A Fire-lighter in Laminated Form Covered with Advertising Sheets.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Dec., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 1st Sept., 1898-Accepted, 22nd Oct., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Fire-lighter in Laminated Form Covered with Advertising Sheets.
I, OLIVER IMRAY, of Birkbeck Bank Chambers, Southampton Buildings, in the
County of London, Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention (which has been communicated to me from abroad by Richard Pflaum,
Merchant, of Berlin, Germany,) to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a fire-lighter of laminar form having a covering of
sheets of paper or other similar material suitable to be printed with advertisements.
These new fire-lighters are lighter, cleaner and safer than those hitherto known,
and possess a degree of combustibility that adapts them for kindling every kind
of domestic fire and stove.
The preparation of the new fire-lighter is conducted as follows:-Paper or
pasteboard, etc., of any desired kind and strength is saturated with a mixture of
combustible matters and mineral matters, or is covered with a thin layer of the
same, or both treatments may be applied successively. As the combustible
materials all kinds of resins and resinous substances, tar or constituents of tar,
paraffin, fats, waxes, sulphur, charcoal, etc., as well as mixtures of these substances,
can be used either in the form of powder, or in a molten condition or dissolved
in an appropriate solvent. As suitable mineral matters, water glass, clay, heavy
spar, gypsum, sand, etc., are chiefly useful, these may be applied, according to
circumstances, mixed with the combustible substances, or by themselves or in sus-
pension in water. The paper may be covered with such matters in a manner
similar to the printing of paper hangings, newspapers or fabrics, but also by mere
painting with a brush. The paper may be covered with the combustible mixture
either on both sides or on one side; the latter method is generally the better, since
then the combustible layer can be covered with a second coated paper which may
be printed with advertisements or otherwise utilised.
The new fire-lighter is sent into the market in the form of rolls or in convenient
pieces, for example, they may be cut in pieces of the size of a playing card and
these compressed to a handy block.
Dated this 11th day of December 1907
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant
JDALOM IT TOAST:
Covered WITH Avertising Sheets.
I, OLIVER IMRAY, of Birkbeck Bank Chambers, Southampton Buildings, in the
County of London, Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this
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page_text: invention (which has been communicated to me from abroad by Richard Pflaum,
Merchant, of Berlin, Germany,) and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to a fire-lighter of laminar form having a covering of
sheets of paper or other similar material suitable to be printed with advertisements.
These new fire-lighters are lighter, cleaner and safer than those hitherto known,
and possess a degree of combustibility that adapts them for kindling every kind
of domestic fire and stove.
The preparation of the new fire-lighter is conducted as follows:-Paper or
pasteboard, etc., of any desired kind and strength is saturated with a mixture of
combustible matters and mineral matters, or is covered with a thin layer of the
same, or both treatments may be applied successively. As the combustible
materials all kinds of resins and resinous substances, tar or constituents of tar,
paraffin, fats, waxes, sulphur, charcoal, etc., as well as mixtures of these substances,
can be used either in the form of powder, or in a molten condition or dissolved
in an appropriate solvent. As suitable mineral matters, water glass, clay, heavy
spar, gypsum, sand, etc., are chiefly useful, these may be applied, according to
circumstances, mixed with the combustible substances, or by themselves or in sus-
pension in water. The paper may be covered with such matters in a manner
similar to the printing of paper hangings, newspapers or fabrics, but also by mere
painting with a brush. The paper may be covered with the combustible mixture
either on both sides or on one side; the latter method is generally the better, since
then the combustible layer can be covered with a paper pasted over it which may
be printed with advertisements or otherwise utilised.
The new fire-lighter is sent into the market in the form of rolls or in convenient
'pieces, for example, they may be cut in pieces of the size of a playing card and
these compressed to a handy block.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. A fire-lighter consisting of one or more sheets of paper or similar material,
suitable to be printed with advertisements impregnated or coated, or both impreg-
nated and coated with a liquid or solid combustible material, substantially as
described.
2. A fire-lighter consisting of a sheet of paper or other material coated or treated
on one side with combustible material over which is then pasted a sheet of paper
or the like adapted to be printed with advertisements, substantially as described.
Dated this 1st day of September 1898.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.