AN IMPROVED CANDLE LAMP
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Warren Stormes Hale, of Queen Street, Cheapside,
in the City of London, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
CANDLE LAMP."
Sealed the 28th August 1860, and dated the 3rd March 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Warren Stormes Hale at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
3rd March 1860.
I, WARREN STORMES HALE, of Queen Street, Cheapside, in the City of
London, Manufacturer, do hereby, declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED CANDLE LAMP," to be as follows:—
The nozzle within which the candle burns is permanently fixed, and not
moveable for the insertion of the candle, and the table or socket holding the
candle is moved upwards by a spring or springs, in a state of distention instead
of compression when the candle is inserted, so situated as to be free from
obstruction by the melted candle stuff. The nozzle is supported and the
motion of the socket controlled by two or more uprights arranged so as to
admit of the candle being introduced between them, and of the spring or
springs being protected and kept in their place during distention as the socket
is drawn down, and during contraction as the candle is drawn up.
By means of a candle lamp so constructed and arranged the inconvenience
and danger of spring candle lamps as at present constructed will be obviated,
inasmuch as the spring cannot become clogged by and may be effectually
protected from the material of which the candle is made, and the danger from
the candle starting out when held by a moveable nozzle is avoided, and the
candle is inserted more easily than when employed to compress a spring.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Warren Stormes Hale in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
1st September 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WARREN
STORMES HALE, of Queen Street, Cheapside, in the City of London, Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Warren Stormes Hale, Her special licence that I, the said Warren
Stormes Hale, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Warren Stormes Hale, 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, tlie Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN
IMPROVED CANDLE LAMP," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Warren Stormes Hale, my exccutors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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 imme-.
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Warren Stormes Hale, 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 nozzle within which the candle burns is permanently fixed, and not
moveable for the insertion of the candle, and the table or socket holding the
candle is moved upwards by springs in a state of distension instead of com-
pression when the candle is inserted, so situated as to be free from obstruction
by the melted candle stuff. The nozzle is supported and the motion of the
socket controlled by two or more uprights arranged so as to admit of the
candle being introduced between them, and of the springs being protected and
kept in their place during distension as the socket is drawn down, and during
contraction as the candle is drawn up.
By means of a candle lamp so constructed and arranged the inconvenience

page_text: and danger of spring candle lamps as at present constructed will be obviated.
inasmuch as the spring cannot become clogged by and may be effectually
protected from the material of which the candle is made, and the danger from
the candle starting out when held by a moveable nozzle is avoided, and the
candle is inserted more easily than when employed to compress a spring.
And in order that the nature of my Invention and the means which I adopt
in carrying the same into effect may be fully understood I will proceed to
describe the Drowing enneved
Figure 1 shows an external view, and Figure 2 a plan, of an arrangement of
candle lamp constructed according to my improvements. a is the fixed nozzle,
against which the upper portion of the candle is sustained or pressed during
burning. This nozzle is supported from the base c by means of the standards
or uprights b. The red line represents a candle in position, resting upon and
being borne upwards (with its upper end in the nozzle a) by the table or
socket d, acted upon by springs e in a state of tension.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the means
which I adopt in carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood
that I do not claim as new a fixed nozzle, or standards, or springs for raising
the table and candle, nor do I confine myself to the precise details above
shown and described; but what I claim as the Invention whereof the exclusive
use is intended to be secured by the said Letters Patent is, the construction of
a candle lamp, having the standards arranged so as to admit of the candle being
introduced between two of them under a fixed nozzle, and on a table raised
by springs arranged and protected from the candle stuff, as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Warren Stormes Hale, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
WARREN STORMES HALE. (L.S.)