Improvements in Holders for Cigar Lights.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 17th June, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 15th Mar., 1890-Accepted 10th May, 1890'
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Holders for Cigar Lights.
ARTHUR FREDERICK HAWKSLEY of Dunedin House Altrincham in the County
of Chester Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to further improvements in apparatus for holding cigar_lights
and for similar uses and more particularly to that class of igniter for which Letters
Patent were granted to me No. 11,135 1st September 1886.
Instead of having only one case or holder for the matches as described in the
specifications of my said former patent I propose in some instances to have two cases
fastened together in a suitable manner and one of them to be used for holding spare
matclies.
I prefer to make the case with the expanding and contracting mouth through
which the matches are ejected of steel and of one piece of metal whether connected.
with the case for holding spare matches or used singly.
For forming the expanding and contracting mouth I make only a small number of
springs or tongues, by preference three which are made sufficiently pliable or weak by
horseshoe crackings or piercings in the metal and I prefer not to complete the
cracking slitting or piercing of the springs until after the cases are hardened and
scoured by which means the manufacture is much facilitated.
Dated this 15th day of June 1889
ARTHUR FREDERICK HAWKSLEY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Holders for Cigar Lights.
I, ARTHUR FREDERICK HAWKSLEY of Dunedin House, Altrincham in the County
of Chester, Gentleman, 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 improvements upon the match boxes or holders for which
Letters Patent were granted to me, No. 11,135 of 1886, with the object of simplifying
the construction thereof.
The box or holder I now form from a single piece of metal, first stamped out in a
flat blank to the required form, and then bent or curved into cylindrical shape.
It will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in
which,
Fig. 1, is elevation of the complete box or holder with cover in position.
Fig. 2, sectional elevation of inner box or holder with the cover in position.
Fig. 3, elevation of box or holder with the cover removed.
Fig. 4, elevation from different position.
Fig. 5, sectional elevation on line X, Y, fig. 7, with matches in position, the
flexible mouth being expanded for the passage of the match.
Fig. 6, plan of box or holder showing flexible mouth when closed.
Fig. 7, plan showing flexible mouth expanded.
Fig. 8, elevation of flat blank cut to shape, from which the box is made.
In the manufacture of the box or holder, I prefer to use pen steel, from which I
first stamp out a flat blank A, in the form shown in Fig. 8, which is subsequently
curved or bent into cylindrical, hexagonal, or other similar form. When the blank Å
is curved or bent into a cylinder, the points a are bent forward as shown to nearly

page_text: cover or enclose the end of the box. And it is the base of these points a that is
made flexible to allow them to expand as shown in fig. 5 when the matches B
are pushed forward, and close again round the shank b, when a match has been
expelled.
prefer to form the blank A with six points a, and projecting down from the
centre of each pair of points, a thin strip or tongue c of metal is cut to form a light
flexible spring, which allows each pair of the points to move outwards on a slight
pressure being applied on the inside and return to its normal position when
released.
The springs or tongues c are formed by making cuts or slits d in the steel,
preferably of the horse shoe or U-shape shown. These slits extend down the
length of the box to such a distance as to render the springs or tongues c sufficiently.
flexible to open with ease to the distance shown in figs. 5 and 7. The horse shoe, or
U-shaped slits, are formed in the blank during the operation of stamping it out, and
the two short slits which sever the separate sets of the points a are cut after the
box is formed and polished. By thus cutting out the narrow springs c, the pieces e
are provided to retain or guide the matches in lateral position, and less strain is put
upon the parts forming the expanding mouth, as the matches are pressed through it.
The matches B employed are similar to those described in the specification of my
former patent. A cap C is also provided to cover and protect the expanding end or
mouth of the box, a portion of which is as before, covered with a composition at D,
to assist in the striking or ignition of the match. E, is a button or pusher for
"forcing up the matches through the box.
In some instances I purpose applying to the box a second case or receptacle to
hold or carry an additional supply of matches. This second case may be formed of
a cylindrical tube soldered or otherwise attached to the side of the match box
shown in the drawings. I have not considered it necessary to show it in the drawings,
as since the date of my provisional application I have ascertained that the application
of such a second case or receptacle is of doubtful novelty or utility.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
:
.1. A match box or holder for matches such as B, formed of a single piece of metal
(preferably pen-steel) having slits or cuts of U or similar shape, which form wide
mouth pieces each with a narrow flexible spring, and a rigid guide piece between
them, substantially as described.
2. A match box or holder, for matches such as B, having the expanding mouth
pieces a, flexible springs b, and rigid guide pieces e formed by slits, or cut, stamped
in one piece of metal (preferably pen-steel) substantially as described.
Dated this 13th day of March 1890.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.