AN IMPROVED MATCH Box CANDLESTICK
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Felix Mazet, of Allées de Meilhan, No. 18,
Marseilles, France, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MATCH Box
CANDLESTICK."-A communication from Alfred de Banville, residing
at Boulevard Dugommier, 14, Marseilles.
Sealed the 8th February 1870, and dated the 10th August 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Felix Mazet at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
10th August 1869.
I, FELIX MAZET, of Allées de Meilhan, No. 18, Marseilles, France,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
MATCH BOX CANDLESTICK," to be as follows:-
The Inventor has combined an apparatus which fulfils the doublé
purpose of a candlestick and a match box.
The chief feature of the Invention consists in annexing to candlesticks,
chandeliers, lamps, lanterns, and other portable lighting apparatus
a closed reservoir or receptacle containing matches of wood, wax, paper,

page_text: or other materials, so as to be able to light the candle or lighting
apparatus. Thus the candlestick and match box constitute one and the
same apparatus.
The arrangement and form of reservoir or receptacle for containing
the matches may vary, and it may be more or less ornamented.
The Drawings attached to this Specification show the Invention carried
out in various forms.
Figure I. shows a candlestick of metal or other material. The receptacle
or match box, the door P of which is shown, is enclosed in the round
part C, D. The section' across A, B, Figure 2 shows plainly the position
occupied by this receptacle when closed, and Figure 3 shews. it open.
The door P, Figure I., is hinged and the button x serves to open it. The
part E, F, is roughened or striated so as to serve as the rubbing surface
by which to ignite the match. The door P may be closed by means of a
spring upon which the button x is fixed, and by pressing this button the
door opens sharply under the impulse of the spring H.
Figure 4 shews a candlestick in which the receptacle or match box R
is placed flat, and Figure 5 is a plan of the same. In order to take a
match the door P must be opened, but it is necessary to close it before
igniting the match, because the roughening or striation is made upon
the back of the door at Z.
Figure 6 shows the ordinary candlestick or chandelier used in hotels
and households in which the match box is arranged in a similar way as
in the candlestick shown in Fig. I. Fig. 7 is a section through L, K,
of Fig. 6, to shewn the open receptacle.
Figure 8 represents a drawing room candlestick, the receptacle of
which is placed in the stand or pedestal. Fig. 9 is a plan through C, D,
in order to shew the receptacle open.
Figure 10 shews an ornamental candlestick in which the receptacle
or match box is in a globular or balloon form, and to which is attached a
cup or saucer (nacelle) N to receive cigarrettes or other articles. The
dotted lines in red ink shew the globular part closed. In order to with-
draw the matches contained in the lower part the cup or saucer N
(nacelle) should be pressed, when all the india-rubber bands o will be
stretched, and as soon as the cup or saucer (nacelle) reaches the foot S

page_text: of the candlestick it is held there by a spring M, and thus allows the
matches in the part to be readily withdrawn. In order to close
the globular receptacle again it is only necessary to press the spring m
at u.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Felix Mazet in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
9th February 1870..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FELIX
MAZET, of Allées de Meilhan, No. 18, Marseilles, France, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Felix Mazet, Her special licence
that I, the said Felix Mazet, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Felix Mazet, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term thereiu
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 "AN IMPROVED MATCH BOX
CANDLESTICK," communication from Alfred de Banville, a person
resident at Boulevard Dugommier, 14, Marseilles, upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Felix Mazet, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, 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 immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Felix Mazet, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the

page_text: following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, that is to say:--
The Inventor has combined an apparatus which fulfils the double
purpose of a candlestick and a match box.
The chief feature of the Invention consists in annexing to candlesticks,
chandeliers, lamps, lanterns, and other portable lighting apparatus a
closed reservoir or receptacle containing matches of wood, wax, paper,
or other material, so as to be able to light the candle or lighting
apparatus. Thus the candlestick and match box constitute one and
the same apparatus.
The arrangement and form of reservoir or receptacle for containing
the matches may vary, and it may be more or less ornamented.
The Drawings attached to this Specification show the Invention
carried out in various forms.
Figure 1 shows a candlestick of metal or other material. The recep-
tacle or match box, the door P of which is shown, is enclosed in the
round part C, D. The section across A, B, Figure 2, shows plainly the
position occupied by this receptacle when closed, and Figure 3 shows
it open. The door P, Figure 1, is hinged, and the button x serves to
open it. The part E, r, is roughened or striated so as to serve as the
rubbing surface by which to ignite the match. The door P may be
closed by means of a spring, upon which the button x is fixed, and by
pressing this button the door opens sharply under the impulse from the
spring H.
Figure 4 shows a candlestick in which the receptacle or match box R
is placed flat, and Figure 5 is a plan of the same. In order to take a
match the door P must be opened, but it is necessary to close it before
igniting the match, because the roughening or striation is made upon
the back of the door at .
· Figure 6 shows the ordinary candlestick or chandelier used in hotels
and households, in which the match box is arranged in a similar way as
in the candlestick shown in Figure 1. Figure 7 is a section through L, K,
of Figure 6, to show the open receptacle.
Figure 8 represents a drawing room candlestick, the receptacle of which
is placed in the stand or pedestal. Figure 9 is a plan through C, D, in
order to show the receptacle open.

page_text: Figure 10 shows an ornamental candlestick, in which the receptacle or
match box is in a globular or balloon form, and to which is attached a
cup or saucer (nacelle) N to receive cigarettes or other articles. The
dotted lines in red ink show the globular part closed. In order to with-
draw the matches contained in the lower part t the cup or saucer N
(nacelle) should be pressed, when all the india-rubber bands o will be
stretched, and as soon as the cup or saucer (nacelle) reaches the foot s
of the candlestick it is held there by a spring M, and thus allows the
matches in the part to be readily withdrawn. In order to close the
globular receptacle again it is only necessary to press the spring M
at u.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the
combination of a candlestick or other similar portable lighting apparatus
with a receptacle or match box, thus constituting what may be called
a" match box candlestick," substantially as herein-before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Felix Mazet, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
FELIX MAZET. (L.S.)