AN IMPROVED MATCH Box
Year: 1878

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Raymond at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 24th May 1878.
HENRY RAYMOND, of 16, Baker's Row, Clerkenwell, in the County of Middlesox.
"AN IMPROVED MATCH Box."
My Invention relates to an improved construction of match box, made to deliver
one match at a time, lighting the match as it issues from the box.
My improved match box will consist of an inner cylinder fixed in a socket at one
end of an outer cylinder casing, and turning in a bearing at the other end.
I propose to make the casing to fit close to the periphery of the revolving cylinder,
around the entire circumference of which I propose to make longitudinal grooves,
each groove being of a depth and breadth suitable to receive a match, whether of
wood, wax, or other material.
I propose to make a longitudinal opening in the case to receive a sliding piece,
one end of which will travel in one of the grooves of the inner cylinder, the other
end terminating in a knob or stud outside of the case.
I propose to make the lower end of the revolving cylinder of a decreased
diameter to receive the sliding piece, and permit the turning of the match-bearing
cylinder.
I propose to perforate the cover at one end of the casing to permit the passage of
a match, to place a guide inside the case to lead the match to this opening, and to
roughen the inner surfaces of the upper part of this guide, which may be of steel
or any suitable material.
A space will be reserved between the cover at this end of the box and the top of
the revolving cylinder by lengthening its spindle or otherwise, so that the cylinder
may turn freely without touching the guide.
That end of the box in which the spindle of the revolving cylinder is socketed or
keyed will not be fixed to the casing, but be made to turn on or in it, and will have
upon its circumference lines or indications corresponding with the number of grooves
n the revolving cylinder.
I propose to provide this cover with two or more lugs travelling in a groove in
he case, and which permit its removal when brought into line with the openings
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page_text: by which they have been passed in to close the box, or it may be otherwise
Becured.
The action will be as follows:-To charge the box with matches take off the
cover having the outlet for the match, and place a match in each of the grooves of
the cylinder, so that the head of the match does not enter the groove, but lies in
the space between the top of the cylinder and the top of the case, then replace the
lid. By then turning the revolving cover the match cylinder is also turned, and
when one of the lines upon this cover is in line with the opening or slit in the casing
the slide will be in line with one of the grooves of the revolving cylinder. By then
pushing up the stud the slide pressing on the end of the match in that groove will
push it out through the hole at the other end of the box, the match lighting as it
passes the roughened part of the guide in which the match will still be held until
pulled out or consumed.
By returning the stud to the other end of its slide the cylinder is free to be again
turned to present another match to the opening, and so on until the supply of
matches is exhausted.
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I propose to make my improved match box of any suitable metal or material.