A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT OR CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS OR PART OR PARTS OF APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING INSTANTANEOUS LIGHT
Year: 1832

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
JONES, of the Strand, in the Parish of Saint Clement Danes, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twentieth day of November, in the third year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the sail
Samuel Jones, His especial licence, sole privilege and authority, that. I, the said
Samuel Jones, my executors, administrators, or assigns, or such others as I,'
the said Samuel Jones, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to tim, and at all times during
the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT OR CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS OR PART OR PARTS OF APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING INSTANTANEOUS
LIGHT;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said
Samuel Jones, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately, after
the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear..

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Samuel Jones, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, are particularly described and
ascertained by the following description thereof, that is to say:―
My Invention of a certain Improvement or certain Improvements in Appa-
ratus or Part or Parts of Apparatus for Producing Instantaneous Light,"
applies to the mode or manner of making, manufacturing, or constructing of
the matches to be used for producing instantaneous light, which said improved
matches may be ignited by dipping the prepared ends in sulphuric acid con-
tained in a bottle, as in common use, or they may be ignited by friction
produced by drawing the prepared end of the match between the rough
surfaces of a piece of sand, glass, or emery paper, or in contact with any rough
surface or body, which will produce sufficient friction to cause the combustion;
and further, my said matches are intended to burn with a blaze or flame similar
to such as are used to light candles, or to burn with a slow or smouldering fire
as fuzees for the purpose of lighting cigars, pipes, &c., and consist, first, in con-
structing, making, or forming the matches out of strips of cotton, linen, hemp,
flax, tow, or other fibrous materials previously wove into cloth or tape, or what
is commonly called inkle, or from threads of linen, flax, or tow twisted or com-
bined together, which strips of cloth, tape or inkle, or combined threads, are to
be covered or saturated with a coating of wax, rosin, spermacetti, tallow, or any
compound of them which will burn with a blaze or flame, and answer the
purpose intended. The tapes or strips of cloth or combined threads may be
saturated or coated with the composition by drawing them through a quantity
of such inflameable material in a liquid state placed in a vessel, or in may be
applied to the tapes or cloth or combined threads by hand with a brush or in any
other convenient manner. The tapes or strips of cloth or combined threads
being thus previously prepared with the inflameable material are to be cut
into suitable lengths required for the matches, and their ends primed or
charged with a composition of chlorate or potash compounded or mixed with
antimony in combination with sulphur (commonly called or known by the name
of sulphurate of antimony), or such other chemical compound as will ignite
by friction and answer the purpose, which said compound of cholorate of
potash and sulphurate of antimony is to be mixed with mucellage of gums,
flour, starch, or glue, to render it sufficiently tenacious so as to adhere on to
the ends of the strips of cloth or tapes or combined threads, which ends may
or may not be previously prepared for the compound by dipping them in hot
liquid sulphur, as may seem requisite. These matches are intended to b
ignited by drawing the prepared end between two surfaces of sand paper, &c.

page_text: as before stated.
Secondly, in making or inanufacturing matches out of strips
of paper, strips of cotton or linen cloth, or tape or inkle, or from threads of
linen, hemp, flax, or tow combined, alsó from strips or pieces of wood, scale-
board, or shavings, all which said materials are to be saturated with a solution
of nitrate or chlorate. of potash, or any other chemical composition which will
cause them when ignited to burn with a slow or smoldering fire as fugees.
The materials, either before or after being prepared with the solution of nitrate
or chlorate of potash, are to be cut into proper lengths for the matches, and
when prepared with the solution the ends are to be charged or primed with
the foregoing compound of chlorate of potash and sulphurate of antimony, or
any other chemical compound or composition which will ignite by friction, as
before stated, and which matches, when so ignited, will not continue to blaze,
but burn with a slow or smouldering fire as fuzees. And thirdly, in making
or manufacturing of matches from strips of wood, scaleboard, or shavings, or
strips of wood, scaleboard, or shavings covered with paper, which said materials
are to be saturated with a solution of nitrate or chlorate of potash, or any other
chemical composition which will cause them to burn with a slow or smouldering
fire as fuzees, which saturation may be effected either before or after the mate-
rials are cut into strips of the convenient size for matches. The ends of the
matches are then charged or primed with a composition or compound of chlorate
of potash mixed with camphor, sulphur, inflameable gums or rosins, farinaceous
powders, powder produced from fungi, woods, bark, or vegetable fibre, or with.
vegetable sugars, and prepared or compounded with mucillagé, as above,
described, and in such proportions as will be found most convenient, or with
any such other chemical compound as will ignite when brought in contact
with sulphuric acid.
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Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do not mean or.
intend to claim as my Invention any of the within-named chemical compounds
or compositions, nor do I claim the use of cotton thread or yarns in the
making of my improved matches, except when woven into cloth; tape, or inkle.
But I do hereby claim as my Invention,-
First, the making or manufacturing matches from strips of cloth or tape or
inkle, formed or woven from threads of cotton, linen, hemp, flax, tow, or other
fibrous material, or from threads of linen, flax, hemp, or tow twisted or combined
together, which said materials are to be saturated or coated with the inflamable
composition, as before stated, to burn with a flame or blaze, and to be charged
or primed so as to be ignited by friction.
Secondly, in making or manufacturing matches from strips of of paper, cotton,