IMPROVEMENTS IN CIGAR AND PIPE, LIGHTS, AND IN THEIR PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Joseph Simlick, of 2,. Lefevre Road, Bow,
in the, County of Middlesex, Chemical Light Manufacturer, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CIGAR AND PIPE, LIGHTS, AND IN THEIR
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Joseph Simlick at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
29th August-1867.
I, HENRY JOSEPH SIMLICK, of 2, Lefevre Road, Bow, in the County of
Middlesex, Chemical Light Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CIGAR AND PIPE LIGHTS, AND IN THEIR
MODE OF CONSTRUCTION, COMPOSITION, AND MANUFACTURE," to be as follows:-
I take an ordinary wooden splint or a stem' composed of any of the ordinary
suitable materials or compositions and envelope it with a coating or net of
iron or other metallic wire, or with sheet or other metal by means of an
ordinary braiding machine; or I construct a network of the wire by means of
the aforesaid or other spring machine, and immerse it in a non-conductable
composition, such as plaster of Paris. When this network or metal in any
other, form is either woven over the aforesaid stem, or coated as aforesaid by
the immersion aforesaid, so as to form a metallic coated stem in a complete
form, I dip it in a pastile composition, specially prepared for. adhering to the
metal, composed of four parts of gum, ten parts of chlorate of potass, three

page_text: The object of my Invention is to produce a cigar or pipe light which
shall permanently adhere to its stem, or immerse when ignited for ordinary
usage.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Joseph Simlick in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 5th February 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
JOSEPH SIMLICK, of 2, Lefevre Road, Bow, in the County of Middlesex,
Chemical Light Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and-grant unto me, the.
said Henry Joseph Simlick, Her special licence that, I, the said Henry Joseph;
Simlick, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Henry Joseph Simlick, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and 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 AND PIPE LIGHTS, AND IN THEIR MODE OF CONSTRUCTION, COMPOSITION, AND
MANUFACTURE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry
Joseph Simlick, 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 Henry Joseph Simlick, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:
:
I take an ordinary wooden splint or a stem composed of any of the ordinary
suitable materials or compositions usually adopted for splints or stems in the
vesuvian or match manufacture, and envelope it with a coating or network of
iron or other metallic wire, or with sheet or other metal, in conjunction with

page_text: cotton or any other suitable fibrous material or substance by means of an
ordinary braiding machine; or I construct a network of the wire and cotton
or other fibrous material by means of the aforesaid braiding or other suitable
spring machine and immerse it in a non-conductible composition, such as
plaster of Paris. When this coating or network composed as aforesaid is
either woven over the aforesaid stem or filled in as aforesaid by the immersion
aforesaid, so as to form a non-conductably coated stem by either of the means
aforesaid in a complete form, the lengths whereof (having been cut and framed
in the ordinary way) are dipped in a pastile composition specially prepared for
adhering to the wire or metal so woven as aforesaid. By preference I use
among other well-known pastile compositions the following:-Four parts of
gum, ten chlorate of potass, three fine powdered charcoal, one part gum
benzoin, eight gascarilla bark.
The object of my Invention is to produce a cigar or pipe light which shall
by the completeness of its construction palpably and at a glance assure the
person manufacturing, vending, or using it that the wire to which the pastile
composition has adhered has a permanent hold upon and to its stem without
the ordinary hazard of falling off.
And I claim the manufacture and use of such splints and stems only as
shall have wire with or without other non-conductable material woven round,
or otherwise displayed outside or upon them as and by the means aforesaid,
or by any other means which shall in any way produce the object which it is
my intention my Invention shall and does attain.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Joseph Simlick, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Thirty-first day of January, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight.
HENRY JOSEPH SIMLICK. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
above-named Henry Joseph Simlick,
in the presence of
E. J. SYDNEY,
his Solicitor and Agent,
33, Jewry St., Aldgate, E.C.