IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF RENDERING WAX AND OTHER MATCHES IMPERVIOUS TO DAMP OR WATER
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Healy, of Skerries Mills, Balbriggan, Ireland, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF RENDERING WAX AND
OTHER MATCHES IMPERVIOUS TO DAMP OR WATER."
Sealed the 28th February 1878, and dated the 9th October 1877.
Sealed the 28th February 1878, and dated the 9th October 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Healy at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th October 1877.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
RICHARD HEALY, of Skerries Mills, Balbriggan, Ireland.
MODE OF RENDERING WAX AND OTHER MATCHES IMPERVIOUS TO DAMP OR
WATER."
My Invention consists in rendering matches waterproof by coating the ordinary
chemically prepared ends of the same with a liquid composed of the following
ingredients in (or about) the proportions and prepared in the manner herein-after.
stated:-
Take eight pounds of fine African gum copal, and two gallons of clarified oil;
raise these ingredients to the temperature of about one hundred degrees Fahrenheit,
then boil the mixture slowly until it becomes of a stringy consistency or character;
then add three gallons and a half of turpentine, and strain off as required, and boil
the mixture for about four or five hours, and afterwards leave it to cool.
By this process is produced a coating, by means of which the matches or ends of
matches may be rendered impervious to damp, and become waterproof.

page_text: SPECIFICAT ON in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said chard Healy in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 2nd April
1878.
RICHARD HEALY, of Skerries Mills, Balbriggan, Ireland. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MODE OF RENDERING WAX AND OTHER MATCHES IMPERVIOUS TO DAMP OR
WATER."
My Invention of "Improvements in the Mode of Rendering Wax and other
Matches Impervious to Damp or Water" consists in rendering matches waterproof
by coating the ordinary chemically prepared ends of the same with a liquid composed
of the following ingredients in (or about) the proportions and prepared in the manner
herein-after stated :-
Take eight pounds of fine African gum copal, and two gallons of clarified oil;
raise these ingredients to the temperature of about one hundred degrees Fahrenheit,
then boil the mixture slowly until it becomes of a stringy consistency or character;
then, add three gallons and a half of turpentine, and strain off as required, and boil
the mixture for about four or five hours, and afterwards leave it to cool.
admixture of ingredients is to be made in the proportions above stated or there-
abouts.
The
By this process
produced a coating, by means of which the matches or ends of
matches may be rendered impervious to damp, and become waterproof, and as soon
as the said coating is removed by friction the matches will ignite as usual.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I hereby declare that what I claim as of my Invention is,
the treatment or preparation of wax or other matches by means of the process
herein-before described, for the purpose of rendering them impervious to damp or
water.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Healy, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Twelfth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-eight.
Witness,
JAMES MURPHY,
Holmpatrick,
Skerries,
Miller.
RICHARD HEALY. (L.S.)