IMPROVE- MENTS IN BOXES FOR HOLDING MATCHES AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
EDWARD HENRY CASHMORE Die Sinker Tool Maker Stamper and Piercer
10+ Vyse Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick FRED WALTER MOLE
Dio Sinker Tool Maker Stamper and Piercer 104 Vyse Street Birmingham in the
County of Warwick do hereby declare the nature of our invention for IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BOXES FOR HOLDING MATCHES AND OTHER ARTICLES to be as follows :—
This Invention consists in making a box representing the leg of a football player
in the act of kicking a football, the invention also consists in the mode and method
of adapting a box of the beforementioned shape so that it can be conveniently used
for the purpose of holding wax-vesta and other matches, vesuvians, needles, pins
pens and other articles. The box is made to represent the human leg cut off a
little above the knee, with a pad or legging strapped on the front of the leg and
with the ball resting on the foot from the toe to the instep.
The legshaped box with the foot ball attached to it is produced in halves (or as
it is technically termed among stampers) in the shell by stamping, embossing,
casting or other suitable process.
The two shells or halves are then soldered together or fastened together by the
process of pressing or by other mechanical means.
The foot ball instead of being stamped, embossed cast or otherwise produced with
and forming part of the shell of the leg may be made seperatly in two halves, the
halves fastened together and the foot ball fastened to the foot.
It will be readily understood that there are then two concave receptacles or
boxes.
The top portion of the leg shaped box immediately above the knee is open,
through this open end the matches, pins, pens or other articles are placed into
the box the opening is then .closed by means of a suitable sliding, pivoted, or
hinged lid.
The leg instead of being open at the top as hereinbefore mentioned may be made
to open at a line drawn from the centre of the kne cap or thereabouts to the under
side of knee, a pivotted hinged or other suitable joint being provided either at the
knee cap or at the under side of the knee, When the leg is made to open in this
manner the portion above the knee is closed by a suitable metal top-plate or cap.
The leg shaped box can be made to open by forming the leg pad into a suitable
sliding pivotted or hinged lid.

page_text: The leg-shaped box can be made to open in two halves each half including a
half of the foot ball as produced in the shell by stamping or other process as
herein before mentioned.
The leg shaped be can also be made to open at the heel or at the sole of the
foot.
The leg-shaped box can also be made to open at a horizontal line accross the
centre of the calf and joined together by means of hinges pivots or other suitable
appliance.
The football forming a seperate receptacle or box to receive and contain snuff,
scent or other substance can be provided with a suitable hinged pivoted or
sliding lid.
The matches contained in the leg shaped box can be struck on a roughened
surface provided for that purpose on the sole of the foot or they can be struck on
the rough pad or legging.
EDWARD HENRY CASHMORE Die Sinker, Tool Maker, Stamper & Piercer
104 Vyse St Birmingham in the County of Warwick, & FRED WALTER MOLE,
Die Sinker Tool Maker, Stamper and Piercer 104 Vyse St Birmingham in the
County of Warwick do hereby declare the nature of our invention for IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BOXES FOR HOLDING MATCHES AND OTHER ARTICLES and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
This invention consists in making a box representing the leg of a football player
in the act of kicking a football, the invention also consists in the mode and method
of adapting a box of the beforementioned shape so that it can be conveniently used
for the purpose of holding wax vesta and other matches, vesuvians, needle, pins
pens and other articles. The box is made to represent the human leg cut off a
little above the knee, with a pad or legging strapped on the front of the leg and
with the ball resting on the foot from the toe to the instep.
The legshaped box with the foot ball attached to it is produced in halves (or as
it is technically termed among stampers) in the shell by stamping, embossing,
casting or other suitable process.
The two shells or halves are then soldered together or fastened together by the
process of pressing or by other mechanical means.
The foot ball instead of being stamped, embossed cast or otherwise produced
with and forming part of the shell of the leg may be made seperately in two
halves, the halves fastened together and the foot ball fastened to the foot.

page_text: It will be readily understood that there are then two concave receptacles or
boxes.
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The top portion of the leg shaped box immediately above the knee is open,
through this open end the matches pins or pens or other articles are placed into
the box the opening is then closed by means of a suitable sliding pivoted or
hinged lid.
