Oxygen yielding firestarter/firebuilder

• US 5,552,001 A
• Filed: 08/04/1994
• Issued: 09/03/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Robert E. Fearon
• Original Assignee: Robert E. Fearon
• Inventors: Fearon, Robert E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nelson, Peter A.
• Application Number:
  US08/285,693
• Time in Patent Office: 761 Days
• Field of Search: 149/35, 149/77, 149/87
• US Class Current: 149/77
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 37/079 Charcoal igniting devices
• CPC Class Codes: C06B 29/02 of an alkali metal
• CPC Class Codes: C10L 11/00 Manufacture of firelighters

Abstract

The invention disclosed herein is an explicit procedure for initiating a charcoal fire and afterward building the fire, including a plan for effective support of the fire by air after the fire has been built. Arrangements to direct the afterward flow of air to the same charcoal briquets which are on fire at the end of the firebuilding process are featured. Directing and concentrating the hot oxygen to establish a concentration of the fire (a nest of coals) is featured. The container of the oxidizing agent serves two purposes, the support of the oxidizing agent during the firebuilding activity, and, initially by combustion of a portion of itself, the provision of a hot oxygen mixture to effectively initiate the fire before a firebuilding feedback process begins. A better way to achieve tabletted form of the chemically active ingredients has been discovered, comprizing the use of a composition of matter in which all the ingredients are active in supplying oxygen. A chemical improvement in the oxidizer which imparts a greater tendency for coals to persist once they have been established on the charcoal briquets is a feature. New and effective chemical compositions to better program the yielding of the firebuilding oxygen are shown in this specification.

Claims

1. An oxygen yielding firestarter/firebuilder in which the oxygen yielding material is a composition comprising not less than 85% nor more than 97% potassium chlorate, and not less than 3% nor more than 15% of manganous acid.

2. An oxygen yielding firestarter/firebuilder having a composition with not more than 2% of any metal of the class including aluminum, titanium, zirconium and cerium, having added thereto 1% of copper oxide, and in which there is present in the composition 1% of molybdenum trioxide, 1% of tungsten trioxide, and at least 1% of a manganese bearing chemical compound.