An Improved Match-holder.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd June, 1893-Accepted, 12th Aug., 1893
COMPLETE DI MULTICATION.
An Improved Match-holder.
I, GEORGE GATTON MELHUISH HARDINGHAM, of 191, Fleet Street, in the
City of London, Civil Engineer and Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention (a communication to me from Charles Searle, of
Oakleigh, near Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, Farmer,) 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 an improved match-safe or -holder adapted for use as a
fixture in or as an attachment to an angle or corner of a room or other part of a
building.
Match-safes serve to keep an ample supply of matches in one definite place,
whereby the obtaining of a match when required is facilitated, but another
important feature is that they can be readily found in the dark, whereas a box of
matches which has been set down at haphazard is difficult to find.
The object of this invention is to provide a match-safe which can be more easily
found in the dark than match-safes of the ordinary kind.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a view representing in perspective one form of the improved match-safe,
which is shown fixed by way of example in the angle between the wall and one side
of the door-frame.
Fig. 2 is a similar view illustrating a modification of the invention.
Fig. 3 is a plan of the safe; the wall and door-frame being in section.
A match-safe made in accordance with this invention may be cast, moulded,
stamped or otherwise formed in metal, glass, earthenware or other suitable material.
It may be of any desired shape, and may be ornamented in any appropriate manner.
The two sides A and B, which are at right angles to each other, form the back of
the safe, which is consequently adapted to fit into any angle or corner of large
enough dimensions. C is the bottom and D the front of the safe. The matches are
placed in the receptacle formed by the bottom C, the front D and parts of the
sides A and B. The safe may be fastened in position by screws, or it, may be hung
on a hook or button.
The angle of a door-frame or window-frame and wall, or the corner of a room,
can always be easily found in the dark, so that a safe placed in such a position can
be more readily discovered than one fixed on the plane surface of a wall.
corner-
A special advantage of the improved safe, which may be termed a
match-safe is that, owing to its location, its presence does not constitute an
obstruction.
The safe or holder is preferably provided with a striking surface F (Fig. 1)
secured to or formed on a downward continuation of the sides A and B. Or the
striking surface may be on the front D of the receptacle, as shown in Fig. 2. The
front D may, moreover, be continued downwardly in order to give a larger striking
surface.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I claim :-
1. A match-safe or -holder adapted for use in an angle or a corner and having
a back formed by two sides meeting at right angles to each other, substantially as
described and illustrated.
2. The improved match-safe or -holder comprising a bottom C, a front D and a
back formed by the two sides A and B. substantially as described and illustrated.

page_text: 3. The improved match-safe or -holder having a suitable bottom and front, a back
formed by two sides at right-angles to each other, and a striker such as D or F,
substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated this 92nd down of June 1902
G. G. M. HARDINGHAM.