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Class 44/533 - And containing easier-igniting material


Subclass of Class 44 - Fuel and related compositions
Definition: Subject matter containing a first material which catches
No. of patents: 35
Last issue date: 07/15/2008


NumberTitleIssue Date
7399324Active agent delivery device
A sustained release composite is made from a three-dimensional piece of calcium silicate having a xontolite structure and in which are fibers of textile glass and borosilicate glass, and an active agent. The active agent can be a fire starting material, a fragrance,...
07/15/2008
7204864Combustible product and package
A combustible product of various shapes and compositions efficiently and conveniently supplies heat, such as for outdoor cooking. The product includes a hollow cone of combustible material defining a substantially cone-shaped exterior, a substantially cone-shaped in...
04/17/2007
7172636Combustible wood-based fuel package and method of manufacture thereof
A combustible wood-based package is disclosed which includes an outer wrapper, preferably formed from burlap or other similar woven material that encloses large pieces of wood material, medium pieces of wood material and smaller pieces of wood material coated or oth...
02/06/2007
7172637Method and apparatus for packaging charcoal fuel and other fuels for easy lighting
A combustible charcoal fuel package is disclosed which includes an outer wrapper, preferably formed from burlap or other similar woven material that encloses large pieces of charcoal material, medium pieces of charcoal material and smaller pieces of charcoal materia...
02/06/2007
6913800Decorative aromatic pine cone display assembly
A decorative pine cone display is provided with visually pleasing color and sensory appealing aroma by dissolving selected color dye and scented oil in hot liquefied beeswax utilized to form a coating on a specific pine cone assembly whereby warming of the coating p...
07/05/2005
6740135Fire log system
A fire log system for providing an efficient corn based fuel that is burnable within conventional fireplaces. The fire log system includes a housing having a front opening, a volume of particulate corn within the interior of the housing, a plurality of corn cobs wit...
05/25/2004
6558440Fire starting assembly
A fire starting assembly is provided in accordance with the present invention for easily lighting and maintaining a fire in an outdoor environment. The inventive fire starting assembly includes, in its simplest form, a combustible container defining an in...
05/06/2003
6379405Fire starter and method of making same
A fire starter consists of a ring-shaped mass of combustible of wax and wood. It consists of a series of inverted frusto-conical sections connected together by a series of inverted triangular connecting sections and a having a substantially central apertu...
04/30/2002
6086646Apparatus for starting a log fire
A igniter for logs in a fireplace has a body of combustible material, such as wood, with two major surfaces. A plurality of grooves extend in one major surface thereby forming a plurality of ribs in the body. The grooves and ribs near the center of the bo...
07/11/2000
6071320Apparatus for starting a log fire
An igniter for logs in a fireplace has a body of combustible material, such as wood, with two major surfaces. A plurality of grooves extend in one major surface thereby forming a plurality of ribs in the body. The grooves and ribs near the center of the b...
06/06/2000
5912192Multi-layered solid combustible article and its manufacture
A burnable article such as a fire log or a barbecue briquette is formed of a top fire-igniting layer, a middle fire-catching layer, and a body layer. The fire-igniting layer has a composition, in weight percent, of from about 47 to about 67 percent carbon...
06/15/1999
5858036Artificial fire log
A fire log formed with a groove in a bottom rear corner thereof. The groove is formed at a right angle and provides a protruding edge or lipped surface onto which the flame can latch and ignite the fire log. A generally V-shaped channel is formed in a fro...
01/12/1999
5830245Portable fuel element
A portable fuel element made from stacked sheets of cardboard impregnated and held together with paraffin wax. In a preferred embodiment, each portable fuel element contains at least one match that is protected from moisture by the paraffin wax and cardbo...
11/03/1998
5766275Fireplace log ignition source and artificial fireplace log
A fireplace log ignition source which if desired may be used alone as an artificial fireplace log. A plurality of flammable elongate ignition elements are provided, each being resiliently flexible and having at least one distal end which may be bent so as...
06/16/1998
5743248Portable fused campfire
A portable, fused essentially waterproof campfire is presented. The campfire has a trapezoidal cross-section with kindling, a firestick and a fuse located near the bottom center of the trapezoid. The fuse runs from the firestick to the outside of the camp...
04/28/1998
5626636Combustible bag for igniting material contained therein apparatus and method
A combustible bag for igniting material (10) having an outer liner (12) and an inner liner (14). A lighting strip (16) is attached to one or both ends of the outer liner (12) and extends beyond the bag for ease of ignition. The inner liner (14) consists o...
05/06/1997
5573555Down burning solid fuel body
A down burning solid fuel body including a fire-igniting layer, a fire-catching layer and a body portion, wherein the content ratio among the fire-igniting layer, fire-catching layer and body portion is 20 to 50:40 to 45:30 to 40 based on the weight ratio...
