Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 25th June, 1883
Complete Specification Left, 25th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 27th Apr.,
1889
We GREGORY ALEXANDER PAGE, Brinksway Works, Stockport, Sizing Manu-
facturer, and ROBERT FALLNICHT, 14 Culm Strasse, Berlin, Germany, Manufacturer
of Fire lighters do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to produce fire lighters for domestic and factory
use and for lighting fires generlly, which are perfectly reliable for the purpose, are
clean, easy and safe to handle while they occupy comparatively very small space
and they burn with a lively and intense flame sufficiently long to properly ignite
the heating material whether that be coal or other substance.
According to this invention we take shavings impregnated or not with resin or
equivalent inflammable material and make same up into a bundle or roll of the
required size, the said bundle or roll being embraced or enclosed by a shaving or
paring and the whole held together by a string. The bundle being proferably
composed of wood shavings which are now almost worthless, are consequently very
cheap to obtain and to manufacture into fire-lighters according to this invention and
a convenient way of doing this is by taking the required quantity of damp wood
shavings making it into a compact roll or bundle and securing same together with a
broad shaving or paring and tied together by a string.
The bundles thus made should be then placed in a drying oven or other suitable
place and subsequently dipped into fluid resin or its equivalent material and
thorougly impregnated therewith at a temperature of say 230° Centigrade (446°
Fabrenheit), by this means the fire lighters constructed according to this invention
are not merely coated as some of those now made are, with inflammable material, but

page_text: they are thoroughly impregnated with it, whereby they have imparted to them what
we may term a constitutional combination of substances possessed by natural resinous
pine.
These fire-lighters are most effective in action and even in stoves or fireplaces
which have a bad draught. They may be made of any suitable size and shape
according to the purposes for which they are intended to be used.

page_text: Wo GREGORY ALEXANDER PAGE, Brinksway Works, Stockport, Sizing Manu-
facturer, and ROBERT FALLNICHT 14 Culm Strasse, Berlin Gormany, Manufacturer
of Fire lighters, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to produce fire lighters for domestic and factory
use and for lighting fires generally which are perfectly reliable for the purposo, are
clean, easy and safe to handle, while they occupy comparatively very small space and
they burn with a lively and intense flame sufficiently long to properly ignito the
beating material whether that be coal or other substance.
According to this invention we take shavings impregnated or not with resin or
equivalent inflammable material and make samne up into a bundle or roll of the
required size, the said bundle or roll being embraced or enclosed by a shaving or
paring and the whole held together by a string. The bundle being preferably
composed of wood shavings which are now almost worthless are consequently very
cheap to obtain and to manufacture into fire lighters according to this invention,
and a convenient way of doing this is by taking the required quantity of damp wood
shavings making it into a compact roll or bundle and socuring same together with a
broad shaving or paring and tied together by a string.
The bundle, thus made, should be then placed in a drying oven or other suitable
place and subsequently dipped into fluid resin or its equivalent material and
thoroughly impregnated therewith at a temperature of say 230° Centigrade (446°
Fahrenheit), by this means the fire lighters constructed according to this invention
are not merely coated, as some of those now made are, with inflammable material,
but they are thoroughly impregnated with it, whereby they have imparted to them
what we may term a constitutional combination of substances prossessed by natural
resinous pine.
These fire lighters are most effective in action and even in stoves or fireplaces
which have a bad draught. They may be made of any suitable size and shape
according to the purposes for which they are intended to be used.
The accompanying drawings illustrate a convenient way of carrying our invention
into effect. Figure 1 is a side elevation and Figure 2 is a plan of a fire lighter
constructed according to our invention; a is the filling part, roll or bundle; bis the shaving
or paring which embraces the roll, bundle, or filling part; c is the string which
holds the parts together. The shavings a are made up into a bundle and enclosed
by the embracing shaving or paring 6 and held together by the string c.
Fire lighters constructed according to our invention are not restricted to any
special size or shape as it will be evident that for readily combustible heating
material the igniter may be small or large in accordance with the material of which
it is made, nevertheless the size need not exceed the ordinary when employed for
igniting furnaces for example.

page_text: Those inflammable shavings which may also be termed "artificial resinous pine
not only completely take the place of natural pine, but (quite irrespective of their
convenient manipulation, suitable form and compactness) as regards ready ignition
and igniting properties, are much more preferable than natural pine, because the
whole bundle of shavings is completely and equably saturated with resin, and there-
fore burns more readily and steadily than natural pine.
A further advantage of our improved fire igniter is the cheapness with which the
same can be manufactured and sold, which may be explained by the fact that the
principal raw product consists of wood shavings, which up to the present day have
not only been worthless, but in most cases also troublesome, on account of their
liability to catch fire, and more especially so in places where enormous quantities of
shavings are produced, as for instance in largo joiners' and carpenters" workshops,
and have consequently had to be destroyed without being appropriated to any purpose
whatever.
1.
By this invention the wood shavings are not as is the case with the so called "Conl
igniters at present in use simply provided with a thin covering of resin or similar
substances, which trickles off on being ignited and under curtain circumstances will
even for a kind of crust, which often interrupts the further development of the
flame, but the wood particles of the thin wood shavings are netually thoroughly and
entirely saturated with resin or any other similar resinons substance that may be
used so that these fire lighters or igniters will receive identically the same constitu-
tional combination of substances as that of natural resinous pine.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. An improved fire igniter (artificial resinous pine) for household and industrial
purposes, as well as for furnaces and other heating purposes, consisting of wood
shavings made up into a bundle of required compactnuss, which are enclosed within
a shaving or paring of suitable size, held together by means of string, and thoroughly
impregnated with resin or other similar resinous substances substantially as
herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. The mode and means described for manufteturing the herein before described
fire lighter or fire igniter, consisting in first forming a certain quantity of damp wood
shavings into a bundle, combining the same to attain the required compactness then
enclosing said bundle within a wood shaving or paring of suitable sizo and uniting
these by means of string, thon drying the same in suitable apparatus and ultimately
dipping said bundle into a bath of Buid resin or other similar resinous substances
at a temperature of about (230° Centigrado) 446° Fahronheit, all substantially as and
for the purposes herein set forth.