New or Improved Manufacture of Combustible Material for Scenting and Medicating the Atmosphere.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 30th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 19th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Manufacture of Combustible Material for Scenting
and Medicating the Atmosphere.
JAMES WHEELER 100 High Street Ilfracombe N. Devon Pharmaceutical
Chemist do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
My improvement consists in the employment of the rind or outer bark of Betula
alba. The bark I employ is reduced to powder and mixed with other suitable
material for forming into fusees, vesuvians, and other forms of pipe and cigar
lights. Also for scenting tobacco and other substances used for burning as also
for the formation of pastilles and candles for odorating and medicating the
atmosphere.
Dated this 29th day of November 1894.
New or Improved Manufacture of Combustible Material for Scenting
and Medicating the Atmosphere.
I, JAMES WHEELER, of 100 High Street, Ilfracombe, in the County of Devon,
Chemist, 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 :-
This invention has reference to the manufacture or production of material for
scenting and medicating the atmosphere.
For this purpose I use in the manufacture of my material, the epidermis or outer
rind of Betula alba or white birch, which, when burnt without flame, has the
property of developing fumes of an antiseptic and odoriferous nature specially
advantageous for fumigating, scenting and medicating the atmosphere.
In carrying out my invention I first separate the epidermis or outer rind of
Betula alba from the inner portion of the bark which may conveniently be done by
steaming the birch bark of commerce until the adhesion of the outer portion or rind
thereof, to the inner portion is sufficiently overcome to allow of its ready separation
from the said inner portion. The steaming may be effected in a vessel or chamber
to which steam at ordinary atmospheric pressure is admitted. The separated rind
is then dried and reduced to powder or to shreds of a suitable degree of fineness
and mixed with other substances to form combustible material that will burn
without flame. When using the separated rind in the form of powder it may
advantageously be reduced to such a degree of fineness that it will pass through a
sieve having say 120 meshes to the square inch.
For the manufacture of vesuvians and other like forms of cigar and pipe lights,
I mix a suitable proportion of the disintegrated rind with the combustible mixture
ordinarily used in the manufacture of these lights. Suitable proportions are for
example five parts by weight of disintegrated rind to three parts by weight of the
said combustible mixture. For the manufacture of cones, pastilles or other bodies

page_text: for burning in the air, or cones, tablets or the like for burning with tobacco in the
bowl of a pipe, for fumigating, medicating or scenting purposes, 1 mix the disin-
tegrated rind with a suitable proportion of some inert or inorganic substance,
preferably ground pumice or fire clay, and a sufficient proportion of an oxygen
carrier, for example nitrate of potash, to adequately support combustion, a suitable
binding agent being added to permit of the mass being moulded to shape. Suitable
proportions for the manufacture of such cones, pastilles or tablets are twelve parts
by weight of the ground rind, two parts by weight of ground pumice, and one part
by weight of ground nitrate of potash, these being mixed together and with
sufficient tragacanth mucilage to form a stiff mass which can then be moulded into
cones or tablets or the like of any desired shape and size.
The said ground rind can also be mixed with lobelia, stramonium, tea, and
nitrate and chlorate of potash, for use in the treatment of asthma. I prepare the
composition in the following manner, the ingredients being used in the proportions
by weight mentioned, or approximately so, viz.:-2 parts of nitrate of potash, and
I part of chlorate of potash are dissolved in 4 parts of boiling water and mixed
intimately with 2 parts of powdered rind, 4 parts of powdered lobelia herb,
4 parts of powdered stramonium leaves, and 3 parts of powdered black tea. These
ingredients are intimately mixed and carefully dried, in which state from half a
teaspoonful or more can be burnt upon a plate; or the mixture after being dried
may be made into a mass with tragacanth paste and moulded into cones or other
shaped bodies to be burnt, for the purpose referred to.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The hereinabove described improved manufacture of combustible material for
scenting or medicating the atmosphere, using the epidermis or outer rind of Betula
alba as set forth for the purpose specified.
2. Utilizing the epidermis or outer rind of Betula alba to produce combustible
material for scenting or melicating the atmosphere as set forth.
Date
For the Applicant,
W. LLOYD WISE,
46 Lincoln' In Field, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.
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For the Applicant,
W. LLOYD WISE,
46 Lincoln'. In Field, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.