An Improved Firelighter for Use with Gas.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 7th June, 1893-Accepted, 15th July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Firelighter for Use with Gas.
I MARGUERITE HORNBY, of The Grange, Earls Barton, Northampton, Dame,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A tube or hollow poker made of iron or other suitable metal perforated at end,
attached to a wooden handle. This has an india rubber tube, or other similar
material connected with any gas burner by means of a brass union. This will
light a fire without paper or sticks, cinders lighting most quickly.
Dated this 4th day of April 1893.
MARGUERITE HORNBY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Firelighter for Use with Gas.
I, MARGUERITE HORNBY, of The Grange, Earl's Barton, in the County of
Northampton, Dame, 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 :-
My invention relates to firelighters for use with gas and has for its object to
provide a simple and inexpensive gas-burning appliance adapted to be pushed
readily between the bars of any ordinary domestic firegrate into the midst of the
fuel contained in the grate and to rapidly ignite the same by gas jets.
My firelighter consists of a tube or hollow poker made of iron or other suitable
metal suitably reduced or tapered and closed at one end and perforated thereabouts
and also, it may be, upon its upper and adjacent surfaces. To this hollow poker is
attached at convenient distance a wooden handle and the haud end is connected by
a flexible tube and suitable nozzle with any ordinary gas burner. Gas may be
used as delivered at the burner or with an admixture of air in the known manner.
I will now fully describe my invention in reference to the accompanying drawings
in which
Fig. 1 is a side elevation; Fig. 2 a plan with air admission; and Fig. 3 is a
general view of my apparatus in use.
P is a metal tube or hollow poker suitably reduced, tapered, or formed more or
less sharp at one end after the manner of an ordinary poker and of length and
diameter adapted to enable it to be easily pushed in between the front bars to reach
to or nearly to the back of ordinary domestic firegrates; pp are a number of
perforations about its end and upper surfaces for the egress of gas or a mixture of
gas and air in jets. To the other end of the poker P is attached the hollow handle
bar B, Fig. 1 which may be of any convenient length, and the open end of same
is adapted for connection to the flexible gas tube T by a union such as U, or in
any convenient manner. The free end of the tube T is adapted for connection to
any ordinary gas burner by a suitable nozzle. W is a hand-piece of wood or other
non-heat-conducting substance fixed in convenient position upon the handle bar B.
The arrangement illustrated in Fig. 1 is intended for use with ordinary illuminating
gas.
In Fig. 2 provision is made for the admission of air to the gas jet c at the
orifice C in the well known manner, and the wooden hand piece W is shown as
arranged nearer to the poker P.
Fig. 3 illustrates my invention in use, the poker P being pushed between the
grate bars g g into the midst of the fuel in the grate, and the gas being turned on

page_text: and lit at the perforations pp, the fuel is becoming ignited. Where small coal or
dusty fuel is used I may form small protecting lugs or projections over or adjacent
to the perforations pp for the purpose of preventing the entry of same into the
poker P.
The above described firelighter has the following advantages: It is always
ready when required; it can be readily connected to the nearest gas burner; and
it will serve to light any fire without paper or sticks, and hence domestic economy
results; and moreover, after the fire is lit and the proper services of the firelighter
are no longer required, it is well adapted for use as and will in every way discharge
all the functions of an ordinary fire poker.
I would state that I lay no broad claim to lighting domestic fires by the use of
gas, but
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The hereinabove described improved firelighter for use with gas consisting.
essentially of a hollow perforated poker with handle and gas connection, constructed
and arranged substantially as set forth, so as to be adapted for pushing between the
bars of any ordinary domestic fire grate into the midst of the fuel contained in
the grate in the same manner as an ordinary poker, and to rapidly ignite same by
gas jets.
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