US149436A - Improvement in fire-kindlers - Google Patents

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1.W. BYNGN.

Fire-Kindlers. 0,149,435 PatentedAprimmM.

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UNITED STATES PATENT (DEEIGEo JOHN XV. BYNON, OFAYONKERS, 'NEV YORK.

llVlPROVEMENT IN FIRE-KINDLERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 149,436, dated April 7, 1874; application filed February 26, 1874.

of an inflammable compound, such as mn,

tallolv, and sawdust, each of said cakes being provided with a wick. protruding therefrom,

and said cakes being capable of detachment, one from the other, as required for use.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l represents a view in perspective of a cake of rire-lighters constructed in accordance with my improvement, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section of one of the lighters with attached wick.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several flgnres. Y A A represent a number of lire-lighters joined together in a cake, and capable of detachment, the onel from the other, as required. In each of these irelighters is inserted a wick, B, arranged to protrude beyond the end or ends of the nre-lighter. Said wiel; may be saturated with the same materials, or certain of them, as used in the body of the lighter. Such wick may either be molded into the body of the lighter, or may have the body composition applied to it in any other way, as by dipping, or otherwise, leaving the wiel; only covered by the more inflammable portions of the compound. By means of this wick, the lighter can be much more easily ignited through the bottom of the grate of the tireplace, instead of being ignited, as is now usually done, before putting it into the grate or stove, and building the lire on top of it, which mode of ignition is objectionable, inasmuch as the lighter is partly burned before the fire can be built, and there is much offensive odor consequent on the previous ignition of the lighter.

By the arrangement of a wick within the lighter these objections are avoided, there being no necessityr to ignite the lighter before placing it in its place on the grate. but simply to see that the wick of the lighter is made to protrude through the grate, when the same can be readily lighted from below after the ire has been built, which by means ofthe wick may be done before the fire is ignited.

l. am aware that kawri gum, rosin, and alcohol have been dissolved and mixed together, and sawdust added, and all mixed until a paste is formed, and 'then molded or pressed into cakes and allowed to dry, when they are ready for use in kindling tire; but such is not my invention.

What I claim as my invention is A tire-lighter composed ot' a series of inflammable cakes, A, each of which is provided with a wick, B, protruding therefrom, and said cakes being capable ot' detachment, the one from the other, as required for use, as herein shown and described.

JOHN lV. BYNON.

fitnesses BENJAMIN W. HOFFMAN, MICHAEL RYAN.

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