IMPROVEMENTS IN MATCHES OR FUSEES
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Bell, of Wandsworth, in the County of
Surrey, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MATCHES
OR FUSEES."
Sealed the 4th November 1859, and dated the 10th May 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Bell at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 10th
May 1859.
I, GEORGE BELL, of Wandsworth, in the County of Surrey, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MATCHES OR FUSEES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in the employment of glass, pipeclay, or other earthen-
ware stems for holding the igniting composition, of whatever kind it may be, in
order that when applied to lighting a cigar or otherwise, the stem may not
burn through and allow the ignited composition to fall off; or, instead of
glass or earthenware, I form a stem of cotton or linen stiffened with gum and

page_text: chalk, or with other stiffening material. For those matches used for lighting
pipes and cigars by sticking the short stems thereof in the tobacco, I form the
stem of that fibre known as bass or of other like strong vegetable fibre.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Bell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th
November 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
BELL, of Wandsworth, in the County of Surrey, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said George Bell, Her special licence that I, the said George Bell, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
Bell, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MATCHES OR
FUSEES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Bell,
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 George Bell, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in the employment of glass, pipeclay, or other
earthenware stems for holding the igniting composition, of whatever kind it
may be, in order that when applied to lighting a cigar or otherwise, the stem
may not burn through and allow the ignited composition to fall off; or,

page_text: instead of glass or earthenware I form a stem of cotton or linen stiffened
with gum and chalk, or with other stiffening material. For those matches
used for lighting pipes and cigars by sticking the short stems thereof in the
tobacco I form the stem of that fibre known as bass, or of other like strong
vegetable fibre. The igniting composition is in every case applied by dipping
in the usual manner.
instead of glass or earthenware I form a stem of cotton or linen stiffened
with gum
and chalk, or with other stiffening material. For those matches
used for lighting pipes and cigars by sticking the short stems thereof in the
tobacco I form the stem of that fibre known as bass, or of other like strong
vegetable fibre. The igniting composition is in every case applied by dipping
in the usual manner.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Bell, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Tenth day of November, One thousand eight hundred and