A Petroleum Fire Lighter.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 31st May, 1889-Accepted, 20th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Petroleum Fire Lighter.
I, JOSHUA BEWICK of Carr Street Hebburn-on-Tyne in the County of Durham
Ironmonger, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of an improved fire-lighter for lighting fires without paper
or sticks.
It consists of an iron ladle or pan having a handle sufficiently long to enable it to
be held with safety by anyone using it. The bowl or pan must pass between the bars
of a grate but may be round, oval, oblong or of any preferred shape. It is filled with
asbestos, and covered with metallic wire gauze or woven wire of suitable mesh. A
small quantity of petroleum oil is poured on the asbestos and. a light applied when a
strong flame is produced sufficient to ignite coal.
DJA: 22nd of November 1000
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, E.C., Patent Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Petroleum Fire-lighter.
I, JOSHUA BEWICK of Carr Street Hebburn-on-Tyne in the County of Durham,
Ironmonger, 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 is designed to supply an improved indestructible fire-lighter, capable
of lighting ordinary coal fires without the use of paper and sticks, whereby much time
and trouble are saved.
It consists of a shallow steel or iron pan, ladle or scoop, having a handle of sufficient
length to enable it to be held with safety when alight, at a moderate distance from the
person using it.
The pan or bowl must be of suitable size to pass between the bars of a grate or
stove. It may be of any preferred shape as for instance round oval oblong or other-
wise or may be formed of two or more pans or troughs connected together. These
pans or troughs may be connected to a small reservoir for the petroleum which can be
attached to the handle or placed on that part of the lighter which is outside the grate
or stove. Being so arranged it is obvious that it may also be used to stand on a hob
and heat a saucepan or other cooking utensil.
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The inside of the pan is filled with asbestos, or other suitable non-combustible
substance, to form a wick for the oil. Over the wick is placed a cover formed of iron
bars, or wires or perforated metal or woven wire, or of bars and wires combined, in
order to protect the wick and support the coals which may fall or rest upon it.
plain lid may be added if preferred to exclude dust when the lighter is not in use.
A small quantity of petroleum oil or other hydro carbon being allowed to flow on
and saturate the asbestos, and a light being applied, a strong flame is produced,
sufficient to ignite coal or boil water.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 shows a fire-lighter having a pan with round back. Fig. 2 shows a plan of
an elongated straight sided pan, with rounded corners. Fig. 3 shows a sectional side
view of the same.
A is the pan or trough B is the wire cover C is a cover of small bars D is the
sloping front E is the handle.

page_text: Having now particularly described and in what manner the same is to be performed,
I declare that what I claim is ;-
1. A petroleum fire-lighter consisting of an open pan trough or hollow receptacle,
made of any convenient shape or size, and with a handle as described, and having a
wired or perforated cover either fixed or movable, and with or without an external lid,,
which together form a case for the reception of asbestos or other fire resisting material
for the purposes herein described and set forth.
2. The method of burning petroleum or other oil by means of saturated asbestos or
other incombustible material in shallow pans troughs or hollow receptacles constructed
of the materials and in the manner herein described.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, London, E.C., Patent Agent.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, London, E.C., Patent Agent.