Year: 1896

page_text: I, ANDREW HISLOP MACLEAN, of The New Club, in the County of Glasgow,
North Britain, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows, that is to say :-
My said invention has for its object to diminish the number of operations
required in using matches and to simplify and facilitate their manipulation.
With my improved match box or receptacle one has simply to draw a match by
its tail end, and the match becomes ignited on being withdrawn and is at once
ready for use.
In carrying out my invention according to one modification I have the top, side,
or end of the box made with perforations or slits, and I have the matches arranged
with their heads or ignitable ends touching or near the bottom or part opposite to
the perforated part, and with their tail ends projecting through the perforated
part sufficiently for being conveniently taken hold. of. On the inner side of the
perforated part I apply or arrange in any convenient manner roughened surfaces
such that when a match is withdrawn its head or ignitable end rubs thereon and
becomes ignited.
The match boxes or receptacles may be made of pasteboard, thin metal,
porcelain, or other suitable material, or combination of materials. For charging
a box the perforated part or the opposite part may be made removable; and
if desired a cover or lid may be provided for enclosing the tail ends of the
matches.
Dated this Twentieth day of January 1896.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
I, ANDREW HISLOP MACLEAN, of The New Club, in the County of Glasgow,
North Britain, Gentleman, 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, that is to say :-
My said invention has for its object to diminish the number of operations
required in using matches and to simplify and facilitate their manipulation.
With my improved match box or receptacle one has simply to draw a match by
its tail end and the match becomes ignited on being withdrawn and is at once
ready for use.
The invention consists in providing for holding matches a box or receptacle with
internal roughened surfaces against which a match in the act of being withdrawn
rubs sufficiently to become ignited.

page_text: invention and the mander of performing the same
may be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings
to be hereinafter referred to, and showing a few examples of the various modes
in which according to my invention matches may be put up in boxes or
receptacles.
Figure, 1, of the drawings is a plan, and Figure, 2, is a vertical section of one
modification.
Figures, 3, and 4, are views at right angles to each other representing a part of
a second modification.
Figures, 5, and 6, are respectively a horizontal and a vertical section shewing
the second modification complete.
Figures, 7, and 8, are views at right angles to each other representing a part of
a third modification.
Figure, 9, is a view of the third modification complete.
In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like
parts wherever they are repeated.
In carrying out my invention according to the modification shown in Figures, 1,
and 2, I have the top (or it might be a side or end) of the box, A, made with
slits, B, (or it might be perforations) having tapered sides, and I have the
matches, C, arranged with their heads or ignitable ends touching or near the
bottom or part opposite to the slits, and with their tail ends projecting through
the slits sufficiently for being conveniently taken hold of. On the inner sides of
the slip parts, B, I apply or arrange in any convenient manner roughened surfaces
such that when a match, C, is being withdrawn its head or ignitable end rubs
thereon and becomes ignited.
The match boxes or receptacles, A, may be made of pasteboard, thin metal,
porcelain, or other suitable material or combination of materials. For charging
a box, A, the part with the slits, B, formed in it (or it might be the opposite part)
is made removable; and a cover or lid, D, is provided for enclosing the tail ends of
the matches, C.
In the modification shown in Figures, 3, 4, 5, and 6, I employ a piece, E, of
cloth or stout paper or other suitable flexible material of a convenient length and
of a breadth less than twice the length of one of the matches, C, being dealt with,
and I apply a rough substance, G, such as emery to this piece of cloth or ribbon, E,
so as to form a narrow border along each edge. Assuming the cloth or ribbon, E,
to be spread out flat, as shown in Figure, 4, I place a row of matches, C, with
their ignitable ends in the middle of the cloth and so as to have their tail ends
projecting over one edge of the cloth at right angles. The cloth or ribbon, E, is
then folded so as to make the emery borders, G, coincide with each other and the
row of matches, C, being between the two plies of the cloth, the cloth is rolled up
and after having been bound by a piece of tape or other suitable material, H, it is
inserted in a suitable box, A, with the projecting tail ends of the matches upper-
most. In the act of being withdrawn from between the two plies of cloth, E,
the ignitable end of a match, C, comes in contact with the emery surfaces, G, and
is ignited.
In the modification shown in Figures, 7, 8, and 9, I employ two ribbons, E, formed
with emery borders, G, and I first place them so as to coincide with each other, and
have two rows of of matches, C, between them with their ignitable ends at the middle
parts of the ribbons and their tail ends projecting normally over the ribbon edges.
The ribbons, E, with the two rows of matches, C, between them are rolled up and
bound in the form of a bundle, as shown in Figure, 9, by pieces of tape, H, or other
suitable material and this bundle may if desired be inserted in a box. When being
withdrawn from the bundle any match, C, is ignited by coming in contact with the
emery borders, G, of the ribbons, E.
The ignitable heads of the matches may consist of any suitable material the use
of which for the purpose is known, the frictional surfaces being coated with a
composition to suit the material used."

page_text: 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:-
Arranging matches in a box or receptacle having internal roughened surfaces.
placed so that on a match being withdrawn by its tail end, its ignitable end rubs
thereon so as to ignite substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this Nineteenth day of October 1896.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.