The leg instead of being open at the top as hereinbefore mentioned may be made
to open at a line drawn from the centre of the knee cap or there-abouts to
the underside of knee, a pivoted, hinged or other suitable joint being provided,
either at the knee cap or the under side of the knee. When the leg is made to
open in this manner the portion above the knee is closed by a suitable metal.top
plate or cap.
The leg shaped box can be made to open by forming the leg pad into a suitable
sliding pivoted or hinged lid.
The leg shaped box can be made to open in two halves each half including a
half of the foot ball as produced in the shell by stamping or other process as
herein before mentioned.
The leg shaped box can also be made to open at the heel or at the sole of the
foot.
The leg shaped box can also be made to open at a horizontal line accross the
centre of the calf and joined together by means of hinges pivots or other suitable
appliances.
The football forming a seperate receptacle or box to receive and.contain snuff,
scent, or other substance, can be provided with a suitable hinged pivoted or
sliding lid.
The matches contained in the leg shaped box can be struck on a roughened
surface provided for that purpose on the sole of the foot or they can be struck on
the rough pad or legging.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawings the
manner in which my invention is constructed.
Figure 1 represents the completed leg shaped box made to open at a line drawn
from about the centre of the knee cap to the under side of the knee.
Figure 2 represents Figure 1 in section shewing a closing spring arrangement
not dotted through on figure 1 also shewing the lid open.
Figure 3 represents the completed leg-shaped-box, made to open in halves
longitudinally.
Figure 4 represents the leg shaped box, made to open at the foot or at the heel.
Figure 5 represents the leg shaped box with the ball attached and open.
Figure 6 represents the leg shaped box made to open at a line accross the centre
of the calf (see line O P Fig 1).
In carrying out my invention, I produce the leg shaped box in the shell as
bereinbefore described, by the process of stamping, embossing, casting, or in any
other suitable manner, the two parts or shells are fastened together as represented
at Fig 1 by soldering, brazing, pressing or other 'trade' method.
I can in some
cases make a lid to open at the top portion A this method I have not shewn in the
drawing.
In some cases I make the box to open accross the knee as represented at B
Figures 1 and 2, when so made I can where desired fix a spring C as represented
at Figure 2 operating against a projection D on the lid, the pressure of the spring C
against the projection D holding the lid or cover tightly in position.
In making the box to open as shewn at Figure 3 I do not confine myself to
hinging the box as represented at E as I can hinge it in various other suitable
ways.
The arrangement shewn at Figure 4, shews a lid Fat the heel and a lid G at the
sole, the leg shaped box can be made to open at either F or G. The ball can be
utilized as a seperate recepticale, as shewn at H Figure 5. The leg shaped box can
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be made to open accross the calf, being hinged as represented at J Figure 6 or it can
be hinged in any other convenient manner.
. The leg shaped box can be made to open by swinging the pad K Fig 1 as a door
on hinges, or by sliding the said pad in suitable grooves. The ball instead of
opening in. halves as represented at H Figure 5 can be made to open by forming
one of the sections L into a swinging or sliding door, What I consider new and
original, is the making of boxes suitable for holding matches, vesuvians, needles
pins, pens and other articles in the shape of the leg of a football player in the act
of kicking, a foot-ball.
Various shapes and forms have been utilised for the purpose of making boxes,
but up to the present time the human leg covered and fitted with the various
articles represented and illustrated has not been so utilized.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1st A box made in the shape of a human leg with a smaller box attached thereto
in the shape of a football as represented at Figure 1.
2nd A box in the shape of the human leg with a lid made to open in the manner
represented at at Figure 2.
3rd A box in the shape of the human leg made to open in the manner shewn at
Fig 3.
4th A box in the shape of the human leg made to open as represented at F
and G figure 4.
5th A box in the shape of the human leg as represented at Figure 5 to which is
attached a box in the shape of a football the latter box being made to open as
represented at H or by forming one or more of the segments L into a door.
6th A box in the form of a human leg made to open accross the calf as represented
at Figure 6.
Dated this 9th day of November 1884.
Dated this 9th day of November 1884.
EDWARD HENRY CASHMORE. a
FRED WALTER MOLE.
Per At Wm Turner,
Agent.