A NEW MATCH BOX FOR THE POCKET
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Auguste Daniel Serraillier, of 42, Georgiana Street,
Camden Town, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "A NEW
MATCH BOX FOR THE POCKET."
Sealed the 6th August 1878, and dated the 12th February 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Auguste Daniel Serraillier
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th February 1878.
AUGUSTE DANIEL SERRAILLIER, of 42, Georgiana Street, Camden Town, in the
County of Middlesex. "A NEW MATCH BOX FOR THE POCKET."
The box (the shape of which is oval, ovoidal, or elliptical) is composed of two shells
of straw or cardboard, papier mâché, leather, wood, or any other material other than
metal. Two-thirds of the shells brought edge to edge are joined together by mean
of strong glue, paste, or any other adhesive substance. The unclosed part of the
box forms an opening or mouth sufficiently wide to admit the matches, or to let
them out by one or more at a time, by merely squeezing slightly the edges of the
box.
A linen or paper binding may be pasted or glued around the part of the box
which is to remain permanently closed, so as to ensure the fastening of the shells
together.
The closing of the box is secured by mean of a piece of elastic india-rubber or
spring being fixed from side to side of the shells, so as to bring together the shells
when the squeezing of the edges of the box ceases.
The opening or mouth can also be obtained without alteration to the shape or
conformation of the box; to this end one of the shells is composed of two pieces of
an equal or different sizes according to the opening or mouth required.
The two pieces composing the above shell are joined together by means of a linen
or paper hinge or any other convenient material. The shells being then brought
edge to edge, are fastened together in the manner afore described. The play of the
elastic, india-rubber, or spring (placed in this case longitudinally upon the shell, of
which a part overlaps) ensures the return of the flap to its natural standing.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Auguste Daniel Serraillier in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th August 1878.
AUGUSTE DANIEL SERRAILLIER, of 42, Georgiana Street, Camden Town, in the
County of Middlesex. "A NEW MATCH BOX FOR THE POCKET."
The box, Fig. I., the shape of which is oval, ovoidal, or elliptical, is composed of
two shells of straw or cardboard, papier mâché, leather, wood, or any other suitable
material other than metal. Two thirds of the shells a brought edge to edge are
joined together by means of strong glue, paste, or any other adhesive substance.
The unclosed part of the box b forms an opening, or mouth sufficiently wide to
admit the matches, or to let. them out. one by one, or more at a time, by merely
squeezing slightly the edges of the box, (Fig. IV). A linen or paper binding may
be pasted or glued round the box which is to remain closed permanently a¹, so as to
ensure the fastening of the shells together.
The closing of the box is secured by means of a piece of elastic, india-rubber, or
spring c being fixed from side to side of the shells, so as to bring together the shells
when the squeezing of the edges of the box ceases.
The opening or mouth can also be obtained without alteration to the shape or
conformation of the box; to this end, one of the shells is composed of two pieces,
Fig. V., of an equal or different size, according to the mouth or opening required.
The two pieces d, d', composing the above shell, are joined together by means of
a linen or paper hinge or any other convenient material a', the shells being then
brought edge to edge, are fastened together in the manner before described.
The play of the elastic, india-rubber, or spring c placed in this case longitudinally
upon the shell, of which a part overlaps, Fig. VI., ensures the return of the flap to
its natural standing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Auguste Daniel Serraillier, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.