Improvements in or relating to Lucifer Matches.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Feb., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 16th Oct., 1890-Accepted, 22nd Nov., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Lucifer Matches.
A communication from abroad by JULES HESS, of Antwerp, in the Kingdom of
Belgium, Merchant.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both in
the County of Lancaster, and 323, High Holborn in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to lucifer matches and has for its object to provide a safety
maich which can be ignited without the necessity of having recourse to friction on
another article such as a special box or match holder.
The matches forming the subject of this invention, can only be ignited like the
safety or Swedish matches by being rubbed on a special composition, but they differ
from the Swedish ones in that they each individually carry all that is necessary for
causing their ignition. They have the double advantage of being as inoffensive and
harmless as safety matches, whilst being able to be ignited without a special or
separate frictional surface.
For this purpose each match is tipped at one of its ends with the ordinary chemical
composition which ignites by friction upon a suitable surface, and at the other end or
at any part of the match (either the middle or elsewhere) it is provided with the
ordinary chemical substance to be used as a friction surface for causing the ignition ;
this latter substance can be applied either on one side or to several sides of the
match and the latter may be made of any suitable shape, such as round, square or
flat, although the latter shape appears preferable because it gives a larger frictional
surface.
Different colours can also be given to the combustible substance at the tips, and to
the frictional substance.
To make use of a match it suffices to break off the end which is coated with the
frictional substance and to rub on this composition the other end or tip of the match
which ignites at once.
The combustible end of one match can also be struck on the
opposite end of another match.
Dated this 5th day of February 1890.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Lucifer Matches.
A communication from abroad by JULES HESS, of Antwerp, in the Kingdom of
Belgium, Merchant.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both
in the County of Lancaster and 323, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
Civil Engineer, 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 statement :-
This invention relates to lucifer matches, and has for its object to provide a safety
match which can be ignited without the necessity of having recourse to friction on
another article, such as a special box or match holder.
The matches, forming the subject of this invention, can only be ignited like the
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page_text: safety or Swedish matches by being rubbed on a special composition, but they differ
from the Swedish ones in that they each individually carry all that is necessary for
causing their ignition. They have the double advantage of being as inoffensive and
harmless as safety matches, whilst being able to be ignited without a special or separate
frictional surface.
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For this purpose, each match is tipped at one of its ends with the ordinary chemical
composition which ignites by friction upon a suitable surface, and at the other end or
at any part of the match (either the middle or elsewhere) it is provided with the
ordinary chemical substance to be used as a friction surface for causing the ignition,
this latter substance can be applied either on one side or to several sides of the
match, and the latter may be made of any suitable shape, such as round, square or
flat, although the latter shape appears preferable, because it gives a larger frictional
surface.
Different colours can also be given to the combustible substance at the tips, and to
the frictional substance.
To make use of a match, it suffices to break off the end which is coated with the
frictional substance and to rub, on this composition, the other end or tip of the match
which ignites at once. The combustible end of one match can also be struck on the
opposite end of another match.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:-
1. The manufacture of safety matches in which the two compositions, required
to come in frictional contact to strike a light, are placed on different parts of the
same match.
Dated this 15th day of October 1890.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.