NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD OR PRINCIPLE IN THE MAKING OF SNUFFERS WITHOUT ANY-SPRING OR LEVER
Year: 1818

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
HOBDAY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Snuffer Maker, send
greeting:
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster the Twelfth day of October, in the
fifty-eighth year of His reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Samuel
Hobday, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said Samuel Hobday, my exors, admors,
and assigns, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of said His Majesty's
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my" NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD
OR PRINCIPLE IN THE MAKING OF SNUFFERS WITHOUT ANY-SPRING OR LEVER;" in
which Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
Samuel Hobday, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two
calendar months next and immediately after the the date, of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may
more. fully and at large appear.
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NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Samuel Hobday, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and declare that the plan thereof drawn on the margin of these
Presents is composed of the following parts and particulars, and will explain
and illustrate the principle of my said Invention (that is to say) :-

page_text: Letter A represents the short side of the snuffer; B, the long side and box;
C, the rivet for the joint; D, the pivot hole in the joint; E, the lid of the
box; F, the pin to fasten the lid and box together; G, the pin hole in the
lid and box; HI, the ridge or inclined. plane to open the snuffer; I, the ridge
or inclined plane to close or shut the snuffer; K, the several parts of the
snuffer united together in a state for action. The intermediate space between
H and I, the two inclined planes, in shutting the snuffer, prevents the
action of the lid till the snuff is completely conveyed into the box, and in
opening, till the cutting part of the snuffer blade is drawn from under it. And
I put the several parts together in the manner following (that is to say) :-I
place the short side A on the long side B, and the pivot Cinto the joint hole
D. I then place the lid E on the side of the box, and the pin F in the pin
hole G. On opening, the ridge or inclined plane H raises the lid to receive
the snuff into the box, and on shutting the snuffers the ridge or.inclined plane
I forces the lid down, and encloses the snuff within the box after being
seperated from the candle. A split ring may be placed on the pin F to bind
the lid to the box, in case of the parts being worn by friction. And I hereby
further declare that my new invented snuffers may be made of silver, iron,
steel, brass, copper, tin, or any other metal, or composition of metals.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Hobday, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Thirtieth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighteen.