An Improved Match or Lighter Stand for Table Use.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Appl cation, 9th Aug., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 9th May, 1895-Accepted. 3rd Aug., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Match or Lighter Stand for Table Use.
I, ALBERT HOWARD HIGGINBOTTOM, of Post Office Chambers, in the City
and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Wine and Spirit Merchant, do hereby declare
the nature of said invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide a match or lighter stand in which the
used matches, cigar ends ashes or other debris will fall into a receptacle in which
they will be out of sight and not liable to be scattered over the table thus
obviating the unsightly appearance presented by the table match stands now in use.
The stand may be made of metal, china, earthenware or any suitable material, or
combination of two or more materials and it may be ornamental on the external
surfaces which may also be used for advertisements and provision will be made for
striking matches. It may be made in various forms and sizes and sufficiently heavy
to stand firmly on the table and will, preferably, be made in two parts the upper
forming the match holder and the lower the receptacle for used matches cigar ends
ashes or other debris the latter having a large base from the periphery of which,
will rise a rim sloping inward so as to leave an annular space between it and the
match holder sufficiently wide to receive the used matches, cigar ends, ashes or
other debris which fall down out of sight. The match holder will be attached to
the base so that it can readily be removed when, the receptacle being inverted, the
contents are emptied, the interior cleaned and the match holder replaced.
Provision may be made for wires or strips at intervals across the annular space to
remove the ash from cigars which strips may be used for striking matches and may
be arranged so as to assist to keep the match bolder steady in position but this
assistance will be unnecessary when the two parts are properly connected
together.
Although I have described my invention in a form comprising two parts it may
be made with the match holder and ash receptacle in one in which form the bottom
of the latter will be made removable to clear out the burnt matches, ashes and
other debris but the former construction is preferred.
Dated this 9th day of August 1894.
An Improved Match or Lighter Stand for Table Use.
I, ALBERT HOWARD HIGGINBOTTOM, of Post Office Chambers. in the City
and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Wine and Spirit Merchant, do hereby declare
the nature of said 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 my invention is to provide a match or lighter stand in which the
used matches, cigar ends, ashes, or other dêbris will fall into a receptacle in which

page_text: On the accompanying sheet of drawings I have shewn, to one half the actual
size, my invention in a few of the forms in which it may be made, but it will be
apparent that, without deviating from the principle, it may be carried out in various
other forms.
Figs 1, 1A, 1B, and 1°, shew it in section, side elevation and plan, made of metal
with the vase for holding the matches of china, porcelain, or other earthenware.
Figs. 2 and 2 as made entirely of china, porclain or other earthenware, Fig. 2
being partly sectional and partly in full elevation and Fig. 2A a full plan.
Figs. 3 and 3 shew a half sectional elevation and plan of another form in which
it may be made entirely of china, porcelain, or other earthenware.
The same letters refer to similar parts on all the figs.
On Figs. 1, 1, 1B, and 1º, A is the hollow base or stand forming the receptacle B
for used matches, cigar ends, or other debris. C is the match holder, fitting by a
tube D over a central stud E so as to be readily detached to clean out the
receptacle. The mouth of the stand is shewn sufficiently wide to allow of the ashes
from a pipe being knocked out into the receptacle, and the inclined shield F
prevents the debris being exposed to sight.
Figs. 2 and 2 shew the base or stand A. and the match vase C, made of china,
porcelain, or other earthenware, or suitable material, the vase fitting by a tube D
inserted in it over a central stud E inserted in the bottom of the stand, the mouth
of the receptacle B being shaped so as at four points to make it sufficiently wide
to receive the ashes from a pipe, and the inclined shield F is also introduced. In
this form the match or lighter stand may be made entirely of any suitable metal
(cast, stamped, or otherwise worked) or partly so, as described with reference to
Figs. 1, 1, 1B, and 1°.
Figs. 3 and 3 shew in sectional elevation and plan on line x-x of Fig. 3, a
modified form in which the base or stand A and the vase C are in one piece, the
bottom of the stand G being removable for cleaning out the debris by turning
it in a groove H till studs K come opposite openings L when the bottom piece will
come out, but this is a form to which the others are preferable.

page_text: In any of the forms in which my invention may be carried out, the stand and
match holder may be variously ornamented and their external surfaces used for
advertisements upon shields, ribands, strips, or the like, as indicated or Figs. 1B
and 2 in any variety of colour, and prepared surfaces may be provided for striking
matches the other parts being polished or glazed.
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
An improved match or lighter stand in which a receptacle is provided in the base
for containing used matches, cigar ends, tobacco ashes, or dêbris, out of sight, and
prevented being scattered over the table, and which receptacle is readily emptied
and cleaned by detaching the two parts, substantially as described and shewn with
reference to Figs. 1, 14, 18, and 10; 2 and 24; or in the modified form shewn by
Figs. 3 and 34.
Dated this 9th dow of Mov 1905
T. J. DANSON, F. Inst. P.A.,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Agent for Applicant.