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Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Watson, of Manchester, and Cornelius
Satterthwaite, of Preston, both in the County of Lancaster, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANORS
SPACTURE OF Fame Las
LARK TWAIN DRTY TA
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Watson and
Cornelius Satterthwaite at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 19th November 1856.
We, GEORGE WATSON, of Manchester, and CORNELIUS SATTERTOWAITE, of
Preston, both in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FIRE LIGHTERS," to
be as follows:-
Our Invention of improvements in the manufacture of fire lighters consists
in the use of wood turnings or dried peat or turf combined with a certain
proportion of resin and tar, to bind the wood turnings or peat together and
render the mass more inflammable. The materials are combined in the
following proportions:-Two parts of resin, one part of wood tar, and two parts
of wood turnings. The tar and resin are to be thoroughly incorporated with
the wood turnings, and the mixture moulded or otherwise formed into discs or
blocks, and when dry are ready for use. Instead of using wood turning;
alone, one part of turnings may be mixed with one part of peat or turf, or peat

page_text: alone may be combined with the tar and resin. We prefer to use wood tar
in the manufacture of our improved firo lighters, but do not confine ourselves
thereto, as the cost of manufacture may be reduced by using coal or
mineral tar.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Watson and Cornelius Satterthwaite in the Great
Seal Patent Offico on the 19th May 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
WA80, of Manchester, and CORNELIUS SATTERTHWAITE, of Preston, both in
the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, tho said George Watson and Cornelius Satterthwaite, Her special licence
that we, the said George Watson and Cornelius Satterthwaite, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said George Watson
and Cornelius Satterthwaite, our 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-
HENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FIRE LIGHTERS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said George Watson and Cornelius Satterthwaite, our
exccutors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their,
or one of their hands and scals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the samo was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Offico
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said George Watson and Cornelius
Satterthwaite, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
.
Our Invention of improvements in the manufacture of fire lighters consists
in the use of wood turnings or dried peat or turf combined with a certain

page_text: proportion of resin and tar, to bind the wood turnings or peat together and
render the mass more inflammable. The materials are combined in the
following proportions:-Two parts of resin, one part of wood tar, and two parts
of wood turnings. The tar and resin are to be thoroughly incorporated with
the wood turnings, and the mixture moulded or otherwise formed into discs or
blocks, and when dry are ready for use. Instead of using wood turnings
alone, one part of turnings may be mixed with one part of peat or turf, or peat
alone may be combined with the tar and resin. We prefer to use wood tar in
the manufacture of our improved fire lighters, but do not confine ourselves
thereto, as the cost of manufacture may be reduced by using coal or
mineral tar.
In witness whereof, I, the said Cornelius Satterthwaite, for myself and
the said George Watson, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this
Sixteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-seven.
CORNELIUS SATTERTHWAITE. (L.S.)