Improved Manufacture of Firelighters.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 1st Aug., 1894-Accepted, 1st Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by the Firm of M. M. ROTTEN, of Schiffbauer-
damm 29*, Berlin, in the Empire of Germany.]
Improved Manufacture of Firelighters.
I. CHARLES DENTON ABEL, of No. 28 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane,
in the County of London, Consulting Engineer and Chartered Patent Agent, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In using firelighters made of combustible materials, such as small coal, wood
refuse and the like, with or without the addition of binding materials, it is essential
that they should be so introduced into the fuel to be ignited that the air shall have
free access thereto, and that consequently they shall not be too closely surrounded
by the fuel. The present invention relates to an improved manufacture of fire-
lighters in which a sufficient supply of air is insured by making them with a hollow
base, which forms an air passage or air passages passing through the firelighter. As
however such hollow firelighters, when made of two or more pieces, would easily
split to pieces in the fire and consequently prevent the further access of air, they
are, according to the essential feature of the present invention, moulded of a single
piece by pressure. Such firelighters have no tendency to split and collapse, so that
the air passages remain free.
The configuration of such firelighters may be greatly varied, thus they may be
of a circular, elliptical rectangular, polygonal, or other form, with one or more air
passages running through them at the underside.
Dated this 20th day of November 1893.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improved Manufacture of Firelighters.
I, CHARLES DENTON ABEL, of No. 28 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane,
in the County of London, Consulting Engineer and Chartered Patent Agent, 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 :-
In using firelighters made of combustible materials, such as small coal, wood
refuse and the like, with or without the addition of binding materials, it is essential
that they should be so introduced into the fuel to be ignited that the air shall have
free access thereto, and that consequently they shall not be too closely surrounded
by the fuel.
The present invention relates to an improved manufacture of firelighters in
which a sufficient supply of air is insured by making them with a hollow base,
which forms an air passage or air passages passing through the firelighter. As
however such hollow firelighters when made of two or more pieces would easily
split to pieces in the fire and consequently prevent the further access of air, they
are, according to the essential feature of the present invention, moulded of a single
piece by pressure. Such firelighters have no tendency to split and collapse, so that
the air passages remain free.

page_text: The configuration of such firelighters may be greatly varied, thus they may be
of a circular, elliptical, rectangular, polygonal or other form, with one or more air
passages running through them at the underside:.
On the accompanying drawing are shewn at Figs. 1 to 10 a number of different
forms of firelighters constructed according to the said invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
Firelighters composed of combustible material pressed in the form of a solid
block having a concave or hollowed bottom surface, substantially as described.
Dated thi 1nt do.. £ Aura 1904
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.