IMPROVED MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR HOLDING CANDLES IN THE SOCKETS OF CANDLESTICKS AND RAISING AND BURNING THE ENDS OUT
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William John Hinde, of the Parish of Burwash,
in the County of Sussex, for the Invention of "IMPROVED MEANS OR
APPARATUS FOR HOLDING CANDLES IN THE SOCKETS OF CANDLESTICKS AND
RAISING AND BURNING THE ENDS OUT."
Sealed the 12th February 1869, and dated the 17th August 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William John Hinde
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 17th August 1868.
I, WILLIAM JOHN HINDE, of the Parish of Burwash, in the County of
Sussex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED
MEANS OR APPARATUS POR HOLDING CANDLES IN THE SOCKETS OF CANDLESTICKS AND.
RAISING AND BURNING THE ENDS OUT," to be as follows:-
A piece of cork or other material fitting the socket of the candlestick
with plates top and bottom, through which a pin is passed, the upper
end made into a point to stick the candle on, and the lower end rivetted
or fixed in some other way to hold them together; attatched to the upper
plate by hinges are springs which grasp the candle when forced down
in the socket and hold it firm. When the ends are required to be

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William John Hinde in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 13th February 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
JOHN HINDE, of the Parish of Burwash, in the County of Sussex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said William John Hinde, Her special licence.
that I, the said William John Hinde, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said William John Hinde, 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 Invention for "IMPROVED
MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR HOLDING CANDLES IN THE SOCKETS OF CANDLESTICKS AND
RAISING AND BURNING THE ENDS OUT," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said William John Hinde, 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 William John Hinde, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be, particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, viz. :-
A piece of cork or other material fitting the socket of the candlestic
with plates top and bottom, through which a pin or rivet is passed t

page_text: hold them together. The upper end of the pin or rivet is made into a
point to fix the candle on, or if necessary other points are raised for that
purpose. Attached to the upper plate by hinges are springs or spring
arms slightly curved, which grasp the candle when forced down into the
socket of the candlestick and hold it firmly in its place. When the end
of the candle requires raising to be burned out the apparatus is raised
by the same springs or spring arms, which then fall out of the way over
the flange of the candlestick. When the apparatus is fixed to the slide
of a candlestick it is raised or depressed in the same way as ordinary
slides in candlesticks.
In witness whereof, I, the said William John Hinde, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of February, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and, sixty-
nine,
WILLIAM JOHN HINDE. (L.S.)