IMPROVED BOXES OR CASES FOR MATCHES, NEEDLES, PINS, CIGARS, AND OTHER ARTICLES.
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Nehemiah Brough, of 53, Alma Street, Aston,
near Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, for the Invention of
"IMPROVED BOXES OR CASES FOR MATCHES, NEEDLES, PINS, CIGARS, AND
OTHER ARTICLES.
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Nehemiah Brough at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 29th October 1874.
I, NEHEMIAH Brough, of 53, Alma Street, Aston, near Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVED BOXES OR CASES FOR MATCHES, NEEDLES, PINS,
CIGARS, AND OTHER ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
I make the shells of the boxes from pieces of metal, paper, wood, or
a combination of either of an elliptical, circular, or rectangular shape,
and in one or more arrangements turn in one end of each shell to form .
a ledge, on which I place a moveable plate or bottom having two or
more guides or uprights in contact with the interior of the shell, and to .

page_text: the other end of the shell I hinge a lid or cover provided with a catch
or holder. These boxes are filled with matches, cigars, or other articles,
one end of cach resting on the moveable plate, and when the articles
have to be removed for use it is only necessary to turn back the lid and
push the moveable plate so that the articles shall so far project that they
can be casily removed, and when these boxes are used for matches
roughened plates can be soldered to them when desired.
In another arrangement, more especially adapted for cigar cases, I
have a hinged lid or cover at both ends of the shell, and solder or other-
wise fasten near one end a plate or partition, the space between which
and its adjacent cover forming a receptacle for matches, and on the
other side of the plate there are springs in contact with a moveable
bottom having guides in contact with the interior of the shell. When
the case is filled with cigars the cover when closing pushes down or back
the moveable plate to allow the cover to be fastened, but when the cover
is turned back the springs rise or push forward the moveable plate so
that the cigars will project out of the box and be easily taken, and on
these cases there are roughened plates when desired.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Nehemiah
Brough in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th May 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, NEHEMIAH
BROUGH, of 53, Alma Street, Aston, near Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in
the thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Nehemiah Brough, Her
special license that I, the said Nehemiah Brough, my executors, admini-
strators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Nehemiah Brough, 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,

page_text: and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVED
BOXES OR CASES FOR MATCHES, NEEDLES, PINS, CIGARS, AND OTHER ARTICLES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Nehemiah Brough,
my executors or administrators, 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 Nehemiah Brough, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, reference being had to the Figures on the
accompanying Sheet of Dawings, and to the letters marked thercon,
that is to say :—
I make the shells of the boxes from pieces of metal, paper, wood, or
a combination of either of an elliptical, circular, or rectangular shape,
and in one or more arrangements turn in one end of cach shell to form
a ledge, on which I place a movable plate or bottom having two or
more guides or uprights in contact with the interior of the shell, and to
the other end of the shell I hinge a lid or cover provided with a catch
or holder. These boxes are filled with matches, cigars, or other articles,
one end of each resting on the movable plate, and when the articles
have to be removed for use it is only necessary to turn back the lid and
push the movable plate so that the articles shall so far project that they
can be easily removed, and when these boxes are used for matches
roughened plates can be soldered to them when desired.
On the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, Figs. 1 and 2 are outside
views of a closed box adapted for matches and other small articles;
Figs. 3 and 4, outside views; and Figs. 5 and 6, sections of the box
when opened; and Fig. 7, a view of a detached part.
The shell marked a has at the bottom a turned-in ledge b, on which
is placed the movable bottom c having two uprights or guides & shewn
unbent in Fig. 7, and to the top of the shell is hinged the lid or cover e
provided with a catch or holder f, which enters the nick y formed in the
shell a

page_text: In another arrangement, more especially adapted for cigar cases, shewn
in the sections Figs. 8 and 9 and outside views Figs. 10 and 11, I have
a hinged lid or cover i at both ends of the shell k and solder or otherwise
fasten near one end a plate or partition h, the space between which and
its adjacent cover forming a receptacle for matches, and on the other 5
side of the plate there is a spring tin contact with a movable bottom m,
having guides n in contact with the interior of the shell. When the
case is filled with cigars the cover when closing pushes down or back
the movable plate to allow the cover to be fastened, but when the cover
is turned back the springs raise or push forward the movable plate so 1
that the cigars will project from the box and be easily taken out, and on
these cases there are roughened plates when desired.
Having now described the nature and particulars of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I desire it to be
understood that I claim the improved boxes or cases for matches, needles, 1
pins, cigars, and other articles, as herein described and illustrated on the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Nehemiah Brough, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of April in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-.
five.
Witness,
G. SEPTIMUS HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester,
NEHEMIAH BROUGH. (L.S.)