IMPROVEMENTS IN FIRE LIGHTERS AND FIRE REVIVERS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Clowes Bayley and Daniel Campbell, of 10,
John Street, Adelphi, in the County of Middlesex, Engineers, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FIRE LIGHTERS AND FIRE REVIVERS,"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Clowes Bayley and
Daniel Campbell at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 12th November 1867.
We, JOHN CLOWES BAYLEY and DANIEL CAMPBELL, of 10, John Street,
Adelphi, in the County of Middlesex, Engineers, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FIRE LIGHTERS AND FIRE
REVIVERS," to be as follows:-
The composition consists of a mixture of wood sawdust, turnings or shavings,
tar, and resin, in about the following proportions:-Wood sawdust 28 pounds,
tar 18 pounds, and resin 10 pounds. We prefer that instead of 28 pounds of
sawdust that about one-fourth part of this quantity be wood turnings or
shavings when easily obtained.
When the tar and resin are thoroughly melted the sawdust (or its equl-
valents above mentioned) is added and well incorporated, the composition
is then moulded into the required forms, which when hard are dipped into
melted resin.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Clowes Bayley and Daniel Campbell in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 12th May 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
CLOWES BAYLEY and DANIEL CAMPBELL, of 10, John Street, Adelphi, in the
County of Middlesex, Engineers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs, and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said John Clowes Bayley and Daniel Campbell, Her special licence that we,
the said John Clowes Bayley and Daniel Campbell, our executors, administra-
tors, and assigns, or such others as we, the said John Clowes Bayley and Daniel
Campbell, our 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN FIRE LIGHTERS
AND FIRE REVIVERS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said John
Clowes Bayley and Daniel Campbell, our executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under our, or one of our 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 we, the said John Clowes Bayley and Daniel
Campbell, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
The composition consists of a mixture of wood sawdust, turnings or shavings,
tar, and resin, in about the following proportions:-Wood sawdust 28 pounds,
tar 18 pounds, and resin 10 pounds. We prefer that instead of 28 pounds of
sawdust that about one-fourth part of this quantity be wood turnings or
shavings, that is to say, instead of 28 pounds of sawdust we may use about
21 pounds sawdust with 8 pounds turnings and 84 pounds of shavings; but
we reserve the right of dispensing with one or other of these ingredients as
aforesaid, being sometinies difficult to obtain of suitable quality.
When the tar and resin are thoroughly melted the sawdust (or its equi-

page_text: valents above mentioned) is added and well incorporated, the composition
is then moulded into the required forms, which when hard are dipped into
melted resin.
In witness whereof, I, the said Daniel Campbell, on behalf of myself
and the said John Clowes Bayley, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Twelfth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight.
DANIEL CAMPBELL. (L.s.)