IMPROVEMENTS IN LIGHTERS FOR FIRES. PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Thomas Waite, 9, Smith St., North-
ampton Sq., Joseph James White, 18, Sekford St., James Ordway
Wise, 18, Sekford St., Clerkenwell, in the County of Middlesex,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LIGHTERS FOR FIRES.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Thomas Waite,
Joseph James White, (and James Ordway Wise at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 21st June
1872.
We, SAMUEL THOMAS WAITE, 9, Smith Street, Northampton Square,
JOSEPH JAMES WHITE, 18, Sekford Street, JAMES ORDWAY WISE, 18,
Sekford Street, Clerkenwell, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LIGHTERS
FOR FIRES," to be as follows:-
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This Invention has for its object improvements in lighters for fires.

page_text: There are three great objections to the wheel fire lighters now in
common use :-
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First, they are very liable to be broken in transport; second, they
form very bulky packages; and third, when the lighter is ignited the
binding string is first burnt, and then the lighter falls to picces and this
greatly interferes with its efficiency.
Now according to our Invention we construct lighters which are
free from these objections, they can be packed so as to occupy little
if any more room than the solid wood of which they are formed, and
they are thus exposed to no risk of breakage. The connection between
the several parts of which the lighter is composed is by a strong wooden
pin. This pin when the lighter is ignited continues to hold the parts
together until the fire is thoroughly alight, as it is protected to the last
by the wood which surrounds it. The method of construction is illus-
trated by the annexed Drawing.
Figures 1 represent a side and end view of the piece of wood from
which the lighter is made; it has a hole a bored through it, the wood is
then divided longitudinally into seven parts; the parts are again put
together with a shaving or match piece between the uppermost part and
the one immediately below; a wooden pin is then inserted into the holes a
and it is clenched as a rivet at its ends. The lighter is coated with
resinous material.
Figure 2 is a side view, and Figure 3 a plan of the lighter ready for
use. By turning the parts about the central pin the wood is made to
expose an extensive surface and free passage is given to the draught so
that rapid ignition is ensured.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Thomas Waite, Joseph James White, and
James Ordway Wise in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st
December 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, SAMUEL
THOMAS WAITE, of 9, Smith Street, Northampton Square, JOSEPH JAMES
WHITE, 18, Sekford Street, JAMES ORDWAY WISE, 18, Sekford Street,
Clerkenwell, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
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page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Samuel Thomas Waite, Joseph James
White, and James Ordway Wise, Her special license that we, the said
Samuel Thomas Waite, Joseph James White, and James Ordway Wise,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the
said Samuel Thomas Waite, Joseph James White, and James Ordway
Wise, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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. LIGHTERS FOR FIRES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Samuel Thomas Waite, Joseph James White,
and James Ordway Wise, our executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand
and seal of one of us or them, 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 we, the said Samuel Thomas Waite, Joseph
James White, and James Ordway Wise, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in lighters for fires.
There are three great objections to the wheel fire lighters now in
common use,-
First, they are very liable to be broken in transport; second, they
form very bulky packages; and third, when the lighter is ignited the
binding string is first burnt, and then the lighter falls to pieces and this
greatly interferes with its efficiency.
Now according to our Invention we construct lighters which are
free from these objections, they can be packed so as to occupy little if

page_text: any more room than the solid wood of which they are formed, and they
are thus exposed to no risk of breakage. The connection between the
several parts of which the lighter is composed is by a strong wooden
pin. This pin when the lighter is ignited continues to hold the parts
together until the fire is thoroughly alight, as it is protected to the last
by the wood which surrounds it. The method of construction is illus-
trated by the annexed Drawing.
Figures 1 represent a side and an end view of the piece of wood from
which the lighter is made; it has a hole a bored through it, the wood
is then divided longitudinally into seven parts more or less, the parts
are again put together with a shaving or match piece between the
uppermost part and the one immediately below; a wooden pin is then
inserted into the holes a and it is clenched as a rivet at its ends. The
lighter is coated with resinous material.
'
Figure 2 is a side view, and Figure 3 a plan of the lighter ready for
use. By turning the parts about the central pin the wood is made to
expose an extensive surface and free passage is given to the draught so
that rapid ignition is ensured.
What we claim is the construction of lighters for fires, substantially
as described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Samuel Thomas. Waite, Joseph
James White, and James Ordway Wise, have hereunto set hand
and seal, this Twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
SAMTAT
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