IMPROVEMENTS IN CIGAR LIGHTERS AND FUSEE MATCHES, PART OF. SAID IMPROVEMENTS BEING *APPLICABLE ALSO TO VESTAS AND MATCHES, WAX TAPERS; AND CANDLES
Year: 1863

page_text: LËTTERS PÅTENT to Charles Battcock; of Wandsworth, in the County
of Surrey; Fusee and Match Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN CIGAR LIGHTERS AND FUSEE MATCHES, PART OF. SAID IMPROVEMENTS BEING
*APPLICABLE ALSO TO VESTAS AND MATCHES, WAX TAPERS; AND CANDLES:"
Sealed the 8th March 1864, and dated the 15th September 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. left by the said Charles Battcock at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 15th
September 1868.
I, CHARLES BATTCOCK, of Wandsworth, in the County of Surrey, Fusee and
Match Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN CIGAR LIGHTERS AND FUSEE MATCHES, PART OF SAID IMPROVEMENTS
BEING APPLICABLE ALSO TO VESTAS AND MATCHES, WAX TAPERS, AND CANDLES," to
be as follows:-
I take slate or stone and split or cut it into small sticks or stems for the
fusees or cigar lighters; or I form cups or tubes of metal or other equivalent
material to serve as the stem or handle, and fill the same with slate or stone
or dust thereof, or other non-conducting material. I can perfume the igniting
composition of the fusee or lighter by introducing gum benzoin, for instance,
and the perfume I can apply to vesta lights, wax tapers, and candles by
perfuming in the same manner the cotton and material used thereon, and the

page_text: perfume I can apply to all kinds of fusees and matches, and also to the boxes
in which they are packed, by using, for instance, the benzoin in powder in the
paste with which the boxes are put together.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Battcock in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
15th March 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
BATTCOCK, of Wandsworth, in the County of Surrey, Fusee and Match Maker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Charles Battcock, Her special licence that I, the said Charles
Battcock, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Charles Battcock, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CIGAR LIGHTERS AND FUSEE MATCHES, PART OF SAID IMPROVEMENTS BE APPLICABLE
ALSO TO VESTAS AND MATCHES, WAX TAPERS, AND CANDLES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Charles Battcock, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Battcock, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The objects and intentions of my Invention being to provide non-combustible
or very slowly combustible stems for fusee matches, also to provide an
improved perfumed igniting composition for the same, likewise useful for
vestas and matches, the perfumed composition or modification thereof being

page_text: adaptable to perfuming wax tapers and candles, and to perfuming any of the
above articles by packing the same in perfumed boxes. I take slate or stone
(or minerals of equivalent character that is capable of being used as hereafter
described), and I split or cut the same into small sticks or stems for the fusees
or cigar lighters, which I can effect, for instance, by taking pieces of slate,
such as are used for roofing purposes, and rubbing the same down to the
required thickness, when I place the same in a slate cutting machine, and
thus form sticks or stems of the length and thickness required. Stone or
other minerals when used are to be reduced or cut into pieces of the forms
and sizes required by any of the means practised by workers in those substances.
Having thus obtained the pieces of material which are to be stems of the
fusee matches, I then dip their ends into the same kind of composition a's is
first applied by manufacturers to the ordinary stems of fusee matches, and
then into the igniting composition, which may be of the character and com-
position usually adopted for fusees or matches, though I prefer to use the
scented or odoriferous igniting composition made as follows:-Glue, 3 ounces;
chlorate of potash, 6 ounces; glass (powdered), 5 ounces; colouring matter,
one ounce; amorphous phosphorous, two ounces. And this composition can
be used as an igniting composition for ordinary fusee matches, wax, or com-
position vestas or tapers. Instead of using stems of slate or stone, I can use
tubes or cups of metal, or such like slow combustible or non-combustible
material, filling or packing the interiors thereof with saw-dust or wood-dust,
moistened with a water solution of gum arabic, or other equivalent gum, using,
for instance, of a pound of gum to about one quart of water, with 2 lbs.
of sawdust; or I use for filling these tubes plumbago, such as Cumberland
black lead, or slate dust, or any of the above substances in combination, or
powder, or small particles of any sufficiently bad conductor of heat. For
perfuming candles or tapers I can use the odoriferous composition hereinafter
described, that is, I prefer to use to, candles made of wax or stearine the
following substances and proportions:--Wax, or stearine, or paraffin 14 lbs.,
to which I add in a melted state 2 lbs. of gum storax, or any other perfuming
substance capable of being used in place thereof, and I can use this composition
for vesta matches as well as wax tapers and candles. I can also use for
perfuming the wicks as aforesaid a perfumed tincture, such as the tincture
of benzoin, which I have found to answer very well. I take balls of cotton,
such as are generally used for wicks, and draw the cotton through the usual
perforated plate with sufficient tincture of benzoin for the complete immersion
of the cotton, and after having effected this I use a second perforated plate to
take off superfluous tincture. For aiding in perfuming the above-mentioned

page_text: articles by perfuming the boxes for holding the fusees or matches or candles,
I line the boxes with a thin paper scented with otto of roses, or any suitable
perfumes, saturating the paper with the perfume.
The compositions above-mentioned are all applied hot and then allowed to
cool and dry, except the tincture of benzoin.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I hereby declare
that I claim the use of the stems herein-before described; also the use of the
igniting and the perfuming compositions herein-before described (or any
equivalent.compositions for perfuming candles, wax tapers, or vestas), disclaiming
however the use of the separate ingredients, except for the purpose of making
and using in manner herein-before described such compositions or any mere
equivalent for the same.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Battcock, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
CHARLES BATTCOCK. (L.S.)
Witness,
GEORGE MARSHALL.