US1064068A - Match-box holder. - Google Patents

Description

J.L.GAPFNEY.

MATCH BOX HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.18,1912.

JOI-IN L. GAIFNEY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MATCH-BOX HOLDER.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

. Patented J une 10, 191,3.

Application tiled September 18, 1912. Seria] No. 720,958.

To (di wlw/m, fit may concern:

3e it known that l, JOHN L. Garmin', a citizen of the United States of America, reA siding at Chicago, in the county of @ook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Match-linx Holders, of which the following is a specification.

rlthis invention relates to improven'lents in a device to be used for supporting and hohling match-boxes on the walls of rooms or other vertical supports, and it consists in certain peculiarities of the construction, novel arrangement and operation of the varions parts thereof, as will be hereinalter more fully set forth and speciticall y claimed.

l he principal object of the invention is to provide a match box holder which shall be extremely simple in construction, of few parts, cheaply manufactured, strong, durable, attractive in appearance, easily placed :in operative position, and effectual in all respects in the performance of its functions. To provide a match box holder of such construction as to be particularly adapted for holding and locking against easy removal, that type of n'latch-hoxt-is which contain safety or parlor matches, that is, the hind of matches which it is necessary in order to ignite them, to strike or rub their heads on a specially prepared surface. Yln this class of matclrboxes, the matches are held in an open faced box which is slid into a case therefor, which is open at each of its ends so that said box can be extended from either of its ends in order to expose the matches for use, and said case usually has on one or both of its sides the aforesaid specially prepared striking surface. Such boxes of matches, when left lying on a table or mantle-piece in rooms of hotels, are usually taken away by the guests, and to prevent this, yet Vto furnish means for holding the boxes in convenient places with the matches exposed for use, is another object of the invention.

@ther objects and advantages will be disclosed in the following description and explanation.

In order to enable others skilled in the artto which the invention pertains to make and use the same, l will now proceed to describe it, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a face View of a match box holder embodying the invention, showing a match box placed thereon with the matches exposed ready for use; Fig. .2 is a side view thereof; ltig. 23 is a plan sectional view taken on line 3-3 of lFig. 1 looking in the direction indicattal by the arrows; and Fig. 4- is a tace view ot' the blank out of which the burnt match receptacle is formed.

`l'iilte numerals of reference rel'er to correspomling parts throughout the dilt'erent views ol the drawing.

The holder consists of two pieces, which are preferably made of sheet metal, the main supporting piece lt), being substantially rectangular in shape and having near each of its ends an opening 11., to receive spikes or nails 12, used for securing it to the wall 13, or other vertical support. rlhe piece 10, has punched therefrom a tongue 1:11, the lower portion of which is free and rounded as shown by the dotted line in lFig. l of the (,lrawing. Near the lower portion of the tongue l-t, the member or piece 1,0, is provided at each of its edges with an upwardly extended projection 15, each of which is bent outl slightly from the face of the member 1t), yet extended in parallelism therewith to receive between them and the member 10, laterally extending' projections 1G, one of which is formed on the upper portion of the side edges of the other member l0, of the holder, which latter member is by `preference formed of a single piece of inaterial of the forni shown in 'I "ig, t of the drawing, that is to say, of a sheet 17 of metal piffwitfletl at one ofv its edges, at the middle thereof, with a tongue 1S, which has its free end 1t), bent at a right angle thereto, preferably on the dotted line Q0, of Fig. 11. lhe sheet; of material 17, is bent to form a receptacle Q1, substantially semicircular in cross section, for the reception of the burnt matches, and the ends of this receptacle are closed by means of flaps or wings 2Q, formed integrally with the plate or sheet 17, and which [laps or wings may be bent on the dotted lines Q3, and secured to the ends of the receptacle 21, by means of solder or otherwise. As shown in Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawing, each of the lateral projections 16, is slightly rearwardly deflected so as to extend real 'wardly of the clips or projections 15, on the main supporting member when placed in position thereon.

In using the device the plate or member 10, is fastened to the wall or support 13, by means of screws or nails 12, when it is obvious that the tongue 14, which is projected forwardly of, yet in substantial parallelism with the face of said member 10, will be in position to receive the match box, the sliding open faced box 2st, of which should be entirely inclosed within the open ended casing'Q, therefor. `When the parts of the match box are thus arranged, the tongue 14, is inserted between the back of the box 241,

and the back of the casing 25, when, by-

sliding the box upwardly on the tongue 1l, to its juncture with the plate 10, the free end 19, of the tongue 18, can be placed against the lower end of the box Q4, when, by moving the receptacle 21, and tongue 18, upwardly, the box 24, will also be slid upwardly, thus permitting` the projections 16, .on the member 10a, to be inserted between the projections 15, on the member 10, and the wall, when, by drawing the receptacle 21, downwardly, it is obvious that the same will be held by means of the projections 15 ,and 16,`engaging one another. TWhen thus arranged, the casing 25 of the match box, can be slid down to the position shown in Fig. 1, in which position the casing 25, will serve to lock the member 10"L in position against easy removal, and it is obvious that the casing 25, of the match box will also be similarly locked in position, yet the matches will be exposed so as to be readily reached for use. It is also apparent that as the member 10L and the receptacle 21 thereon is detachably connected to the main supporting member 10, it can be easily removed by raising it so that the projections 1G thereon will be disengaged from the projections 15, on the member 10, and that the burnt matches can be dumped or emptied from said receptacle.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- A match box ho-lder consisting of a main supporting member provided with a tongue extended forwardly and downwardly in substantial parallelism with said member and having its lower end free, a projection on the supporting member at each side of the lower portion of said tongue, each of said projections being extended forwardly land upwardly in substantial parallelism with the supporting member and secured thereto at their lower ends, another member having a horizontally disposed receptacle and at each of its sides alateral project-ion to engage the first named projections, said last named member also having between its sides an upwardly extended tongue provided at its free end with a deflected part to rest against the botto-mvof the match box and to sustain it with one end thereof extended through the casing of the box.

ln witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, this 12th day of Septem ber 1912, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN L. GAFFNEY.

Witnesses Ci-nxs C. TILLMAN, A. S. PHILLIPS.

Copies ,of this patent may be obtained 'for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washingt on, D. C.

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