11/12/1996
5456732Self-kindling fuel package
A self-kindling fuel package comprising a container with walls and at least one pinched closure with a semi-rigid wick longitudinally folded into the end closure creating an oxygen channel within the end closure, and a method of constructing the self-kind...
10/10/1995
5374289Fuel package
An ignition device for igniting an associated fuel, such as charcoal briquettes or firewood, includes a base, an ignitor, a wick, and an ignition cream. The base is planar and is made of a combustible material such as cardboard. The ignitor has a generall...
12/20/1994
5290326Fuel package
An ignition device for igniting an associated fuel, such as charcoal briquettes or firewood, includes a base, an ignitor, a wick, and an ignition cream. The base is planar and is made of a combustible material such as cardboard. The ignitor has a generall...
03/01/1994
5252107Ignition fluid
Disclosed are novel, environmentally safe fluids for the ignition of charcoals, the fluids consisting of either liquid terpenes or mixtures of terpenes and aliphatic alcohols, water, and surfactants, as well as methods of using the novel environmentally s...
10/12/1993
5186721Fuel package
A self-kindling fuel package comprises a combustible container having four planar side walls, a bottom wall, and a top wall. The container is constructed from a single planar element which is then folded to create the container. The container receives fue...
02/16/1993
4832703Fuel package
A self-kindling fuel package includes a readily combustible container having four side walls and a bottom wall. A charge of fuel is held in the container together with an igniting member for igniting the charge of fuel. The igniting member includes a wick...
05/23/1989
4725286Firestarter
The firestarter comprises a wax and wood base and a wick protruding from the base. The wood is compressed wood fragments from which the natural oil has been removed, and these fragments are mixed with melted wax in substantially equal portions. A flammabl...
02/16/1988
4717392Method of producing an ignescent material
The manufacturing of an ignescent material comprises feeding cellulose pulp in the form of a web (6) through a bath (2) of molten, combustible, organic impregnating substance, said substance being solid at room temperature, thereby soaking said pulp with ...
01/05/1988
4627854Self-contained log fire starting kit
A fire building kit comprising a carton (12) in which a spacer (30) rests on the bottom wall (14) to support paper wads (31), kindling strips (32, 35) and logs (34) all conveniently arranged to start a fire....
12/09/1986
4293313Combustible compositions and processes for their production
An ignitable combustible composition comprising a matrix of solid resin having distributed therethrough combustible liquid, e.g. kerosene, water and contains also up to 25% by weight of expanded perlite to lengthen the burning time of a unit volume of the...
10/06/1981
4293312Combustible compositions and processes for their production
An ignitable combustible composition comprising a matrix of solid resin having distributed therethrough combustible liquid, e.g. kerosene, water and contains also up to 25% by weight of a particulate non-combustible solid having a specific surface area of...
10/06/1981
4243393Coal article
Coal is restructured by extrusion into a tube like article that has a hollow core, which may contain igniter material to facilitate ignition of the coal. The hollow core and possibly other deformities, such as ribs, flutes or the like in the inner or oute...
01/06/1981
4236897Fuel pellets
A high heating value, fuel pellet comprises from about 50 to about 99% by weight natural cellulosic material and from about 1 to about 50% by weight synthetic polymeric thermoplastic material. The synthetic thermoplastic material is uniformly distributed ...
12/02/1980
4189305Smokeless fire kindling device
A clean, substantially smokeless, non-volatile, normally solid product for the ignition of fires, such as charcoal or wood fires, for cooking, campsites, home fireplaces, and so forth. The device comprises a shaped intimate mixture of a wax (e.g. hydrocar...
02/19/1980
4120666Hollow core synthetic fireplace log and method and apparatus for producing same
This invention is directed to a synthetic fireplace log with a hollow core, said log being composed of shredded paper and wax. The logs are produced by continuously compacting shredded paper into one end of a compaction chamber, injecting hot molten wax i...
10/17/1978
4118202Pre-primed fuel and method and apparatus for its manufacture
A primed fuel is manufactured by the application of particles of a combustible primer, such as wax, to a fuel, such as charred wood. In the method and apparatus of this manufacture, fuel is transported through a deposition zone within the apparatus. A liq...
10/03/1978
4102317Apparatus for igniting charcoal briquettes
There is disclosed a structure for rapidly and efficiently igniting charcoal briquettes of the type employed with home barbeque grills. A housing generally comprises a longitudinal cylindrical form fabricated from a plurality of non-combustible rings which are...
07/25/1978
4095957Fuel element
A fuel element is provided for grilling or imparting a smoked flavor to food, comprising a porous noncombustible fibrous casing; a combustible fuel in solid form enclosed within the casing; the fibrous casing having pores in sufficient number and size to ...
06/20/1978
 
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