IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO FIRELIGHTERS
Year: 1885

page_text: I, JOSEPH GEORGE DAVISON, Superintendent of Boys' Industrial School,
Sunderland, in the County of Durham, do hereby declare the nature of my
invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO FIRELIGHTERS, to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide a ready, economical, and sure firelighter
for all purposes. It is best described by aid of the accompanying drawings N° 1
of which is a plan of one of two similar pieces of wood of which the lighter is
formed and N° 2, which is a perspective representation of the complete lighter.
It is formed of two pieces of wood, of equal length, breadth and thickness (preferably
of from four to six inches long, about three inches wide, and about one inch thick)
each of which has several parallel sawcuts running lengthwise to within about an
inch of one end. Each piece thus somewhat resembles a comb, the solid end
keeping the teeth together. To accomplish this the pieces of wood are cut to the
required length breadth and thickness, and are then taken to a special sawbench
provided with several parallel circular saws upon one spindle, where they are
ripped lengthways to within about an inch of one end. The toothed end of each
piece is then pressed one within the other, and the other ends are drawn apart
until the whole forms a ridge having an acute angle of 60° or thereabouts, when
it will resemble drawing No 2. The upper end of the toothed part is then dipped
in molten resin. This serves the double purpose of binding the whole together
and supplying a readily inflammable substance.
Method of using:-Cover the bottom of the firegrate with cinders or coals, to
prevent any escape of resin to the ashpan or hearth; next place the lighter upon
its solid ends upon the cinders with the resin point upwards; surround it with
cinders or coals and light it under the apex.
Having now described my invention to the best of my ability, also the best
method of manufacturing and using the same, I wish briefly to set forth the portion
I claim as my invention. What I claim is this particular form of lighter, with its
parallel rips and intersection or union at, or within any distance from, the apex.
Dated this 20th dofT.... 100

page_text: I, JOSEPH GEORGE DAVISON, Superintendent of Boys' Industrial School,
Sunderland, in the County of Durham, do hereby declare the nature of my
invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO FIRELIGHTERS and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
The object of this invention is to provide a ready, economical, and sure firelighter
for all purposes. It is best described by aid of the accompanying drawings, N° 1
of which is a plan of one of two similar pieces of wood of which the lighter is
formed, and N° 2 which is a perspective representation of the complete manu-
factured article. It is formed of two pieces of wood of equal length, breadth and
thickness (preferably of from four to six inches long, about three inches wide, and
about one inch thick) each of which has several parallel sawcuts running lengthwise
to within about an inch of one end. Each piece thus somewhat resembles a comb
the solid end keeping the teeth together. To accomplish this the pieces of wood
are cut to the required length, breadth, and thickness, and are then taken to a
special saw-bench provided with several parallel circular saws upon one spindle, or
to any other suitable contrivance, where they are ripped lengthways to within
about an inch of one end. The toothed end of each piece is then pressed one
within the other, and the other ends are drawn apart until the whole forms a ridge
having an angle of 60° or thereabouts, when it will resemble drawing N° 2.
The upper end of the toothed part is then dipped in molten resin. This serves the
double purpose of binding the whole together and supplying a readily inflammable
substance.
Method of using:-Cover the bottom of the firegrate with cinders or coals, to
prevent any escape of resin to the ashpan or hearth, next place the lighter upon
its solid ends upon the cinders with the resin point upwards surround it with
cinders or coals, and light it under the apex.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
This particular form of lighter, with its parallel rips, and intersection or union
at, or within any distance from, the apex.