CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CANDLE-WICK, AND IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING SUCH MANUFACTURE
Year: 1843

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, NATHANIEL
CARD, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Candle-wick Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fourteenth day of January, One thousand eight hundred and
forty-three, in the sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Nathaniel Card, Her especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Nathaniel
Card, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and such others as I, the
said Nathaniel Card, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during
the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, and in all Her Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, and
in the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, and Man, my Invention of
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CANDLE-WICK, AND IN MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING SUCH MANUFACTURE;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Nathaniel Card, shall cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of

page_text: Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Nathaniel Card, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following explanation thereof, (that is to say) :-
My improvements in the manufacture of candle-wick apply particularly to
the common or well-known plaited or platted wick used in candles for sup-
porting combustian, and consist,—
Firstly, in the introduction of one, two, or more straight distended warps,
to form the base of a platted or woven candle-wick, such wick being made from
three or more strands of cotton, and the said warp or warps (which I prefer
to make of doubled yarns, as described in the Specification of my former
Patent of the Eighth of September, One thousand eight hundred and forty-
one) are to be placed within or distended through the body of the platted or
woven wick in a straight direction, that is, around which the other strand or
strands of weft are to be passed or bound by platting or weaving. The wick
may be made with one straight warp and three platted wefts, or two or more
straight warps with one or more platted wefts, keeping in view the necessity
of the warps always passing in a distended state directly through the wick.
The second feature of my improvements consists in the, application or
employment of braiding machines, having hollow tubes for the passage of the
warps for the purposes above described, that is, for platting or braiding
around the distended warps for the production of the said candle-wick, in order
to enclose the warps in the body of the wick; such machinery, though. well
known for making braidings, has never before been applied to the making of
candle-wicks: Or in place of using hollow tubes, the bobbins which. contain
the warps may be mounted on the revolving spindles, on which the "rose
heads" or carriers are placed, with precisely the same result.
And I also propose the application or employment of the ordinary loom for
weaving my improved candle-wicks, which has never before. been so applied.
These wicks may be produced in the ordinary loom by causing the warps to
be distended through the loom, that is, from the ordinary warp roller to. the
work roller. One weft may be placed in each shuttle, and passed to and fro
(the warps.being shed or divided after each pick, as in common weaving), and
hence each wick will be produced from one weft only; but if two or more
strands of weft are required for each wick, there must then be a shuttle pro-
vided with weft for each strand, and "drop boxes" employed to effect the

page_text: alternate rising of the shuttles, as each particular strand is required for the for-
mation of the platt. I consider it perfectly unnecessary further to detail the
operations of either of these well-known machines, as their applicability to the
purposes described must be clearly evident.
In witness whereof, I, the said Nathaniel Card, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-three.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Fourteenth day of July,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Nathaniel Card came before our
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And
also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Fourteenth day of July, in the year above written.