An Improved Fire-lighter, Serving also as Fuel.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Nov., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 14th Mar., 1890-Accepted 19th Apr., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by E. DEMAGNIN and LEON BOURDIER, both of 13, rue
Aubert, Paris, France.]
An Improved Fire-lighter, Serving also as Fuel.
I, ERNEST DE PASS, of 68 Fleet Street, in the City of London, Fellow of the
Institute of Patent Agents, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows --
The object of this invention is the production of a fire-lighter which will also serve
as fuel. It consists of a combination of Petroleum, Soap, Saltpetre, and Sawdust
mixed together in any suitable proportions. A fire-lighter is thus obtained which
will immediately ignite on the application of a lighted match, and which when
burning will give out sufficient heat to cause the combustion of not only logs of hard
wood, but also of any kind of coal used for heating purposes. The fire-lighter may
be made of any size and form suitable for its required use. On account of its cheap
initial cost, and the degree of heat evolved by it, as well as the duration of its
combustion, this fire-lighter is thus rendered capable of being advantageously used
as fuel.
Dated this 9th dow of Namba 1000
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fire-lighter, Serving also as Fuel.
I, ERNEST DE PASS, formerly of No. 68, but now of No. 78 Fleet Street, in
the City of London, Fellow of the Institute of Patent Agents, 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,
that is to say :-
The object of this Invention is the production of a fire-lighter which will also serve
as fuel. It consists of a combination of Petroleum, Soap, Saltpetre, and Sawdust,
mixed together in any suitable proportions, say, in approximately equal proportions,
the soap being employed to solidify the petroleum. A fire-lighter is thus obtained
which will immediately ignite on the application of a lighted match, and which, when
burning, will give out a sufficient heat to cause the combustion of not only logs of
hard wood, but also of any kind of coal used for heating purposes.
The fire-lighter 'may be made of any size and form suitable for its required purpose.
On account of its cheap initial cost and the degree of heat evolved by it, as well as
the duration of its combustion, this fire-lighter is thus rendered capable of being
advantageously used as fuel.
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To use the fire-lighter as fuel for household purposes or for steam engines, the soap
is added to the petroleum in varying relative quantities according to the degree of
caloric to be produced; or else the fuel may be composed of petroleum, Soap, Salt-
petre and Peat, in approximately equal quantities; or the fuel may be composed of
Petroleum, Soap, Sawdust or Peat. The product thus obtained may be coloured by
the addition of bone black, or its equivalent, or of any other suitable dyeing
material.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I claim :-
The improved fire-lighter serving also as fuel, and consisting in the combination
of Petroleum, which is solidified by means of Soap, to which may be added either
Saltpetre and Sawdust, or Saltpetre and Peat, or only Sawdust or Peat, and which
may be coloured by means of bone-black, or its equivalent, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 14th day of March 1890.
ERNEST DE PASS.