MORRELL, of Fleet Street, in the City of London, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MANUFACTURE OF SEALING WAX," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
sealing wax.
Sealing wax has most generally been made into "sticks" by rolling the
wax when in a plastic state on a heated plate. Now my Invention consists
in passing sealing wax when in a plastic state through between grooved rollers,
and thus to manufacture the same into sticks; the rollers are by preference
grooved with grooves which are parallel to the axes of the rollers, but the
grooves may be around the rollers. When the grooves are parallel with the
axes of the rollers, one of the rollers is formed with collars or projecting
flanges at the ends, between which the other roller works. The rollers are
similar in construction to what have been before used in other manufactures,
and they are geared so that their surfaces move correctly together..

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Frederick Morrell in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 24th September 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
FREDERICK MORRELL, of Fleet Street, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said George Frederick Morrell, Her special licence that I, the said
George Frederick Morrell, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said George Frederick Morrell, 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SEALING WAX," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Frederick Morrell, 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 George Frederick Morrell, 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 :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
sealing wax.
:
Sealing wax has most generally been made into "sticks" by rolling the
wax when in a plastic state on a heated plate. Now, my Invention consists
in passing sealing wax when in a plastic state through between grooved rollers,
and thus to manufacture the same into sticks. The rollers are by preference
grooved with grooves which are parallel to the axes of the rollers, but the
grooves may be around the rollers. When the grooves are parallel with the
axes of the rollers, one of the rollers is formed with collars or projecting flanges
at the ends, between which the other roller works. The rollers are similar in

page_text: construction to what have been before used in other manufactures, and they
are geared so that their surfaces move correctly together.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will proceed more fully
to describe the manner of performing the same.
By preference I employ a pair of rollers with corresponding grooves or
recesses on their surfaces and parallel with their axes, the length of the rollers
corresponding with the length of the sticks of sealing wax to be made thereby.
At each end of one of the rollers there is a collar formed or applied thereto,
between which collars the other roller works, so that the collars close the ends
of the grooves or recesses, but pairs of grooved rollers may be made without
such collars, in which case the grooves or recesses in each roller will be made
less in length than the surfaces of the two rolling surfaces which roll together.
Or similar rollers may be used with grooves of a length greater than that of the
desired sticks of sealing wax, in which case the lengths of wax thus produced
will be divided into lengths suitable for sticks in like manner to that in which
they have been divided when the lengths rolled by hand have been greater
than the lengths of the desired sticks. I would, however, remark that when
it is desired to make long lengths of moulded wax suitable to be divided into
sticks, I prefer to use pairs of rollers with corresponding grooves formed in
and around their surfaces at right angles to the axes of the rollers. The pairs
of rollers thus used are to be geared correctly together in order to their having
like surface speed. The sealing wax is to be heated so as to render it plastic,
and in this state a mass or lump is placed in the angular space, so that in
the rotation of the rollers the wax will fill the grooves, and become moulded
by passing through between the rollers. After the sealing wax has been thus
moulded, and has become set and cold, the slight webs or fins produced at
the edges will be readily broken off.
What I claim is the passing of sealing wax when in a plastic state through
between rollers so that the sealing wax may be thereby pressed into suitable
grooves or recesses, and be thereby moulded into sticks.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Frederick Morrell, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
GEORGE FREDERICK MORRELL. (L.S.)