Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1896
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Complete Specification Left, 17th Sept., 1897-Accepted, 30th Oct., 1897
We, THOMAS FREDERICK WILLIAMS, and WILLIAM RUTHERFORD WILLIAMS, of
3. Brougham Terrace, Birkenhead Road, Seacombe in the County of Chester, Coal
Merchants, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention has for its object a firelighter which shall be exceedingly cheap
and at the same time effective." ...:
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Now I.have.discovered that owing to the cellular nature of bamboo cane split
and crushed bamboo is an extremely valuable material for making firelighters.
Owing apparently to some hydrocarbons in the wood; the heat generates a gas which
spurts out from, the ends and, any cracks, and produces, a.most brilliant,Hame and
my invention consists therefore in, splitting up, bamboo, canes cutting, them to a
given size and binding them, up with any, very, inflammable, material, the very
inflammable material being requisite. to start the flame, and, thus, produce. the
gas. The inflammable materials I prefer to use are a mixture of resin sawdust
and a nitrate or other salt of extremely high oxygen giving capacity. These are
heated with or without petroleum and when in the pasty or nearly liquid state
the bundles of cane tied round with a piece of wire, have one of their ends dipped
into the hot material. They are then placed to one side to cool and form the
firelighter in question. In place however of using this material I can if desirable
make the firelighter entirely of cane. In this case some canes are preferably
passed through grooved rollers. The grooved rollers shred the cane into fine
slivers and a bundle of each of these fine slivers is placed in each firelighter.
These fine slivers light at once and set fire to the remaining bamboo. Fine
shavings can also be placed with them if desired.
Dated the 16th day of December 1896
We, THOMAS FREDERICK WILLIAMS, and WILLIAM RUTHERFORD WILLIAMS, of
3 Brougham Terrace, Birkenhead Road, Seacombe in the County of Chester, Coal
Merchants, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
This invention has for its object a firelighter which shall be exceedingly cheap
and at the same time effective.

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Now we have discovered that owing to the cellular nature of bamboo cane, split
and crushed bamboo is an extremely, valuable material for making firelighters.
Owing apparently to some hydrocarbons in the wood the heat generates a gas which
spurts out from the ends and any cracks, and produces a most brilliant flame and
our invention consists therefore in splitting up bamboo canes, cutting them to a
given size and binding them up with any very inflammable material, the very
inflammable material being requisite to start the flame and thus produce the gas.
The inflammable materials we prefer to use are a mixture of resin sawdust and a
nitrate or other salt of extremely high oxygen giving capacity.
heated with or without petroleum, and when in the pasty or nearly liquid state,
the bundles of cane tied round with a piece of wire have one of their ends dipped
into the hot material. They are then placed to one side to cool and form the fire-
lighter in question. In place however of using this material we can if desirable
make the firelighter entirely of cane. In this case some canes are preferably
passed through grooved rollers. The grooved rollers shred the cane into fine
slivers and a bundle of each of these fine slivers is placed in each firelighter.
These fine slivers light at once and set fire to the remaining bamboo. Fine
shavings can also be placed with them if desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. The improvement in firelighters which consists in their manufacture from
bamboos split up and bound in bundles with or without any still more easily
inflammable material substantially as described.
2. The combination of split bamboo and highly inflammable hydro-carbonaceous
fuel with or without a highly oxygenated compound substantially as ascertained.
Dated this 16th day of September 1897.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and London Patent Agents.