Improvements in Fuel or Firelighters.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Jan., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 28th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 19th Dec., 1893
Date of Application, 28th Jan., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 28th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 19th Dec., 1893
Improvements in Fuel or Firelighters.
I, CHARLES DAVIES of 36 Rosslyn Street, Aigburth Road, Liverpool in the
County of Lancaster, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to produce a fuel or firelighter which can be
made and sold at a very cheap rate and which is manufactured largely or entirely
from waste products or products which have been of little or no value. It is well
known that in the manufacture of linoleum and also in furnishing warehouses where
linoleum, kamptulicon or the like is sold, there is a very considerable amount of
waste. Thus for example in fitting linoleum or the like to a flor there are always
remnants left over which are too small to be of any further use and which have
hitherto been thrown away as useless.
Now by my invention I utilise these waste picces of linoleu n for the manufacture
of fuel and firelighters. They may be cut up into small pieces of any suitable
size and then saturated or coated with some suitable or inflammable material such
as rosin, etcetera, so that it all adheres into one solid mass, or strips of the waste
linoleum may be built up to form firelighters or fuel coated with inflammable
material or tied together in any suitable way. In this way an admirable fuel or
firelighter is produced which is equal if not superior to anything which has been
brought out hitherto. The great advantage of this improved fuel or firelighters
may be said to consist in their cheapness, they create little or no dirt or dust, the
ignition is complete and from the manner of their manufacture there is no liability
of their spontaneous ignition, they occupy but little space and one is sufficient to
light a fire.
Dated this 27th day of Januar 1806
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
I, CHARLES DAVIES of 36 Rosslyn Street, Aigburth Road, Liverpool in the
County of Lancaster, Manufacturer, 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 has for its object to produce a fuel or firelighter which can be
made and sold at a very cheap rate and which is manufactured largely or entirely
from waste products, or products which have hitherto been of little or no value.
It is well known that in the manufacture of linoleum, and also in furnishing
warehouses where linoleum, kamptulicon or the like is sold, there is a very

page_text: considerable amount of waste. Thus for example in fitting linoleum or the like to
a floor there are always remnants left over which are to small too be of any further
use and which have hitherto been thrown away as useless.
Now by my invention I utilise these waste pieces of linoleum for the manufacture
of fuel and firelighters. They may be cut up into small pieces of any suitable
size and then saturated or coated with some suitable or inflammable material such
as rosin, etcetera, so that it all adheres into one solid mass, or strips of the waste
linoleum may be built up to form firelighters or fuel coated with inflammable
material or tied together in any suitable way. In this way an admirable fuel or
firelighter is produced which is equal if not superior to anything which has been
brought out hitherto. The great advantage of this improvel fuel or firelighters
may be said to consist in their cheapness, they create little or no dirt or dust, the
ignition is complete, and from the manner of their manufacture there is no liability
of their spontaneous ignition. They occupy but little space and one is sufficient to
light a fire.
The accompanying drawing shows firelighters made according to my invention,
in which A are small waste pieces of linoleum floorcloth, built up into a suitable
form.
In Figure 1 the firelighter is built of waste pieces A of substantially one size;
in Figure 2 it is made of small pieces A on top with a foundation of larger pieces A
at bottom. The pieces are dipped in heated rosin, or a mixture of Archangel tar
and rosin, or other inflammable material and allowed to cool, the mixture into
which the pieces are dipped causing them to adhere, or they may be tied together
as previously mentioned.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The manufacture of fuel or firelighters from odd or waste pieces of linoleum
or like material, dipped in rosin, tar or other suitable inflammable substance,
substantially as described.
2. The improvement in fuel or firelighters, which consists in forming them of
odd or waste pieces of linoleum or like material, said pieces being dipped or treated
with rosin, tar or other inflammable substance and built up into a convenient form
for use, substantially as described.
Dated this 7th dov
1906
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and London, Patent Agents.