US1649167A

US1649167A - Match-box support

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Publication number: US1649167A
Application number: US111079A
Authority: US
Inventors: Keene Walter Eugene
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1926-05-22
Filing date: 1926-05-22
Publication date: 1927-11-15
Anticipated expiration: 1944-11-15

Description

Nov. 15, 1927. I V I 1,649,167

W. E. KEENE MATCH BOX SUPPORT Filed May 22. 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet l 8 INVENTOR. I Z elf W157i 6* 622 Q :9. L6 BY 1 W -WM v ATTORNEY.

Nov. 15, 1927. 1,649,167

w. E. KEENE MATCH BOX SUPPORT Filed May 22. 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 A TTORNE Y.

Patented Nov. 15, 1927.

WALTER EUGENE KEEITE, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

MATCH-BOX. SUPPQRT.

Application filed May 22,

This invention relates to improvements in supports for match boxes or the like and has as one object the provision oi? means for holding the box in open position, and of means whereby the support for the box may be fastened to the edge of an ash tray to permit a cigar or cigarette choker carried on the support, to overhang the ash tray and to discharge thereinto.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide a support for a match box which will of itself rest firmly upon an even surface to support the box. Other objects will appear hereinafter.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device mounted upon the edge of an ash tray, with a sectional view of a match box in open po sition upon the support.

Fig. 2 is a front view showing the mode of application of the drawer of the box to the support.

Fig. 2 is a side view of Fig. 2, partly in section.

Fig. 3 shows the box in open position on the support with the tiltable bottom of the choker shown in dotted lines, in tilted position.

Figs. 4: and i show a modification of the device shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig; 5 is a top view of the device shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig. 6 is a top view of the choker tube with its bottom held in place by a split ring. Fig. 7 shows a modification of the disc.

Figs. 8, 9, and 11 show a modification including means for securely holding the casing or shuck against accidental movement and means providing a convenient cigar cutter. Fig. 8 is a front view, Fig. 9 is a side view, 10 and 11 are top and bottom views respectively.

Fig. 12 is a view of another use of the invention.

Figure 18 shows a modification including 1926. Serial No. 111,079.

tion 6, and surrounding the aperture, said portion 6 also having the flat match box supportiong portion 4 upturned therefrom, and vertically disposed at right angles thereto.

The support a has rearwardly extending lugs 8 struck from the face thereof, one at the top edge and one at each 01 the side edges.

Referring to Figs. 2 and 2, in applying the box to the support the drawer is pushed downwardly until it projects slightly beyond the casing whereupon the lower end wall of the drawer ispositioned with its edge in contact with support 4: between the top lug and the two side lugs. With the edge of the lower wall in contact with the support 4, the drawer is limited in upward movement by the top lug and in downward movement by the side lugs. The drawer is maintained in contact with the support t by slipping the sleeve or casing of the box down over the support 1 until it is in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 3. The cigarette choker tube 5 has a cylindrical upper portion 9 and an inverted irustro-conical lower portion 10, the larger diameter of which conical portion 10 is less than the diameter of the cylindrical portion whereby an inner shoulder 11 and an outer shoulder 12 are formed at the juncture of the upper and lower portions. The inner shoulder 11 is adapted to serve as a support for a tiltable disc 13, which may be either loose, so as to enable it to tilt in any direction, or pivotally mounted so as to tilt in a predetermined direction. The disc or bottom member 13 of the choker may be held against tilting if desired. This can be done by inserting a split ring spring 14- in the choker tube 5 just above the bottom' member 13 as shown in Fig. 6. lVhere the disc is thus held from tilting the device is especially adapted for use independent of an'ash tray. lVhen thus used the device rests on any even surface and it is more practicable to have a fixed bottom for the choker and to invert the whole device when necessary to empty the choker, than to have a tiltable bottom.

In place of the disc 13 a disc having a portion cut away to provide a beveled cutting edge, as shown .at 13 in Fig. 7 may be used as a cigar trimmer. To trim the ash from the cigar, the cigar is inserted in the choker tube and turned in contact with the sharpened edge, thus trimming the cigar and allowing the ash and tobacco thus removed to drop down through the opening formed by the cut away portion and into the ash tray. This form of combined choker bottom and cutter may simply rest upon the shoulder within the tubular member, so that it is removable and may be replaced with either a complete bottom disc or with a tilting disc.

The invention is not confined to the particular disposition of the lugs 8 shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 5. Obviously, a single cent ally disposed lug below the top lug may be substituted for the two side lugs without departing from the scope of the invention. In the modification shown in lligs. f and a a single lug 8 provided which serves to limit upward movement of the box drawer by entering the drawer through its open side and engaging its lower wall. This form depends on the frictional contact between the support t and the drawer, to hold the drawer up or in other words, to resist downward movement of the drawer.

