Improvements in Firelighters.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 9th Jan., 1892-Accepted, 13th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Firelighters.
I ALBION SPENCER WADSWORTH of Number 17 Rawling Street, Keighley in
the County of York, Firelighter Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows, that is to say :-
It consists of improvements in the class of firelighter constructed of wood which
is partly soaked in an inflammable liquid and afterwards covered with woody matter
as sawdust, and in accordance with this invention each firelighter is made out of
one piece of wood and in such a manner that all the advantages of a grid-form
firelighter are secured while the disadvantages and the extra cost incurred by the
employment of several pieces of wood that have to be bound together to form these
grids are entirely avoided.
To accomplish this object a solid piece of wood of the desired outside dimensions,
is taken and subjected to the operations of cutters that form longitudinal grooves
or slots through it. These slots being to allow the free passage of the flames or a
current of air as is well understood.
The slots are so formed that cross binding-pieces are left at each extremity of
the piece of wood or in place of the grooves being thus made centrally to have
these binding-pieces at the extremities, they may be made endwise of the wood
commencing at each extremity and approaching the centre in which central position
the cross binding-piece will be left.
Dated this 9th day of April 1891.
A. S. WADSWORTH.
Per Samuel Hey,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Firelighters.
I, ALBION SPENCER WADSWORTH of Number 17 Rawling Street, Keighley in
the County of York, Firelighter 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, that is to say :-
It consists of improvements in that class of firelighter constructed of wood which
is partly soaked in an inflammable liquid and afterwards covered with woody matter,
as sawdust, and in accordance with this invention each firelighter is made out of
one piece of wood and in such a manner that all the advantages of a firelighter of
grid-form are secured while at the same time the disadvantages and extra cost
incurred by the employment of several pieces of wood that are bound together to
form this grid-form firelighter are entirely avoided.
In order that my said invention may be more readily understood I have hereunto
appended a sheet of drawings illustrative of same, to which by figures and letters,
reference is made in the following description.
Fig. 1 is a view of my improved firelighter as seen from beneath.
Figs. 2 and 3 are sectional side and end views respectively of parts shewn by
Fig. 1.
Figs. 4 and 5 are similar views to Fig. 1 but shew modifications hereinafter
referred to.
To attain the object of this invention a solid piece of wood a of the desired outside
dimensions, is taken and subjected to the operations of rotary cutters that form

page_text: longitudinal grooves or slots and through it. These slots band bare to allow
the free passage of the flames or currents of air as is well understood.
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The said slots and are so formed that cross binding-pieces c are left at each
extremity of the piece of wood a or in place of these slots 6 and 6' being thus made
centrally to have these binding pieces at the extremities, they may be made
end wise of the wood see Fig. 4 so that the slots and will be made to
commence at each extremity and approach the centre in which position the binding-
piece e will be left, or again the slots d may be made cross-wise in the wood a as
shewn by Fig. 5.
After the piece of wood is cut or gridded as above described it is subjected to
the well known soaking and covering processes already extensively followed.
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. A firelighter formed as herein described and the method of manufacturing
same substantially as specified.
Detail this 8th low of January 1892