Improvements in and connected with Match Receptacles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 13th June, 1898-Accepted, 27th Aug., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Match Receptacles.
We, WILLIAM HENRY HOOKER, Engineer, resident of Belleville, in the County
of Essex and State of New Jersey, and HORACE HARDEMAN FARRIER, Merchant, of
463, Jersey Avenue, Jersey City, in the County of Hudson and State of New Jersey,
both of the United States of America, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion 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 an improvement in match safes, and the object thereof
is to provide a simple, positive acting device adapted to deliver a single match at
a time and to provide, in connection with a match delivering device, a cigar cutter
and receptacle for the tips of the cigar and a match or ash receptacle.
The invention which consists in the arrangement of the several parts in com-
bination with a match delivery, and cigar cutting devices will be hereinafter fully
described and specifically set forth in the annexed claims.
In the accompanying drawings:
Figure 1 is a front elevation of the device, partly broken away; and
Figure 2 is a central transverse vertical section thereof.
In applying our invention, we employ a base 1 of any convenient design and
which is preferably constructed of cast metal. At the front portion of said base,
a concavity 2 is provided and which is adapted to receive the match delivered by
the cylinder. At the rear portion of the base a concavity 3 is provided in which
the receptacle 4 is adapted to be fitted. This receptacle 4 may be used as an ash
receptacle or to hold burnt matches.
An upright 5 is fixed to the base 1 near one side thereof and adjacent to the
opposite side, a removable upright 6 is secured by means of the screw 7.
The upright 5 is preferably cast in one piece with the base 1 and is provided
near its upper end with a suitable hole in which is journaled the shaft 8 of the
revolving cylinder 9. The shaft 8 may be cast with the cylinder 9 or may be
made detachable and threaded into the end wall of the cylinder. The shaft pro-
jects outwardly beyond the upright and upon
the end thereof is fixed a wheel 10
which, preferably, has a milled head.
Fixed to the opposite end wall of the cylinder 9 and preferably cast integrally
therewith is a boss 11 having a flange 12 at its outer extremity, and a spur 13
projecting beyond the face of the flange 12. This spur 13 is journaled in a suitable
socket cast with the upright 6 and the face thereof is preferably cut in the form
of a ratchet 14.
At any convenient point within the upright 6 which is circular in form, a post 15
is secured thereto or preferably cast therewith. This post is surrounded by a
coiled spring 16, one end of which is adapted to contact with the end wall of the
cylinder 9 and adapted to somewhat retard the revolution of the same.

page_text: Near the upper side of the upright 6, a recess 17 is formed, and immediately
over this recess are located one or more holes 18 in the upper wall of the upright 6.
A space, 19, is left between this upper wall and the point of the inclined wall of
the recess 17.
A knife blade 20, fixed to the end wall of the cylinder 9 is adapted to be carried
by the action of the cylinder close to the under side of the holes 18 and to cut off
the ends of a cigar tip inserted in the hole 18. The cigar tip thus cut off will fall
into a suitable concavity in the side section of the base 1 beyond the upright 6.
A suitable hole in the flange 12 is adapted to receive a pawl 21 actuated by
means of the coiled spring 22.
The cylinder 9 has a rectangular opening therein, and in this opening is fitted
the match delivering lever 23 which is pivoted to the end walls of, the cylinder.
The rear portion 24 of this lever is weighted while the front portion is tapered and
adapted for intermittent contact with a match placed between the point thereof
and the upper side of the rectangular opening in the cylinder.
The matches having been placed within the cylinder 9, it is revolved by means
of the milled wheel 10 and a single match will be caught between the point of the
lever and the wall of the cylinder, as shown in Fig. 2. When the cylinder is
revolved a little more, the weighted portion 24 of the lever will fall, thus releasing
the match which will drop into the concavity 2 of the base 1. When the cylinder
has made another half revolution, the weighted end 24 of the lever 23 again falls
and a single match is caught between the point of the lever and the wall of the
cylinder. Another half revolution, and the second match will be dropped.
This action will continue automatically so long as the cylinder is revolved and
there are matches left in the cylinder.
The pawl 21 carried by the cylinder prevents rearward rotation of the cylinder
and thereby effectually precludes the possibility of the match being caught between
the weighted end of the lever and the wall of the cylinder.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. An improved match safe, comprising a rotary cylinder having an opening in
its wall, one edge of which opening forms a shoulder, and a segmental jaw
fulcrumed in said opening and provided with a shoulder adapted to bear against
the shoulder edge of the latter, said jaw having a weighted end in rear of its
fulcrum and a lip at its front end adapted to bear with relation to the front edge
of the cylinder opening, substantially as shown and described.
2. An improved match safe, embodying a revolving cylinder adapted to deliver
one match at a time, a base having uprights supporting said cylinder and a recep-
tacle attached to said base, substantially as shown and described.
3. An improved match safe embodying a revolving cylinder adapted to deliver one
match at a time, means for preventing the rearward rotation of the cylinder and
a receptacle attached to the base supporting said cylinder, substantially as shown
and described.
4. An improved match safe embodying a revolving cylinder adapted to deliver
one match at a time, supports therefor, a ratchet adapted to prevent the rearward
rotation of the cylinder and means carried by said cylinder for cutting cigar tips,
substantially as shown and described.
5. An improved match safe embodying a revolving cylinder, supports therefor,
means for retarding the action thereof, a knife blade carried by said cylinder
adapted to cut the ends of the tips of cigars, and a receptacle for ashes or burnt
matches, said receptacle being removably attached to the base supporting said
cylinder, substantially as shown and described.
6. An improved match safe, embodying a revolving cylinder, a ratchet carried
thereby, a spring bearing upon said cylinder, a knife blade carried by said cylinder

page_text: and acting in conjunction with a suitable hole in one of the supports for said
cylinder and a receptacle attached to the base supporting said cylinder, substantially.
as shown and described.
Dated this 13th day of May 1898
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.