IMPROVEMENTS IN PRE- PARING AND COMBINING MATERIALS USED IN LIGHTING OR KINDLING FIRES
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Edwards, of 1, Single Street, Canal Road,
Mile End Road, London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRE-
PARING AND COMBINING MATERIALS USED IN LIGHTING OR KINDLING FIRES."
Scaled the 10th September 1858, and dated the 15th March 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Edwards at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
15th March 1858.
I, RICHARD EDWARDS, of 1, Single Street, Canal Road, Mile End Road,
London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN PREPARING AND COMBINING MATERIALS USED IN LIGHTING OR KINDLING
FIRES," to be as follows:-
Whereas the fire-lighters constructed in the manner described in the Specifi-
cation of Letters Patent, granted to me on the 29th of February 1840, No. 8405,
have been found liable to be destroyed by falling to picces in being carried
from place to place, and also to separate too speedily on being lighted, front
the burning of the string or other material holding their component parts.
together. Now, my present improvements consist in remedying these defects
by passing a string or other flexible material through or within the substance
of one or more of the component parts of the fire-lighter, and also in stamping
my name or some other words or device upon the substance of the wood

page_text: simultaneously, and in one operation with the action of compressing the com-
ponent parts of the fire-lighter, by means of sunk or raised letters or other
devices on one or both the compressing parts of the machine.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Edwards in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
15th September 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD.
EDWARDS, of 1, Single Street, Canal Road, Mile End Road, London, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Richard Edwards, Her special licence that I, the said Richard
Edwards, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Richard Edwards, 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 Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN PREPARING AND COMBINING MATERIALS USED IN LIGHTING OR KINDLING
FIRES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard Edwards,
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 immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Edwards, 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) :-
My Invention relates to certain improvements upon the construction of that
kind of fire-lighters for which Letters Patent were granted to me on the 29th
of February 1840, No. 8405. Experience has proved that the fire-lighters
described in the Specification of the Patent above referred to are liable to fall

page_text: to pieces whilst being conveyed from place to place, and also to undergo too
rapid a separation of parts on being lighted, in consequence of the burning of
the string or other material holding them together. Now, my present improve-
ments have for their object on the one hand to remedy these defects, by
passing a string or other flexible material through or within the substance of
one or more of the component parts of each fire-lighter; and on the other
hand, to distinguish the fire-lighters thus constructed from other fire-lighters by
stamping my name or some other words, mark, or device upon the substance
of the wood, simultaneously and in one operation with the action of com-
pressing the component parts of each fire-lighter by means of sunk or raised
letters or other devices on one or both the compressing parts of the machine
of which I make use in the manufacture of my improved fire-lighters.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Edwards, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
RICHARD EDWARDS. (L.S.)