Improvements in Match Holders.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 16th May, 1894-Accepted, 16th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Match Holders.
I CHARLES BAKER, of 151, Earlham Grove, Forest Gate, in the County of
Essex, Journalist do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to a wall-holder for matches and spent matches, so
constructed that the case of an ordinary sliding matchbox is utilized in connection
therewith as a receptacle for matches while the drawer is available for the reception
of the spent matches. One advantage of this arrangement is that the matches are
always at hand, when wanted, as the box, in its separated state, cannot be con-
veniently removed. Another advantage is that, by the use of the drawer of the
matchbox as a tray the spent matches can be readily removed when the holder is
replenished.
In working out my invention I take a strip of tin or other suitable material,
say 7 to 10 inches in length, and 2 or 3 inches wide, and I narrow and bend one
end of this in such a way as to form a hollow body, which exactly fits the inside of
the case of an ordinary sliding matchbox and forms a plug or raised bottom, upon
which matches, inserted within the case, may stand, conveniently raised for use.
Of the wider material immediately below this plug I form a plate say an inch or
two in depth, by means of which the article can be nailed or otherwise suspended
against a wall or fixture. The rest of the material I form into a tray, in which the
drawer of the matchbox may be placed as a receptacle for the spent matches, or
which may be used as a receptacle for spent matches apart from such drawer.
As an alternative plan I make of the bottom part of the material, which need
not then be so wide, a clip to hold the drawer, instead of a tray.
At times I cast, mould, or carve or otherwise fashion the article as described,
according to the material used.
Dated this 16th dor of Au 1902
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Match Holders.
1, CHARLES BAKER, of 151, Earlham Grove, Forest Gate, in the County of
Essex, Journalist, 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 that description of match-holder in which the case or
outer part of an ordinary sliding matchbox is used, without the drawer or inner
part, as a receptacle for the matches before they are struck. In my invention the
emptied drawer of the matchbox is also utilized to receive the matches after
they have been struck and thus enable them to be compactly and conveniently
removed.
In working out my invention in one way I take a strip of tin or other suitable
metal plate, say 7 or 8 inches long by 2 or 3 inches wide (according to the size of
the matchbox case and drawer to be accommodated), and I narrow and bend one
end of this strip in such a way as to form a hollow rectangular body (A), which
exactly fills the case of an ordinary sliding matchbox to one half, or, perhaps, less,
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page_text: of the length of such case, and forms when placed therein a plug or raised bottom
upon which matches, inserted at the other end of the case, may be stood,
conveniently raised for use (D).
The broader material immediately below this plug I utilize as a plate (B), say
two inches in depth, by means of which, when perforated with two holes B 1, the
article can be suspended on nails of convenient size driven into the wall or other
convenient place.
The remainder of the material I form into a tray or flanged shelf (C) in which
the drawer of the matchbox fits D 1 and is there used as a receptacle for the spent
matches.
I either leave this tray entirely open at each end or I leave one or both ends
sufficiently open or low to enable the drawer of the matchbox to be easily got at
for removal when it is ready to be taken away with its contents.
Sometimes in lieu of the tray or flanged shelf in which to hold the drawer I
make of the bottom part of the metal plate a clip (E), between which and the
wall the drawer of the matchbox E 1 may be held for the purposes described.
At times I mould or cast the article in the form first described in plastic or
meltable substances of the kind which subsequently sets hard or I carve or other-
wise work it out of wood or other suitable material.
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 plug, suspending plate, and tray or flanged shelf, made
and shaped in the manner and of the proportions described for use as a wall
match-holder and in which holder provision is specially made as described for the
accommodation in two separate positions and for two distinct purposes as described
of the outer covering or case and the inner part or drawer of an ordinary sliding
matchbox.
2. The combination of plug, suspending plate, and clip, made and shaped in
metal plate as described for the purposes also described.
Dated this 16th day of May 1894.
CHARLES BAKER.