Improvements in and relating to Matches.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 28th Jan., 1893-Accepted, 11th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Matches.
We PAUL LORENZ, Agent of 12 Belle Alliance Strasse, Berlin, and REINHARD
WUPPERMANN Manufacturer of Barmen, both in the Kingdom of Prussia, German
Empire, do hereby declare the nature of our invention to be as follows:-
The object of the present invention is to provide a match in which the
disadvantages of the present matches-viz. flying off of the head on ignition,
glowing after having been put out and falling off of the glowing heads-may be
avoided. The invention further consists in a device for more conveniently packing
matches than heretofore.
The matches forming the present invention are formed of a peculiar kind of
paste board and are cut or stamped from one piece, after the manner of a fringe
being narrowed at the point, so as to prevent the heads rubbing against each
other. Such leaf or piece of pasteboard contains preferably about 10 or twelve
matches and several of these leaves are fixed together in the form of a book and
attached in a wrapper of strong paper, the ends of which fold over each other and
are closed in the style of an envelope. The inside of the overlapping end of the
wrapper and the outside of that part covered by the said overlap, are provided
with igniting surfaces, so that to ignite a match the head is placed between the
two igniting surfaces, the latter lightly pressed together and the match drawn
sharply out when the same will be ignited.
Matches of this kind are manufactured by cutting strips of the paste board in
the manner herein before described so that the tail ends of the matches are all
connected together; the heads which are made narrower are then placed in a
frame and paraffined and impregnated in the usual manner. After each operation
the matches are allowed to dry and dipped in the igniting mass which may consist
of a solution of a suitable chlorate diluted with water, a suitable binding agent
such as gum, being added. During the whole treatment the matches remain in the
same frame.
The mass for the igniting surfaces is the same as that used for safety matches
which consists mainly in amorphous phosphor.
Dated the 2nd day of May 1892.
J. H. JOHNSON & Co..
Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Matches.
We, PAUL LORENZ, Agent of 12 Belle Alliance Strasse, Berlin, and REINHARD
WUPPERMANN, Manufacturer of Barmen, in the Kingdom of Prussia, German
Empire, do hereby declare the nature of our invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
The object of the present invention is to provide a match in which the
disadvantages of the present matches-viz. flying off of the head on ignition,
glowing after having been put out and falling off of the glowing heads-may be
avoided. The invention further consists in a device for more conveniently packing
matches than heretofore.
The matches forming the present invention are formed of a tough and strong
paste board preferably made from wood pulp and are cut or stamped from one
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page_text: piece, after the manner of a fringe being narrowed at the point, so as to prevent
the heads rubbing against each other. Such leaf contains preferably about 10 or
twelve matches and several of these leaves are fixed together to form a block and
attached in a wrapper of strong paper, the ends of which fold over each other and
are closed in the style of an envelope. The inside of the overlapping end of the
wrapper and the outside of that part covered by the said overlap, are provided
with igniting surfaces, so that to ignite a match the head is placed between the
two igniting surfaces, the latter lightly pressed together and the match drawn
sharply out when the same will be ignited.
In order to make this Specification more easily intelligible reference is had to
the accompanying drawings in which similar letters denote similar parts throughout
the several views.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation showing the wrapper open.
Fig. 2 is a plan of Fig. 1.
The matches a are cut on sheets of card board or paste board in the form of a
fringe, the head ends being narrowed down at c to prevent the same from rubbing
together, the tail ends being integral at b. Several such sheets are fixed together
at b to form a block and this block is then stuck onto the part d of the wrapper.
The latter has two flaps e and f, folding or closing one over the other in the manner
shown by dotted lines and arrows 1-2 in Fig. 1. The overlape has a projecting
piece 9 which is adapted to slip into a slot in the flap f. The said flap fis
provided with an igniting surface i onto which the igniting surface h of the cover e
closes when the wrapper is folded up.
In order to light a match it is first torn off the block, the head is then placed
between the prepared surfaces the latter pressed lightly together and the match
sharply withdrawn.
Matches of this kind are manufactured by cutting strips of the paste board in
the manner hereinbefore described so that the tail ends of the matches are integral,
the heads which are made narrower are then placed in a frame and paraffined and
impregnated in the usual manner. After each operation the matches are allowed
to dry and dipped in the igniting mass which may consist of a solution of a suitable
chlorate diluted with water, a suitable binding agent such as gum, being added.
Although this process is substantially the same as hitherto employed it possesses
the great advantage that during the whole treatment the matches remain in the
same frame.
The mass for the igniting surfaces is the same as that used for safety matches
which consists mainly in amorphous phosphor.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :
1. A match block formed by uniting into a block several pieces of card or paste-
board, cut in strips in the manner of a fringe, the head ends being provided with
the igniting mass, while the tail ends are integral, to enable the said uniting,
substantially as described.
2. The combination of the said match block with a wrapper having overlapping
ends (e, f), provided with igniting surfaces (i, h) that are arranged so as to close
one onto the other on folding up the wrapper, essentially as described.
Dated the 28th day of January 1893.
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
Agents.