Improvements in Firelighters.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Oct., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 13th Mar., 1897-Accepted, 12th June, 1897
TROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Firelighters.
We ADOLPH JULIUS LEHMANN, of 48 Grasmere Street, Liverpool, Engineer,
CHARLES KINDER, of 14, Seddon Road, Garston, near Liverpool, Merchant, and
DANIEL STEEN, also of 14, Seddon Road, aforesaid, Master Mariner, all in the County
of Lancaster do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention consists in cheapening the manufacture of firelighters We proceed as:
follows, we take a quantity of sawdust corkdust or any suitable material, to these we
add and mix some powdered resin then we make a thin mucilage either of flour glue
or other suitable material, this mucilage we mix with the sawdust corkdust and resin
till the material is sufficiently moist to make it cohesive, after which we press this mass.
into suitable forms so as to shape the same into firelighters, after this we dry them.
when they are ready for use we can also perforate the lighters so that they may more
easily and freely burn.
CHARLES KINDER.
A. J. LEHMANN.
DANIEL STEEN.
Improvements in Firelighters.
We, ADOLPH JULIUS LEHMANN, of 48, Grasmere Street, Liverpool, Engineer,.
CHARLES KINDER, of 14, Seddon Road, Garston, near Liverpool, Merchant, and
DANIEL STEEN, also of 14, Seddon Road, aforesaid, Master Mariner, all in the County
of Lancaster, 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 improvements in firelighters and has for its object to reduce
the cost of manufacture.
According to our invention we mix wood chips, sawdust, corkdust or any other
suitable material with powdered resin. To this mixture we add a sufficient quantity
of a suitable mucilage such as flour paste or glue to render the whole cohesive. The
moist cohesive mass is then compressed in moulds of suitable shape for forming the
firelighters and the compressed material is removed from the mould and dried.
In practice we have found that the following proportions of the several ingredients.
give good results: viz.,-

page_text: We also find it advantageous to form perforations in the firelighters so that they can
burn more freely.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
1. An improved manufacture of firelighters consisting in mixing wood chips,
sawdust, corkdust, or the like with powdered resin, in then moistening and binding
the mixture with a suitable mucilage and in then compressing the moistened mass in
a mould and drying the compressed mass, substantially as, and in the proportions,
herein before described.
. 2. In the manufacture of firelighters of the kind herein described the use of a
mucilage for moistening and binding the ingredients, substantially as described.
3. As a new article of manufacture firelighters made, substantially as herein before
described.
11000
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.