IMPROVEMENTS IN THE APPARATUS USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MOULD CANDLES
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Fergusson Wilson, of Belmont, Vaux-
hall, in the County of Surrey, Managing Director of Price's
Patent Candle Company, and Alexander Isaac Austen, of Trinity
Place, Wandsworth Road, in the County of Surrey, Engineer,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE APPARATUS USED IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF MOULD CANDLES."
Sealed the 6th October 1858, and dated the 4th August 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Fergusson
Wilson and Alexander Isaac Austen at the Office of the. Com-
missioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 4th August
. 1853.
We, GEORGE FERGUSSON WILSON, of Belmont, Vauxhall, in the
County of Surrey, Managing Director of Price's Patent Candle Com-
pany, and ALEXANDER ISAAC AUSTEN, of Trinity Place, Wandsworth
Road, in the County of Surrey, Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE APPARATUS
USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MOULD CANDLES" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of combining glass moulds with an external
coating of metal or other material so as to protect them from injury;

page_text: and this may be done by forming the glass moulds, and then running
around them coatings of metal, or the protecting coating may, as before
stated, be of other material.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Fergusson Wilson and Alexander Isaac
Austen in the Great Seal Patent Office, on the 4th Feb-
ruary 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
GEORGE FERGUSSON WILSON, of. Belmont, Vauxhall, in the County of
Surrey, Managing Director of Price's Patent Candle Company, and
ALEXANDER ISAAC AUSTEN, of Trinity Place, Wandsworth Road, in the
County of Surrey, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seven-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said George Fergusson. Wilson and Alexander
Isane Austen, Her special licence that we, the said George Fergusson
Wilson and Alexander Isaac Austen, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as wc, the said George Fergusson Wilson
and Alexander Isaac Austen, 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 law-
fully 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 APPARATUS USED IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF MOULD CANDLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said George Fergusson Wilson and Alexander Isaac Austen,
by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under the
hand and seal of one of us, 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

page_text: Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said George Fergusson Wilson and.
Alexander Isaac Austen, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention, and in what mauner the same is to be performed, to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof, that is to say:
Our present Invention relates to the preparation of moulds for
the casting of moulded candles, such moulds being composed of glass
covered and protected by other material. We would state that in the
Specification of a former Patent granted to the said Alexander Isaac
Austen means of coating glass candle moulds with melted metal were
described, and we have found that coatings of other matters, whether
metal be used or not, may be employed as a covering so as to prevent
the glass moulds cracking by sudden changes of temperatures, and the
means we employ are as follows:-We cover and protect such tubes
with gutta-percha, either by wrapping and moulding around them a
piece of sheet gutta-percha, using heat to join the edges together, or
by enclosing the glass pipe in a piece of gutta-percha tube of the
requisite size, and applying heat so as to enable the one end to be
moulded about the tip of the glass, and so as to apply the gutta-percha
firmly to the glass in all parts. Or we draw over such glass tubes a
piece of vulcanized india-rubber tube of the necessary size or we
cover the glass tubes with a composition capable of being applied in a
partially fluid or pasty state, and of hardening into a more or less firm
body when dry or set. For such purpose we have found the following
compositions to answer well, though we do not confine ourselves to themi
or either of them; videlicet, whitening 5 parts, glue one part, Venice
turpentine one part; or plaster of Paris one part, whitening two parts,
papier machic pulp two parts, glue and Venice turpentine, of each one
part. The glue in each case being made into a fluid jelly with water,
as usual, is to be mixed with the other materials into a pasty mass,
and this composition may be applied around the tubes by means of a
divided mould, the parts of which can be brought together with force,
so as to squeeze out superfluous material, and to cause the casing to fit

page_text: firmly to the glass. When dry the composition may be trimmed öft
as required. Whatever be the covering employed, a fillet or projecting
shoulder may be applied to or formed on it near the open end of the
compound mould so as to allow of the mould being fixed in its framic..
Over the casings so made as above we apply, in some instances, a thin
cylinder or outer casing of tinned iron, zinc, or other suitable metal,
so as to protect the casing itself from injury. Such moulds may be
wicked and used in the same manner as the ordinary metal or glass
moulds.
In witness whereof, we, the said George Fergusson Wilson and
Alexander Isaac Austen, have hereunto set our hands. and
seals, this Fourth day of February, in the year of our Loil
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
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Witness,
JNO. COOK,
12, Cursitor Street,
Chancery Lane.
(L.S.)
GEO. F. WILSON.
ALEX. I. AUSTEN. (L.S.)