Improvements in Holders for Match-boxes for Preventing the Withdrawal of same.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 21st Apr., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Holders for Match-boxes for Preventing the
Withdrawal of same.
1 ARTHUR MORGAN ROBERTS of 60, Cambridge Gardens London, W.
Engineer, 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 in the construction of holders or stands.
for match boxes, and has for object to provide such holders or stands with
efficient means for preventing the unauthorized abstraction of a box of matches
from the stand or holder when once placed and secured therein.
Much inconvenience is frequently experienced by the occupier of a room
entering in the dark with the full confidence of placing his hand upon a box of
matches wherewith to strike a light and which he knows he has left in a certain
position, say upon his table, the mantel shelf, or other convenient place, finding that
some one during his absence has abstracted his box of matches; this inconvenience
is entirely obviated by my invention.
In accordance therewith I have a metal or other suitable carrier or frame for
the support of the box of matches which carrier or frame I screw or otherwise
secure in a suitable or desired position, to the wall of the room, and to prevent
unauthorized abstraction of the box of matches and yet allow of its easy removal
when it is desired to replace an empty box with a full one I make use of a locking
device consisting of a pointed screw properly mounted in the carrier or frame
aforesaid and which by means of a key can be made to firmly engage with the
match box and thus securely hold it in position until unlocked as it were by the
owner.
And in order that this my invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into effect I will proceed to describe same with reference to the accompanying
sheet of drawings and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon that
is to say:
Fig. 1. is a perspective view of the match-box holder or stand constructed in
accordance with this invention and in which a match box is shewn securely held.
Fig. 2. is a sectional end elevation of the holder or stand shewing locking key also
partly in section.
Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in both figures.
a is the carrier or frame in which the box of matches is placed as aforesaid
provided with aperture 6 through which a screw is passed to secure the holder to
the wall or other position convenient for attachment. An aperture c as shewn
particularly in Fig. 2. may also advantageously be formed in the bottom of the
carrier a for the purpose of inserting a finger to raise the container of the match
box into a convenient position for the withdrawal of a match as shewn in Fig. 1.
For the purpose of preventing the unauthorized abstraction of the match box
from the stand I, as aforesaid, make use of a locking device which I will now
particularly describe.
In a convenient position in the front of the stand a I mount a screw d formed
with a square or other shaped head convenient for being turned by means of a key
such as e (Fig. 2) and with a pointed front end suitable for piercing the match
box when forced into same.
When the box of matches g is placed in the carrier or stand a as seen in Fig. 1.
the key is fitted upon the head of the screw d as shewn in Fig. 2. and upon

page_text: being turned the pointed end of screw d will be forced into the match box
and firmly hold same in the stand. The key e is then taken off and may be carried
in the pocket, thus ensuring the security of the box of matches until the owner's
return. By simply unwinding by means of the key e the screw d is withdrawn
from pressing its pointed end into the box g and the latter may when empty
easily be replaced with a full one.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :
1. The improvements in the construction of holders or stands for match boxes
substantially as hereinbefore described and shewn in the drawings.
2. In combination with the frame or carrier a the locking screw d constructed,
arranged, and operating, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore
described and shewn.
Dated this 19th day of March 1894.
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.