Improvements in Advertising on any Kind of Boxes, Envelopes, or Cases of Matches, Fusees and similar Lighting or Igniting Articles.
Year: 1888

page_text: Improvements in Advertising on any Kind of Boxes, Envelopes, or
Cases of Matches, Fusees, and similar Lighting or Igniting
Articles..
1, FILIPP STRASSER, of Salzburg, in the Empire of Austria, Merchant, declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In a communication to Mr. Edmund Edwards filed at the Patent office 7th May
1888 and numbered 6810, I have described an invention having for its object the
application of advertisements to any kind of boxes, envelopes or cases of matches,
fusees, and similar lighting or igniting articles. and my present invention has for its
object an improved and distinct method of utilising the said medium for the purpose
of advertising.
According to my present invention I attach a small book, the size of the box,
envelope or case, to such box, envelope or case, by pasting the back page on to the
bottom of such box etc. sometimes by providing the box etc. with a double lid or
bottom or both, utilising the space between such double lid or double bottom to hold
the book on the pages of which advertisements are displayed.
London 2011 Ostalo 1000
C. R. BONNE & Co.,
Agents to the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
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Improvements in Advertising on any Kind of Boxes, Envelopes, or
Cases of Matches, Fusees, and similar Lighting or Igniting
Articles.
I, FILIPP STRASSER, of Salzburg in the Empire of Austria, Merchant, 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 :-—
In a communication to Mr. Edmund Edwards filed at the Patent Office 7th -May
1888 and numbered 6810, I have described an invention having for its object the
application of advertisements to any kind of boxes, envelopes or casings of matches,
fusees, and similar lighting or igniting articles, and my present invention has for its
object an improved and distinct method of utilising the said medium for the purpose
of advertising.
According to my present invention 1 attach to the match box etc. a number of
leaves in book form, of approximately the same length and width, or folded so as to be
of approximately the same length and width as the said match box &c. Different
methods may be adopted for attaching such book. It may be simply pasted or
otherwise fastened to the outside of an ordinary match box &c., the book being
prevented from flying open by means of a rubber ring or band passing round the
whole, similar to the manner adopted for note books, or the top leaf may be made a
little larger than the other leaves, which permits of the edge being bent over and
gummed or otherwise fastened to the side of the box.
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I also sometimes construct my match box as illustrated in the drawing herewith.
The box is "double jacketed so that a space A is left between the two lids and the
two bottoms or only between the one and the other. This space is meant to hold the
book or parcel of printed matter, the leaves of which are advertisement sheets.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
inventions, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
The attachment of leaves in book form to any kind of boxes, envelopes, or cases of
matches fusees and similar lighting or igniting articles in the manner and for the
purposes of advertising as described.
London 13th November 1988