IMPROV MANUFACTURE OF WAX TAPERS MATCHES
Year: 1885

page_text: This Specification was, upon the 6th day of August 1887. amended under
Sections 18 to 21 of the Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 1883.
I RICHARD BELL of 2 Park Villas Merton Road, Wandsworth, Gentleman,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for
THE MANUFACTURE OF WAX TAPERS MATCHES, AND
to be as follows:-
PIPE AND CIGAR LIGHTERS
"
My Invention relates to the manufacture of wax tapers, matches and cigar and
pipe lighters and has for its object first to cheapen their manufacture by strengthen-
ing the wick and so enabling it to be more readily drawn through the die plate in
the operation of waxing and to stiffen the wick without the use of gum or other
hardening substance and secondly to ensure the more ready ignition of the pipe
and cigar lighters in the open air.
My invention consists first in the substitution for or employment in combination
with, the cotton of which they are usually made, of hemp, flax or jute, or any two
or more of them, by combining fibres or threads of these materials with one another
or with threads of cotton by plaiting, twisting or otherwise and then coating the
same with wax paraffin, or other similar material.
My invention consists secondly in the manufacture of a combined fusee and wax
match which may be unfailingly ignited in a wind and consists in the combination
with an ordinary wax match of an inflammable composition such as is used for
fusces by which the wax stem of the match will be more easily ignited than by
the friction head only. For this purpose I first dip the lengths of taper in the
inflammable composition and then tip them with the usual friction igniting com-
pound.

page_text: Improvements in the Manufacture of Wax Tapers, Matches, and
Pipe and Cigar Lighters.
RICHARD BELL of 2 Park Villas Merton Road Wandsworth, Gentleman, do
hereby declare the nature of the said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF WAX TAPERS, MATCHES AND PIPE AND CIGAR LIGHTERS, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:--
My invention relates to the manufacture of wax tapers, matebes, and pipe and
cigar lighters, and has for its object first to cheapen their-manufacture by
strengthening the wick and so enabling it to be more readily drawn through the
die plute in the operation of waxing, and to stiffen the wiek without the use of
gum or other hardening substance, and secondly to ensure the more ready ignition
of end eigur lighters in the open air.
Minvention consists first in the substitution for or employment in combination
with the cotton of which such articles are usually made of hemp, flux or jute, or
*H*-**-**-Hore of them by combining libres or threads of these materials-with
one another, or with threads of cotton by plaiting, twisting, or otherwise, and then
venting the same with part-wax, stearine, or other similar material, and tipping
them with the igniting material as usual.
My invention consists secondly in the manufacture of a combined fusee and wax
match which may be unfailingly ignited in a wind and consists in the combination
with an ordinary wax match, of an inflammable composition, such as is used for
fusees which flame (but preferably with the composition of which the ingredients are
given hereafter) by which the wax stem of the match will be more easily ignited than
by the friction head only. The composition must be such as will ignite the war stem
into flame.
This combined fusee and match is illustrated in the accompanying drawing on
an enlarged scale. a is the length of taper which may be composed of jute, flax,
hemp or cotton, or a combination of any of these, coated with paraffin-wax or
stearine or similar material, 6 the inflammable composition, which extends about
an inch from the end of the taper, this being sufficient to ensure the lighting of
the match.
These combined fusees and matches are made by dipping the taper constituting
the match into the inflammable composition in the same manner as fusees are
made, and afterwards tipping them with the igniter e.
The inflammable composition I prefer to employ is composed of the following
ingredients in about the proportions given, viz,
Chlorate of Potash
4 parts.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
telnim is I make no claim to a fusee head upon a war stem except the materials of such
fusee head and war stem are such that the war stem is ignited into flame by the com-
bustion of the inflammable composition but what I claim is
The manufacture of wax tapers and wax matches from fibres or threads of
hemp, flux or jute, either alone or in combination with cotton threads, substantially
as specified.
2nd A cigar or pipe lighter consisting of a length of taper composed of fibres or
threads coated with paraffin-wax, stearine or equivalent material, an inflammable
composition such as herein specified, and an igniter or friction head, as described, the
whole being such that the war stem is ignited into flame by the combustion of the
inflammable composition as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 25th day of Aug. 1885.
R. BELL.
By A. M. & W Clark,
Patent Agents,
53, Chancery Lane, London.