IMPROVEMENTS. IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FIRE LIGHTERS
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Taylor Haycraft, of Salford, in the
County of Lancaster, Fire Light Manufacturer, for the Invention
of “IMPROVEMENTS. IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FIRE LIGHTERS."
Sealed the 19th June 1874, and dated the 22nd December 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Taylor Hay-
craft at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 22nd December 1873.
I, FREDERICK TAYLOR HAYCRAFT, of Salford, in the County of Lan-
caster, Fire Light Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FIRE LIGHTERS,"
to be as follows:-
I take of Venetian red about eight pounds, of saltpetre about one
quarter of a pound, of chromate of potash about one quarter of a
pound, and of rock sulphur about two ounces. These I mix well
together, and of this mixture I add about one teaspoonful to about
twelve ounces of heated resin, mixing therewith about four handsful of ·
sawdust. The mass is then pressed in suitable moulds as required.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederick Taylor Haycraft in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 22nd June 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
TAYLOR HAYCRAFT, of Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Fire Light
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Frederick Taylor Haycraft, Her special
license that I, the said Frederick Taylor Haycraft, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Frederick
Taylor Haycraft, 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FIRE LIGHTERS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Frederick Taylor Haycraft,
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 six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
· NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Frederick Taylor Haycraft, do hereby
declare the nature of my said 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 :-
I take of Venetian red about eight pounds, of saltpetre about one
quarter of a pound, of chromate of potash about one quarter of a.
pound, and of rock sulphur about two ounces. These I mix well.
together, and of this mixture I add about one teaspoonful to about
twelve ounces of heated resin, mixing therewith about four handsful of
sawdust. The mass is then pressed in suitable moulds as required.

page_text: Having now described the nature and particulars of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be
understood that I claim the improvments in the manufacture of fire-
lighters, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Taylor Haycraft, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of June in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
10 Witness,
G. SEPTIMUS HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
FRED. TAYLOR HAYCRAFT. (L.S.)