An Improvement in Match Boxes for Lighting Pipes, Cigars, or Cigarettes in Wet or Windy Weather.
Year: 1885

page_text: An Improvement in Match Boxes for Lighting Pipes, Cigars, or
Cigarettes in Wet or Windy Weather.
I MATTHEW BOYD 39 Church Road, Brixton, S.W. in the County of Surrey
Grocer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for 'AN IMPROVEMENT IN
MATCH BOXES FOR LIGHTING PIPES, CIGARS OR CIGARRETTS IN WET OR WINDY
WEATHER to be as follows:-
To provide a match box of tin or other suitable material which will not burn
that it consists of a cover and a slide to contain the matches, the cover to have a
hole inserted in the side about the centre, large enough to allow of the match being
inserted, to provide the slide with a rough surface on the outer ends, all that will
then be required to secure a light when riding on horseback, tram buss, carriage
or walking in the wind or rain, will be to slide the box half out of the cover,
facing the wind, ignite the match on the prepared surface inside the cover insert
the end of cigar or cigarett into the cover, in case of pipe, bring the match to the
pipe under protection of the cover when the light will be secured, this may be
made applicable to almost any construction of match box.

page_text: Cigarettes in Wet or Windy Weather.
I MATTHEW BOYD 15 The Avenue, Acre Lane, Brixton S.W. in the County of
Surrey, Grocer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS
IN MATCHBOXES and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
To provide a Matchbox consisting of cover & slide as used in ordinary Match-
boxes, the slide may or may not be of the same material as the cover, the cover to
be of uninflammable material, such as tin, nickel, silver, &c. the slide to be pro-
vided with an igniting substance on each end, the cover to have a hole inserted in
the sides at opposite ends, or in the centre, this hole to be sufficiently large to allow
a match being inserted, the bottom of the cover to have a piece cut out of one end 1
in the shape of a half circle, Then having the slide provided with matches, and
inserted in the cover, all that will be necessary to secure a light, for a pipe, cigar,
or cigarett, will be to push the slide half way out of the cover take out a match
& insert it in the hole provided at the side, ignite on the prepared surface on the
inner end of slide under protection of the cover, which shall preserve the flame 1
from the wind or rain. Insert cigar or cigarette in the end of cover until it comes
in contact with the flame when a light shall be secured. In the case of a pipe the
slide will be required to be pushed out from the end having the piece cut out of
the bottom of the cover. When the match is ignited it can be brought to the
pipe under cover, the pipe being placed to the opening where the piece bas been
cut out.
This box may be made either square, round or otherwise, and will be found
invaluable to persons requiring to secure a light of any kind, in places exposed to
the wind or rain.
On the accompanying sheet of drawings Fig. 1. is a representation of one of the
boxes closed, Fig. 2. a view of the box open and ready for use and Fig. 3. the same
when in use.
:
Having now described the nature and particulars of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I claim
The "Improvements in match boxes" as herein described and illustrated on the
accompanying sheet of drawings.