US984644A - Kindler and fuel. - Google Patents

Description

rHoMAs D. BAUsHER, on READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

KINDLER AND FUEL.

N 0 Drawing.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 21, 1911. Application filed November 25, 1910. Serial No. r

To all whom it may concern: boiling point. The' entire mass is then Be it known that I, THOMAS D. BAUsHEn, thoroughly mixed and, if preferred'it may, a citizen of the United States-residing at be pressed into any desired shape, though it Reading, in the county of Berks and State is ordinarly more ,desirable to allow it to of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new remain in varied size pieces. and useful Improvements in -Kindlers and The charcoal forms the base; the oil serves Fuels, of which the following is a specificaas the means of ignition andcombustion; tion. 4 l the soap acts as a binder;'the parafiin acts as My composition consists of the following a surfacer for the particles and the glycerin ingredients, combined in the proportions tends to keep the particles from drying too stated, viz, rapidlly. 3-5

Y N c a1m:- giggg gi a igg The herein described'composition ofniat- Osihr soap. 150 g ter, consist ng of broken charcoal; kerosene Paraffin. 3 p u oil; common rosin soap; paraffin and glyc- G1 c'efin Oundg erln, substantially as described and for the f v y r p Y purpose speclfied. The charcoal, after being broken or In testimony whereof I affix my signature, crushed, until it attains the size of pieces in presence oftwo witnesses. from about two inches in dimensions down, is saturated With gallons of the kerosene THOMAS BAUSHER' oil. The remaining gallons of oil is Witnesses: mixed thoroughly with the soap, parafiin ED. A. KELLY, and glycerin, and the mass is heated to the CLARA E. YOUNG.