Improvements in Igniting Compositions for Safety Matches.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 9th July, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 9th Apr., 1895-Accepted, 11th May, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Igniting Compositions for Safety Matches.
I, HERMAN PRIESTER, of Lauenburg, Pomerania, in the Empire of Germany,
Match Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to an improved igniting composition for safety matches.
The odour of sulphurous acid gas which often becomes quickly perceptible when
a safety match is struck is most disagreeable to many persons and it is further well
known that this gas, when present in large volume, as may be the case in public
places in which the consumption of matches is considerable, has an injurious and
destructive action upon coloured decorations, wall paintings and the like.
The attempts hitherto made to prepare igniting composition for safety matches
which should be free from sulphur and should at the same time burn well have
generally failed, sulphur being usually employed in the proportion of from six to
twelve per centum.
The object of this invention is to prepare an igniting composition for safety
matches free from sulphur and this I advantageously do by substituting for the
sulphur certain materials such as shellac, starch, or sugar of milk.
My improved igniting composition is advantageously composed of the following
ingredients in the following proportions.
Binding material (alue or gum) dissolved in water - 10 ner cont
I, HERMAN PRIESTER, of Lauenburg, Pomerania, in the Empire of Germany,
Match Manufacturer, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved igniting composition for safety matches.
The odour of sulphurous acid gas which often becomes quickly perceptible when a
safety match is struck is most disagreeable to many persons and it is further well
known that this gas, when present in large volume, as may be the case in public
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page_text: places in which the consumption of matches is considerable, has an injurious and
destructive action upon coloured decorations, wall paintings and the like.
The attempts hitherto made to prepare igniting composition for safety matches
which should be free from sulphur and should at the same time burn well have
generally failed, sulphur being usually employed in the proportion of from six to
twelve per centum.
The object of this invention is to prepare an igniting composition for safety
matches free from sulphur and this I advantageously do by substituting for the
sulphur certain materials such as shellac, Botany Bay gum (acaroid-harz) starch
or sugar of milk. The igniting heads so prepared are absolutely devoid of smell
during combustion.
My improved igniting composition is advantageously composed of the following
ingredients in about the following proportions.
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 employment in lieu of sulphur in the preparation of igniting composition
for safety matches of shellac, Botany Bay gum, sugar of milk or starch which has
not been boiled or reduced to a mucilaginous state, substantially as hereinbefore
described.
2. The improved igniting composition for safety matches formed by mixing
together the herein mentioned ingredients in about the proportions set forth.
Dated the 9th day of April 1895.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.