IMPROVEMENTS IN MATCH BOXES OR CASES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Loysel, of Cannon Street, in the City of
London, Civil Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MATCH
BOXES OR CASES."
Sealed the 16th April 1862, and dated the 9th November 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Loysel at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 9th
November 1861.
I, EDWARD LOYSEL, of Cannon Street, in the City of London, Civil Engi-
neer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MATCH BOXES OR CASES," to be as follows:-
My Invention of improvements in match boxes or cases consists in forming
these articles of porcelain, parian, china, or other earthenware, and making a
portion of the external part of the article with a roughened surface on which
the matches may be rubbed for the purpose of igniting the same. The
roughening of the surface may be effected during the manufacture of the
article by corrugating, ribbing, or indenting the same with any suitable tool,
and of course leaving such corrugated, ribbed, or roughened surface unglazed,
These match boxes or cases may be made of any convenient form or design
that the taste of the manufacturer may dictate, and they may be provided, if

page_text: desired, with lids or covers to protect the matches when they are placed in
the boxes. My improved match boxes or cases provided with their rough-
ened surfaces may be adapted to or combined with any suitable article of
domestic utility; for instance, they may be adapted to chamber or other
candlesticks, or to vessels or boxes to hold cigars or tobacco, and to various
other articles in which the combination of a match box may be considered
useful.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Loysel in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
9th May 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
LOYSEL, of Cannon Street, in the City of London, Civil Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Edward Loysel, Her special license that I, the said Edward Loysel, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward
Loysel, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MATCH BOXES OR CASES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Edward Loysel, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Loysel, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the
letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say) :-

page_text: My Invention of improvements in match boxes or cases consists in forming
these articles of porcelain, parian, china, or other earthenware, and making a
portion of the external part of the article with a roughened surface, on which
the matches may be rubbed for the purpose of igniting the same. The
roughening of the surface may be effected during the manufacture of the
article by corrugating, ribbing, or indenting the same with any suitable tool,
and of course leaving such corrugated, ribbed, or roughened surface unglazed.
These match boxes or cases may be made of any convenient form or design
that the taste of the manufacturers may dictate; and they may be provided, if
desired, with lids or covers to protect the matches when they are placed in
the boxes. My improved match boxes or cases provided with their roughened
surfaces may be adapted to or combined with any article of domestic utility;
for instance, they may be adapted to chamber or other candlesticks, or to
vessels or boxes to hold cigars or tobacco, and to various other articles in
which the combination of a match box may be considered useful.
In the accompanying Drawing, Fig. 1 is a side elevation, and Fig. 2, a
vertical section of one of my improved match boxes or cases, with the cap or
cover removed, but its place when on the match box is indicated by the red
lines in Fig. 1.
a, a, is the match box or case, made of porcelain, and provided with a foot
and with a roughened surface, on which the matches may be rubbed for the
purpose of igniting them; b, b, are the matches; and c (Fig. 2), the cap
or cover.
Fig. 3 shews the Invention adapted to a chamber candlestick, the cap or
cover c being connected to the candlestick by a chain, and made to serve as an
extinguisher to the candle when required. The porcelain match box a in this
instance is fixed to a metal bottom piece, which is provided with a screw,
whereby it is attached to the candlestick by screwing into a metal socket, as
shewn in the Drawing. The caps or covers c of the match boxes are made
of such proportions (as shewn in the Drawing) as will admit of both long
and short matches being put in the boxes; and it is desirable that the igniting
ends of the matches should always be downwards or at the bottom of the box.
It will be evident that these match boxes may be adapted to other articles
besides candlesticks, but I have not deemed it necessary to give any further
examples of application.
Having now described my Invention of improvements in match boxes or
cases, and having explained the manner of carrying the same into effect, I
claim as the Invention secured to me by Letters Patent as aforesaid, the mode

page_text: herein set forth of making match boxes or cases, and the adaptation thereof
to various articles of domestic use.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Loysel have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Eighth day of May, One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-two.
Witness,
J. W. MOFFATT,
66, Chancery Lane.
EDWARD LOYSEL. (L.S.)