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lp be incased in an outer protection or not. Connelly, January 6, 1863. The wick consists of an outside case or wrapper of linen, muslin, or other suitable substance, folded lengthwise over a filling of loose raw cotton, cotton-yarn, paper, pulp, or other substance possessing sufficient capillarity, the joint of the outside case or wrapper being secured by a narrow strip of thin muslin or other material pasted upon one side of the wick, where the edges of the wrapper meet. White, August 28, 1863. A roving of unspun cotton, flax, jute, or other vegetable fiber, covered with a coating of gluten, by being passed through a vessel containing a solution of gluten, from whence it is passed to a tube to bring it to the proper shape, and afterward dried. Larcher, July 7, 1863. At the upper end of a common wick is a section of asbestus, which is fed by the ordinary wick, without waste of material. Meucci, February 28, 1865. A lamp-wick made of paper pulp, and strengthened by mea