US1506768A - Match safe - Google Patents

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J. E. NEAHR Sept. 2, 1924.

MATCH SAFE Filed April 6, 1922 M y M@ matches as well as long safety matches.

Patented Sept. 2, 1924.

UNITE STATES JACOB E. NEAHR, F HARTSDALE, NEW YORK.

MATCH SAFE.

Application filed April 6,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB E. NEAHR, a citizen of the United States, residing in Hartsdale, in the county of VVestchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Match Safes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to match-safes provided with match-striking surfaces.

An object of the invention is to provide an inexpensive, ornamental, attractive and highly-useful article for this purpose.

()ne of the features of the invention is the provision whereby a match-safe provided with a renewable striking surface may be adapted for using satisfactorily both ordinary small safety matches and long parlor Another feature is the provision of diagonal or helical match-striking apertures in the safe.

Other features and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of certain features of the present match-safe in one form.

Figure 2 shows certain features in another form.

Figure 3 is a sectional central elevation of the device seen at Figure 1, but adapted to hold small matches.

Figure 4 is a view of a strip of rough surface match-ignition paper to be rolled up, either side out, and inserted in the matchsafe to form the match-striking surface.

Figure 5 is a view of a metal or other stiff lining for inserting in the match-safe to form a backing for the flexible rough lining.

Figure 6 is a view of a cup for small safety matches adapted to be inserted within the lining, as shown at Figure 3.

The match-safe 10 is of cup form and provided in its sides with apertures 11 in which matches may be inserted to strike them against a rough-surface fabric or igniting material forming a lining 12, which is held in place within the cup by means of a metal or other stiff tubular lining 13, so as to support the fabric 12 when a match is struck thereagainst. This metal lining may be in the form of a tube open at the top and bottom, and the matches may rest 1922. Serial No. 549,986.

upon the bottom 14 of the match-safe cup, Figure 3, preferably of ceramic ware, although glass, metal or other material may be used. The lining of igniting material 12 may be in the form of a strip of cloth, Figure 4, properly faced with rough chemically prepared surfaces 15, on both sides, for use with safety matches. This strip of fabric may be rolled up to insert in the match-safe.

The springy tubular lining 13 may be made oversize and slit from top to bottom at 16, and hence capable of being closed or reduced in diameter for convenience in slipping it within the match-safe 10. WVhen the metal again springs out, it supports the fabric lining 1.2 firmly against the striking of the maches.

The match-safe is made of such a depth as to accommodate very long safety matches 17, and also very long parlor matches, both kinds projecting but little above the top of the match-safe. The chemically prepared match-striking surface 15 answers for both kinds of matches.

Provision is also made for accommodating ordinary safety matches 18, which are commonly so short that they would not reach up to the brim 18 of the match-safe. When it is desired to use the device for these small safety matches, there is inserted within said metal lining 13 a special match-cup or box 19 having a bottom 20, which, when the device is in place, stands considerably above the bottom 14 of the match-safe, and so serves as a false bottom, so that when the small safety matches are inserted they will rise well above the brim of the match-safe. This small interior or auxiliary match-box may flare at its upper end, as at 21, so as to form a support, as it hangs upon the brim 22 of the metal lining 13, said brim or flare 22 conforming to the flaring brim 18 of the match-safe 10.

The auxiliary match-box 19 may be made a trifle oversize and slit at23 from top to bottom, so that it may be sprung or reduced a little in diameter for insertion within the metal lining 13. The edge of the floor of this interior match-box may be loosely inserted or carried within a bead 24 that is rolled out at the bottom of the box 19, the bead being so much oversize, in proportion to the floor, as to permit the necessary squeezing together of the sides of the box;

a portion 24 of the bead being rolled bestriking surfaces through the diagonal apertures 11. When it is further worn, it may be withdrawn and turned inside out and reinserted.

Said match-safe is preferably made integral with an ash-tray 25, which is preferably in the form of a cover for an ashreceptacle 26 of similar material, the latte-r containing preferably a block 27, upon h which to strike a pipe to empty it.

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Certain features are also shown in one form at Figure 2 as in the shape of a matchsafe 28 secured to the bottom of an opentop box 29, which may serve as a general receptacle for matches, cigar ends, and so This receptacle may be of ceramic ware, and the match-safe may be of metal, and the two may be connected by a bolt 30 extending down through the bottom of the match-safe and through the bottom of the Th match-safe and receptacle may be all in one piece, of glass, ceramic ware, metal or other material; or the bolt or connecting part may be formed integral with the match-safe and extend down through the floor of the receptacle and be secured under said floor.

Variations may be resorted to within the scope of the invention, and portions of the improvements may be used without others.

T'Iaving thus described my invention, I claim:

1. A match-cup or box insertible into a relatively large match-safe to enable the accommodate relatively small matches, said insertible box having a floor, and means to support said'floor high above the bottom of the match-safe, so that when the small matches are inserted they will rise above the brim of the match-safe, said insertible box being made oversize and slit from top to bottom, so as to have an expanding lit within the match-safe.

2. A match-cup or box insertible into a relatively large match-safe to enable the above the brim of the match-safe, said insertible box being made oversize and slit from top to bottom, so as to have an expanding fit within the match-safe, and having at its bottom a rolled-out flange, said floor loosely confined in said flange.

3. A match-safe provided with an interior box for holding small-sized matches, said box sprung into place in the matchsafe and having afloor considerably above the bottom of the match-safe, whereby small matches may be held in the box in position to project well above the top of the matchsafe, the latter being of a size to accommodate relatively large matches when saidbox is removed.

4. The combination with a relatively large match-safe, of a relatively small match-cup or box removably inserted into the large match-safe to accommodate relatively small matches, said inserted box having a floor, and means to support said floor high above the bottom of the large match-safe, so that when the small matches are inserted they will rise above the brim of the large matchsafe, said inserted match-box flaring at its upper end to hang upon the brim of the large match-safe.

5. The combination of a base comprising an ash-tray portion, a pedestal rising from said base and having a vertical socket, a tube inserted in said socket to form a relatively large receptacle for matches, said tube surrounded by ignition material, said pedestal having a top annular flange or brim, and provided with apertures below said brim through which the ignition material is exposed for use, and a relatively small match-box having a fioor and removably inserted in said large receptacle, and means supporting said floor at a point high above the bottom of said large receptacle.

JACOB E. NEAHR.

i/Vitnesses:

MARION R. MGCAFFREY, JENNIE P. THonNn.

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