IMPROVED MATERIALS FOR KINDLING FIRES.
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine,.
Lake, & Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London,
for the Invention of "IMPROVED MATERIALS FOR KINDLING FIRES.".
A communication from abroad by Daniel Seymour Silcox, of
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Robert Lake
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 1st January 1875.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co.,
Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED MATERIALS FOR KINDLING FIRES,”
a communication, to be as follows:
:-
The Invention relates to materials for kindling fires, and consists in
applying a combustiblo coating to ordinary coal, coke, charcoal, or
charred wood, or fossil coal, or any material of an analogous nature.

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The material having been broken or otherwise reduced to fragments
of suitable size, to wit, nearly or about the size of an ordinary walnut,
is immersed in a heated solution consisting of four (4) parts of resin
and one (1) part of crude turpentine. The pieces having become
thoroughly coated are removed from the solution and rolled in or other-
wise coated with a preparation composed of two (2) parts of pulverized
charcoal, one (1) part of fine sifted coal, and one (1) part of sawdust.
The pieces are then permitted to dry, when they are ready for usc.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Robert Lake in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 17th June 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Robert Lake, Her special
licence that I, the said William Robert Lake, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Robert Lake,
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
"IMPROVED MATERIALS FOR KINDLING FIRES," a communication to me from
abroad by Daniel Seymour Silcox, of Charleston, South Carolina, United
States of America, Gentleman, upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said William Robert Lake, 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 same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within

page_text: six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said. William Robert Lake, 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 :-
This Invention relates to materials for kinding fires, and consists in
applying a combustible coating to ordinary coal, coke, charcoal, or
charred wood, or fossil coal, or any materials of an analogous nature.
The material having been broken or otherwise reduced to fragments
of suitable size, to wit, nearly or- about the size of an ordinary walnut,
is immersed in a heated solution consisting of four (4) parts of resin and
one (1) part of crude turpentine. The pieces having become thoroughly
coated are removed from the solution and rolled in or otherwise coated
with a preparation composed of two (2) parts of pulverized charcoal,
one (1) part of fine sifted coal, and one (1) part of sawdust. The pieces
are then permitted to dry when they are ready for use.
Having thus described the said Invention, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, and the manner of performing the
same, I wish it understood that I do not confine myself to the exact
proportions above given, or limit myself in all cases to the aforesaid
substances, as other substances of like nature will when properly applied
produce a similar result; and I further wish it understood that I
claim,―
First. A kindling material composed of coal coated with an inflam-
mable composition or material.
Second. A kindling material composed of coal or coke, or fossil coal
or charcoal, or charred wood covered with a solution of resin and
turpentine, and coated with charcoal dust, coal dust, and sawdust.
Third. A kindling material in which charcoal dust and coal dust are
used as a coating upon coal, coke, charcoal, fossil coal, or charred
wood.
Fourth. A kindling material composed of coke coated with an inflam-
mable composition or material.
Fifth. A kindling material composed of fossil coal coated with an
inflammable composition or material

page_text: Sixth. A kindling material composed of charcoal coated with an
inflammable composition or material.
Seventh. A kindling material composed of charred wood coated with
an inflammable composition or material.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have 5
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of June, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
Witness,
HY. JA. NoONE.
W. ROBT. LAKE. (L.S.)