AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR IGNITING CIGARS OR TOBACCO."
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hyde Bateman, of Barnes, in the County of Surrey,
Surveyor, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR IGNITING
CIGARS OR TOBACCO."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hyde Bateman at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 7th
November 1865.
I, HYDE BATEMAN, of Barnes, in the County of Surrey, Surveyor, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS
POR IGNITING CIGARS OR TOBACCO," to be as follows:-
The improved apparatus for igniting cigars or tobacco, which forms the
subject of the present Invention, consists of a metallic or other tube of suitable
length to contain say 20 or 30 igniters, which are pressed forward to the open
end of the tube by means of a coiled spring. The igniters consist of a number
of circular discs made, by preference, of hard papier maché, consolidated felt,
wood, or other bad conductor of heat, on one side of which is affixed a piece
of prepared tinder or other suitable combustible substance which is capable of
burning long enough to ignite a cigar or pipe, and on the other side may be
secured a piece of glass paper, sand paper, or other roughened surface,
whereby a phosphoric preparation or other composition which will ignite on
the application of friction (which composition is on the front side of each
disc) may be ignited.

page_text: If it be desired to ignite one of the discs, this may be effected by simply
knocking off from the end of the series that one which projects from the
tubular case. This operation will be sufficient to ignite the disc immediately
below, and which will assume the position of the one removed. A little metal
cover for the exposed end of the tinder or composition discs will, when
removed, serve as an instrument to knock off the last expended disc when a
light is required. The other end of the tube is also provided with a cover
which will retain the discs and their spring in the tube, and will at the same
time form a tobacco stopper.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Hyde Bateman in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th
May 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HYDE
BATEMAN, of Barnes, in the County of Surrey, Surveyor, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Hyde Bateman, Her special license that I, the said Hyde Bateman,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Hyde Bateman, my 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 APPARATUS FOR IGNITING CIGARS OF TOBACCO," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Hyde Bateman, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Hyde Batoman, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the fol-

page_text: lowing statement, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and
to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
The "Improved Apparatus for Igniting Cigars or Tobacco," which forms the
subject of the present Invention, consists of a metallic or other tube of suitable
length to contain say twenty or thirty igniters, which are pressed forward to
the open end of the tube by means of a helical or coiled spring placed behind
them. The igniters consist of a number of circular discs made, by preference,
of hard papier mâché, consolidated felt, wood, or other bad conductor of heat,
on one side of which is affixed a piece of prepared tinder or other suitable
combustible substance which is capable of burning long enough to ignite a
cigar or pipe, and on the other side may be secured a piece of glass paper,
sand paper, or other roughened surface, whereby a phosphoric preparation or
other composition which will ignite on the application of friction may be
ignited, and which igniting composition or phosphoric preparation is adapted
to the front side of each disc, so that the prepared tinder may be ignited
thereby.
In the accompanying Drawing, Fig. 1 is an external view of the case for
containing the igniters; Fig. 2 is a similar view with the cap 6 removed, and
shewing one of the igniters a at the upper end; Fig. 3 is a section of the case
shewing a cartridge of twelve lights and the spiral spring d behind them;
Fig. 4 represents the case with the cap or cover of the other end c removed;
Fig. 5 is the cap c with spring & attached thereto; Fig. 6 represents a car-
tridge of the igniters prepared ready for introducing into the tube at the end c;
Fig. 7 is a plan of the roughened surface of the igniter, and Fig. 8 is a plan
of the combustible surface of the same. When the cartridge of igniters e, as
shewn at Fig. 6, is put in the case the spring d is introduced, and presses
forward the igniters to the other end; the spring d is kept in its place by the
cap c, which is secured to the tubular case by a bayonet joint or fastening.
When it is desired to ignite one of the discs e, this may be effected by simply
knocking off from the end of the series shewn detached at Fig.
that igniter
which has been spent and projects from the upper end of the tubular case;
this operation will be sufficient to ignite the disc immediately below, and
which will assume the position of the one removed. A little metal cap or
cover 6 for the exposed end of the tinder or composition discs will when
removed serve as an instrument to knock off the last expended disc when a
light is required. The cover c at the other end of the tube will retain the
discs and their spring d in the tube, and will push them forward; the cap c
will at the same time form a tobacco stopper.
Having now described my Invention of "An Improved Apparatus for

page_text: Igniting Cigars and Tobacco," and having explained the manner of carrying
the same into effect, I claim as the Invention secured to me by Letters
Patent, as aforesaid, combining together a series of discs composed of any
suitable non-conducting substance, and provided on one side with an igniting
composition and combustible substance and on the other with a roughened
surface, so that when one disc is knocked off by a side blow, as herein
described, the roughened surface of the outermost dise will by friction ignite
the combustible substance of the disc immediately below.
I also claim the improved construction and arrangement of tubular case,
herein shewn and described, for containing a series or cartridge composed of
several igniters, as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Hyde Bateman, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
Witness,
J. W. MOFFATT,
66, Chancery Lane.
HYDE BATEMAN. (L.S.)