An Improved Construction of Automatic Match Delivery Boxes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Jan., 1888
Complete Left, 24th Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 25th May, 1888
An Improved Construction of Automatic Match Delivery Boxes.
FREDERICK WILLIAM CANNON, Consulting Engineer 33 Alpha Road Millwall
London County of Middlesex do hereby declaro the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
For my purpose I employ a box of rectangular or other form, the shape being a
matter of preference as the novelty exists in the delivery slides arranged and actuted
as follows. The upper part of the box is arranged with guides for conducting the
matches into an angular shaped slot, the slot being the shape of the matches
allowing the matches to pass down same easily without jamining. The matches
are fed or worked into this angular slot by means of a double slide at the foot of
the shoot or guides before mentioned, this said slide is arranged at the bottom
part with a slot just large enough to hold one match, and at the top part much
wider, the angular shaped slot being made a fixture between the lower and upper
slide, a narrow lodge or shelf is placed below the slot in the lower slide to prevent
the matches falling through, and from the edge of this shelf a shoot is made
extending to the outside of the box and terminating in a tray or receiver, in the
front of the receiver is a button fixed to a short rod, the said rod being connected
to a lever placed between the receiver and foot of the box, the lever continuing
horizontally to the back of box with another lever branching off vertically, the
corner of the angle working in a fulcrum or fixed bracket, and the top end of the
vertical lever being attached to the slide by depressing and lifting the button a
laterial motion is given to same so by depressing the button the duplex slide is
pushed forward and on releasing the button by means of a spring placed directly
beneath the front end of the horizontal lever is returned to its place so by these
means the matches are delivered singly by the lower slide into the shoot and
conducted thereby into the receiver while at the same time the matches are fed
into the angular shaped fixed slot and from thence fed singly into the slot in lower
slide on return of same to its original position ready to deliver another match when
the button is depressed.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Construction of Automatic Match Delivery Boxes.
FREDERICK WILLIAM CANNON Consulting Engineer 33 Alpha Road Millwall
London, E. 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 :-
For my purpose I employ a box of the form shown in the enclosed drawing, the 5
form being a matter of preference as any other form would answer the same purpose
providing the actuating parts remained the same, the principal object aimed at being
to deliver matches singly with as little trouble as possible, to accomplish this I work
as follows. The space marked A is filled with Matches, the Matches travelling down
with their weight & filling the spaces shown between the sides of B. C. D & E. so 1
that B holds a number of matches also C. D holds a few those few being placed one on
top of the other. E holds one match only this match resting on the ledge formed at
the top of the shoot I. The action is thus, on depressing the button F the spring G is
depressed & the top end of the vertical lever H communicates a lateral or to & from
motion to the bottom slide E and the match resting on the ledge is pushed off and 1
dropped down the shoot I into the receiver J ready for use, the slide being returned
to place by means of the spring G. at the same time the slide E is pushed forward the
duplex slide C. is actuated & being fixed to the slide E receives a similar motion & on
the out & return stroke causing a shuffling motion to be given to the Matches in
the guides or shoot B. the shuffling motion causing them to drop into and fill the
fixed shoot D. from the shoot D they are fed into the slot in the slide E ready for
delivery when the next match is required. Fig. 3 shows the outside of Match box
with striking plate for igniting matches.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion & in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is.
1st. The delivery of a single match by means of a series of shoots slots & slides as
herein described & illustrated by my drawing.
2nd. The general arrangement and form as shown by my drawing and the right to
use any of the working parts separately or together as shown.
Dated this 24th day of April 1888