AN IMPROVED LUCIFER MATCH, AND PREPARED PAPER FOR IGNITING THE SAME." PREPARED PAPER FOR IGNITING THE SAME
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Horatio Mearing, of 18, Great Randolph Street,
Camden Town, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED LUCIFER MATCH, AND
PREPARED PAPER FOR IGNITING THE SAME."
PREPARED PAPER FOR IGNITING THE SAME."
Sealed the 4th March 1862, and dated the 27th November 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION. left by, the said Horatio Mearing at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 27th.
November 1861..
I, HORATIO MEARING, of 18, Great Randolph Street, Camden Town, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED LUCIPER
MATCH, AND PREPARED PAPER FOR IGNITING THE SAME," to be as follows:-
The wood to be first' dipped in melted sulphur, and when dried in a com-
pound of chloride of potash in powder, 10 parts; oxide of antimony, 4 parts;
smalts, 5 parts; gum, 2 parts, with sufficient water to form a paste.
The paper as follows: Amorphous phoshrous, 6 parts; graphite in powder,
1 part; silicate of soda, 1 part; flour or glue, 2 parts, with sufficient water to
form a thick cream; the paper to be coated with the preparation by a brush
or other means. The light to be obtained by drawing the match briskly
across the paper.
The advantages to be derived from the use of this match are security to
life and property, prevention of accidents by fire, frequently caused by the use
of the ordinary matches, and utter impossibility of ignition by other means
than friction on-the before-named paper.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Horatio Mearing in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
14th May 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HORATIO
MEARING, of 18, Great Randolph Street, Camden Town, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Horatio Mearing, Her special licence that I, the said Horatio Mearing
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Horatio
Mearing, 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 "AN-IMPROVED LUCIFER MATCH AND
PREPARED PAPER FOR IGNITING THE SAME," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Horatio Mearing, my executors or administrators, 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 Horatio Mearing, 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, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object the production of a match and prepared.
paper for igniting the same, whereby the great damage caused by the frequent
-ignition-of-the-ordinary match will be prevented.
I take splints made either of wood, wax, or other substance, and dip
the ends in melted sulphur, when dry I again dip them in a composition
made in the following manner :-I take of powdered potash, ten parts; oxide
of antimony, four parts; smalts, five parts; gum, two parts, and reduce them,
adding a sufficient quantity of water to form a paste. After being dipped
in the above-mentioned paste, the match.is.dried in the ordinary manner,.
For the manufacture of the prepared paper, I first make the following
composition:Take flour or glue, and render it into a paste; to two parts

page_text: of this paste I add amorphe-phosphorous, six parts; graphite, in powder, one
part; and silicate of soda, one part; these substances must be intimately
mixed together, and the paper, is to be coated with this preparation by a brush
or other means and dried:
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the means for
carrying the same into effect, 'I do not claim the use of chemical substances
on a match and paper or other substances separately, nor the use of any of the
above chemical substances separately, nor of the combination of them on the
match or the paper separately, but I claim as my Invention the improved
lucifer match and prepared paper manufactured as above described:
In witness whereof, I, the said Horatio Mearing, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
HORATIO MEARING. (L.s.)