IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING FIRE FOR SMOKERS
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Gabriel Benda, of Basinghall Street, in the
City of London, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
Sealed the 16th April 1853, and dated the .19th October 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Gabriel Benda at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 19th October 1852.
I, GABRIEL BENDA, of Basinghall Street, in the City of London,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING FIRE FOR SMOKERS" to be as
follows:-
Figure 1, is an external elevation of the apparatus in its complete.
state. Figure 2, an internal elevation. Figures 3, and 4, detached
views of parts. The body of the apparatus is composed of two parts,
A, and B. A, contains a reserve of prepared paper, linen, or other
suitable material, carrying at intervals spots of phosphorous or other
like combustible substance. C, is a wheel with teeth or projections,
worked by a stud a, on the outside of the case A. D, is a guide piece;
one end serves to keep the reserve of paper from the wheel, while the

page_text: other forms a point of resistance on which the prepared paper may be
supported while fire is being obtained. B, forms a cover to the case A.
E, Fig. 3, is a collar, which being slipped over the neck of the two
cases keeps them together. F, Fig. 4, is a cover for the mouth of
the case, and forms a neat finish to the apparatus; it is roughened on
its outer end. When fire is required the cover E, is taken off; a
portion of the paper is made to protrude by turning the stud and
wheel, and fire is obtained by striking the prepared paper with the
top of the cover against the end of the guide piece D.
Any surplus of paper can be withdrawn into the case by turning the
wheel in the reverse direction.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Gabriel Benda in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 19th April 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
GABRIEL BENDA, of Basinghall Street, in the City of London, Merchant,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the sixteenth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Gabriel Benda, Her special licence
that I, the said Gabriel Benda, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Gabriel Benda, my 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 APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING FIRE FOR SMOKERS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Gabriel Benda, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain

page_text: the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be 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 I, the said Gabriel Benda, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawing
hereunto annexed (that is to say):
My Invention consists, first, in causing fusees used for lighting
cigars and pipes to burn with a flame, and, second, in a case for holding
and protruding ignitible material. I take a long strip of linen, paper,
or other suitable substance, prepared with the composition usually
employed in the manufacture of fusees. Fusees as ordinarily prepared
do not afford a flame; now, in order to make them burn with a flame,
I attach to one side of such fusee a strip of linen or other like suitable
material, saturated with wax, sperm, or a solution of caoutchouc, or of
other highly inflammable composition. I insert strips of fusees thus
prepared, and capable of burning with a flame, in an apparatus of
which Figure 1, is an external elevation, in its complete state; Figure 2,
an internal elevation; Figures 3, and 4, detached views of parts.
The body of the apparatus is composed of two parts, A, and B.
A, contains a reserve of fusee, prepared as aforesaid, or of prepared
paper, linen, or other suitable material, which will ignite on friction
or percussion being applied thereto. C, is a wheel with teeth or
projections, worked by a stud a, on the outside of the case A. D, is
a compensating guide piece, which keeps the paper or fusee against
the wheel while being protruded; it terminates in a flat head at b,
on which the fusee is supported while fire is being obtained. D', is
a guard to prevent the coil of fusee coming against the wheel.
B, forms a cover to the case A. E, (Figure 3,) is a collar, which
being slipped over the neck of the two cases keeps them together.
F, Figure 4, is a cover for the mouth of the case, and forms a neat
finish to the apparatus; it is roughened on its outer end. When fire
is required, the cover F; is taken off, a portion of the fusee or paper is

page_text: inade to protrude. by turning the stud and wheel, and fire is obtained
by striking the prepared paper or fusee with the cover against the end
of the guide piece D. Any surplus of fusee can be withdrawn into
the case by turning the wheel in the reverse direction.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
First, the improvements in fusees herein-before described, whereby
they are capable of burning with a flame, and the making of the same
in long coiled strips.
And, second, the combination of apparatus herein-before described,
that is to say, of a case containing a coil of fusee or other similar
ignitible material, caused to protrude and recede by means of a wheel
or rack, or by any other equivalent means.
In witness whereof, I, the said Gabriel Benda, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of April, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-three.
G. DENDA. (L.S.)