IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CON- TAINING MATCHES FOR OBTAINING INSTANTANEOUS LIGHT
Year: 1842

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
SAMUEL RUSH, of Sloane Street, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanic, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-ninth day of December, in the sixth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said.
Henry Samuel Rush, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege 'and
authority, that I, the said Henry Samuel Rush, my exors, admors, and assigns;
or such others as I, the said Henry Samuel Rush, my exors, admors, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town
of Berwick-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CON-
TAINING MATCHES FOR OBTAINING INSTANTANEOUS LIGHT;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Henry Samuel Rush, shall cause
a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately

page_text: after the date of the said in part récited Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Henry Samuel Rush, do hereby declare that the nature of my Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say:-
My Invention consists of so forming boxes or apparatus for containing
matches for obtaining instantaneous light, that there may be several rows of
matches, and each match have a separate compartment, open at the two ends,
but not at the sides, and each compartment so arranged in respect to the
interior surface or surfaces thereof, that in drawing out a match therefrom
the prepared end shall be subjected to such friction from the interior surface
of its separate compartment as to cause it to ignite, whereby the matches will
be held more securely from accidental ignition, and the obtaining light thereby
will be more convenient; and in order that my Invention may be fully under-
stood and readily carried into effect, I will proceed to explain the Drawing

page_text: of each compartment is contracted by being roughed with any suitable grit,.or
otherwise formed suitable for giving friction or proper pressure to the matches
in their passage through their separate compartments in which they are placed.
In-charging the box or apparatus, with matches they are passed through from
the lower end of the box, and then the lid or cover c.is to be shut,and when-
ever a light is desired, the lid is to be opened, and one of thor matches.
drawn out quickly, slightly inclined, so. that the prepared end may rub the
side or sides of its compartment in coming out thereof through. the compart-
ment in which it is placed, and the act of drawing a match out quickly
through a compartment will cause it to be ignited:
I would remark, that I do not confine myself to the form of the box or
apparatus shewn in the Drawing, as the shape of the apparatus-may be varied,
so long as the peculiar character of the Invention be retained; and I would
remark, that I am aware that it has been before proposed to make cases each
with a row of divided compartments, by which such row of matches are kept
separated, and the matches were caused to pass between two rough surfaces
which were placed above the ends of such row of separate compartments, the
two roughed surfaces being common to all the compartments, and the matches
were introduced into such separate compartments by the folding down of the
sides, which construction is complex and inconvenient. And I mention these
circumstances in order to state, that I do not claim the keeping matches in
separate compartments when the compartments are opened by the folding
down of the side or sides thereof, the peculiarity of my Invention consisting
in having the box so formed that there may be several rows of compartments
permanently closed on all sides, and having an opening below to introduce
the matches, and an opening above to remove the same, the interior of each
separate compartment being prepared or properly roughed to cause the match
therein in its passage through to become ignited. But what I claim as my
Invention is the mode of constructing apparatus for containing instantaneous
matches in separate compartments open from end to end, and not at the sides,
the upper interior surface or surfaces of such compartment being suitably pre-
pared or roughed for igniting a match in being drawn through a compartment,
as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Samuel Rush, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-three.
HENRY SAMUEL (L.S.) RUSH.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-ninth day of June, in
the year of our Lord 1843, the aforesaid Henry Samuel Rush came before
our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifica-
tion aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-three: