IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FAGGOTS OR FIRE-LIGHTERS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Liverati Rovedino and Henry Boucher,
both of Arthur Road, Holloway, in the County of Middlesex, for
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Liverati
Rovedino and Henry Boucher at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 25th November 1870.
We, FREDERICK LIVERATI ROVEDINO and HENRY BOUCHER, both of
Arthur Road, Holloway, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF FAGGOTS OR FIRE-LIGHTERS," to be as follows:-
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Our Invention relates to a novel construction of fire igniter formed of
three or more pieces of wood or other material arranged as a triangular
tripod; each side of which overlying and underlying another, and bound
together at each angle by string, wire, or other cheap binding material,
and a strip of paper, rag, wood, shaving, or other cheap combustible

page_text: material being enclosed at one of the angles for purpose of ignition.
The triangle after being dipped in melted pitch, rosin, or other in-
flammable matter is complete for use. We prefer using wire for binding
the angles as holding the lighter together during its combustion, and so
permitting upraising for better ventilation if needed without falling to
pieces, and this ventilation or prevention of choking of the fuel as well
as speedy and certain combustion of the lighter from the ascension of
the flames we particularly claim for our Invention as ensured by the
upward slanting of cach piece or pieces of wood or other material
forming our lighter, and caused by the proximity of the inner sides of
the triangle.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederick Liverati Rovedino and Henry Boucher
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 24th May 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, FREDERICK
LIVERATI ROVEDINO and HENRY BOUCHER, both of Arthur Road,
Holloway, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the
thirty-fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Frederick Liverati Rovedino
and Henry Boucher, Her special licence that we, the said Frederick
Liverati Rovedino and Henry Boucher, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Frederick Liverati Rovedino
and Henry Boucher, our 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FAGGOTS OR FIRE-
LIGHTERS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
Frederick Liverati Rovedino and Henry Boucher, our executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one
of their hands and scals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner, the same was to be

page_text: 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 we, the said Frederick Liverati Rovedino and
Henry Boucher, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say :—
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Our Invention relates to a novel construction of fire igniter formed of
three or more pieces of wood or other material arranged as a triangular
tripod, each side of which overlying and underlying another and bound
together at each angle by string, wire, or other cheap binding material,
and a strip of paper, rag, wood, shaving, or other cheap combustible
material being enclosed at one of the angles for purpose of ignition. The
triangle after being dipped in melted pitch, rosin, or other inflammable
matter is complete for use. We prefer using wire for binding the angles
as holding the lighter together during its combustion, and so permitting
upraising for better ventilation if needed without falling to pieces, and
this ventilation or prevention of choking of the fuel as well as speedy
and certain combustion of the lighter from the ascension of the flames
we particularly claim for our Invention as ensured by the upward
slanting of each piece or pieces of wood or other material forming our
lighter, and caused by the proximity of the inner sides of the triangle.
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And in order to explain our said Invention more clearly, we now
proceed to describe the construction of our improved faggots or fire-
lighters, reference being had to the illustrative Drawing accompanying
these Presents and letters of reference marked thereon, as follows:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
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The Drawing represents a perspective view of one of our improved

page_text: We do not however intend to limit or confine ourselves to the above
methods for connecting the pieces of wood together, but reserve the
right to employ any cheap and efficient means for that purpose.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of our
said Invention for "Improvements in the Manufacture of Faggots or
Fire-lighters," together with the means by which it may be effected, wo
would remark in conclusion that what we claim as our Invention
intended to be secured to us by the herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent is as follows:-
We claim constructing faggots or fire-lighters by combining and
connecting together pieces of wood or other combustible materials in
the form of a triangular tripod, substantially as above described and
represented by the Drawing.
In witness whereof, we, the said Frederick Liverati Rovedino and
Henry Boucher, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one.
F. LIVERATI ROVEDINO: (L.S.)
HENRY BOUCHER.
(L.S.)