An Improved Combination of a Match Box or the like with a Walking Stick, an Umbrella, or the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 12th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 17th Feb., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combination of a Match Box or the like with a
Walking Stick, an Umbrella, or the like.
I, CHARLES Henry Dumenil, of No. 16 Broad Street, Golden Square, in
the County of Middlesex, Manufacturing Silversmith, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved combination of a match box or the like with
a walking stick, an umbrella or the like. In carrying it into effect, I provide a
suitable tube which is let into the stick. There is combined with the top of the
tube a suitable flange to facilitate the connection of the tube to the stick. The
matches themselves, are carried in a second tube which fits inside the flanged one.
There is combined with the two an expelling spring adapted to present the ends of
the matches above the level of the aforesaid flange when the internal tube is raised
by the resilience of the spring. A hinged or other cover is provided and there is
combined with this cover a suitable cam, a shoulder or a link which is adapted to
engage with, or is connected to, the inner tube in such a way that when the cover
is closed the tube and its contents are pushed down into the outer tube, and when
the cover is partly raised the ends of the matches are presented above the flange.
Dated this 5th day of December 1893.
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PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combination of a Match Box or the like with a
Walking Stick, an Umbrella, or the like.
I, CHARLES HENRY DUMENIL, of No. 16 Broad Street, Golden Square, in
the County of Middlesex, Manufacturing Silversmith, 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 combination of a match box, or the like,
with a walking stick, an umbrella, or the like. In carrying it into effect, I provide
a suitable tube which is let into the stick. There is combined with the top of the
tube, a suitable flange to facilitate the connection of the tube to the stick. The
matches themselves are carried in a second tube which fits inside the flanged one.
There is combined with the two, an expelling spring adapted to present the ends
of the matches above the level of the aforesaid flange when the internal tube is
raised by the resilience of the spring. A hinged or other cover is provided and
there is combined with this cover a suitable cam, a shoulder or a link which is
adapted to engage with, or is connected to, the inner tube in such a way that when
the cover is closed the tube and its contents are pushed down into the outer tube,
and when the cover is partly raised, the ends of the matches are presented above
the flange.
In order that the invention and the best means of carrying it into practical effect
may be thoroughly understood, I will now describe it in detail, referring in so doing
to the accompanying figures which illustrate two forms which it may take.

page_text: Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of the upper portion of a walking stick,
illustrating the present invention.
Figure 2 is a front elevation corresponding therewith.
Figure 3 is a sectional side elevation corresponding with Figure 1 but shewing the
match box open and the matches protruded.
Figure 4 is a front elevation of a detached match box.
Figure 5 is a sectional side elevation illustrating a modification of the invention.
a is a straight metal tube open at both ends. It is let into the straight portion
of the stick b, concentrically therewith. When the stick has a bent handle such.
as the one illustrated, the top of the tube terminates with the outer surface of the
bent handle just above the junction of the latter with the straight. With any shape
of handle, the tube is placed in the stick so as to present its top in a convenient
position for the abstraction of some of the contents of the box, e.g., a single match.
Suitable provision is made for fixing the tube firmly in the stick, and this may take
the form illustrated, namely a flange a fast on the top or mouth of the tube and
shaped to fit the contour of the stick, and screws a² passed through the flange into
the stick.
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c is the box for the matches or the like. It consists of a second tube small
enough to fit easily within the tube a and closed at the lower end. The top cut
away both in front and at the sides for the purpose of further facilitating the
abstraction of one of its contents, e.g., a single match. In point of length, the box c
is less in its shallowest part than its contents and about half that of the tube a.
d is a disc adapted to serve as the bottom of the tube a. It is shewn as held to the
tube by lugs & formed out of the said tube and bent towards its axis. e is a spiral
spring between the said bottom and that of the box c. Its function is to push up
'the box e when the cover (next described) is raised. The disc d may be dispensed
with and the bottom d' of the mortice d² in the stick used as a base for the spring
to work against, but I prefer to use a disc or other special bottom for the tube a to
prevent the spring dropping out before the tube is fitted into the mortice.
e is the cover of both tube a and box c. It is shewn as hinged to the top of the
former at the back of it by a knuckle joint e¹ of the well known kind and is provided
with a suitable thumb bit e in front, which is further provided with a catch or
steadying pin e adapted to engage in a socket e in the flange a¹. The invention
is not confined to a knuckle joint hinge but includes the use of any other type of
pivotal connection between cover and tube capable of working with the cam f. The
latter is shewn as fixed to the cover along the longer diameter thereof, and when
the cover is hinged to the top of the tube a in the manner illustrated, the cam
engages in a central notch f' cut in the top edge of the back of box c. f³ is a stop
on the back of the cover adapted to engage with the back of the box c to prevent
the cover being pushed too far back.
The cam passes the notch f¹ and the cover e reaches its seat at the same
time that the locking edge f³, preferably part of the same plate as that of the camf,
engages in the said notch, and in virtue of being at right angles with the axis. of
the box, locks the latter down.
The spring and cam illustrated may be replaced by links pivotted by their
opposite ends to the cover e³ and box c, respectively. This modification is illustrated
in Figure 5. The box c is connected to the cover e by means of a pair of links g.
is an automatic spring detent adapted to lock the box down and to yield before
it when the cover e is raised.
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 I
claim is :-
1. The combination of tube, box, cover and connection between the cover and
'box, as set forth.
2. The combination of tube, internal tube or box, cover for both tube and box,

page_text: cam on the cover engaging the box, and spring between the bottom of the tube and
that of the box, as set forth.
3. The combination of the mechanism claimed in either of the preceding claims
with a walking stick, or an umbrella or the like, as set forth.
Dated this 12th day of January 1894.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.