An Improvement in Match Boxes, applicable also to Cigar and Cigarette Cases and Boxes.
Year: 1899

page_text: DI TUTTICATION.
An Improvement in Match Boxes, applicable also to Cigar and
Cigarette Cases and Boxes.
I, SAMUEL TIMINGS, of 55, Great Hampton Street, in the City of Birmingham,
Brassfounder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of the herein described improvement in match boxes
applicable also to cigar and cigarette cases and boxes. My invention is particu-
larly applicable to those said boxes or cases which are made for the pocket but
can also be similarly applied to other match boxes and cigarette and cigar boxes
and cases such for instance as those which are designed to hang against a wall
or to stand on a table or counter. My said improved box or case is so arranged
that the matches or cigars or cigarettes can be withdrawn one at a time as
required without opening the box or case but at the same time the matches or
cigars or cigarettes are effectually retained in the box or case and prevented
from falling out.
I will describe my invention as applied to a match box.
My invention is carried out as follows:-The match box may be of any suitable
shape such for instance as a flattened oblong. In one side or in the top or
bottom of the box which corresponds with the sides of the matches therein, and
not with the ends of the matches, I provide an opening of such a size as to
admit a person's thumb and finger far enough to grip one of the matches contained
in the box. This opening does not of itself allow the matches to be removed as
they are effectually retained in the box by the portions of the side not cut away
by the hole. In the said opening and preferably at about the longitudinal centre
line of the same there is a short slot made wide enough to allow one match to pass
and extending to the end of the matches.
To remove a match from the box above described one of those which is nearest
to the slot is gripped by the thumb and finger and then the end of the match is
pulled forward through the slot and the match is then withdrawn endwise out
of the box.
The said match box may be made with a lid to facilitate filling or made without
a lid, but in the latter case the matches have to be filled into the box one at a
time through the slot.
My invention is applied to cigar and cigarette cases and Loxes similarly as above
described with reference to a match box.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Match Boxes, applicable also to Cigar and
Cigarette Cases and Boxes.
I, SAMUEL TIMINGS, of 55, Great Hampton Street, in the City of Birmingham,
Brassfounder, 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 consists of the herein described improvement in match boxes
applicable also to cigar and cigarette cases and boxes. My invention is particu-
larly applicable to those said boxes or cases which are made for the pocket but
can also be similarly applied to other match boxes and cigarette and cigar boxes
and cases such for instance as those which are designed to hang against a wall
or to stand on a table or counter. My said improved box or case is so arranged
that the matches or cigars or cigarettes can be withdrawn one at a time as
required without opening the box or case but at the same time the matches or
cigars or cigarettes are effectually retained in the box or case and prevented
from falling out.
I will describe my invention as applied to a match box and refer to the
accompanying drawings on which Fig. 1 is a general view of a pocket match
box constructed according to this invention shewing the matches in position in
the box; Fig. 2 shews the same match box as Fig. 1 with one of the matches
partly withdrawn; Fig. 3 illustrates another construction of match box made in
accordance with this invention and Fig. 4 shews a similar match box to Fig. 1
but constructed to stand on a table or counter.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all
the figures.
My invention is carried out as follows:-The match box A may be of any
suitable shape such for instance as a flattened oblong. In one side 6 of the match
box (or in the top or bottom of the box) which corresponds with the sides of the
matches e therein, and not with the ends of the matches, I provide an opening d
of such a size to admit of a person's thumb and finger far enough to grip one of
the matches contained in the box. This opening d does not of itself allow of
the matches c to be removed as they are effectually retained in the box by the
portions 61 63 63 of the side b not cut away by the hole d. In the opening and
preferably about the longitudinal centre line of the same there is a short slot e
inade wide enough to allow one of the matches to pass and extending to the ends
of the matches.
To remove one of the matches c from the box A above described one of these
matches which is nearest to the slot e is gripped by the thumb and finger and
then the end of the match is pulled forward through the slot e as shewn in
Fig. 2 and the match is then withdrawn endwise out of the box. The box A may
be made with a lid to facilitate filling, or made without a lid, but in the latter
case the matches have to be filled into the box one at a time through the slot e.
Fig. 3 shews the match box made in two parts hinged together to open to facilitate
filling, and Fig. 4 shews a match box such as represented by Figs. 1 and 2 fixed
on a base a¹ to enable it to stand on a table or bar counter.
My invention is applied to cigar and cigarette cases and boxes similarly as above
described with reference to a match box.
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:
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A match box or a cigar or cigarette case or box having the hole & in one of

page_text: those sides or in the top or bottom of the box which corresponds with the sides
of the matches cigars or cigarettes therein, said hole having a slot e through
which the matches cigars or cigarettes can be removed one at a time by inserting
the thumb and finger in the hole d, substantially as described and illustrated
by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 19th dox of Ammil 1000
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.