Year: 1889

page_text: A communication from JOHN ROBINETTE COLLINS, Mechanic, and JAMES WAD-EL-
WARD, M.D., both of 11, King Street West, in the City of Toronto, in the County
of York, in the Province of Ontario, Canada.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
M.I.M.E., 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 :-
The object of the invention is to design a neat pocket-case containing mechanism
by which sparks may be produced by friction, and also containing a supply of slow-
burning inflammable material which may be easily ignited by the sparks so created,
the slowly-burning material being utilized for igniting quickly-burning material also
contained in the case and designed to produce a flame; and it consists, essentially, in
the arrangement of mechanism and parts hereinafter more particularly specified.
Figure 1 is a sectional view of this improved fuse and taper lighter made oblong
in shape.
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Figure 2 is an outside view of Fig. 1 with caps fitted on its ends.
Figure 3 is a sectional view of the device made cylindrical in shape.
Figure 4 is an outside view of fig. 3, the case being partially broken away to expose
the interior.
In the drawing, like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different
figures.
A, represents the outer case, which contains the parts involved in this invention,
and may be made oblong, cylindrical, or in any other form desired.
B, is a piece of slowly-burning inflammable material, like tinder, inserted into an
open-ended chamber formed on or within the case, A.
C, is a bracket pivotted on the case A, and designed to hold a piece of flinty
stone, D, or other material by which sparks may be produced by friction.

page_text: E, is a disc journalled in the case, A, and geared to suitable mechanism by which
it may be caused to revolve at a very rapid rate. The stone, D, rests on the periphery
of the disc, E, and is held against the said disc by weight or by a spring.
I do not claim anything peculiar in the gearing for driving the disc, E.
In fig. 1 a chain of gearing is shown arranged to be operated by a rack, F, as
indicated in Fig. 1. In the arrangement of the gearing shown in this figure, the
downward movement of the rack, F, causes the disc, E, to revolve in the direction
indicated by arrow, so that the sparks created by the action of the disc, E, on the
stone, D, shall be thrown against the end of the slowly-burning material, B, so as to
ignite the said end.
In Figure 3 is shown the gearing for operating the disc, E, arranged to be driven
by a crank-handle, G.
H, is a taper made of quickly-burning material wound round a spool, I, journalled
within the case, A, as indicated in fig. 3, or it may be carried up through a tube, J,
as indicated in fig. 1, the top end of this tube, J, being pivotted as shown, so that the
end of the taper H, may be pressed against the burning end of the material, B, for the
purpose of igniting the former.
K, is a cap designed to close the end of the chamber in which the material, B, is
kept. This cap is intended to close the said chamber so as to exclude the air and
thereby cause the lighted end of the material, B, to be extinguished.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A case such as, A, a piece of slowly-burning material B, contained within the
said case, a flinty stone, D, held against the Disc, E, in proximity to the end of the
material, B, in combination with mechanism for imparting motion to the disc, E,
substantially as and for the purpose specified.
2. A case, such as, A, designed to contain slowly-burning material, B, and a taper, H,
in combination with a revolving disc, E, acting against a flinty stone, D, arranged
substantially as and for the purpose specified.
3. An improved fuse and taper lighter constructed substantially as shown and
described.
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