Improvements in Fire Lighters.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Aug., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 4th May, 1893-Accepted, 10th June, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fire Lighters.
I, JAMES ROYLE, of 4 Devonshire Street, Higher Broughton, Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention relates to fire lighters, and its object is the production of the
lighters from such materials and in such a manner that they shall be inexpensive,
easily handled, clean, and more effective than the lighters at present in common use.
Fire lighters made according to these improvements consist of a suitable fatty
matter such as tallow, common rosin, a suitable woody material such as sawdust,
and cannel coal dust.
The proportions in which the materials are employed may vary within com-
paratively wide limits, but about one part of tallow melted with six parts of rosin,
is a good basis for usual work. About equal parts of dried sawdust, and of cannel
coal dust, are mixed together and sufficient of this mixture is added to and
incorporated with the melted ingredients to form a mass which is plastic whilst
warm. The warm plastic mass is quickly rolled into thick sheets and partly
divided into suitable portions, so that when cold, the partly divided portions may
be easily broken asunder. It is preferred to form the portions which will be thus
broken off to form separate lighters, with channels therein to facilitate the passage
of air when the lighter is in use.
Dated this 6th day of August A.D. 1892.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fire Lighters.
I, JAMES ROYLE of 4 Devonshire Street Higher Broughton, Manchester in the
County of Lancaster, Agent, 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 relates to fire lighters and its object is the production of the
lighters from such materials and in such a manner that they shall be inexpensive,
easily handled, clean, and more effective than the lighters at present in common use.
Fire lighters made according to these improvements consist of a suitable fatty
matter such as tallow, common rosin, a suitable woody material such as sawdust and
cannel coal dust.
The proportions in which the materials are employed may vary within com-
paratively wide limits, but the two following proportions have been found to give
excellent results, that marked A being more suitable for use with soft coal and that
marked B for general use.
Tallow
Rosin
Sawdust
-
-
Coal dust
B
A
100 parts
600 parts
50 parts
600 parts
150 parts
300 parts
150 parts
50 parts

page_text: melted tallow and rosin, the resulting compound being plastic while warm. The
warm plastic mass is quickly rolled into thick sheets and partly divided into
suitable portions, so that when cold, the partly divided portions may be easily
broken asunder as in existing fire lighters. It is preferred to form the portions
which will be thus broken off to produce separate lighters with channels therein to
facilitate the passage of air when the lighter is in use.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
Fire lighters composed of a fatty matter such as tallow, rosin, cannel coal dust,
and sawdust or similar material, manufactured substantially as hereinbefore
described.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicant.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicant.