Improvements in the Construction of Match Boxes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 11th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 17th Oct., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Match Boxes.
1 ELIZABETH ANN ASHLEY, Crossgates near Leeds in the County of York
Soap Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
We construct an upright cylinder or case of metal wood or other suitable
material containing one or more chambers or hoppers for the reception of matches
which by an arrangement of vertical slides worked by a cranked shaft passing
through the slides by means of an exterior knob or other suitable arrangement thus
raising one or more matches to a slot or slots placed at the head of the said cylinder
or case where the same is ready for use.
Dared this 26th day of February 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Match Boxes.
I, ELIZABETH ANN ASHLEY, of Crossgates, near Leeds, in the County of
York, 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 provide a receptacle for containing matches,
and to provide the said receptacle with mechanical devices whereby a match may
be raised from the receptacle and exposed to view when desired, and by a simple
operation of the mechanisin through the medium of, say, a handle, or knob.
According to this invention I construct or form an upright cylinder, case or
receptacle of metal, wood, or other suitable material, containing one or more match
chambers or hoppers through which pass vertical slides worked by a cranked shaft
for raising the matches one by one from the inside to the outside of the case..
The invention will be readily understood by the following description having
reference to the accompanying drawings, on which similar letters of reference
indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.
Figure is a sectional side elevation of a match receptacle constructed according
to this invention, the section being taken on the line X Y of Figure 2 the latter
figure being a transverse vertical section on the line X Y of Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a perspective view of the receptacle, and Figure 4 is a vertical
section of a portion of a receptacle showing a very slightly modified arrangement
of the foregoing.
A is the case or receptacle, that shown being rectangular in plan. B B are the
slides, CC the hoppers or containers, and D the cranked axle.
The bottoms of the match containers C are sloped towards the slides B, while
the latter are formed with grooves B' in their upper edges and the top of the
case A is formed with slois A' through which the slides B may pass.
The cranked axle D passes through and has bearings in the sides of the case A,
is provided with knobs or heads D' on the outside of same, and also passes through
horizontal slots B* B* in the slides B. When a match E is to be obtained the
knob D' is turned (say a half turn) and the cranks raise one of the slides B and
thereby carry a single match from the hopper and through a slot A to the outside
of the case, while the other slide B is depressed and receives a match ready for the
next time the apparatus is operated.

page_text: The apparatus may be constructed with one or more of the slides B, as may be
desired, the hopper or hoppers C being arranged accordingly.
In some cases the slides B B when two are used may be arranged close together
as is shown at Figure 4 and may pass through a single slot A in the top of the
case A.
The exterior of the case AI employ for the purpose of displaying
advertisements.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
In match boxes, cases, or receptacles, the combination with the vertically
reciprocating slides B, and the chambers or hoppers C with inclined sides or bases,
of the cranked axle D, all contained in a case A, whereby all the matches may be
raised from the interior of the case A singly, one after another, and exposed to
view, all as set forth.
Dated this 11th day of September 1801
ELIZABETH ANN ASHLEY.
By Brewer & Son,
.33, Chancery Lane, London, Agents.