IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MATCH AND OTHER SLIDE BOXES
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Nov., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 28th Sept., 1888
I, CHARLES BAKER, of Carr Lodge, Beckett Road, Dewsbury, and of 22, Union
Street, Dewsbury, newspaper proprietor, do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MATCH AND OTHER SLIDE BOXES, to be as
follows:-
The rim of the drawer is scored and bent in the usual way, but the two overlapping
end folds are joined upon each other with wire staples or with liquid glue or other
adhesive substance without the use of paper. The bottom for the drawer is made of
extra width, and has consequently, when scored and bent, a flange along each side;
and these flanges are attached with wire staples, or with liquid glue or other adhesive
substance, to the inner sides of the rim, without the use of paper. The drawer is
then complete.
The case covering the drawer is made in either of two forms. It is scored and bent
in the usual way but the two overlapping end folds may either be of equal size or one
of them may be of greater length so as to rise above the rest of the case and thus
permit the box to be suspended upon a wall or other suitable place. (This is, indeed,
a salient feature of the invention). In either instance the two overlapping end folds
are secured to each other with wire staples or liquid glue or other adhesive substance
without the use of paper. Any reading matter or ornamentation required upon
the outside of the case is printed direct upon the wood before the case is made up.
Dated this 24th day of November 1887.

page_text: I, CHARLES BAKER, of 22, Union Street, Dewsbury, in the county of York,
newspaper proprietor 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 :—
The material of which the box is made may be wood shaving, cardboard, pasteboard,
woodboard, or other similar material.
The rim skillet for the drawer is scored for bending as shown by the dotted lines in
figure 1, and the bottom skillet is scored for bending as shown by the dotted lines in
Fig. 2. The middle (A) and two end (B and C) panels of the rim skillet (Fig. 1)
are attached after bending to the two side panels (D and E) of the bottom skillet
(Fig. 2) with wire staples, or with glue or other adhesive substance, and the drawer
then assumes the complete form shown in figure 3. The dotted lines within the
drawer (Fig. 3) represent the bottom skillet (Fig. 2) as attached within the rim and
the vertical dotted line outside the drawer indicates the point at which the two ends
of the rini are brought together upon one of the outer bottom panels. If preferred,
the panel of the hottom skillet which is attached to the middle panel of the rim
may be made narrower as shown by the fine dotted line in Fig. 3, thus saving
material.
The case covering the drawer is scored for bending as shown by the dotted lines in
Figs. 4 or 5, so that the two end panels may either be of equal size or one of them
may be longer so as to rise above the rest of the case when made up and thus permit
the box to be suspended. In either instance the two end panels of the case skillet are
secured to each other with wire staples, or with liquid glue, or other adhesive
substance without the use of paper. The completed forms of the cases are as shown
in Figs. 6 and 7. Any reading matter or ornamentation required upon the outside of
the cases may be printed direct upon the wood shaving, or other material employed,
before the box is made up. The friction surface for striking matches upon may be
formed by sprinkling ground glass upon a layer of glue on, or by applying amorphous
phosphorous to, the panel marked F in Fig. 6 or on either of the panels marked G
and F in Fig. 7.
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 1
claim is
(1) A match or other slide box composed of wood shaving, cardboard, pasteboard,
woodboard, or other similar material, and made up by the methods indicated without
the use of paper.
(2) A slide box as above with one of the end panels of the case skillet projecting
above the rest of the case when made up so as to permit of the case being suspended
on a wall or other suitable place (by means of drawing pins or tacks or by means of
two small holes or slots made in the suspending panel for the purpose).
Dated this 23rd day of August 1888.