A MAMO SMAN HOLDE DAD HARDIO MAMOTO WA "
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Michael Letchford, of Whitechapel, in the
County of Middlesex, Match Manufacturer, for the Invention of "A
MAMO SMAN HOLDE DAD HARDIO MAMOTO WA
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Michael Letchford
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd June 1854.
I, ROBERT MICHAEL LETCHFORD, of Whitechapel, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Match Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "A MATCH STAND AND HOLDER, FOR HOLDING MATCHES WHILE BEING
IGNITED," to be as follows:-
This apparatus consists of a small tube upon a base or pedestal, or the
bottom of the tube may be spread out so as to form a base or stand; or an
aperture may be made through a piece of metal or other material of any suit-
able form. The tube is open throughout the aperture, extending through the
base, however the same may be formed. The holder is intended specially for
what are known as vestas or wax matches, but may be used with lucifer
matches of other descriptions. Where no stand is required, the holder may
then consist of a simple tube for holding the match while being ignited. My
apparatus may either be used separately or may form a portion of the box for
holding matches.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Michael Letchford in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 23rd December 1854..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
MICHAEL LETCHFORD, of Whitechapel, in the County of Middlesex, Match
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty, Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing..date the Twenty-third day of June,.in.the year of. our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Robert Michael Letchford, Her special licence that I, the said Robert
Michael Letchford, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Robert Michael Letchford, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands; and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "A MATCH STAND AND HOLDER, FOR HOLDING MATCHES WHILE BEING IGNITED,'
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Robert Michael Letchford,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
"
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Michael Letchford, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed
(that is to say)-
1.
This apparatus consists of a small tube fixed upon a base or pedestal; or the
bottom of the tube may be spread out so as to form a base or stand; or an
aperture may be made through a piece of metal or other material of any suit-
able form. The tube is open throughout the aperture, extending through the
base, however the sanie may be formed. The apparatus is intended specially
for what are known as vestas or wax matches, but may be used with lucifer
matches of other descriptions. Where no stand is required, the holder niay
then consist of a simple tube for holding the match while being ignited.
7..
My apparatus may either be used separately, or may form a portion of the

page_text: box for holding matches, but in this case it must be so connected to the box
that the tube or aperture may be open at both ends, and clear of obstruction
throughout its length.
Figure of the Drawings annexed is an elevation, and Figure 2 a plan, of
my apparatus. a is a tube of small diameter, and 6 is a base or pedestal to
which it is soldered. The tube a is open at both ends, as seen in the section,
Figure 3.
The mode of using the apparatus is as follows:-The holder is taken in the
hand in the position shewn in Figure 1, and a match is then dropped into the
tube a, when it will pass through the tube up to the head, which is tipped with
lucifer composition, and leave the head only projecting. The holder, with the
match in it, is then held sideways, in the position shewn in Figure 4, and the
match is struck against a roughened surface, such as is usually formed on
a match box, to ignite the composition. After the match is lighted the holder
may be placed on a table or other surface, the base or pedestal being first
brought in contact therewith, which will raise the match in the tubo for
burning, as in Figure 5. Should the match only be required to light a candle,
the holder need not be placed on a table, but the match, as soon as ignited,
may be pushed up through the tube, in which position it will bo ready for use.
The modifications of this apparatus, herein-before mentioned, are not shewn,
as their construction is apparent from the description above given.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim as my
Invention is,-
\
First, the construction of a match stand and holder, for holding matches
while and after being ignited, by fitting a short tube, open at both ends and
throughout its length, to a base or pedestal, or by constructing a similar
tube, with a base or pedestal formed thereon, or by forming an equivalent
aperture through a piece of metal or other suitable material.
And, second, the employment of a short tube, open at both ends and
throughout its length, as a holder for holding matches while being ignited.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Michael Letchford, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of December, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-four.
ROBERT MICHAEL LETCHFORD. (L.S.)