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No. 6|9,s35. Patented Feb. 14', |899.

W. TRABUE.

POCKET LIGHTER. (Application med bec. 29, 1897,)

(No Model.)

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INVENTOR M W Jmm/ Attorney NITED STATES IVILLIAM TRABUE, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR OF TI'IREE- FOURTI'IS TO URBAN EWING EA'CHES, `llILLlAll/I R. JOHNSTON, AND HENRY DUMESNIL, OF SAME PLACE.

POCKET-LIGHTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 619,635, dated February 14, 1899.

Application filed December 29, 1897. Serial No. 664,391. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM TRABUE, re-` siding at Louisville, in the county of J eiferson and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket- Lighters, of which the following is a specilication, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a thread-match and igniter therefor.

The object of the invention is to produce a pocket case or holder in which a coil of waxed or other thread provided with fulminates at intervals may be stored'and from which a section may be cut oft and the fulminate ignited in the act of drawing from the casing.

Figure lis a perspective of the casing, showing end of thread-igniter. Fig. 2 is abroken side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan or elevation of a coil of thread-fulminate. Fig. 4 is a broken section showing attachment of knife and thread-guide. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail of igniter, showing modified cutter. Fig. Gis a view of igniter or match separated from coil.

The thread-igniter is a common thread or wick of cotton, linen, or other material preferably saturated or covered with wax, oil, paraflin, or like material and having knots or knobs b at intervals, say, of about two inches. Near each knot or knob there is an igniter c of fulminate attached to and projecting at all sides from the thread. The thread may be coiled or wound. The drawings show merely a theoretical arrangement of the thread. It may7 be wound on a spool or coiled, and many feet of the thread with fulminate-igniters attached may be stored in a case as large as a very small watchcase.

The thread-igniter may be wound on an axle cl or otherwise. The casing e is preferably a short hollow cylinder, from which one end is removable. The casing may be of metal, hard rubber, or the like; but metal is preferable. In the side of the case e there is a slot f, preferably having enlargements at intervals to permit the passage of the fulminate c. Of course the slot might be wide enough to pass such fulminates at any point.

Near one end of the slotfa loop g of wire or light metal extends to the outside of the casing and projects inwardly in inclined position about as shown in Fig. 2. A blade or cutter h is attached to this loop. Inside the casing, under the slot f, there is a roughened friction-piece c', which is preferably in form of a trough, with the inner sides roughened or corrugated, as indicated at k. This friction-trough may be attached to the casing by a teat m, which rivets through a hole in the casing.

The roll or coil of thread-igniters being placed in the casing, the end is passed out through slot f, then drawn along so that the thread passes between the legs of loop g, thence along the trough t' and between the roughened sides, and then out at the end of the slot, as indicated at Fig. 2. By taking hold of a knot or knob b and drawing in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 2, the fulminate c' will pass along the roughened trough. The next succeeding knot or knob b will move down the fork or loop, as indicated in dotted lines, Fig. 2, until the thread is severed by the cutter, and this releasing the part of the thread projecting from the casing causes the pull to withdraw the cut-oft portion quickly, and the friction will ignite the fulminate, and thereby ignite the cut off portion of the thread, which can then burn as a match.

In Fig. 5, i/ shows a modication in which the blade or cutter is attached to the trough. The thread will be severed in the same manner as has been described.

The thread-match may be made stiff enough to make a serviceable match, and a short piece detached and ignited as described makes an effective lighter for a cigar or for gas, being much lesseasily extinguished than a common match,

The device makes a very convenient pocketigniter. It can be modified within the limits of the claims without departing from my invention.

What I claim is- 1. The pocket-holder consisting of a short metallic cylinder of thin metal having a central reel; an elongated opening in the edge of the casing for the passage of a thread-igniter; a tangential roughened trough near this opening, so that a thread-igniter from the reel may pass out of the casing and then again into the casing and through the trough; and a cutter within the casing near the Toughened trough, all combined and relatively arranged substantially as described.

2. A thread composed of combustible material and having fulminate-pellets attached at intervals, so as to project at all sides from said thread, substantially as described.

3. A pocket-igniter consisting essentially of a casing With a cutter and an abrading device connected thereto, and a coil of combustible thread Within the casing, said thread having fulminate-pellets attached at .intervals so as to project at all sides from the thread.

4. A pocketigniter consisting of a casing, a cutter connected thereto, and an abradin g device, and a coil of thread having ignitionpellets attached thereto at intervals and projecting at all sides therefrom, and adapted to pass the cutter and abrader in Withdrawal.

5. A pocket-igniter consisting of a slotted casing, a cutting-blade placed at an incline near the slot in the casing, and an abradingsurface between the cutter and the end of the slot, and the thread in said casing having fulminate-pellets attached at intervals and projecting at all sides from said thread, substantially as described.

6. In a pocket-igniter, the slotted casing, the cutter Within said casing, and the roughened trough between said cutter and the end of the slot in the casing, substantially as described.

ln testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of tWo Witnesses.

WILLIAM TRABUE.

Witnesses:

J. SIMEON, R. J oHNs.

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