Improvements in Pocket Apparatus for Lighting Cigars, Pipes, and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 26th July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 12th Mar., 1891-Accepted, 16th May, 1891 ·
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pocket Apparatus for Lighting Cigars, Pipes,
and the like.
1 GEORGE CLEMENT DOWNING of S Quality Court London W.C. Patent
Agent, (a communication from abroad by Jean Jules Him, Manufacturer, Jean
Frederic Bolling Merchant and Willem Reimer Arnold, Gentleman all of Paris,
France) do hereby declare the nature of the said invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in tinder igniting pocket apparatus
operated by compressed air for lighting cigars, pipes and the like. Hitherto
apparatus of this kind had an important defect ciz. the leather of the piston
was dried up in the pocket through the heat of the body and became detached
from the piston whereby the apparatus ceased to operate properly. To remedy
this defect it was necessary to pour some oil upon the leather, which, spreading
over the edges of the leather, oozed out of the apparatus and formed oily spots upon
the clothes of the user. Moreover, the oil used being household oil and con-
sequently acid the metal soon became oxidized and hence rapidly deteriorated.
The object of this invention is to obviate this particular defect, as with this
improved apparatus there is no further need of oiling the piston which is kept in
the lubricated state required to avoid any leakage when the compression takes
place.
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In carrying out this invention a cylindrical metallic tube, or case, is provided in
which a piston operates, and one of the extremities of this tube is hermetically
closed, and covered with a wooden knob, or cap, provided to facilitate the pressure
of the hand. A socket or tubular sleeve is rivetted to the metallic tube to contain
the tinder wick. A plug is fixed to the wick by a small chain, having a hook, and
used to close the upper opening of the sleeve for the purpose of extinguishing the
lighted wick after use. A wooden piston is provided with packing, which is an
important feature of this invention, and is made by winding or coiling upon the
base of the piston a piece of twine of suitable size thickly coated with wax, over a
length of about one inch, more or less, according to the length of the piston.
A cavity or recess formed specially for this purpose upon the base of the piston
contains a pin. This pin when removed from its recess serves to raise, as fast
as it is being consumed, the inflammable substance placed in the bottom of the
piston.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pocket Apparatus for Lighting Cigars, Pipes,
and the like.
A communication from abroad by JEAN JULES HIM, Manufacturer, JEAN
FREDERIC BOLLING, Merchant, and WILLEM REIMER ARNOLD, Gentle-
man, all of Paris, France.
I, GEORGE CLEMENT DOWNING, of 8 Quality Court, London, W.C., Patent
Agent, 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 :-
My invention relates to pneumatic tinder boxes, for the pocket; in which the
heat arising from compressed air is utilised in igniting German tinder, which is
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page_text: then available for lighting cigars, pipes, and the like. Apparatus of this kind, as
usually manufactured, is defective, in consequence of the leather of the piston
becoming dried in the pocket; and detached from the piston, from the heat of the
body. This necessitates the application of oil'to the leather, which oil oozes out
of the apparatus, and soils the clothes of the wearer. Moreover, the oil used
being household oil, and consequently acid, the metal soon oxidises, and rapidly
deteriorates.
Now the object of this invention is to remedy this defect, by forming the piston
in such a manner that there is no need of oiling the piston to avoid leakage, when
the compression takes place.
And in order that my said invention may be particularly described and
ascertained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which
similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section of my invention, and Fig. 2 is a separate view of
the piston.
A is a metallic tube, one end of which is hermetically closed by a plug h, covered
with a wooden knob or cap B, provided to facilitate the pressure of the hand. C is
a tube, soldered or riveted to the tube A, which holds the tinder wick k. A plug D
is hooked to the wick k, which plug is used to close the outer end of the tube C,
and is also used to extinguish the lighted wick k, after use. E is a wooden piston,
formed to fit the tube A. This piston is packed at F by winding or coiling a piece
of twine of suitable size, thickly coated with wax, over a length of about one inch
(more or less) according to the length of the piston. The outer end of the piston E
is bored to receive a pin G, which is used to raise adjust or remove the inflammable
tinder which is placed in the cavity of the piston.
The wick consists of the common tinder, cotton, or other material capable of
smouldering when a spark is applied thereto.
In using the apparatus the piston E is withdrawn from the tube A. to allow the
air to enter. Some German tinder is then placed in the cavity e. The piston is
then replaced in the tube A. and rapidly forced inwards, whereby the air is com-
pressed so as to cause a rapid generation of heat, which ignites the tinder in e.
The piston is then withdrawn, and the burning tinder in the cavity e is applied to
the wick, which renders the same incandescent. The piston E is then replaced
in the tube A to extinguish the tinder in the cavity e.
After lighting the cigar, pipe, or other article, the wick k is extinguished by
replacing the plug D.
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
1. In a pneumatic. tinder box for the purposes aforesaid, the combination
therewith of a piston provided with improved packing, consisting of a piece of
suitable twine F, coated with wax, and coiled upon the head of the piston, sub-
stantially as herein before described and illustrated by the drawings.
2. In a pneumatic tinder box for the purposes aforesaid, the combination
therewith of a pin G, placed in a cavity at the outer end of the piston E, for
use in adjusting the inflammable substance placed in the recess e formed in the
head of the piston, substantially as herein before described and illustrated by
Fig. 1 of the drawings.
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GEORGE C. DOWNING.