This section is from the book "The Pyrotechnist's Treasury: Complete Art Of Making Fireworks", by Thomas Kentish. Also available from Amazon: The Complete Art of Firework-Making: The Pyrotechnist's Treasury.
Paste brown paper all over, and roll up a case, of four or five thicknesses, on an inch and a quarter, or an inch and a half former, like a rocket or other case; when dry, cut it in the lathe (see fig. 2 7) into inch lengths - inch-deep bottomless pill-boxes. Set one on a foot, fig. 9, to enter about i of an inch; mallet in the pearl streamer fuse, till nearly full, then a little meal powder; remove it from the foot, and press in flat, with a knife, a little plaster of paris, to form a bottom. They will have the appearance of bungs; fire them in volleys, like saucissons, from suitable-sized mortars. Primed end downwards, of course. Match may be tied on, as in figs. 78 and 79.
These are little cases, charged with the funnel and wire; the latter are filled with spur fire.
These are simply pinwheel pipes, usually of coloured double-crown, charged with pin-wheel fuse, and not wound on a block, but kept straight.
 
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