In using the cigarette choker 5 the cigarette or cigar is readily extinguished or choked by pressing straight down upon the center of disc 13. If after choking it is desired to remove the ash from the choker, pressure is exerted on the edge portion of the disc, causing it to tip and allow the ash to fall through into the tray 1.

It will be noted by reference to Fig. i that the device can be used apart from the tray and when the casing of the box is in position on the support l it extends rearwardly thereof to the extent of the thickness of the casing to form additional support for the device to prevent tipping.

With reference to the modification shown in Figs. 8 to 11, shoulders are provided which are adapted upon insertion of the upstanding match box support within the easing of the box, to frictionally engage and hug the inner sides of the side walls of the casing. A member 16 is stamped out of the piece of metal forming the support and is bent forwardly away from the upstanding member sufliciently to allow the front face of the box casing to be wedged between it and the upstanding member.

The shoulders 15 and the spring member 16. serve to effectively retain the box casing upon. the support against accidental displacement.

In Figs. 8 to 11 the choker has not been shown in order that the features 15 and 1G and the cutter 17 may be more readily shown. It is intended, however, that the choker shall be used with this form as well as with the other, andthis choker may have either a tilting bottom or any of the other bottoms described.

The cigar cutter is especially adapted for cutting cigars over the ash tray so that the cuttings may drop immediately into the tray.

The knife member 17 is disposed on the under side of the horizontally disposed portion or base of the device and is pivotally secured thereto at 18. The knife member 17 is provided with a cutting edge 21 which is adapted upon outward movement of member 17 about its pivot to cooperate with an aperture 19 in cutting of the end of the cigar preparatory to smoking. The knife 17 is provided with a pin 20 which engages a notch 22 in the base of the device which limits the inward movement of the member 17 and leaves a portion of said member extending beyond the edge of the base as shown at in Fig. 10 to aid in manipulation of the cutter. The knife member 17, being in the general form of a bell crank pivoted at the end of one of its arms and the outside edge of said arm being the cutting edge, provides for cutting off the end of a cigar with great ease and with the application of but little force.

The device shown in Figs. 8 to 11 is espeeially adapted to be fastened by soldering or otherwise to the edge of an ash tray with its base portion carrying the cutter device and choker overhanging the tray.

In operation of the cutter, the cigar is inserted into the aperture 19. The knife member 17 is then grasped between the thumb and fingers by slipping the fingers beneath the base member to engage the under side of the knife and engaging the projecting upper side of the knife with the thumb. It will be found that there is ample space between the base member and the bottom of the average tray for the insertion of the fingers. The knife member is then pulled outwardly about its pivot which causes the cutting edge 21 to traverse the apertures 19, cleanly and evenly removing the end of the cigar projecting thcrethrough.

The modification just described includes all necessary and related features of the invention. The device on being mounted on the edge of an ash tray provides for cutting a cigar, removing its ash, and choking it, the tobacco and ash from these operations being deposited immediately into the ash tray.

In Fig. 12 the choker and match box holder are shown mounted upon a tray removably. The tray has a projection 21 which extends up from the shoulder 2. The base portion 6 of the holder and the upstanding support lie respectively against the shoulder-and the front face of the projection and the shuck embraces the upstanding support and the projection.

The support t may have a projection or projections 4 stamped out therefrom to enter a recess 26 in the projection 24 so that it will be retained against upward movement when the shack is removed. This feature may be used in any of the forms previously llt) described Where these are susceptible of having this incorporated. The holder may be attached to the projection by a pin passing through the holder and the projection.

It Will be seen that the upwardly extending part of the holder is spaced apart from the choker. 'lhis atl'ords a space in which a packet of matches can be held, by frictional contact With the said holder port-ion l and the choclzer. This is indicated in Fig. 12.

As shown in Figure 13, I show prongs at a for puncturing the end of the cigar, and a guide tube Z) for directing the cigar end to these prongs. This device may be mounted on the base plate of the forms previously described and if desired may take the place or the choker. The prongs may be, for instance, three in number.

I claim:

A support for a box of matches comprising an upstanding supporting member of sheet metal, said member being provided at its upper end with a pair of horizontally disposed lugs struck therefrom, said lugs comprising an upper and a lower lug, and said lugs being adapted to engage one Wall of the drawer of the box to limit its vertical movement, and an upstanding portion stamped out of the supporting member at its lower end and disposed slightly in frontof said supporting member and parallel thereto, whereby the front Wall of the box casing may be wedged between the two and trictionally held against displacement.

In testimony whereof. I afiix my signature.

WALTER EUGENE KEENE.