An Improved Fire Kindler.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 28th Oct., 1889-Accepted, 30th Nov., 1889
PROVISIONAL, SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fire Kindler.
I, OTTO POTH of Elberfeld Rhenish Prussia, Germany Merchant do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a new means for kindling the fire in stoves, hearths and
other household fire places. My new fire kindler which I call " cap kindler" is so
constructed and composed of such materials that it may be used with or without any
other primary kindling material, such as shavings, wood chippings and the like for
which it then serves as a guard to prevent their being extinguished by the coals placed
over it.
It is made by preference of turf which being formed in flat discs at first is then
placed in a press to receive a cup shape or the shape of a half hollow ball. Holes
being pressed into this shell at various places to sorve as draught holes or flues.
Instead of turf any other natural or artificial inflammable material of similar
nature may be used, such as used out tan bark or saw dust mixed with tar or
rosin.
After these "cap kindlers" have been dried, they are ready for use.
Shavings or wood chippings are placed on the grate and set on fire, the cap
kindler put over it and this is then covered all round with coals.
In consequence
of the draught holes the primary kindling material will burn lively below the cap
kindler, the fire blazing through the holes and setting the coal on fire, at the same
time will light the cap kindler itself and so a good fire will arise below the coals
which will not be extinguished again by the combustible over it.
Dated this 6th day of February 1889.
KARL J MAYER,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fire Kindler.
1, OTTO POTH of Elberfeld, Rhonish Prussia Germany, Merchant 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:-
My invention relates to a special form of fire kindler, which I call "cap kindler"
and which I produce in two variations, so that it may be used together with a primary
kindler, such as wood chopped in small pieces or any of the means known hitherto
for kindling the fire which may be brought in a small compass, or I produce it in such
a form that no such primary kindler will be required and that the kindler cap is
altogether self contained.
For kindling the fires in stoves, hearths and the like small pieces of wood, shavings,
tanning bark or also specially prepared small briquettes made of saw dust mixed with
tar or rosin are used.
One or other of these primary kindling materials is placed on the grate and the
coals put over it and the lower material set on fire. Unfortunately it very often
happens that the kindling material burns away gradually without lighting the
coals, or the coals falling on the poorly burning kindlers extinguish these again.
Now my kindler cap hinders the latter possibility and allows that itself and the
primary kindling material, if such is used together with it, will be set on fire
thoroughly and intensively, so that it can not be extinguished by the combustible
put over it, but that this must be set on fire without fail.

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2 is a plan of the disc.
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3 is a vertical section of a kindior cap.
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4 is a plan of the same.
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5 shows the kindler cap in uso on a grate.
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6 is a section through a combined disc.
7 is a modified form of a combined disc.
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8 is a section through a combined cap after fig. 6.
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9 is a plan of the same.
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10 is a section through a cap
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11 shows the combined kindler cap in use on a grate.
For making my kindler cap 1 uso natural or artificial material having the quality
of burning easily and capable of being shaped in the desired form and having a
certain consistency in a dry state. prefer to use turf, but artificial materials such
as a combination of saw dust and tar or rosin may answer the purpose.
Of this material I form discs A of about 5 inches in diameter and about of an
inch thick (fig. 1 & 2) so that under a suitable press they can be pressed into the
cup shaped form of a nearly half round hollow ball B (fig. 3); at the same time
when giving them the cup shape, I press the holes C through the material and then
I let them dry on the air when the kinder cap is ready for use.
The variation shown by figs. 6-11 differs from that described and shown by
figs. 1-5 only in so far that here on one side of the dise D, I place a layer E of
specially prepared saw dust and rosin to make it more inflammable.
This layer inay
either be placed flush upon the disc (fig. 6) or the dise may be made with a
depression or countersink into which the layer of saw dust and rosin may ba embedded,
fig. 7.
From the so prepared discs 1 shape the cups or calottes For F figs, 8, 10 & 11
with the holes H and I respectively in them as described above.
After being dried, if necessary, those dises are then ready for use as shown by
fig. 11.
The kindler caps described are used as follows:
A little shaving, small wood or also pieces of the saw dust and rosin briquettes, that
are small enough to be covered entirely by the kindler cap are placed on the grate of
a stove or hearth and are lighted, the kindler cap is then placed over thom ; when
the holes in it serving as flues or chimneys allow the fire under it to burn and coals
are put over it. The kindlor cap thus guarding the fire bolow it from being extin-
guished, whereas in the contrary the coals will be gradually set on fire by the flame
blazing out of the holes; but being made of inflammable material the cap itself will
be sot on fire and so under the conls a good fire is kept on, which by blazing at first
through the holes, and then when the kindler cap itself is in flames will, without fail,
set on fire the coals.
The modified form of the kindler cap shown by figs. 6-11 is used and acts exactly
the same way. It has that advantage over the first, that being provided with the
layer of tar or rosin and saw dust at its inside, it can be lighted direct without the
use of a primary kindling material or slavings, small briquettos and the like.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1) The kindler cap consisting and boing made of a natural or artificial inflammable
mutorial such as turf or a combination of saw dust with tar or rosin, or of usod out
tan with tar or rosin, capable of being formed into cup shape or into the half of a
hollow ball and provided with the draught holes C. (figs. 1-6).
2) The kindlor cap described and shown consisting and being made of a natural

page_text: inflammable material such as turf, formed in flat discs, partly covered on one side with
a layer of a combination of a more inflammable material, tar, rosin or a combination
of such with saw dust and being formed in cup shape and provided with the draught
holes H or I (fig. 6-12), all substantially as set forth.
Dated this 30th day of September 1889.
ДАЛИ Г. МA I UN,
Agent for O. Poth.