US1035317A - Match-container. - Google Patents

Description

E. CHANAL.

MATCH CONTAINER.

APPLICATION IILED JAN. 16, 1012.

1,035,317. PatentedAug. 13,1912. TEL T E.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMILE GHANAL, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

MATCH-CONTAINER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMILE OHANAL, a citizen of France, residing in the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in lVlatch-Conta-iners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the class of matchcontainers.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, compact, eflicient and ornamental device adapted to easily receive and to hold a plurality of match-boxes, and to readily present them for successive removal as desired, the lowermost box being so disposed as to present its sanded surface for the purpose of striking a match, said device being formed with a top-chamber for the loose matches which are being used, and with a gate-controlled receptacle for receiving, holding, and discharging the burnt matches.

To this end, my invention consists in the novel match-container which I shall now fully describe, by reference to. the accompanying drawings in which-- Figure 1 is a front elevation of my matchcontainer. Fig. '2 is a vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a view showing a matchbox being opened.

The body 1 of the device is a three-sided box, open at the back and forming together with the wall 2 against which it is placed a magazine 3 of dimensions adapted to contain a. columnar store of match boxes 4. The box is secured to the wall in suitable manner, as, for example, by means of the screws 5, through the top and bottom brackets 6. The upper end of the magazine space 8 is closed by a shelf 7 which is so placed with relation to the top of the box that it forms a floor for a top chamber 8 which is adapted to receive and has capacity for a box-full of loose matches, indicated by 9. The lower end of the magazine space 3 has a floor 10 which is cut out at 11, in order to permit the finger of the operator to act in loading the magazine with matchboxes, as I shall presently describe. The lower end of the magazine space 3, just above its floor 10, is open to the front, the opening 12 being of the 'full width of the magazine and of a height about equal to or a little greater than the thickness of one box of matches, so that said box which is the bottom one of the columnar store and Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 16, 1912.

Patented Au 13, 1912.

Serial No. 671,471.

rests upon the floor 10, may expose its sanded surface 13 to the front, as is shown in Fig. 1. The sides of the box at the ends of the openings 12 are cut back at 1 L to enable the match box to be easily grasped to remove it.

The front of the body 1 is formed or provided with a hollow sheath 15, which forms a receptacle 16 for the burnt matches. The top of this receptacle is open. The bottom is open also, but is covered normally by a swinging gate 17, pivoted at 18. The end walls of the top-chamber 8 are'made to incline or flare outward, and are formed with downwardly directed slits 19, which leave between them a flange 20. This flange is adapted to enter the inverted end of the inner member 21 of the match box, when said box is held as shown in Fig. 3, and to serve as a means for opening the box.

The use of the device is as followsz-It is screwed against the wall 2. The operator slips a box of matches into the opening 12 with its sanded-surface forward. Then lifting said box with his finger introduced under it through the cut out portion 11 in the floor 10 he pushes a second box of matches under the first, and thus the second box takes the place of the first, the latter being lifted up into the magazine space. This is continued until the magazine is full of match boxes, each with its sanded surface to the front, and the sanded surface of the lowermost exposed in the opening 12, as seen in Fig. 1. Now the'operator, taking another box of matches, inverts it, pushes the inner member slightly forward and fits the inverted projecting end of said member down in the slits 19 of the end walls of the top chamber 8, so that the flange 20 enters said end. The inclination of the end walls provides fora good finger rest to hold the match box at the proper angle. Then the user withdraws the outer member of the box from the inner member, which is fast on the opening flange 20, so that the matches drop into the chamber 8, ready for use. They fall with their ignition ends all in one direction, and the matches lie quite regular and parallel, being easy to take out and strike. Then taking one loose match 9 from the chamber 8, the user strikes it on the exposed sanded surface of the lowermost box of the magazine, and finally deposits the burned match into the receptacle 16 through its open top. The gate 17 being closed, the burnt matches accumulate, until they are discharged by the opening of the gate.

WVhen the loose matches 9 in the top chamber 8 are exhausted, the user, grasping the lowermost box of the columnar store by its ends, partially exposed in the side cuts 14, slips it out through the front opening 12, and the column of boxes drops down, so that the next box becomes the lowermost and is exposed in the opening 12. From the box thus removed, the matches are dumped into the top chamber 8. Thus the operation continues until all the matches are used and the device is then reloaded. The box may be made of any suitable material and may be as ornamental as desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A match-container comprising a box formed with a magazine to hold a columnar store of match-boxes, said magazine having a shelf at its upper end below the top of the box which said shelf forms the floor of a chamber adapted to receive loose matches, and said magazine having at its lower end a supporting floor above which is formed in the front of the box an opening of capacity to receive a match box and to expose the entire front side of the same, and a receptacle on the front of the box for burnt matches, said receptacle having at its lower end a discharge gate.

2. A match-container comprising a box formed with a magazine to hold a columnar store of match boxes, said magazine having a shelf at its upper end below the top of the box which said shelf forms the floor of a chamber adapted to receive loose matches, and said magazine having at its lower end a supporting floor which is in part out out to enable the finger of the user to be introduced under the match box, the magazine having also at said lower end a front opening of capacity to receive a match box and to expose the entire front side of the same, the sides of the box at the ends of the opening being cut back, to partially expose the ends of the match box in order that it may be grasped to remove it, and a receptacle on the front of the box for burnt matches, said receptacle having at its lower end a discharge gate.

3. A match-container comprising a box formed with a top-chamber to receive loose matches, said chamber having the upper edge of its wall formed wit-h slits leaving between them a flange adapted to enter the end of the inner member of an inverted match-box and serve as an opener for said match box. I

4. A match-container comprising a box formed with a top-chamber to receive loose matches, said chamber having the upper edge of its wall formed with slits leaving between them a flange adapted to enter the end of the inner member of an inverted match box and serve as an opener for said match box, said match-container box being also formed, below said top-chamber, with a magazine having at its lower end a floor to support a columnar store of match boxes within said magazine, the lower portion of the magazine being open to the front to expose the sanded surface of the lowermost box of said store.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EMILE CHANAL.

Witnesses:

WM. F. BOOTH, D. B. RICHARDS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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