APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING LIGHT FOR LIGHTING PIPES AND CIGARS
Year: 1864

page_text: APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING LIGHT FOR LIGHTING PIPES AND CIGARS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
left by the said Dominique Tamei at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th September 1864.
I. DOMINIQUE TAMET. of No. 103, Vieille Route, Neuilly (Seine), in the
Empire of Frames, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "Imenova
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING LIGHT FOR LIGHTING PIPES AND CIGARS," to
be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the so constructing apparatus for obtaining
light for lighting pipes and cigars that it will only be necessary to employ a
single hand when using the apparatus to obtain a light; for this purpose .I
employ a box or case, in which is contained a strip or wick of what is known
as, german- tinder, or other suitable material, which has at intervals upon it
spots of any suitable composition capable of being ignited by friction; this
strip or wick is wound around a pin or axis within the case; the end of the
Price 8d
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MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING LIGHT FOR LIGHTING PIPES AND CIGARS," to
be as follows:--
This Invention has for its object the so constructing apparatus for obtaining
light for lighting pipes and cigars that it will only be necessary to employ a
single hand when using the apparatus to obtain a light; for this purpose I
employ a box or case, in which is contained a strip or wick of what is known
as, german- tinder, or other suitable material, which has at intervals upon it
spots of any suitable composition capable of being ignited by friction; this
strip or wick is wound around a pin or axis within the case; the end of the
Price 8d1

page_text: strip is caused to pass from one end of the case through a passage or tube,
and can from time to time be caused to project further and further from this
tube by an arrangement. similar to the arrangement employed for raising lamp
wicks. For this purpose the wick, where it passes through the imbe, is acted
on by two spiked or serrated wheels carried by a pin, which can from time to
time be turned by a milled head upon it, thus by turning this milled head the
end of the wick can be caused to protrude from the case. Above the end of the
case from which the wick projects there is an arm or plate, which when it is
desired to light the wick can be caused to move quickly over the projecting end
of the wick and so light it. The arm or plate is carried by a pin or axis at
one side of the case, and around this axis is a spiral spring which tends to
turn it; this however is usually prevented by the plate being held back by a
spring catch. When however it is desired to obtain a light, the spring catch is
withdrawn, the plate is then caused to turn by the spiral spring, and is thereby
caused to move over the projecting end of the wick and ignite it. The wick
will continue to burn so long as any portion of it is allowed to remain pro-
jecting out from the case. Afterwards the plate is moved back to its former
position, when it is again retained by its spring catch.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Dominique Tamet in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
17th March 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DOMINIQUE
TAMET, of No. 103, Vieille Route, Neuilly (Seine), in the Empire of France,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Dominique Tamet, Her special licence that I the said. Dominique
Tamet, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Dominique Tamet, 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 "IMPROVE-

page_text: MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING LIGHT FOR LIGHTING PIPES AND CIGARS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I. the said Dominique Tamet, my
executors or administrators, by an insirument 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 in be per-
formed. 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 Dominique Tamet. do hereby declare the
nature of the 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:
This Invention has for its object the so constructing apparatus for obtaining
light for lighting pipes and cigars that it will only be necessary to employ a
single hand when using the apparatus to obtain a light; for this purpose I
employ a box or case, in which is contained a strip or wick of suitable material,
which has at intervals upon it spots of any suitable composition capable of
being ignited by friction: this strip or wick is wound around a pin or axis
within the case the end of the strip is caused to pass out from one end of the
case through a passage, and can from time to time be caused to project further
and further from this passage by an arrangement similar to the arrangements
employed for raising lamp wicks. The wick, where it passes through the
passage, is acted on by a spiked or serrated wheel, which can from time to time
be turned, thus the end of the wick can be caused to protrude from the case.
At the end of the case from which the wick projects there is an arm or plate.
which when it is desired to light the wick can be caused to move quickly over
the projecting end of the wick and so light it. The arm or plate is carried by
a pin or axis at one side of the case, and around this axis is a spiral spring which
tends to turn it; this however is usually prevented by the plate being held
back by a spring catch. When it is desired to obtain a light, the spring
catch is withdrawn, the plate is then caused to turn by the spiral spring, and is
thereby moved over the projecting end of the wick and ignites it. The wick
will continue to burn so long as any portion of it is allowed to remain pro-
jecting out from the case. Afterwards the plate is moved back to its former
position, when it is again retained by its spring catch.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect. I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto
annexed.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a plan of the apparatus: Figure 2 an end view, Figure 3 a
side view, and Figure 4 a longitudinal section of the same; Figure 5 is a
plan of the apparatus when open.
It consists of a box a. with a cover or lid a': at the back of the box near
the hinge is the bobbin b, for carrying the prepared strip or wick c; the frame
b of the bobbin is not fixed in the box, but simply sprung in so that it can
readily be removed when the prepared wick or strip is exhausted. At the
front of the box is fitted the small spiked wheel d. its axis being received into
holes formed for it in the division plates e, e, fixed within the box.
The pre-
pared wick e passes from the bobbin beneath the spiked wheel d, and is pressed
up against it by the bent spring underneath, so that when the spiked wheel d
is turned the wick is moved forward or backward. After passing the spiked
wheel the wick is protruded out through a passage in the end of the box,
and the under side of this passage is formed by the continuation of the spring!.
so that the wick is held in the passage sufficiently tight to prevent the fire
passing back from the exterior to the interior of the box. On the end of the
box, in front of the passage g, the plate or arm is mounted, it is roughened
on its inner side, and is fixed on an axis i, which passes through the end of the
box, and at its other end enters and turns in a hole in the division plate e' fixed
inside the box around the axis is a spiral spring k, fixed to it at one end, and at
the other to a projection from the bottom of the box, marked in the Drawing.
The spiral spring tends constantly to throw the arm h upwards, but there is a
spring bolt. which holds it down so as to make it lie along the end of the box.
m is the bolt, it slides through the end of the box, and also at its inner end through
the partition e fixed inside the box: m' is a spiral spring upon it, tending
constantly to throw the bolt forward; and m² is a thumb-piece on the bolt for
drawing it back; the outer end of the bolt m catches into a notch ' in the
arm h. The prepared wick c is conveniently made of a flai cotton braid of a
material such as is employed for lamp wick prepared with saltpetre, and with
spots of composition upon one side of it at distances apart of about a quarter
of an inch-composition such as is commonly used for fuzees is suitable.
In using the apparatus it is held in one hand, and by means of the thumb
the spiked wheel d (the top of which projects through a hole in the lid) is
rotated so as to move the wick forward until one of the spots of composition
is exposed; then also by means of the thumb the bolt m is drawn back and
the roughened arm escapes; it passes sharply over the composition and fires

page_text: it. When the cigar or pipe is lighted, by replacing the arm h the burnt wick
is snuffed off, and by turning the spiked wheel d the end of the wick is drawn
back into the box and the apparatus is ready to be again used.
In witness whereof, I, the said Dominique Tamet, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
DQUE TAMET. (L.S.)