US1037022A

US1037022A - Match-box holder.

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Publication number: US1037022A
Application number: US54833410A
Authority: US
Inventors: Benjamin F Klein
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1910-03-10
Filing date: 1910-03-10
Publication date: 1912-08-27
Anticipated expiration: 1929-08-27

Description

B. F. KLEIN.

' MATCH BOX HOLDER.

APPLIOATIOQ FILED MAR.10, 1910.

193M220 Patented Aug; 27,1912.

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MATCH-BOX HOLDERQ 1910. Serial mi; 548,334.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. KLEIN,

.a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Match-Box Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, concise, and exact description, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, forming I 1 one of said incisions being longer than the a part of this specification.

My invention relates tomatch box holders and is particularlyconcerned with that class of devices wherein the holder proper isin.

the formof a placard adapted to bear advertising matter of any suitable description.

It is the object of my invention to pr ovidesuch a holder which, though not necessarily so, may be formed of pasteboard oi the usual thickness employed for advertising" placard purposes.

The novelty of my invention resides in the means for attaching the match box td the support, the particular means being consistent with my purpose to secure a simple etficient and inexpensive device.

The type of match box which the holder of my invention is adapted to support is the ordinary telescope or slide match box, ordinarily called a safety match box, such as are usually discarded when their contents have been exhausted.

The holder of my invention is in the form of a sheet, as hereinbefore stated, and is pre pared for the reception of the match box by a simple operation of incision and without cutting away any part of the sheet. Once in place, the match box is held open by frictional engagement so that the matches may be readily removed therefrom and, as a whole, is held positively and with sufiicient rigidity to warrant striking the matches on the prepared roughened surfaces usually provided on the sides of the box.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevational view of the holder, showing the match box in place; Fig. 2 is ,a perspective view of the holder, the match box being-removed; Fig. 3 is an elevational View of the holder, two positions of the box being indicated in dotted lines; Fig. 4 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional view,takenon the plane 4, at of Fig. I; and- Fig. 5 is an elevational View of a modified form of my invention.

The holder proper is in the form of a card dinary match box so as to provide room for any desired advertising matter, as indicated. As shown at 7, 7, the card may be provided with suitable apertures to provide for hang- As best shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the card is sub ected to two U-shaped incisions lying'in longitudinal registration with each other,

other. Such incisions leave the

tongues

8 and 9, 'the'tongue 8 being the larger of the two, and a bridge 10 which is effective in retaining the substantial rigidity of the card. The match box, as above stated, is of the ordinary type, comprising a receptacle l1 and a sleeve 12, and the

tongues

8 and 9 are between the sleeve proper and the rece tacle at the back thereof, as indicated in Fig. 4:.

In placing the. .match box on-the card, the longer tongue, in this instance the tongue 8, is inserted in the sleeve in back of the match receptacle and the entire arrangement is slid upwardly on this tongue into the upper position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3.- The vertical parts of the U-shaped incision which results in the tongue 8 are of such lengthethatthe match of the U-shaped incision which results in the other tongue. That is, the distance from the root of the tongue 8 to the top of the tongue 9 is at least as great, if not eater, than the length of the sleeve 12. A ter the match box has been placed in the position just described, the tongue 9 is guided into the sleeve, in back of the receptacle, and the arrangement is slid downwardly into the lower position shown in dotted lines in Fig, The box is brought downwardly the tongue 9, and the relative dimensions are such that whenin this position a considerable part of the tongue 8 still lies within the sleeve of the match box. That is, the

distance from the root of the tongue 9 to the lower end of the tongue 8. After the match box has thus been mounted in place the receptacle portion 11 may be move upwardly to expose the matches to access, but not beyond the upper end of the tongue 9. Frictional engagement will hold the reas far as'it will go, that is, to the root of Patented Aug. 27, 1912.

6,'which is considerably larger than the orr f ,ing the card in some convenient manner. I

of such width as to fit snugly in the sleeve box may be raised beyond the vertical part length of the sleeve 12 is greater than the ceptacle in place, chiefly because of the introduction of the fla s between the receptacle and its sleeve ii for no other reason, and the positive engagement of the sleeve 12 at the lower ends of the lower incision will afiord means whereby the matches may be struck on the sides of the box where the usual prepared roughened surfaces 13 are provided.

In Fig. 5 I have shown a modification whereby the incisions comprise merely two longitudinal .cuts and one transverse cut connecting the two. In this arrangement the bridge or cross piece 10 is not provided,

card need be of any more rigidity than that of the ordinary pasteboard now commonly employed for placard purposes.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

A match box holder comprising ementially a single sheet having two separate longitudinally alining U-shaped incisions to leave two tongues extending toward each other, and a transverse bridge part, the distance from the root of one tongue to the end of the other being greater than the distance. from the root of the other to the end of said first-named tongue.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name this 5th day of March, A. D. 1910.

' BENJAMIN F. KLEIN.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR H. Bon'rronnn, v LEONARD W. NOVANDER.