Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Sept., 1886.
Complete Left, 28th May, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 28th June, 1887,
I, ARTHUR FREDERICK HAWKSLEY of Altrincham in the County of Chester, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to cigar lighting apparatus or to means for lighting cigars,
cigarettes or tobacco in other forms and principally to means for obtaining incan-
descent heat such as is obtained by the use of ordinary fusees. The object of my
invention is to provide the lighters in such a form as that they can be carried in
compact cases or holders and be projected therefrom singly for use.
I make a case
or fusee holder of a form suitable to be carried in the waistcoat pocket as for example
I may make such holder similar in form to a pencil case of a hexagonal round or
square form in cross section. The igniters which for convenience of description I
will term fusees consist of isolated masses of composition formed upon a thin rod of
wood or upon connecting material so that a rod to hold say a dozen more or less of
such fusees can be placed within the holder. The holder is provided with a sliding
pusher whereby the end fusee can be caused to project from one end of the holder.
To separate the fusee so projected from the next fusee upon the rod the holder is or
may be formed with slits and the parts between the slits be tapered or shaped so
that the ends of such parts will converge and will touch or nearly touch the rod
exposed in the space between two contiguous fusees. When the fusees are pushed
forward the said parts will yield to permit the end fusee to emerge and will spring
back to shield the fusees within the holder from the burning fusee. The fusees may
be tipped on one side or be suitably prepared to be ignited by friction as in the cases
of ordinary fusees. In some or in all cases I provide the holder with an igniter
consisting of a roughened or prepared yielding rubber which is attached to a ring or
sleeve which is fitted to slide upon the holder. When the said rubber is projected
outward past the fusee, and is rapidly brought back by sliding the ring or sleeve
upon the holder the frictional contact with the fusee effects the ignition of the latter.
The fusees might be formed in separate pieces with which the holder could be
filled the end fusee when thrust out of the holder being held by means of claws
or of a projecting finger or of fingers.
A 1000
DUTTON & FULTON,
1, St. James Square, Manchester,
Agents.

page_text: I ARTHUR FREDERICK HAWKSLEY of Altrincham in the County of Chester 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 state-
ment and accompanying drawings:
:-
the
My Invention relates to cigar lighting apparatus or to means for lighting cigars,
cigarettes, or tobacco in other forms and principally to means for obtaining incan-
descent heat such as is obtained by the use of ordinary fusees. The object of my
invention is to provide the lighters in such a form as that they can be carried
in compact cases or holders and be projected therefrom singly for use.
I
make a case or fusee holder of a form suitable to be carried in
waistcoat pocket as for example I may make such holder similar in form to a pencil
case of a hexagonal round or square form in cross section. The igniters which
for convenience of description I will term fusees consist of isolated masses of compo-
sition formed upon a thin rod or upon connecting material so that a rod to hold say a
dozen more or less of such fusees can be placed within the holder. The holder is
provided with a sliding pusher whereby the end fusee can be caused to project from
one end of the holder. The fusees may be tipped on one side or be suitably pre-
pared to be ignited by rubbing upon a prepared surface as in the cases of ordinary
safety matches or by simple friction as in the cases of ordinary fusees.
My Invention will be best understood when described with reference to the accom-
panying drawings, wherein Fig. 1 is an outside view of the lighter case closed
so as to be ready to be placed in the pocket. Fig. 2 represents the same
article with the cap removed and having a lighter projected from one end and
Fig. 3 represents the igniters with which the case is charged. In Fig. 1 a is
a tubular case and b is a cap which is slid upon the case and encloses about
half of its length. In Fig. 2 the said cap is supposed to have been removed. The
case a is slit from end to end or thereabouts or is made by bending a piece of
sheet metal into a tubular form the edges of the metal not quite meeting so that a
slit c is left between such edges. The case is partly enclosed within an outer case d
which extends from one end about half way down the length of the inner case and
is also made with a slit to permit the passage of the button e which is attached to
a pusher or piston which slides within the case a. The outer case d may also be
made by bending a piece of sheet metal into a tubular form. Before or after the metal
is so bent a number of slits ff are formed in one end and extend from the edge
some distance or to varying distances as in the indication. In the slitting portions
of the metal are removed so that tongues of metal are formed which when the
case is bent into a tube are caused to converge as in the drawing.
In Fig. 3
gg are the aforesaid isolated masses of composition which are formed or fixed upon
a rod of wood / or it may be upon a shaft or core of other suitable material. In
the manufacture of the said igniters I make a paste similar to what is used in the

page_text: manufacture of ordinary cigar lighters and fill the same into moulds which are
formed with cells or cavities to receive the paste and are adapted to hold a rod of
wood or two or more rods in position to be surrounded by the masses of paste which
are moulded by the said cells. Each igniter is tipped or coated on one side with a
suitable igniting composition. In practice I coat or cover the cap tube b with a
composition which is supposed to extend from i to i and which is adapted to assist
in the ignition of the lighters as in the cases of the coatings on ordinary safety
match boxes. In the moulding of the igniters it is important that the short
lengths of wood which appear between every two igniters shall be as free as con-
veniently possible from the composition. Such a multiple igniter as is represented
by Fig. 3 is introduced into the case a and the pusher is then put in at the end, a
slight spring of the slit case keeping it in place. When a light is required the cap b
is removed and the button e is pushed upward so that the end igniter is thrust out
at the end of the case as in Fig. 2 the slits in the case permitting the end of the
case to expand and open like a mouth and to close again behind the igniter so as to
isolate it from the next adjacent igniter in the series. The igniter is then rubbed
upon the cap or is otherwise ignited. I do not confine myself to the precise
formation or construction of the case nor to the formation of it in two pieces, a and d
nor to the provision of the cap b so long as the case is made suitable to hold the
igniters and to project the end igniter by acting upon a sliding part.
The fusees might be formed in separate pieces with which the holder could be
filled the end fusee when thrust out of the holder being held by means of claws or of
a projecting finger or of fingers.
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 I claim is :-
(1) The case adapted to contain a number of igniters which can be projected singly
from one end of the case and be held during ignition and use substantially as and for
the purpose set forth and indicated.
(2) As a so termed "cigar light" a number of isolated masses of igniting
composition moulded or fixed upon a stick or core of match wood or other suitable
material and adapted to be enclosed within a tubular case and to be projected singly
therefrom substantially as set forth and indicated.
(3) A case to contain a number of so termed cigar igniters slit at one end so as to
form an expanding and contracting mouth through which the igniters can be pushed
singly as required substantially as set forth and indicated.
1007
DUTTON & FULTON,
1, St. James Square, Manchester,
Agents.