THE PREPARATION OF PHOSPHOR FREE' MATCHES, MADE EITHER WITH OR WITHOUT PARAFFIN, STEARINE, OR WAX, WITHOUT THE USE OF PHOSPOR, AND WITHOUT REQUIRING ANY PREPARED SURFACE IN ORDER TO OBTAIN AN INSTANT LIGHT
Year: 1868

page_text: ETTERS PATENT to Adolph Emil Borgen, of No. 28, Corn Exchange
Chambers, Seething Lane, in the City of London, Merchant, for
the Invention of "THE PREPARATION OF PHOSPHOR FREE' MATCHES,
MADE EITHER WITH OR WITHOUT PARAFFIN, STEARINE, OR WAX, WITHOUT
THE USE OF PHOSPOR, AND WITHOUT REQUIRING ANY PREPARED SURFACE
IN ORDER TO OBTAIN AN INSTANT LIGHT."-A communication from
abroad by Ole Christian Green, of Copenhagen, in the Kingdom
of Denmark, Merchant.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Adolph Emil Borgen
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 6th February 1868.
I, ADOLPH EMIL BORGEN, of No. 28, Corn Exchange Chambers,
Seething Lane, in the City of London, Merchant, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "THE PREPARATION OF 'PHOSPHOR
FREE MATCHES, MADE EITHER WITH OR WITHOUT PARAFFIN, STEARINE, OR
WAX, WITHOUT THE USE OF PHOSPOR, AND WITHOUT REQUIRING ANY PREPARED
SURFACE IN ORDER TO OBTAIN AN INSTANT LIGHT," to be as follows:-
The matches now in use called safety matches require a surface
specially prepared in order to obtain an instant light. The "phosphor

page_text: free" match does not require any prepared surface; it is about tho
same price as the matches now in use, and will entirely supersede
the use of phosphor,
The "phosphor free" match is dipped in the usual way in a
preparation of the following ingredients :-
15 to 20 parts plumbum hyper sulphurosum or under sulphuric
acidulated lead;
to 10
"
1
to 2
33
811
to 1
1th to
1 to 2
"
th„,
"
chlorate of potash;
oxide of manganese or mangan-hyper-oxid;
rolling stone from Bornholm, Denmark;
blood stone;
lime, dextrin, or similar binding matter.
In mixing the above-mentioned ingredients care is to be taken not
to mix the chloride of potash dry with any of the other ingredients.
The Inventor does not lay claim to any of the chemicals above
mentioned in the manufacture of the "phosphor free" match, but
only in the manner of applying them as herein described.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Adolph Emil Borgen in the Great Scal Patent
Office on the 6th August 1868,
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ADOLPH
EMIL BORGEN, of 28, Corn Exchange Chambers, Scething Lane, in
the City of London, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirtieth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Adolph Emil Borgen, Her special
licence, that I, the said Adolph Emil Borgen, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others, as I, the said Adolph Emil
Borgen, 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

page_text: make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "THE PREPARATION OF PHOSPHOR-FREE' MATCHES, MADE EITHER WITH
OR WITHOUT PARAFFIN, STEARING, OR WAX, WITHOUT THE USE OF PHOSPOR, AND
WITHOUT REQUIRING ANY PREPARED SURFACE IN ORDER TO OBTAIN AN INSTANT
LIGHT," a communication to me from abroad by Ole Christian Green, of
Copenhagen, in the Kingdom of Denmark, Merchant, upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Adolph Emil Borgen, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the samo 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 Adolph Emil Borgen, do hereby
declare the nature of the said 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 matches now in use callod safety matches require a simple
surface specially prepared in order to obtain an instant light, whereas
matches made according to this Invention do not require to be used
with any prepared surface, and are distinguished from other matches
as being "phosphor free." This match is about the same price as
the matches now in use, and will entirely supersede the use of the
phosphor in the manufacture of matches.
The phosphor free matches are made by dipping them in the usual
way in a preparation composed of the following ingredients:-
Take from 15 to 20 parts of plumbrun hyper-sulphorosum or under
sulphuric acidulated lead, from 8 to 10 parts of chlorato of potash,
from 1 to 2 parts of oxide of manganese or mangan-hyper-oxid, from
1 to one and a half parts of Rollary stone, from Bornholm, in the
Kingdom of Denmark, from one-sixth to one-eighth part of blood
stone, and from 1 to 2 parts of lime, dextrin, or other similar binding
matter.
In mixing together the above-mentioned ingredients, matters, or

page_text: Having now described the; nature of this Invention, and the means
by which it may be carried into practical effect, I desire it to be
understood that I do not claim as of this Invention the use of any
of the ingredients above mentioned in and for the manufacture of
phosphor free matches except when they are employed in combination
as above described.
;
In witness whereof, I, the said Adolph Emil Borgen, have here-
unto set my hand and scal, this Third day of August, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.