An Improved Fire Lighter and the Machinery for Manufacturing same.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 7th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 1st Mar., 1890.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
An Improved Fire Lighter and the Machinery for Manufacturing
same.
EDWARD LUKE STACEY Engineer 109 Park Street Camden Town do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This lighter to be made of wood or any other combustible material & coated with
rosin oil, tar or by any mixture of such material as may be necessary to ensure com-
bustion. It is made in the form of a fork with prongs tapering from a base & cut
from boards in various sizes & thicknesses.
The machinery for producing same is comprised of revolving spindle to which is
attached a number of circular saws or cutters. An adjustable frame is so arranged to
hold the wood & bring it into contact with the saws by which means every piece of
wood produces two lighters of the aforesaid description.
7th March 1889
EDWARD LUKE STACEY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fire Lighter and the Machinery for Manufacturing
same.
I, EDWARD LUKE STACEY Engineer 109 Park Street Camden Town N.W. 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 :-
My Invention relates
1st. To Improved Fire Lighters.
2nd. The manner of producing same.
3rd. Mechanical appliances to machinery by which the lighters are manufactured.
For giving a better description of my inventions I annex drawings.
Fig. 1. represents a "plate" with slots after first contact with saws.
Fig. 2. represents the "plate" divided into two parts after a second contact with
saws.
Fig. 3. represents two Lighters intersecting but drawn a little apart.
Figs. 4 & 5. represent perforated sawbench tops with adjustable frames for holding
the "plates" in their various positions.
Fig. 6. represents a Saw spindle & fittings, with six circular saws, and the under
side of the perforated sawbench top.
To produce the Lighters aforesaid, 1 take "plates" of wood, or of any other com-
bustible material, or compounds suitable for the purpose of fire lighting, & by placing
them in the adjustable frame (Fig. 4) & bringing them in contact with the circular
saws as shown in (Fig. 6). Slots, or perforations, are made in the plates, as represented
in (Fig. 1). By reversing the frame as (Fig. 5) & again bringing the saws into
operation, other slots or perforations are made as in (Fig. 2) & the "plate" is thereby
divided into two parts, thereby producing two separate lighters as shown in
(Fig. 3).
The "plates" may be of various forms sizes & thickness but "plates" six inches
square, by inch or inch thick, are a very suitable size for fire-lighting & also con-
venient for packing, but by enlarging the frame & additional saws to the spindle, the
lighters may be produced with any number of bars.
This form of lighter gives perfect combustion, as the spaces between the bars, being
equal to the surface of the bars themselves, allows currents of air to circulate in all
directions, & also acts as a platform, on which coal & other material may rest, for
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page_text: quick ignition. To ensure quick ignition & certain combustion the lighters may be
coated, either wholly, or partially, with resin, oils, pitch &c. or with any combustible
compound suitable for the purpose.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, & in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
First. Improved Fire lighters manufactured from wood, composition or any other
suitable material as described & their special advantages for packing, & economy of
space in storing.
2nd. The respective methods & arrangements by which the lighters are produced.
3rd. The application of a movable frame to the perforated saw-bench top, & the
manner in which it is applied for the production of Fire lighters, or any other articles
of the same shapes or forms.
Dated this Sixth day of December 1889.
EDWARD LUKE STACEY.