works, and in Apparatus for Covering the same.
Year: 1888

page_text: works, and in Apparatus for Covering the same.
I, GEORGE JOHN MAYER, of Albert Road, South Norwood, in the County of
Surrey, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of quick match for
fireworks whereby I obtain a better material at a less cost than hitherto and with
greater safety in manufacture; the invention also relates to improvements in the
material used for covering or casing quick match and other firework compositions
and to the apparatus employed therefor.
In manufacturing quick match, instead of employing gunpowder as hitherto, I take
saltpetre and sulphur in about the proportions usual in the manufacture of gunpowder
and in place of the usual amount of charcoal I employ starch, gum, dextrine, or other
analogous material possessing binding properties either alone or mixed with a certain
proportion of charcoal. The ingredients are well mixed together with water and ground
in a wet state. The paste thus formed is then ready to be used either for impregnating
cotton wick in a manner similar to that in which gunpowder paste is employed or I
can use it without a thread or wick.
Quick match material is usually placed in short lengths of paper tubing the lengths
being subsequently joined together by the end of one length being inserted in the
end of the next length the joint being covered and completed by a piece of paper
pasted around it.
According to my invention I propose to employ the material known as vegetable
parchment for covering or casing fireworks and I cover quick match or other firework
material or composition as it issues from a tube or nozzle with the covering material
which is wrapped around it by any folding apparatus (for instance apparatus similar to
that used for turning a hem in sewing machines) the material being pasted on one
edge so that as it passes through the apparatus it is formed into a tube which envelopes
the quick match or other firework composition.
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page_text: It will be obvious that I can use vegetable parchment for making cases or
coverings for fireworks in the usual manner or I can manufacture the cases from
paper and then submit them to the necessary treatment to convert them into vegetable
parchment.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London.
Agents for the Applicant.
works, and in Apparatus for Covering the same.
I, GEORGE JOHN MAYER, of Albert Road, South Norwood, in the county of
Surrey, Manager, 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 the manufacture of quick match for
fireworks whereby I obtain a better material at a less cost than hitherto and with
greater safety in manufacture; the invention also relates to improvements in the
material used for covering or casing quick match and other firework compositions and
to the apparatus employed therefor.
In manufacturing quick match, instead of employing gunpowder as hitherto I take
saltpetre and sulphur in about the proportions usual in the manufacture of gunpowder
and in place of the usual amount of charcoal I employ starch, gum, dextrine, or
other anologous material possessing binding properties either alone or inixed with a
certain proportion of charcoal. The ingredients are well mixed together with water
and ground in a wet state. The paste thus formed is then ready to be used either
for impregnating cotton wick in a manner similar to that in which gunpowder paste
is employed or I can use it without a thread or wick.
:
Quick match material is usually placed in short lengths of paper tubing the lengths
being subsequently joined together by the end of one length being inserted in the
end of the next length the joint being covered and completed by a piece of paper
pasted around it.
According to my invention propose to employ the material known as vegetable
parchment for covering or casing fireworks and I cover quick match or other fire
work material or composition as it issues from a tube or nozzle with the covering

page_text: material which is wrapped around it by any folding apparatus for instance apparatus
similar to that used for turning a hem in sewing machines, the material being
pasted on one edge so that as it passes through the apparatus it is formed into a tube
which envelopes the quick match or other firework composition.
It will be obvious that I can use vegetable parchment for making cases or
coverings for fireworks in the usual manner or I can manufacture the cases from
paper and then submit them to the necessary treatment to convert them into
vegetable parchment.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
(1.) The improvements in the manufacture of quick match and other fireworks,
substantially as herein before described.
(2.) The use, in the manufacture of quick match and other fireworks, of apparatus
substantially as herein before described.
Dated the 7th dew of Mauch 1000
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.