FIRE LIGHTERS
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Sept., 1887
Complete Left, 16th Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 20th Apr., 1888
I JAMES MEIKLE EGLIN Warehouseman, 370 Great Western Road, Glasgow
Lanarkshire do hereby declare the nature of my invention for FIRE LIGHTERS to be
as follows:-
My new Fire Lighter consists of a cylinder or box of any convenient shape or size
made of iron or steel wire netting, or of perforated metal, either cast or maleable,
with cast or maleable metal ends held together by a bolt or bolts or other most suitable
fastening. The interior of the Cylinder or box is filled with an indestructable,
material, such as that known as Mineral Cotton, Asbestos, or other substance, capable
of absorbing and retaining, mineral or burning oils. A handle is attached with flange,
which also regulates the length which the fire lighter can be inserted into the grate
between the bars, and acts as a lid for oil can. A shield is also provided fitting closely
to fire lighter for extinguishing flames on its being withdrawn from fire.
An
Contember 1887

page_text: I, JAMES MEIKLE EGLIN, Warehouseman, 370 Great Western Road, Glasgow, 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:-
My new fire lighter consists of a box or cage of any convenient shape or size,
made of iron or steel wire gauze or netting, or of perforated metal either cast or
malleable with cast or malleable ends held together by a bolt or bolts or other most
suitable fastening.
The interior of the box or cage is filled with an indestructible material such as that
known as mineral cotton, asbestos or slag wool or other fibrous substance capable of
absorbing and retaining any mineral or burning oil.
A handle is attached with a flange which regulates the distance that the fire lighter
can be inserted into the grate between the bars and which also acts as a lid for the oil
can. A shield is provided to fit closely on the fire lighter for extinguishing flames
on its being withdrawn from the fire.
My improved fire lighter may be made of various forms but I hereunto append a
sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred to and showing a simple and
convenient modification.
Figure, 1, of the accompanying drawings is an elevation of the oil can and fire
lighter combined. Figure, 2, is an elevation showing the fire lighter as having placed
on it the flame extinguishing shield. Figure, 3, is an elevation as at right angles to
figure, 2, of the fire lighter itself; and figure, 4, is a transverse section of the same.
In these drawings the same reference numerals are used to mark the same or like parts
wherever they are repeated.
In carrying out my Invention I bend or shape iron or steel wire gauze, 5, so as to
enclose a chamber or space of a form allowing of the fire lighter being conveniently
inserted between the front bars of an ordinary domestic fire grate. The interior of
this chamber is filled with asbestos, 6, or other suitable known incombustible substance
capable of absorbing paraffin oil or other known hydrocarbon oil. The ends of the
chamber are closed by metal end pieces or covers, 7, 8, one 7, of which is, shaped so
as to act as a lid to the can or receptacle, 9, which holds the paraffin oil with which
the asbestos, 6, is to be saturated; and this end, 7, also serves for preventing the fire
lighter from being thrust too far into the fire grate. The other cover, 8, which is, by
preference perforated, is of the form of the chamber and has a flanged lip which
surrounds the outer edge of the wire gauze, 5. The two covers, 7, 8, are held in
position by a bolt, 10, forming part of a handle, 11, and extending through holes in
the covers to the outer side of the cover, 8, where it is secured by a nut, 12. A
shield, 13, is provided into which the fire lighter can be inserted to extinguish
the flames if it has been withdrawn from the fire before the paraffin oil has
burned out.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
In combination as a fire lighter,-a cage filled with asbestos or incombustible fibrous
material and made of a shape to be inserted between the bars of a domestic fire grate,
a handle fixed to the cage, an end disk to prevent the fire lighter from being thrust
too far into a fire grate and serving as a lid to a can for containing the fire lighter
and oil, and a shield or extinguisher to fit on the cage and put out flame, substantially
as hereinbefore described.
000
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.