Year: 1888

page_text: I, GEORGE SILVERLOCK PAFFARD, of Number 164 Millfields Road, Clapton, London E.
Clerk do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
It consists of a small box for matches, fusees, or other articles, similar to the boxes
at present in use, (and which may be made of metal wood, leather imitation leather,
paper machiè, paper, cardboard, or any other suitable material, and be of any desired
shape or size) with the addition of the new principle (which I claim as my sole
invention) being introduced, of affixing a tablet for memoranda, on the outside of
such box, which could be used for making notes on, or referring to notes already
made on same, whether at home, in business, in the streets, while travelling, at public
meetings, or social gatherings; being in short, a "ready reference and reminder,"
and a handy article for making brief or hurried memoranda on.
The tablet may be made of ivory, enamel, paper machiè paper, card-board, or any
other suitable material.
The box would contain, in addition to matches, fusees or other articles, a pencil
(which may or may not be attached to the cover of the box) and-if not infringing
any patents already granted-a tobacco stopper, or other article or articles; while
those intended for the use of ladies, would contain pins, hair pins, or other useful
articles, in addition to, or instead of matches.
Dated this Twelfth day of September in the year of our Lord, One thousand
cight hundred and eighty-eight.

page_text: An Improvement in Boxes for Matches, Fusees, or other Articles.
I, GEORGE SILVERLOOK PAFFARD, of 164, Millfields Road, Clapton, in the County
of Middlesex, Clerk, 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 :-
This invention relates to boxes to be carried about the person and adapted for
holding matches, fusees or other articles; the same consisting in the adaptation and
employment of portions of the surfaces of such boxes for use as memorandum
tablets.
Assuming my invention to be applied, by way of example, to a match-box for the
pocket, I construct the box of metal, wood, leather, papier maché or other suitable
material, and form thereon or apply thereto a surface of enamel, ivory, or other
material suitable for the reception of memoranda. Provision may also be made for
the reception of a pencil.
For the use of ladies, a similar article may be produced, adapted for the reception
of pins or other objects in daily requirement.
As compared with a match-box and a pocket-tablet considered as separate articles,
my combined match-box and tablet possesses the advantage, not only of greater
compactness, but of increased utility; inasmuch as the frequent or periodical
withdrawal of the box from the pocket as the contents thereof are required for use
serves to insure the user being involuntarily reminded of matters to which the
memoranda inscribed upon the surface of the box relate, and to which he desires that
his attention, before the lapse of any considerable interval, should be directed.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I claim :-
:-
The manufacture of boxes adapted for being carried about the person and for
holding matches or other articles; the external surface of the box or a portion thereof
being formed as, or furnished with, a tablet for the reception of memoranda, substan-
tially as herein described.
Dated the 18th day of Decembar 1800