Improved Construction of Fire Lighter.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Construction of Fire Lighter.
We, JOSEPH HENRY GILBERT and ARTHUR HENRY GILBERT, both of 285,
Kingsland Road, London, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to an improved fire lighter, and consists of a number of
strips of wood nailed loosely together like trellis work to be opened out when
placed in a grate for free entrance and exit of air to support combustion.
One face of the fire lighter may be covered or coated with or dipped in an
inflammable material or substance, but in practice if the wood be dry, an ordinary
lighted match will suffice, or a small piece of paper or shavings can be used to
ignite the article, or a short length of dipped yarn can be affixed for easy lighting
purposes.
For storage, the trellis work fire lighter of our invention is closed in and
occupies very little space.
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1000
Dated this 17th day of
day of June
1890.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Joseph Henry Gilbert and Arthur Henry Gilbert.
WORD RETION OF Lighter.
We, JOSEPH HENRY GILBERT and ARTHUR HENRY GILBERT, both of 285,
now 330, Kingsland Road, London, Engineers, 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 an improved fire lighter, and consists of a number of
strips of wood A, A, assembled and nailed loosely together like trellis-work, as
at B, to be opened out and placed in any size of grate for free entrance and exit
of air to support combustion.
One face of the fire lighter, as at Figure 2, may be covered or coated with or
dipped in an inflammable material or substance, but in practice if the wood be
dry, an ordinary lighted match will suffice, a small piece of paper or shavings
can be used to ignite the article, or a short length of dipped yarn can be affixed
for easy lighting purposes.
For storage, the trellis-work fire lighter of our invention is closed in and
occupies very little space.

page_text: Our invention will be understood by the annexed diagrams. Figure 1 plan,
opened out for stove use. Figure 2, closed for storage.
The two end strips are longer than the others, and when the fire lighter is
opened, as at Figure 1, the projecting ends can be rested on the lower bar of the
grate which sets the fire lighter at an angle i.c. raised in front for the entrance of
air between said lower bar and the bottom or grating bar except the end strips
of the upper layer of sticks, they are of the same length, but such lengths may
vary, as at Figures 3 and 4 where the same letters of reference apply.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is:-
1. The assembling of a number of wood sticks by nails or pegs in such manner
that the sticks can be opened out like trellis-work as fire lighters, the assembling
being as represented on the annexed diagrams.
2. Specially making the two end sticks of greater length than the others of
such a fire lighter, as described and shown.
The 15th day of July 1898.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Joseph Henry Gilbert and Arthur Henry Gilbert.