An Improved Firelighter.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 4th May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 25th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 3rd Mar., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. .
An Improved Firelighter.
We TOM RICHARD CAREY and THOMAS LANDER, trading as T. Carey & Co.,
both of West Quay Road, Poole, in the County of Dorset, Firewood Merchants
and Firelighter Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
:-
The object of the present invention is to produce a firelighter more economical
to manufacture, and more efficient in action than those at present employed.
According to our invention, we construct our improved firelighter of strips or
slats of wood, preferably six in number, which are secured across one another at
In the
right angles by means of convenient interlocking grooves or notches.
enclosed spaces formed by this arrangement of the wood strips or slats, we insert
tow or like material dipped in melted rosin or other suitable inflammable substance.
Dated this 4th day of May 1893.
E. P. ALEXANDER & SON, Fels. Chartd. Inst. P.A.,
19, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Firelighter.
We TOM RICHARD CAREY and THOMAS LANDER trading as T. Carey & Co.,
both of West Quay Road, Poole, in the County of Dorset, Firewood Merchants
and Firelighter Manufacturers, 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 present invention is to produce a firelighter more economical
to manufacture and more efficient in action than those at present employed.
According to our invention, we construct our improved firelighter of strips or
slats of wood, preferably six in number, which are secured across one another at
right angles by means of convenient interlocking slots or notches. In the enclosed
spaces formed by these interlocked wood strips or slats, we insert tow or like
material and we then dip the firelighter in melted rosin or other suitable inflammable
substance.
In the accompanying drawings in which similar letters refer to corresponding
parts in all the figures :-
Figure 1 is a side elevation of one of the strips or slats of which our improved
firelighter is composed.
Figure 2 is a plan of a firelighter constructed in accordance with
invention.
Figure 3 is a side elevation of Figure 2.
our
a a are strips or slats of wood each strip or slat being provided with corre-
sponding slots or notches bb by means of which they may be interlocked so as to
form a firelighter as illustrated in Figures 2 and 3. c represents tow or other like
suitable combustible material placed in the spaces enclosed by the strips or
slats a and a¹.
The complete firelighter is partially immersed in melted rosin (as indicated by
the shading Figure 3) whereby the tow is wholly or partially saturated and
maintained in place and the interlocked strips or slats more firmly held together.
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page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
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As a new article of manufacture a firelighter composed of interlocked strips or
slats of wood combined with tow and melted' rosin or equivalent inflammable
substances substantially in the manner described and illustrated in the drawings.
Dated this 25th day of January 1894.
E. P. ALEXANDER & SON,
Fels. Chartered Inst. Patent Agents,
19, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
For the Applicant.