An Improved Match Striking or Lighting Device.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 9th Jan., 189
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Match Striking or Lighting Device.
I, GEORGE HAMILTON WY8B, Junior, of 51, Talbot Street, Southport, Medical*
Student, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved device for striking or lighting matches.
especially applicable for the use of smokers in windy or rainy weather.
My improved device consists of a flat piece of tin-ware or other suitable metal or
material of about 1 inches long hy of an inch broad of rectangular or other
convenient shape and roughened or corrugated so as to form a frictional or striking
surface for the match.
This small plate I attach to the inside lining or cloth of the coat of the user on
the left hand breast flap about level with the first or top button hole, or it may be
fixed in any other position as desired.
The means of attachment may be by sowing or pinning the said plate to the cloth
or lining through holes formed at each end, or the ends of the plate may be-
provided with small hooks or spikes or formed with loops through which pins
inay be pussed.
And in order to clearly illustrate my said invention I will describe the same with.
reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which Fig. 1. shews the device
attached to the inside of the left hand breast of a cont. Fig. 2. is a side view of
the plate shewing the means of attachment by sewing or pinuing it through holes in
the ends thereof. Fig. 8. shews the plate provided with hooks or spikes and Fig. 4..
is a longitudinal section thereof. Fig. 5. shews the plate formed with loops at each
end through which pins are passed, and Fig. 6. is a longitudinal section of tho
game.
a is the improved device or plate formed with the roughened surface a¹ and!
attached, in the example shewn, to the inside of the breast of the coat b, near the-
top button hole. This position of the devico shields the lighted match from wind
and rain, and enables it to be held rigidly, for striking the match, by the hand of
the user holding open the coat.
In Fig. 2. the device is shewn for attachment by sewing or pinning, the threads.
or pins c passing through holes d in the ends of the plate a. In Fig. 8 the plate-
is attached by hooks e formed at each end which enters the lining g or cloth of the
coat as seen in Fig. 4. In Figs. 5 and 6 the plate is shewn formed at each end
with bent over portions or loops through which the pins i pass for attaching it to
the coat. Whon desired to light a pipe, cigar or cigarette the left hand side of the
coat is held open as shown in Fig. 1. the collar being slightly raised and grasped
by the left hand of the smoker, the match is then struck on the plate a with the
other hand, and the pipe applied to it behind the shelter of the coat.
Thus my improved device acts as a match saver and is of special convenience to.
anyone carrying looso matches and to cyclists or travellers for lighting lamps or-
fires.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven--
tion, aud in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
(1) An improved match striking on lighting davine consisting o
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page_text: to a convenient part of the coat or dress of the user and formed with a roughened
surface substantially as described and for the purposes specified.
(2.) In an improved match striking or lighting device the use of a plate a formed
with a roughened surface a' and attached to the inside of the left-hand breast flap
of a coat b by means of threads or pins e passing through holes d in the plate, or by t
hooks e or loops formed on the ends of the plate and pins i substantially as described
and shown in the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 17th day of Novembar 1906
GEO. H. RAYNER,
87, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.