A Match Box and Wind Guard for Preventing Matches being Blown Out when Lighting Pipes and such like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Aug., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 13th May, 1895-Accepted, 15th June, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Match Box and Wind Guard for Preventing Matches being Blown
Out when Lighting Pipes and such like.
ALBERT EDWARD PARSONAGE 10 Devonshire Street West Kensington
Plumber do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A small metal box, so arranged that when the hinged cover is raised, two pieces
of sheet metal (spring hinged on each side of box) spring open and with the cover
form a three sided cavity, wherein matches can be struck and pipes, cigars, and such
like be lighted.
A striking surface is fitted inside the box, which also keeps the matches in place
and from igniting.
Dated 15th day of August. 1894
A Match Box and Wind Guard for Preventing Matches being Blown
Out when Lighting Pipes and such like.
I, ALBERT EDWARD PARSONAGE, late of 10 Devonshire Street, West
Kensington but now of 157 Holland Road, Kensington, in the County of Middlesex
England, Plumber, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to construct a match box in such a manner, that it
may be used to prevent the matches from being blown out when lighting pipes,
cigars, or the like.
The novelty consists in suitably attaching two hinged flaps to the box, so that
when in use, the flaps protect the lighted matches from the wind, and when not in
use they are folded down and rest under the lid of the box.
But in order that the invention may be better understood, reference is made to
the accompanying sheet of drawings in which Figure 1, represents a perspective
view of the box when open and ready for use, Figure 2, is a longitudinal section of
the box, shewn open, and Figure 3, is a transverse section of the box, shewn
closed.
In the drawings (A) is the match box, (B) the lid, which is preferably hinged
at the end (C) and provided with a suitable spring catch at the other end. Said
lid may be constructed, so as not to go further back than the position shewn.
(D) and (E) are two flaps, hinged to the sides of said box, and actuated by the
In said box
springs (F) and (F), so that when the lid is raised the flaps fly open.
is fitted a striking plate (G) for the matches, at the upper and lower portions of
which are the protectors (H) and (1) for preventing the matches from falling out,
and also igniting when the box is being used.
To use the invention it is only necessary to release the lid from its catch, as the
springs force, both, the flaps and also the lid to the open position as shewn in

page_text: Figure 1, and thus form a three sided cavity for sheltering the lighted match from
the wind. In practice it is usual to place the bowl of the pipe within this cavity
whilst the contents is being lighted.
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 :-
Firstly. The combination and arrangement with a match box (A) of the hinged
flaps (D) and (E) substantially as and for the purposes herein described and as
illustrated.
Secondly. The combination and arrangement with a match box (A) and the
flaps (D) and (E),. of the striking plate (G) and protectors (H) and (I) substantially
as and for the purposes herein described and as illustrated.
Dated the 13th day of May 1895
W. D. ROWLINGSON,
172, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant..