Improvements in the Packing of Matches or Match-splints.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Mar., 1891-Accepted, 24th Dec., 1591
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Packing of Matches or Match-splints.
I, GUSTAV AUGUST ROSENKÖTTER of Groningen, Holland, Merchant, 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:-
This invention relates to a method of packing all kinds of matches or match-
splints very readily by simple means.
In carrying out the invention the matches or splints are stuck with a sticking
substance laterally by their ends on strips of any suitable sufficiently firm material
and the strips so furnished with matches or splints are then placed together so as
to form the matches or splints into groups or blocks of a suitable number. The
ends of the matches or splints and the outer edges of the strips have then pasted
over them a sheet strip or band of a suitable material such as paper, cardboard,
wood, cellulose, leather, cloth, india-rubber, etcetera. The group or block is then.
ready for placing in an outer cover.
Referring to the accompanying drawing
Figs. 1 and 2 are respectively side and top views of matches or splints a fixed to
the strips b. с is the sheet, strip, or band pasted over the ends of the matches or
splints a and edges of the strips b.
Fig. 3, shews a group or block of matches or splints arranged to open out in two
halves on point d.
Fig. 4 is a view of a group or block in the open position and with the sheet or
strip c carried down two sides of the same for increased rigidity.
To allow of the opening and closing the strips are cut through.
The group or block so arranged is placed in a wood, cardboard or other cover of
the form shewn in Fig. 5 made out of material of the shape shewn in Fig. 6 so that
the complete package is as shewn in Fig. 7.
The group or block may be mounted on the cover by a band or pin joint d
(Figs. 6, 7, 8) so that the halves of the group or block may be opened out sideways
through the two open sides of the cover.
Instead of fixing the matches or splints to strips b as shewn they may be brought
quite close together in convenient groups or blocks and then have a sheet, strip, or
band such as c pasted over their ends to unite them.
The composition or the material of rough
struck is pasted to the upper part of the
fixed non-igniting ends, the outer free ends
composition.
surface on which the matches are
cover, that is to say, over their
being furnished with the igniting
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is ;
1. The process of packing or preparing for packing matches or match splints
consisting in sticking the same together at their non-igniting ends whether arranged
at distances apart or close to each other by means of a sheet strip or band so as to
allow of a determined quantity such as the contents for a match box or case to be
readily separated, substantially as described and shewn.

page_text: 2. The groups or blocks of matches or match splints formed in the manner
described in combination with a cover substantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 4th day of March 1891.
CAPITAINE & VON HERTLING.
89, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.