US Patent: 68 - Manufacture of friction-matches


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US Patent: 68

Manufacture of friction-matches

Patentee:

Alonzo D. Phillips (exact or similar names) - Springfield, MA

USPTO Classifications:

110/308, 149/29, 44/509

Tool Categories:

manufacturing : manufacturing processes : making matches

Assignees:

None

Manufacturer:

Not known to have been produced

Witnesses:

Thomas P. Jones

Henry Wilson

Patent Dates:
Granted:	Oct. 24, 1836

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Description:

The invention is a friction match using a mixture of white phosphorus, potassium chlorate, antimony trisulfide and glue. It is likely that Phillips did not actually invent these but rather learned of the idea from matches already being manufactured in Britain, France and Germany.