Improved Fire Lighter, Smoke Preventer and Consumer.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 21st Oct., 1891-Accepted, 21st Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Fire Lighter, Smoke Preventer and Consumer.
JOSEPH EASBY, 161 Spring Vale Road Sheffield, in the County of York,
Whitesmith do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention for lighting house fires, boiler fires, furnace fires or any other fires,
consists of one or any number of tubes made of iron or any other suitable material,
in one end of which is inserted a smaller tube for supplying coal gas or any other
suitable gas; at the same end of the larger tube, or any distance from the end,
provision is made for the admission of a supply of air. The other end of the tube
may be open to allow the flame to burn in one volume, or it may be so constructed
as to distribute the flame at the end, or any distance from the end, into any number
of jets.
This fire lighter may be fixed in the fire grate, or in any convenient position, or
it may be portable and connected with the gas supply by means of a pipe or a
flexible tube.
For preventing and consuming smoke in boiler fires furnace fires and the like, I
arrange one or more tubes so that the flame plays on the surface of the fuel, which
ignites the fuel on the surface and consumes the smoke. I fix the tubes in any
position and so that they may be drawn away from the fire when not required.
Dated this Eighth day of January 1891.
JOSEPH EASBY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Fire Lighter, Smoke Preventer and Consumer.
JOSEPH EASBY, 161 Spring Vale Road Sheffield in the County of York,
Whitesmith, 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 :-
My invention for lighting house fires, boiler fires, furnace fires or any other fires
consists of one or any number of tubes made of iron or any other suitable material
in one end of which is inserted a smaller tube for supplying coal gas or any other
suitable gas; at the same end of the larger tube or any distance from the end
provision is made for the admission of a supply of air. The other end of the tube
may be opened to allow the flame to burn in one volume or it may be so constructed
as to distribute the flame at the end as at A in Figs. 1 & 3, or any distance from
the end as at B in Fig. 2. into any number of jets. This fire lighter may be fixed
in the fire grate or in any convenient position or it may be portable and hung on the
fire bars when in use, and connected with the gas supply by means of a pipe or a
flexible tube.
For preventing and consuming smoke in boiler fires, furnace fires & the like,
I arrange one or more tubes so that the flame plays on the surface of the fuel,
which ignites the fuel on the surface and consumes the smoke, or I may fix the
tubes in any position in the flue so that the flame ignites the smoke as it goes from
the fire bridge to the chimney. I fix the tubes in any position and so that they
may be drawn away from the fire when not required.

page_text: 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―
Improvements in lighting fires, preventing and consuming smoke by gas and air,
in house fires boiler fires and the like as herein described and drawn.
In witness whereof I the said Joseph Easby have hereunto set my hand and
seal this Eighth day of October One thousand eight hundred and ninety one.