An Improved Device for Striking Matches, Fusees, and the like upon.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 13th Aug., 1892-Accepted, 24th Sept.. 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Striking Matches, Fusees, and the
like upon.
I, HENRY PAGE, 26 St. Peter's Street, Derby, in the County of Derby,
Umbrella Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
follows:-
as
My invention relates to an improved device to be attached to an article of dress
or to be secured in any other convenient position for striking and igniting matches,
fusees and the like.
I may construct my improved device in the form of a brooch the face of which
is serrated, roughened or otherwise suitably prepared to present a surface to strike
the match, fusee &c. upon.
This device or brooch as I may term it may be fastened by means of the usual
pin anywhere about the person and concealed if necessary, under the flap of the
waistcoat for instance; so that a person may always carry the said striking device
about with him in case the match-box be mislaid, forgotten or dispensed with.
may also be fixed in any convenient place for use such as on a dressing table, near
a fire place &c.
It
Instead of constructing my improved device with a pin at the back I may form
it so that it can be stitched onto the material; or spikes, teeth or the like may be
formed or fixed on the back or underside thereof and passed through the material
and the said spikes, teeth, &c. turned down to secure the same in position.
Dated this 22nd day of December 1891.
HENRY PAGE,
Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Striking Matches, Fusees, and the
like upon.
I, HENRY PAGE of 26 St. Peter's Street, Derby in the County of Derby,
Umbrella Dealer 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 :-
My invention relates to an improved device to be attached to an article of dress
or to be secured in any other convenient position for striking and igniting matches,
fusees and the like.
In order that my invention may be the more readily understood I have caused to
be annexed to this Specification the accompanying sheet of drawings, to the figures
and letters of reference marked thereon I now refer.
Figure 1 is a plan of my improved device.
Figures 2, 3 and 4 are longitudinal sections of same as constructed in various
forms to be hereafter described.
I construct my improved device in the form of a brooch as shewn on Figures 1
and 2, the face A of which is serrated, roughened or otherwise prepared to present
a suitable surface for igniting the match, fusec or the like.
This device or brooch as I may term it may be fastened by means of a pin B
anywhere about the person and concealed if necessary, under the flap of the
waistcoat for instance; so that a person may always carry the said striking device
about with him in case the match box be mislaid, forgotten or dispensed with.
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It

page_text: may also be fixed in any convenient place for use such as on a dressing table, near
a fire place &c. &c.
Instead of constructing my improved device with a pin at the back I may form
it with spikes, teeth or the like as at C Figure 3, the said spikes teeth &c. being
formed or fixed on the back or underside thereof and passed through the cloth or
other material and turned down to secure the same in position, or I may form it
with eyelets as at D (Figure 4) or with perforations at the corners
convenient arrangement to admit of its being stitched on the material.
or other
I may also arrange to have papers or the like with suitably prepared surfaces
for igniting safety or other matches the said papers to be inserted through a slot
or otherwise fixed in the face A.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manuer the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improved device for striking matches, fusees and the like upon, sub-
stantially as described herein and illustrated by the accompanying sheet of
drawings.
Dated this 19th day of Avovet 1002
W. SWINDELL,
Agent for the Applicant.