PEAT OR TURF FIRELIGHTERS
Year: 1884

page_text: I CHARLES GRENFELL SATTERTHWAITE Fire Light Manufacturer, 79 Chapel
Street, Ancoats Manchester in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the
nature of my invention for PEAT OR TURF FIRELIGHTERS to be as follows:-
Peat or turf cut into bars angular triangular, flat, square, oblong perforated or
otherwise (or other forms) and saturated in rosin and creasote oil which hardens
the material makes it agreeable to handle and leaves no offensive smell.
What I want to protect is Peat or turf saturated in a composition of creasote
oil and rosin which forms a hard substance (the former having gone through a
process to neutralise the disagreeable smell) can be cut bored or shaped into various
forms as described above for lighting coal.
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Dated this 30th day of December 1884.
CHARLES GRENFELL SATTERTHWAITE.
I, CHARLES GREENFELL SATTERTHWAITE Fire light Manufacturer 79, Chapel
Street, Ancoats Manchester in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the
nature of my invention for PEAT OR TURF FIRE LIGHTERS and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
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This invention relates to an improvement in the manufacture of fire lighters, for
lighting coal and for similar purposes; and in the substances of and from which the
said fire lighters are composed.

page_text: With Peat or turf I form bars or blocks of any suitable shape, such as angular
triangular, flat, square or oblong: These bars or blocks may either be solid or they
may be perforated grooved or otherwise hollowed to allow the air to circulate or
pass through them.
In the formation of these bars or blocks from peat or turf, I cut, chop, grind or
otherwise reduce into small fragments, the said peat or turf which I then prefer to
mix with a proportion of saw dust, this mixture I saturate with a compound of
creosote oil and resin. With the composition as herein described I fill suitably
shaped moulds, and place these moulds in a press, to which hand or machine power
may be applied.
The bars or blocks forming the fire lighter are thus made of the required pattern,
and air passages are formed in them.
By these means a hard substance is obtained and the material thus formed can
if required be further cut, bored or otherwise shaped. The bars or blocks forming
the fire lighters, which are thus produced are easily ignited and continue with a
red glow until the coal is thoroughly alight, they are agreeable to handle and
the process by which they are formed as herein above described neutralizes the
disagreeable smell of the several ingredients.
The bars may if preferred be cut or formed of the required shape from one or
more pieces of peat or turf and then saturated with the compound of crosote oil
and resin.
In order that my invention may be fully understood, I now describe the
accompanying sheet of drawings.
Fig. 1 is an inverted plan and Fig. 2 Section of one form or shape of a bar or
block completed as a firelighter that may be produced from the composition or
material and by means of a press.
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
1st The manufacture and formation of perforated or solid bars or blocks of
suitable shapes from peat or turf for use as firelighters for igniting coal and similar
uses such peat or turf being for the purpose cut, chopped, ground or otherwise
reduced into small fragments, when preferred mixed with sawdust, and then
saturated with a compound of creosote oil and resin, substantially as herein before
described.
Dated this 30th day of September 1885.