An Improved Form of Kindling Wood for Use in Lighting Fires.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 9th May, 1894-Accepted, 9th June, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Form of Kindling Wood for Use in Lighting Fires.
CHARLES JACKSON South Works Lawn Lane Vauxhall Park London S.W.
Builder do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
I take any number of cleft or sawn sticks of wood, space these a certain
distance apart and connect same by affixing transversely a piece or pieces of
wood, metal, fire clay, or other material. I call this a frame. I manufacture
another frame in a similar manner and interpose the two, thereby forming a
trestle, I connect the two frames either in a fixed position or so that the same
may be folded one within the other and form a trestle when opened out.
Dated this 17th day of March 1894.
CHAS. JACKSON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Form of Kindling Wood for Use in Lighting Fires.
1, CHARLES JACKSON, of South Works, Lawn Lane, Vauxhall Park, in the
County of Surrey, Builder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
My invention has for its object an improved fire lighter constructed of wood
or other inflammable material so that conl or the like placed upon it and
supported by it does not impede its rapid combustion.
In the construction of my improved fire lighter I take any number of cleft
or sawn sticks of wood, space these a certain distance apart and connect same
by affixing transversely a piece or pieces of wood, metal, fire clay or other
material. I call this a frame. I then manufacture another frame in a similar
manner and interpose the two, thereby forming a trestle. I connect the two frames
either in a fixed position or so that the same may be folded one within the other
and form a trestle when opened out.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood and carried
into practice I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the
accompanying drawings, of which Fig. is a perspective view of a fire lighter
constructed according to my invention, and Fig. 2 a plan of one of the two
frames used in the construction thereof.
.
The frames A. of which two are used in the construction of each fire lighter
are formed by glueing or otherwise attaching a bar a of wood, metal, fire clay
or other suitable material across a number of cleft or sawn sticks b arranged
parallel to one another at a suitable distance apart.
The two frames A are theu interposed so that they form together a trestle as
shown in Fig. 1 and when so interposed may be either rigidly secured by glueing
or otherwise attaching a bar c of wood or other material across them or hinged
together by driving a nail through each pair of end sticks d d' or in any other
suitable manner so that the frames forming each fire lighter may be folded one
within the other when the fire lighter not required for use.
When found desirable the whole or any portion of the fire lighter constructed
as above described may be conted with rosiu or other highly inflammable substance
in order that it may be more easily ignited.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
.claim is :-
The construction of fire lighters in the form of trestles substantially as described
-and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 0th day of M. 1904
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.