A NEW SORT OF INSTRUMENT OR MACHINE FOR PREPARING AND CUTTING COTTON AND LIN CANDLE WICKS
Year: 1809

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE
WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JOHN
JONES, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner, sendeth
greeting.
WHEREAS His Majesty did, by His Royal Letters Patent under the
Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date
at Westminster, the Ninth day of December, in the fiftieth year of His reign,
for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto the said John
Jones, his exors, adñiors, and assigns, His Majesty's especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that he, the said John Jones, his exors,
admors, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by his
and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he, the said
John Jones, his exors, adñiors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend his Invention of "A NEW SORT OF INSTRUMENT OR MACHINE FOR PREPARING
AND CUTTING COTTON AND LIN CANDLE WICKS," within that part of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the said
John Jones, his executors, admors, and assigns, or any of them, should in his
or their discretions seem meet, and that he, the said John Jones, his exors,
admors, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole
profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing,

page_text: accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during the
term of years therein mentioned; to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said
licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted, or mentioned
to be granted unto the said John Jones, his executors, admors, and assigns, for
and during, and unto the full end of fourteen years from the date of the said
Letters Patent, according to the Statute in such case made and provided; in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that if the said John Jones
should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, by an instrument in
writing under his hand and seal, and cause the same to be enrolled in the
High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent,
and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly
cease, determine, and become void.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Jones, in pursuance of the said
proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby, and by the map or
plan hereunto annexed and herein referred to, describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be
performed, in manner following (that is to say) :-
:-
The Figures 1 and 4, the front views or elevation of the machine; 2 and 5,
the ground plans or bird's-eye views of the machine; 3 and 6, the end
views of the machine. The letters A, A, A, A, the frame of the machine;
B, B, B, B, a flat reel on which tho wick is wound; C, C, C, C, the end and
middle frames of the reel, made of iron, with grooves and sliders to lengthen
or shorten them, as occasion may require; D, D, D, D, center rods of wood,
having notches cut in them crossways the whole length, into which, the ends
of the yarn aro fixed, in order to fasten them, and also a longitudinal groove or
slote, which is used as a guide in cutting the wicks asunder with one or more
pair or pairs of scissars at the same time, the rod being first unscrewed at
each end, sco R, R, turned round to liberate the first ends, then drawn out and
thrust under the yarn into its original position, in order to cut the wicks, the
groove or guide for the scissars laying uppermost and immediately under the
yarn, or, in other words, the yarn will lay over and exactly on the groove ready
for the scissars. In lieu of the aforesaid: center rods of wood at D, D, D, D;
Figure 5; might be used or substituted: clasp rods, being in two parts that fit
into each other lengthways, between which the ends of the yarn are first
placed, and, thereby held fast, the ends of the clasp rods being fixed in the
center of the iron arms, as before described at C, C, C, C.
E, E, E, .asi seen

page_text: in Figures 3 and 6, are guides for the threads from the cops to the reel, which
may be raised or lowered, being fixed in grooves, and fastened with screws
and nuts as at M, M. F, F, F, F, are cotton cops, which supply the reels;
G, G, G, G, iron shafts, to which are fixed bevil or spur geer wheels, by which
the reels are turned in regular motion at the handles H, H; I shews how the
threads are at first fastened to the rods D, D, which rods are made fast by a
screw at each end through hollow centers, see R, R; K, a movement to certify
the number of times the wheel has gone round; P, in Figure 5, is a tape
drawn lengthways from arm to arm, and fastened by rings and pins to the
arms; its use being to hold the threads down and back from the center rod
while the wicks are cutting; when cut they fall down on the rods B, B, and
form themselves into two distinct sets of wicks, namely, one set on each rod;
or in lieu of the aforesaid tape, at P, in Figure 5, might be used or substituted
a frame or collecting frame, to fix underneath the reel (by bolts in the iron
arms), after it has gone round the proper number of times, see Figure 8;
its use is to collect every thread belonging to each wick into inch divisions by
means of wire staples at T betwixt this collecting frame; the scissars are then
introduced, when the wicks fall down, and are stopt at S, S, the extremity of
the collecting frame, which being now taken off, the wicks remain suspended
on the rods B, B, as seen at L, in Figure 7. Figure 7 shews the manner of
taking the wicks off the rods B, B, which, when filled, are taken out by
loosing a screw at N, N, N, N, Figure 5, which rods have brass tubes fixed
on their ends, into which another rod, having a paper tube drawn over it
marked O), is fixed. The wicks are then slipt off the rod B upon the paper
tube, which being done, the paper tube is taken off, and the whole is finished.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
First, the usual method of making candle wicks previously to this Invention
has been to make one at a time from a ball of cotton of two threads together,
and that by the hand. The object of this Invention is to make any quantity at a
time, according to the length of the machine.
compass of one inch, and in a more complete
wick having the property of giving its own
they are placed from each other on the reel.
Two wicks can be made in the
manner than by the hand, each
twist, arising from the distance
Secondly, as each wick is made by one thread at a time, although more
might be used if required, it prevents any internal twist, which will invariably
be the case when made from balls of two threads. The wicks made on
the machine will be more open or porous, in consequence of which the

page_text: tallow has a better opportunity to supply the flame of the candle, and by so
doing, a better light is obtained.
In witness whereof, the said John Jones hath hereunto set his hand
and seal, this Thirtieth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and ten.
Inrolled the Fifth day of February, in the year of our Lord One 2
thousand eight hundred and ten.