AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR MOULDING CANDLES
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS DATENT to George White, of 24, Dowgate Hill, Cannon Streets
in the City of London, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR
MOULDING CANDLES."-A communication from abroad by Messrs. J. Seeger-
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in the City of London, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR
MOULDING CANDLES."-A communication from abroad by Messrs. J. Seeger-
& Co., of Esslingen, Wartemberg.
Sealed the 27th July 1860, and dated the 9th February 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George White at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 9th
February 1860.
I, GEORGE WHITE, of 34, Dowgate Hill, Cannon Street, in the City of
London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED.
MACHINE FOR MOULDING CANDLES," it has been communicated to me from abroad.
by Messrs. J. Seeger & Co., of Esslingen, Wurtenberg, to be as follows:-
This machine, which is applicable to the moulding of tallow, stearine, wax;.
or other candles, consists of a strong frame mounted on wheels, for allowing
the same to be pushed forward over rails on the moulding table, which latter..
contains the moulds provided with their wicks. This moveable frame bears a
trough containing the melted tallow or other suitable material for the moulding:
of candles; the bottom of the trough is perforated with sets of holes corre--
sponding exactly with the openings of the moulds underneath, while between
the frame and the said holes is situated a board or plate gliding in proper
guides, and also suitably provided with sets of holes, which, when required;
may be made to correspond exactly with those of the trough bottom, and thus

page_text: allow the melted tallow to run into the set of moulds underneath, after which,
the board being drawn backward, the same shuts the openings of the trough,
so as to allow this latter to be pushed forward to a second set of moulds, and
there repeat again the same operation.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George White in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th August 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
WHITE, of 34, Dowgate Hill, Canon Street, in the City of London, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of February, 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 George White, Her special licence that I, the said George White, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
White, 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 "AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR
MOULDING CANDLES," a communication to me from abroad by Messrs. J. Seeger
and Co., of Esslingen, Wurtemberg, upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said George White, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 White, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The Invention relates to a machine for the moulding of candles, whether of
tallow, stearine, wax, or other suitable material, and in such manner as to
allow the moulding of a great many candles at a time.

page_text: In the annexed Drawings Fig. 1 shows a plan view of the machine, of which
Fig. 2 represents a side elevation, and Fig. 3 an end elevation from behind;
the Figs. 4 and 5 respectively show a vertical, longitudinal, and a transverse
sectional view over the lines V, W, and X, Y, of Fig. 1. In all these Figures
corresponding parts are indicated by the same letters of reference.
The machine consists of a trough or reservoir A, of tin plate or other
suitable metal or material, which trough is to contain the molten tallow,
stearine, wax, or other substances from which the candles are to be moulded,
and which tallow or other materials are thrown in the molten state through a
sieve or filter with which the top of the trough is provided; the trough A is
held by angle irons B fixed to the truck C, which, by means of four wheels D,
may be moved forward and backward over a pair of rails E fixed on the top of
the moulding table, in which latter the moulds are fixed in the ordinary.
manner with their ingress openings turned upward. At the bottom of the
trough A are soldered cross pieces G, provided at the required distances apart
with suitable holes a for the tallow to run off through; each cross piece G
corresponds with a row of moulds, and cach hole a of the cross pieces G with
the ingress opening of a mould, in such manner that the trough may be placed
on the table in such position on the rails as to have each of the holes a in the
bottom part of the trough correspond with. a mould for the molten tallow to
run off in. Against the outside of the bottom of the trough A is situated a
sliding plate H, provided also with perforated cross pieces J, arranged in a
similar manner with those at the bottom of the trough, and corresponding
exactly therewith; the plate II glides in suitable slip boards or slides fixed to
the bottom of the trough A, and so as to cause the sliding plate H always to
be in perfect contact with the bottom of the trough, while the plate H is
moved forward or backward by means of a handle K, and so as to make the
holes of the cross pieces J either correspond or not with those of the cross
pieces G, in the first instance allowing the tallow to run off into the moulds
underneath, and in the second stopping the passage. Along one of the
longitudinal sides of the truck is situated a lever arm L, turning with one end
on a pin , while the opposite end forms a tooth ', which, at each time the
truck is moved forward in order to fill another series of moulds, falls into a
notch m in the top of the table, and thus stops the truck at the required spot
above the moulds, the said notches m, m', and so on being situated at the
required distances apart along the whole length of the table.
The mode of working with this apparatus is as follows:-Molten tallow,
stearine, wax, or other suitable materials from which candles are to be
moulded having been put through the sieve or filter in the trough A (the

page_text: sliding plate H having been previously drawn in the required position for
keeping the egress holes a of the trough shut), the workman with one hand
seizes the bandle K, and with the other lifting the tooth ', pushes the truck
along the rails, till the tooth l' falling into the first notch m stops the truck,
he then, by means of the handle K, draws the sliding plate H into the position
for allowing the tallow to run off into the moulds underneath; these latter
having thus been filled, he draws the sliding plate to the original position, and
thus stops again the passage, and lifting the tooth out of the notch m,
pushes the truck forward till the tooth falls into the next notch m', when the
same operation as that just described will be performed again.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried
into effect, I would observe in conclusion, that I do not confine or restrict
myself to the precise details of the above described mechanical arrangements,
as many variations may be made therefrom without deviating from the main
features of the said Invention; but what I consider to be novel and original,
and therefore claim as the Inventien secured to me by the herein-before in
part recited Letters Patent is, the general arrangement and combination of
parts of the above described, machine for moulding candles of tallow, stearine,
wax, or any other suitable material.
In witness whereof, I, the said George White, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of August, One thousand eight hundred
and sixty.
Witness,
W. SATCHELL.,
GEO. WHITE. (L.S.)