Improvements in Fire-lighters.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 7th Nov., 1990-Accepted, 24th Jan.,
1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fire-lighters.
I, GEORGE HENRY. NEAL of 38 Acton Street Leeds Road Bradford Yorks.
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
in use.
This invention relates to improvements in fire lighters and consists of a device
which is easily applied to any fire grate, is expeditious in its action and cleanly
The apparatus consists of a tubular T shaped casting provided on one of
its branches with small holes or perforations to which gas is led by means of a
tube connected to the other branch. This tubo forms a handle and communicates
at its outer end with a flexible tube leading from a gas burner or other supply
pipe. The said T shaped casting has formed therewith or fixed thereto a bracket
or projecting part acting as a guide and support and provided with holes through
which pass the vertical limbs of a metal hook which is hung on the top bar of
the fire grate and serves to support the fire lighter in position within the grato.
The apparatus can be raised or lowered on the said hook to suit different sizes
of grate and by its use a fire can be lighted in a few minutes without the use of
wood and without soiling the fingers.
As my improvements are capable of some modifications without departing from
the principle thereof 1 do not restrict myself to material, dimensions or to the
precise form or placement of the parts thereof.
Dated this 8th day of March 1890.
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fire-lighters.
I, GEORGE HENRY NEAL of 38 Acton Street Leeds Road Bradford Yorks.
Gentleman, 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 improvements in fire lighters and consists of a device
which is easily applied to any fire grate, is expeditious in its action and cleanly
in use.
The apparatus consists of a tubular T shaped casting provided on one of
its branches with small holes or perforations to which gas is conveyed by means
of a pipe of brass or other material connected to the other brauch. This pipe
forms a handle and communicates at its outer end with a flexible tube connected
to a gas burner or other gas supply.
The said T shaped casting has formed therewith or fixed thereto a bracket or
projecting part acting as a guide and support, and provided with holes through
which pass the vertical limbs of a metal hook suspended on one of the bars of
the fire grate, and serves to hold the fire lighter in position within the grate.
The apparatus can be raised or lowered on the said hook to suit different sizes
of grates and by its use a fire can be lighted in a few minutes without the use
of wood and without soiling the fingers.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood, I have shown
the same in the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section,
Fig. 2 a plan and Fig. 3 a front view of my improved firo lighter. A is a
tubular casting, the cross branch of which is provided with a number of
perforations, ². , through which gas can issue in as many jets. This T casting
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page_text: is formed with a bracket furnished with two holes e e¹ for the passage of the
two branches a a' of the wire h curved at the top as shewn in Fig. 1 lo form a hook.
In the longitudinal branch of the T casting is secured pipe p of brass or other
metal serving as a handle to inanipulate the device and connected by an india
rubber tube to the gas burner or supply nearest to the fire grate. The improved
fire lighter is used in the following manner; the fire grate is first cleared of all
ashes and filled to about half height with small lumps of coal. The pipe p is first
connected by an india rubber tube to the gas supply and subsequently held in the
hand the lighter being in the position shown in Fig. 1 when the gas is ignited.
The hooked end of the wire h is now suspended to one of the fire bars in the
grate, and the coals (in front of the burner branch of the T casting) moved on
either side to form an opening for the gas jets issuing at 1, 2, 3, 4, to reach well
into the fuel which is shortly afterwards rendered incandescent. The branches a a¹
of the stiff wire being capable of moving freely through the perforations e el of
the bracket b, the height of the hooked end of this wire is thus inade adjustable.
The lower ends of the said branches a, a are separated in the manner shown in
Fig. 3 forming a spring so that the wire is firmly held in position at any desired
height.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
(1) The improved fire lighter arranged constructed and operating substantially
as herein described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.