AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF FUSEE
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Alexander Bell and John Black, of Bow
Lane, Cheapside, in the City of London, Vesta Light and Fusee Manu-
facturers, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF FUSEE."
Sealed the 29th September 1859, and dated the 22nd July 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Alexander Bell and
John Black at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 22nd July 1859.
We, SAMUEL ALEXANDER BELL and JOHN BLACK, of Bow Lane, Cheapside,
in the City of London, Vesta Light and Fusee Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF
FUSEE," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the manufacture of fusees applicable mainly to
the lighting of cigars, the object being to enable the burning fusee when
pressed against the cigar to retain the ash or cinder on its stem. To this
end we form the stem of wire, and tip it with a pastile composition of any
ordinary or approved-kind, and this composition when hard we touch with a
composition that will ignite by friction.
In order to prevent the heat of the burning composition being communi-

page_text: cated through the metallic stem to the person using the fusee, we coat the
stem for a portion of its length with some non-conducting material, preferring
however a composition formed of liquid gum or glue, thickened with flour or
whiting. The holding ends of the stems being dipped into this composition
will become coated sufficiently thick to form when dry a sufficient protection 5
to the fingers from the heat of the burning fusee.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Alexander Bell and John Black in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 21st January 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM-THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, SAMUEL
ALEXANDER BELL and JOHN BLACK, of Bow Lane, Cheapside, in the City
of London, Vesta Light and Fusee Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent,, bearing date the Twenty-second day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Samuel Alexander Bell and John Black, Her special license that we,
the said Samuel Alexander Bell and John Black, our executors, adminis-
trators and assigns, or such others as we, the said Samuel Alexander Bell
and John Black, our 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
MANUFACTURE OF FUSEE," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said Samuel Alexander Bell and John Black, by an instrument in writing
under our hands and scals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and enuse the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Samuel Alexander Bell and John
Black, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the Drawing

page_text: hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to
say):-
This Invention relates to the manufacture of fusees applicable mainly to the
lighting of cigars, the object being to retain the ash or cinder of the burning
fusee on its stem when pressed against the cigar, and thus to remove the
defect which is common to pastile fusees made with a wooden or other com-
bustible stem. To this end we form the stem of wire, and tip with a pastile
composition of any ordinary or approved kind, which composition when hard
we touch with a composition that will ignite when subjected to friction.
In order to prevent the heat generated by the burning composition from
being communicated by metallic conduction to the fingers of the person using
the fusee, we coat the metal stem for a portion of its length with a non-
conducting material in the manner to be presently described.
In the accompanying Drawing. Fig. 1 shews a fusee constructed with a wire
stem according to our Invention; Fig. 2 is a modification thereof; and Fig. 3
is a longitudinal section of the same. a (Fig. 1) is the wire stem tipped or
coated at one end with pastile composition b. which is touched with a phos-
phorous compound capable of igniting by the application of friction. The
opposite end of the wire we coat with a non-conducting composition as at c,
which composition may consist of a mixture of liquid gum or glue, and
whiting or flour, or their equivalents. Instead of applying the non-conducting
material to the lower end of the stem, as shewn at Fig. 1, we propose also to
coat the other end of the stem, prior to the application of the pastile composi-
tion. carrying it down somewhat below that composition, as shewn at d,
Figures 2 and 3. By this means we effectually prevent the heat from affecting
the wire, and besides enabling the person using the fusee to hold it with
comfort, the splitting and falling off of the pastile composition from the stem
by reason of the expansion of the metal covered by that composition is effec-
tually prevented, the coating of non-conducting material forming at the same
time a good adhesive surface for the pastile cinder. The further to secure a
good holding of the composition on the end of the metal or wire stem, we
propose to construct them with a solid head, as shewn at Fig. 3, or to spread
the end of the wire by flattening it out or otherwise shape it so as to form
a retaining shoulder for the composition at the end of the stem. By these
means the tendency of the composition to slip or scale off from the metal will
be completely removed.
Having now set forth the nature of our Invention " of "An Improved Manu-
facture of Fusee," and explained the manner of carrying the same into effect,

page_text: we wish it to be understood that under the above in part recited Letters
Patent we claim the means herein described, whereby we are enabled to
neutralize the heat conducting power of wire, and render the same applicable
to the manufacture of fusees.
In witness whereof, we, the said Samuel Alexander Bell and John
Black, have hereunto set our hands and seals, the Twenty-first day
of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty.
Witness,
T. NOLAN,
66, Chancery Lane.
SAM A. BELL. (L.R.)
(L.S.)
JNO BLACK.