Improvements in Match Boxes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 26th Sept., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Match Boxes.
I JOHN TIOKELL of Valencia Villa, Oxford Street, Workington, in the County
of Cumberland, Secretary, 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 and accompanying drawings:-
My said invention relates to improvements in match boxes whereby the same
can be made serviceable for lighting a tobacco pipe, cigar or cigarette out of doors
or in blowy weather.
My invention will be best understood by a reference to the annexed sheet of
illustrative drawings which clearly show the nature of the improvements.
Fig. 1. is a perspective view of the box when closed.
Fig. 2. is a similar view when opened.
Fig. 3. is a longitudinal section of the box shown opened and put to use to light
a pipe.
The improved box consists of the ordinary type of match box a sliding in and out
of a cover 6 open at both ends. The box a and cover bare preferably made of thin
sheet metal but they might be made of wood paper or other light and preferably
incombustible material. According to my invention I form a hole o in the lower
side of the cover bas plainly appears in Fig. 2. When the sliding box a is pushed
forward in the cover as shown in Fig. 2. the hole c is uncovered and appears at
the foot of a protected recess enclosed by the four sides of the cover and the end of
the sliding.box a. To prevent the sliding box a from being pushed too far out of the
cover bfix a stop d to the upper side of the cover, the said stop appearing in
Fig. 3. This stop by coming in contact with the ends of the box a prevents the
box from being drawn entirely out. The side of the cover b is roughened in the
ordinary or in a suitable manner to ignite the match, or the ends of the box a might
be so roughened.
When my invention is put in use, I push out the sliding box a containing the
matches as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 and take out a match. I then place the filled
pipe bowl e beneath the hole o in the bottom of the cover as shown in Fig. 3.
The match is then struck and the ignited head placed smartly in the enclosed
space at the end of the cover where the hole is situated. This protects the light
and prevents it from being extinguished or blowu out. The light is held to
or above the hole and is drawn by the smoker through the tobacco in the bowl so
as to light the pipe. The light is so securely protected by the enclosing walls
of the recess that it cannot be extinguished or blown out even in rainy or windy
weather.
To light a cigar or cigarette I push the sliding box a out at the other end vis. :
the perforated end of the corer, leaving a recess without any hole. The light and
the cigar or cigarette end are introduced into this protecting recess, the light being
thereby protected until its purpose is effected.
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 improved match box substantially as herein before described and as
illustrated
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page_text: 2. A match box consisting of a sliding box and cover, the bottom of the cover
having a hole so that when the match box is pushed out, the hole is uncovered and
a recess presented to receive and protect the light, which is drawn through the hole
into the tobacco bowl, substantially as hereinbefore described and as shown.
Dated this 22nd day of August 1896.
For the Applicant,
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
John Dalton Street, Manchester, Chartered Patent Agents.