An Improved Match Box and Ash Tray.
Year: 1891

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Match Box and Ash Tray.
We GEORGE HEATH, JOHN DUNN and THOMAS GUEST all of No. 8 Ventnor
Street Leeds in the County of York Commission Agents 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 :-
The object of our invention is to provide a suitable box for our improved mode
of obtaining matches therefrom separately or singly at each operation.
Our mode of manufacturing or constructing the said box may be carried out as
follows.
We form the base of the box by attaching thereto a tray or plate which tray
shall serve the ordinary purpose of an ash tray for cigar ashes dust and other refuse
the edges of the said tray being turned down over the outside of the tray and
provided with a rough surface for striking matches as shown in Figures 1 and 2.
In order to more fully explain ourselves we have annexed a drawing hereto on
which
Fig. 1 shows an elevation of the match box and ash tray.
Fig. 2 plan of match box and ash tray corresponding with Figure 1.
Fig. 3 sectional elevation of box through A.
Fig. 4 sectional elevation of box through B.
Fig. 5 elevation of lifting slide.
Fig. 6 sectional elevation of box and lifting slide through A showing the direction
traversed by crank and slide.
By turning the button (f) Fig. 6 fixed on the ends of crank axle the crank (e)
Figs. 5 and 6 traverses the horizontal slot (d) in the lifting slide (c) having a
lateral motion therein and when the said crank has travelled half a circle the said
slide (c) is raised to the point (i) through the lid (h) Fig. 6 the crank then being
at half rest as shown by the dotted line () in Fig. 6 and by completing the circle
the said crank brings down the slide to its normal resting position at (5) whereby
the matches contained in the trough (a) Fig. 3 fall into the groove (k) formed in the
top of the said slide (c) Figs. 5 and 6 ready to be raised to the surface at (i) by the
next operation of the crank.
The letters (a) (a) on Figs. 3 and 4 show a plan and section of the trough for
holding matches and the letters (b) are plan and section of guides placed at each
end of the box to facilitate the free working of the said lifting slide (c).
Instead of a crank as shown in Fig. 6 we also operate the said slide by means of
a disc () having a crank arm (m) on the outer edge and a central pin or axis (n)
to which we attach a thumb piece or button (o) as in the case of the crank and as
shown on Fig. 7.
When desirable we also vary the shape of the delivery end or top of the box as
shown on Fig. 8.
Having now particularly ascertained and described the nature of our inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. The general construction combination and arrangement of parts for the
purposes of a match box and ash tray all as described and set forth.
2. The system or means of operating the slide in said match box by means of the
crank working in the horizontal slit formed in the said slide all as shown in the

page_text: drawing with the object and for the purposes therein and hereinbefore particularly
set forth.
GEORGE HEATH.
JOHN DUNN.
THOMAS GUEST.