IMPROVEMENTS IN MED MANNDA OPHIOR AND PACKING OR FIRE-LIGHTERS AND ARTIFICIAL FUEL."
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Trotter, of Buglawton, near Congleton, in the
County of Chester, Farmer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MED MANNDA OPHIOR AND PACKING OR FIRE-LIGHTERS AND ARTIFICIAL FUEL."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Trotter at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 7th October
1867.
I, HENRY TROTTER, of Buglawton, in the County of Chester, Farmer, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE AND PACKING OF FIRE-LIGHTERS AND ARTIFICIAL FUEL," to be
as follows:-
Turf is first cut into sods from the bog in the ordinary way and then
weathered and dried in the usual manner; they are then taken into a hot
room and thoroughly dried, after which they are taken to a saw mill and cut
into pieces of suitable form and size according to the purpose for which they
are intended; these thoroughly dried pieces of turf are theu immersed in a
sufficient quantity of cold coal tar oil mixed with ground clay, which latter
regulates the infusion of the oil into the turf, which retains its solidity and

page_text: requires no further labor or expense in drying out the surplus oil with which
the turf is overcharged, as is the case when the turf is saturated with oil
alone, and it also leaves a coating of clay which fills up the pores of the turf
and prepares it for the next process; the pieces of turf thus prepared are
now dipped into hot resin which is mixed and tempered with tar oil to make
the resin tougher and not so liable to break, and also to cause it to spread over
a larger surface by being more liquid; the dipped pieces of turf are then
thrown into sawdust from the turf, and are afterwards packed into pasteboard,
wooden or tin boxes, canisters, or other vessels or parcels capable of con-
taining the same, with a sufficient quantity of sawdust, ground turf, or other
cheap dust or like material to cover them well over when packed. This method
of making and packing the fire-lighters and artificial fuel effectually prevents all
disagreeable exhalations or oozing of the tar oil therefrom, and enables them
to bear a great amount of pressure and to be stored or kept for any length of
time in a dwelling house without producing any unpleasant odour.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Trotter in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st April
.1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,.. I, HENRY
TROTTER, of Buglawton, in the County of Chester, Farmer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Iler
reign, did, for Herself, Her beirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Henry Trotter, Her special licence that I, the said Henry Trotter,
my executors, administrators, and assigus, or such others as I, the said
Henry Trotter, 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 THE
MANUFACTURE AND PACKING OF FIRE-LIGHTERS AND ARTIFICIAL FEEL," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Trotter, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of the ir
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

page_text: 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: Henry Trotter, 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 in writing, that is to say:
Turf is first cut into sods from the bog in the ordinary way and then weathered
and dried in the usual manner; they are then taken into a hot room and
thoroughly dried, after which they are taken to a saw mill and cut into pieces
of suitable form and size according to the purpose for which they are
intended; these thoroughly dried pieces of turf are then either dipped into a
thick solution of clay and water first, and when dried immersed in cold coal tar
oil alone, or they are immersed in a sufficient quantity of cold coal tar oil
mixed with clay, which latter regulates in either case the infusion of the o'l
into the turf, which retains its solidity and requires no further labor or
expense in drying out the surplus oil with which the turf is overcharged, as is
the case when the turf is saturated with oil alone, and it also leaves a coating
of clay which fills up the pores of the turf and prepares it for the next process;
the pieces of turf thus prepared are now dipped into hot resin, which is
mixed and tempered with tar oil or mineral shale, grease or oil, about 1 lb. to
28 lbs. of resin, to make the resin tougher and not so liable to break, and
also to cause it to flow and spread over a larger surface by being more liquid;
the dipped pieces of turf are then thrown into sawdust from the turf, which
may be mixed with a little ground cannel or other coal to increase the heating
properties, and are afterwards packed into pasteboard, strawboard, wooden or
tin boxes, canisters, or other vessels or parcels capable of containing the same,
with a sufficient quantity of sawdust, ground turf, or other cheap dust or like
material to cover them well over when packed, the packing material being in
most cases consumed with the fire lighter or fuel. This method of making
and packing the fire lighters and artificial fuel effectually prevents all
disagreeable exhalations or oozing of the tar oil therefrom, and enables
them to bear a great amount of pressure and to be stored or kept for
any length of time in a dwelling house without producing any unpleasaut
odour.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention for
Improvements in the Manufacture and Packing of Fire Lighters and
Artificial Fuel," together with the manner in which the same is to be or may
be performed and carried into practical effect, I would remark in conclusion
that I claim as my Invention the manufacture and packing of fire-lighters

page_text: and artificial fuel, substantially in the manner berein-before set forth and
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Trotter, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
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HENRY TROTTER. (L.s.)