Improved Preparation of Ingredients and the Manufacture of Fire Lighters therewith.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Apr., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 23rd May, 1899-Accepted, 14th Oct., 1899
PROVIDIUNAL DPECIFICATION.
Improved Preparation of Ingredients and the Manufacture of Fire
Lighters therewith.
We, HUGO WEISZ, EDMOND ABONYI, and CARL NEUBURG, all of Leopoldring 19,
Budapest, Hungary, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:
This invention has for object, the preparation of ingredients and the im-
pregnation of wood in shaving-woodware or fibre, or other condition therewith
and pressed into suitable shape specially adapted for fire lighting purposes, the
fire lighters by our invention being hard, dry to the touch, available to resist
climatic action, and can be stored with safety.
For the purpose of our invention we employ, say,
30% of rosin
30% paraffine or stearine
20% mineral oil
20% spirits of turpentine.
These we mix and boil or highly heat in a steam tight cauldron to bring the
mass into a fluid or liquid condition.
We expel all moisture from the wood shavings or other ligneous material,
and while warm by hot air or surface plate heat we throw it into the cauldron
and well stir it for complete saturation after which we remove and spread it out
on wire screens in a heated condition for draining off the superfluous liquid
previous to collection in suitable quantities for pressing into requisite shapes
adapted for stowage or for supply to the public. The blocks, spheres or other
compressed shapes will be found free from smell and are non-explosive.
The flame and heat from the blocks are very forcible and in most cases
intense.
The blocks can be protected by a slight covering for extra cleanliness, and
may be bound with twine for ready handling.
Dated thi 10th dow
A1 1000
Improved Preparation of Ingredients and the Manufacture of Fire
Lighters therewith.
We, HUGO WEISZ, EDMOND ABONYI, and CARL NEUBURG, all of Leopoldring 19,
Budapest, Hungary, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
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page_text: 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 object, the preparation of ingredients and the im-
pregnation of wood in shaving-woodwool, or fibre, or other condition therewith
and pressed into suitable shape specially adapted for fire lighting purposes, the
fire lighters by our invention being hard, dry to the touch, available to resist
climatic action, and can be stored with safety.
For the purpose of our invention we employ, say,
30% of rosin
30% paraffine or stearine
20% mineral oil
20% spirits of turpentine.
These we mix and boil or highly heat in a steam tight cauldron to bring the
mass into a fluid or liquid condition.
We expel all moisture from the woodwool, wood shavings, or other ligneous
fibrous material, and while warm by hot air or surface plate heat we throw it
into the cauldron and well stir it for complete saturation, after which we remove
and spread it out on wire screens in a heated condition for draining off the
superfluous liquid previous to collection in suitable quantities for pressing into
requisite shapes adapted for stowage or for supply to the public.
The blocks, spheres, or other lightly pressed shapes will be found free from
smell and are non-explosive.
The flame and heat from the blocks are very forcible and in most cases
intense.
The blocks can be tied round with twine or cotton, or be protected by a
slight covering for extra cleanliness and for ready handling.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what nianner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:
1. The manufacture of fire lighters from wood in shavings or fibrous condition
impregnated with an admixture of rosin, paraffine, or stearine, mineral oil, and
spirits of turpentine prepared in the manner and for the purposes set forth, the
ingredients being used in or about the proportions named and as specified.
2. The manufacture of fire lighters from a combination of wood wool or like
wood fibres by drying same to expel moisture, steeping it in inflammable hot
liquid substances, draining off the superfluous liquid, then balling or shaping the
impregnated wood fibre in the manner described.
The 23rd day of May 1899.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Hugo Weisz, Edmond Abonyi, and Carl Neuburg.