Improvements in Matches or Lighters of Certain Form for Cigars, Pipes, and the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 15th July, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 14th Apr., 1890-Accepted, 24th May, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Matches or Lighters of Certain Form for Cigars,
Pipes, and the like.
I, ARTHUR FREDERICK HAWKSLEY, of Dunedin House, Altrincham, in the County
of Chester, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to apparatus for cigar, pipe or cigarette lighters and more
particularly to that class of igniter for which letters patent were granted to me
No. 11,135 September 1st 1886.
Instead of having, as described in the specifications of my said former patent, a
case or holder with expanding and contracting mouth in which lighters made of
masses of isolated composition on a core are placed I make in some instances a case
or tube without expanding mouth and to prevent above one mass of composition
lighting at a time I have a filling, by preference a removable washer of non-com-
bustible material such as asbestos between each of them. So that only one mass may
be projected from the case at a time I make a slit with notches or steps in which the
carrier holding the igniter works.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Matches or Lighters of Certain Form for Cigars,
Pipes, and the like.
I, ARTHUR FREDERICK HAWKSLEY of Dunedin House, Altrincham, in the County
of Chester, Gentleman, 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 on that for which Letters Patent were
granted to me in 1886, No. 11,135.
The object of the present invention is to dispense, if desired, with the box or holder
formed with expanding mouth through which the igniters are ejected, such as shown
and described in the specifications of my patents No. 11,135 of 1886 and 9,891 of
1889, and provide a match or lighter which can be used with a box or holder
formed of an open-ended tube, and when ignited will burn through one mass or head
of the composition without communicating the fire to, or igniting the next mass of
composition.
It consists essentially in forming the match or lighter with a washer or filling of
non-combustible material such as asbestos, pipe-clay or the like, between each mass of
combustible composition, so as to prevent above one mass of the composition lighting
at a time.
Referring to the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1, is a front elevation of match or lighter.
Fig. 2, front elevation of box or holder.
Fig. 3, sectional elevation through both box and match.
Fig. 4, sectional elevation of modified form of match.
The box or holder A, may be made of any suitable form, preferably a cylindrical
tube open at both ends, with a slit or slot c along one side to permit of the passage of
the shank of the bottom d which is attached to the pusher in the interior.
cover C, is provided to cover the end of the box A, a portion of which is as before
coated with a composition to assist in the striking or ignition of the match,
A cap or

page_text: The matches or lighters B, are formed as described in the specification of my
previous patent, of a number of isolated masses of combustible composition b, and in
the space between each of these I now place a washer, or a mass of non-combustible
material e which prevents the light or fire from one of the masses b, being conveyed
or communicated to the next. In the manufacture of these lighters they may be
formed as shown in the drawings of my former patents (as in Fig. 3 annexed) with the
composition fixed to a central core of wood or they may be moulded with a mass of
the combustible composition alternating with a mass of the non-combustible material,
the cohesive properties of the materials used causing them to adhere and form a
continuous stick (as shown in fig. 4).
The non-combustible material may be asbestos, pipe-clay, china clay, metal, com-
pressed paper, or other material which can be inserted to prevent communication
between the two masses of combustible composition. The slit c in the box or holder A,
is preferably made with notches a so that on pushing the button d only one mass of
combustible composition is ejected from the holder at a time.
In the inventions described in a former patents 11,135 of 1886 and 9891 of 1889,
the expanding mouth of the holder, when it has closed behind the ejected mass of
composition, prevents the ignition of the next one; by this invention the ignition of
the next one is prevented by the presence between them of the non-combustible
material, and by this means an open mouthed box or holder is rendered practicable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :--
1. A match or lighter for cigars, pipes, and the like composed of a number of
isolated masses of combustible composition with a ring or washer of non-combustible
material placed between each, moulded into the form of a rod (with or without a
central core of wood) substantially as described.
2. In a match or lighter for cigars and the like such as described in specification
of patent 11,135 of 1886 the combination of a non-combustible material filled in
between each of the isolated masses of combustible composition substantially as
described.
Dated this 11th day of April 1000
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.