A New or Improved Combined Mirror, Advertising Tablet, Ash, Match, or Spill Holder, and Match Striker.
Year: 1888

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Combined Mirror, Advertising Tablet, Ash,
Match, or Spill Holder, and Match Striker.
I, ALFRED GRIFFITHS of Speedwell Place Prescott Street, Birmingham in the
County of Warwick, Glass Beveller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows :-
This invention relates to a new or improved combined mirror, and advertising tablet,
with an ash, or match box, and match striker; and adding to the said combined article,
or substituting for the ash or. match box, a spill holder.
In carrying out my invention, I proceed as follows-
I take a bevel edged glass mirror, preferably rectangular in form, and tapering
from top to bottom; and which mirror, is enclosed within a frame, or beading,
preferably of metal, and made with the enclosing back of the mirror.
The lower or contracted part of the said bevel edged mirror, carries an ash or
match box, or spill holder; and situated above the said match box, in the same
plane as the mirror, and at the junction of the lower part with the box, is a
match striker, made by roughing or deading the base, or a part of the base of
the mirror..
The striker may be made independent of the mirror, and attached either at the base
thereof, or upon the ash or match box, or spill holder.
The ash and match box or spill holder, is preferably made up of bevel edged small
mirrors, enclosed by metallic beadings.
Portions of the mirror surface, are covered with advertisements or letterings, thus
constituting an advertising tablet, as well as a mirror.
I do not confine myself to the shape of the mirror, or to the exact position, or positions,
of the ash, or match box, spill holder and match striker.
Dated this Twenty-seventh day of April 1888.

page_text: :
NEW UT
Improved Combined Mirror, Advertising Tablet, Ash,
Match, or Spill Holder, and Match Striker.
I ALFRED GRIFFITHS of Speedwell Place, Prescott. Street Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Glass Beveller 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 a new or improved combined mirror, and advertising tablet,
with an ash or match box and match striker; and adding to the said combined article.
or substituting for the ash or matcli box, a spill holder.
In carrying out my invention, I proceed as follows.
I take a bevel edged glass mirror, preferably rectangular in form, and tapering
from top to bottom, and which mirror is enclosed within, or carried by a frame or
beading:
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The lower or contracted part of the said bevel edged mirror, carries an ash,
or match box, or spill holder; and situated above the said match box, in the
same plane as the mirror, and at. the junction of the lower part with the box, is
a match striker, made by roughing or deading the base, or a part of the base of
the mirror.
The striker may be made independent of the mirror, and attached either at the base
thereof, or upon the ash or match box, or spill holder.
The ash and match box or spill, holder, is preferably made up of bevel edged small
mirrors, enclosed by metallic beadings.
Portions of the mirror surface are covered with advertisements, or letterings, thus
constituting an advertising tablet as well as a mirror.
I do not confine myself to the shape of the mirror, or to the exact position or
positions of the ash or match box, spill holder, and match striker.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents in front elevation, a combined
bevel edged mirror, match striker and match or ash box, constructed combined and
arranged according to my said invention.
Figure 2 is a transverse vertical section of the same, while figure 3 is a top
side plan.
It will be observed that the said figure 2 represents a divisional channel or
rut dividing the roughened or ground part which constitutes the striker from the
plain mirror.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in figures 1, 2 and 3.
a is a plain mirror, b is a match striker, consisting of roughened or ground glass,
and 62 is a divisional rut, dividing. the said roughened off part from the mirror.
an open topped match box or ash receptacle, situated at the lower end of the said
mirror below the match striking part.
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The combined apparatus as aforesaid, is attached or hung by screws, or nails passed
through.holes d in the mirror or other part.

page_text: Figure 4 represents in front elevation a combined mirror, advertising tablet, match
striker, spill box or boxes and match or ash box, constructed and arranged according
to my invention.
Figure 5 is a transverse vertical section upon the dotted lines A B, and figure 6 is.
a top side plan of the said combined apparatus.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in figures 4, 5 and 6.
a is a combined mirror, and advertizing tablet, secured to a frame e, (of which
the boundary edgings are covered with plush) by fancy headed pins a². b is a
match striker plate, having a roughened channel, directed. along its middle, and
which plate is secured to an open topped match or ash box c, by ornamental
headed pins 63.
ff are spill boxes or spray holders, secured at their backs to the framing e of the
said combined apparatus, which is hung by a ring 9.
Figure 7 represents in front elevation, a combined mirror, advertising tablet and
match striker. Figure 8 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same, on the dotted
lines CD.
a is a bevel edged mirror, having trade announcements delineated upon it. 6 is a
match striker, consisting of a roughened furrow, cut or sunken within the glass of the
mirror, although the said striker may if necessary be formed by roughening or grinding
a part of the said surface as in figure 1.
The combined advertising mirror tablet and striker, is mounted upon a back or
carrier e, which is hung preferably by a ring g, although the same may be connected
to an object by pin or screw holes.
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 :-
First: A combined mirror, match striker and match box or ash receptacle as
described and set forth in figures 1, 2 and 3.
Secondly-A mirror and match striker, of which a portion of the plate constituting
the former, is roughened or ground to make the latter, as set forth.
Thirdly-A combined mirror-advertising tablet, match or ash box, match striker
and spill cups or spray holders; and which said articles or parts, are arranged and
carried, substantially as described and set forth.
Fourthly —A match striker plate, consisting of a plate of glass, with a roughened
furrow or groove, sunken or made out of the said plate, as set forth and
marked b, 62.
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Fifthly A combined advertising mirror and match or ash box with or without a
roughened or furrowed match striker, as set forth, and marked a, b and c.
Sixthly-A combined mirror and roughened channel match striker, as set forth in
figures 7 and 8.
Lastly-A combined mirror advertising tablet and match striker (furrowed or
roughened) as set forth in figures 7 and 8.
Dated this Nineteenth day of January 1880