Improved Means for Facilitating the Lighting of Tobacco Pipes, Cigars, or the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 17th Oct., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Facilitating the Lighting of Tobacco Pipes,
Cigars, or the like.
I JOSEPH CLARKSON, of 34 Dawson Street Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Phonograph Expert, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of this invention is to enable a smoker quite easily to light his pipe,
cigar, cheroot, cigarette or the like in a wind or other strong draft or current of
air, or when travelling rapidly through the air.
The invention consists of a slotted hood open at one end which may be attached
permanently or removably to a match box or tobacco box if desired, or which is
otherwise so made that it can be conveniently held with its open end against the
tobacco to be ignited, the said hood being provided also with a suitable match
striking surface or device inside in such a position that a match passed through
the slot in the hood can be struck. The hood is held to the tobacco the match
is struck and the light can thus be applied to the tobacco while enclosed and
protected from wind or motion of or through the air, and the tobacco can be
readily ignited.
The hood may be made in many forms but the annexed drawings illustrate one
or two convenient ways of making the same.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation, Fig. 2 a plan, Fig. 3 a horizontal section through
about the line A A on Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 a view of the open end, of a hood for
facilitating the lighting of a tobacco pipe, or the like.
Fig. 5 is a transverse section shewing a modified form of hood and
Fig. 6 shows a combined hood and match box.
On Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 a is the hood, ba spring clip for attaching it to a match
box or other desired article of suitable form, c is a roughened surface (upon which
a match can be struck) fixed or formed in the interior of the hood a. The slot d
is so situated with regard to the surface c (say directly opposite as seen at Figs. 2, 3
and 4) that the head of a match can be passed through the slot d and rubbed
upon the striking surface c, or the said surface c can be otherwise suitably placed in
the hood a; for example it may be formed or fitted at one side of the slot d (see
Fig. 5).
The hood also may be made reduced in depth in the form shewn by the dotted
line at on Fig. 6 (instead of being conical) in cases where wax matches are used,
or other matches which should be held close to the head whilst being struck.
It will be evident that the exact shape of the hood may vary so long as its open
end can conveniently be applied to the end of a cigar or the like, or 'to the bowl
of a pipe, and protect the lighted end of the match struck inside it.
It may be applied permanently to a match box e as seen at Fig. 6 if desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what
I claim is:-
1. A slotted hood provided with a suitable opening at one end thereof and an
internal match striking surface constructed to form an improved means for facili-
tating the lighting of tobacco pipes cigars or the like substantially as hereinbefore
described.
2. A slotted hood with open end. internal match striking device and clip for

page_text: fitting to a match box or the like substantially as and for the purpose herein before
described.
3. The combination of a match box and a slotted hood, having an open end and
an internal match striking device substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 3rd day of September 1896.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.