AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF MATCH Box
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Robert Edward Grubb, of Bow Lane, in
the City of London, Accountant, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
MANUFACTURE OF MATCH Box."
Sealed the 9th October 1868, and dated the 10th June 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Robert Edward
Grubb at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 10th June 1868.
I, CHARLES ROBERT EDWARD GRUBB, of Bow Lane, in the City of
London, Accountant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF MATCH Вox," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a novel construction of box suitable for
containing fuzees, tapers, and such like articles, the object being to
facilitate their withdrawal therefrom, while their security in the box
is secured. The box may be formed of thin metal, but by preference
I make it from a tube of paper or pasteboard, which is cut up into
lengths corresponding to the depth of box required, the tube having
been rolled to any required sectional form. To the opposite ends of the

page_text: tube I fit a hinged lid, which lids will lie flush or nearly so with the
periphery of the tube, and I ensure the closing of the lids by connecting
them together internally by a band of india-rubber compound. The
tension of the rubber will keep the lids closed and yet allow of access
to the box at either end, which will be a great convenience when the
box is used for carrying double-ended fuzees. Friction surfaces for
the ignition of matches may be prepared on the lids of the box.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Robert Edward Grubb in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 10th December 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
ROBERT EDWARD GRUBB, of Bow Lane, in the City of London,
Accountant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-first
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Charles Robert Edward Grubb, Her special
licence that I, the said Charles Robert Edward Grubb, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Robert
Edward Grubb, 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 "AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF MATCH Box," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, 'the 'said Charles Robert Edward Grubb, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Robert Edward Grubb, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner

page_text: the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, reference being had to the Drawing
hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is
to say) -
:-
This Invention relates to a novel construction of box suitable for
containing fuzees, tapers, and such like articles, the object being to
facilitate their withdrawal therefrom while their security in the box is
maintained. The box may be formed of thin metal, but by preference
I make use of paper or pasteboard. Supposing the body of the box
to take the form of a round or oval tube (which will commonly be the
shape I employ) I close opposite ends of the tube by fitting thereto
hinged lids, which lids will lie flush or nearly so with the periphery of the
tube, and I ensure the closing of the lids by connecting them together
internally by a band of india-rubber compound. The tension of the
rubber will keep the lids closed and yet allow of access to the box at
either end, which will be a great convenience when the box is used for
carrying double-ended fuzees. Friction surfaces for the ignition of
matches may be prepared on one or both of the lids of the box.
My improved boxes may be manufactured from tubes of paper or
pasteboard cut up into lengths corresponding to the depth of box
required, the tubes having been rolled to any desired sectional form.
The lids may be then attached by hinges of wire and connected together
by means of a band of india-rubber. The plan however which I prefer
to follow in making the improved boxes is to prepare sheets of paste-
board by pasting sheets of paper on opposite sides of a canvas sheet
and subjecting the same to pressure as usual. These sheets of paste-
board having been cut up into strips of suitable width I manipulate
in the manner illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, where Fig. 1
shews a strip of the canvas pasteboard ready to be cut up for boxes. This
strip by means of a suitable stamp operated by a fly press or otherwise,
I cut up into pieces, as indicated by the lines in Fig. 1, using the
breadth of the strip or the part a to form the body of the box, and
the attached pieces b, b, to form the lids. I am thus enabled to utilize
all the pasteboard except the parts tinted red and to get the lids well
secured to the body of the box without a special application of hinges
thereto, the canvas in the pasteboard serving to form at the connection
of the lids with the body firm and reliable hinges; Fig. 2 shows a piece
of pasteboard thus stamped out. Before rolling it up to form a round

page_text: box I pass a sharp knife through the outer layer of paper at the lid
junctions and then fold down the lids, I then lap the pasteboard around
a core or former, and having applied paste or other suitable adhesive
substance to the lapped edges, I fix the core or former with its envelope
in a suitable clip and retain it there until the paste or cement is dry,
I then notch the middle of the hinges and apply a ring or band of
india-rubber to the lids and secure the same by passing a loop of the
band through a hole in each lid and retaining it by the insertion in the
loop of a piece of fine wire as shewn in the sectional views Figs. 3 & 4.
The band may also be similarly attached to the body of the box, as also
shown at Figure 3; or if thought desirable this attachment of the band
may be effected before applying the pasteboard to the core or former;
this plan is illustrated at Figure 2. The box has now only to be covered
with paper in the usual way of making paper boxes, and the lids being
covered the one with friction paper and the other with a trade label
the box is complete, as shewn at Fig. 5. The advantage of this kind
of box is that whichever end comes uppermost access will be offered
to the interior without turning over the box, and this is the more
desirable when fuzees dipped at both ends are carried.
Having now set forth the nature of my Invention of "An Improved
Manufacture of Match Box," and explained the manner of carrying the
same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not confine
myself to the use of sectional forms of box shewn and described, but
I prefer those forms which give no vertical angles to the body of the
box. Under the above in part recited Letters Patent I claim manufac-
turing match boxes in the manner and for the purpose above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Robert Edward Grubb,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Tenth day of December,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.