US2311794A

US2311794A - Match pack

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Publication number: US2311794A
Application number: US439786A
Authority: US
Inventors: David H Warner
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1942-04-20
Filing date: 1942-04-20
Publication date: 1943-02-23
Anticipated expiration: 1960-02-23

Description

Feb. 23, 1943. WARNER 2,311,794

- MATCH PACK I Filed April 20, 1942 GENERAL C0.

ADVIRTISING ADVERTISING Q W 23 22 ,lz DAVID H.WARNER No.7. 27 i m 3% Strum Patented Feb. 23, 1943 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MATCH PACK David H. Warner, Canton, Ohio Application April 20, 1942, Serial No. 439,786

1 Claim.

My invention relates to match packs, and has for its object to provide a match pack wherein the heads of the matches will normally be held covered by the pack strip together with means for opening a side of the pack to get at the matches and move them laterally therefrom, and yet wherein when desired the pack strip can be fully opened up for exposing the contents and exposing advertising printed on the inside of the pack strip, and which match pack can be manufactured by folding and stapling machinery now in use.

It is well known that certain types of matches are formed of slitted cardboard with a chemical composition forming the head and with a strip of chemical material on the cardboard such that when the head is frictionally moved across the strip igniting of the matches will take place. Ordinarily one face of the match pack is free to be withdrawn, leaving the heads of the matches exposed. A grave condition exists in respect to this practice, since chemical sparks may fly from the head of the match as it is ignited simultaneously igniting the heads of all other matches and thus resulting in severe burns.

It is :a particular object of my invention to provide a match pack of the above type wherein normally the heads of matches will be covered by the pack strip itself together with means for getting at the shanks of the matches in the pack for removing them laterally from the pack and at the same time having one flap of the pack strip free for removal from the base of the pack so that it may be opened out fully.

In this connection it is an important object of my invention to provide a match pack wherein the advantages of having the heads of the matches covered by the folded-over portion of the pack strip are obtained, and yet which can be manufactured by the same stapling and folding machinery which has heretofore been used to manufacture match packs with one end of the pack strip entirely unstapled and free.

It is also an object of my invention to form the pack strip in a single piece with advertising printed on the inside of it and to staple a folded portion of one end of the pack strip to the match strips, ordinarily held in two rows, and to so form the other end of the pack strip that it may be inserted in the folded part of the end securing the matches and be locked in position there while not being actually stapled.

The full objects and advantages of my invention will appear in connection with the detailed description hereinafter given in the specification,

and the novel features by which the aforesaid advantageous results are obtained will be particularly pointed out in the claim. a

In the drawing, illustrating an application of my invention in one of its forms Fig. 1 is a perspective front view of my match pack in its final position.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a front perspective view similar to Fig. 1 with the front flap of the match pack pulled out.

Fig. 4 is a flat plan view of the finished pack strip with the matches of the pack in position and the removable flap held in a fully extended plane.

Fig. 5 is a similar view after all the matches have been used up.

Fig. 6 isa. flat plan view of the blank after advertising has been put thereon and otherwise punched and completed before it is secured upon the match strips.

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary view on an enlarged scale taken on line 1-1 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 8 illustrates the manner in which the matches are removed when the top flap has been locked in closing position.

As illustrated, a pack strip l I) is first stamped, printed and scored, as indicated in Fig. 6. The scoring at I l indicates the point where the strip will be bent over to overlie the bases [2, Fig. '7, of the match strips. The scoring I 3 indicates where the match pack will be bent at the top, as indicated at the point It.

When the parts have been brought together, as indicated in Fig. 2, under normal conditions there will be a clamping fold l5 overlying the base portions I6 and ll of two strips of matches and held together by means of a staple l8.

In my copending application Serial Number 296,577 I proposed to staple both ends of the pack strip together over the match strip, thus permanently enclosing the heads of the match strips and by the means disclosed in the said application to break away portions of the first of the match strip to get at the matches below. Difficulties have been encountered in so forming the match pack, particularly in requiring machinery different from that now in use for folding and stapling match packs, and I have discovered that by cut ting out a flared opening at the end of the top flap and providing notches to engage against the shanks of the staples it is possible to hold the top flap substantially fixed over the matches without its being stapled, so that these difllculties have been avoided, and at the same time to make possible the removal of the top flap any time that it is deemed desirable. This enables the top flap to support certain advertising which may be gradually revealed as the matches are removed and which thereby arouses curiosity so that the user in order to satisfy that curiosity may withdraw the front flap entirely and thereby get to read the entire advertising message, under conditions favorable for the advertiser.

The front flap I9 is provided with a series of slits 20 which extend through the cardboard of the front flap l9 but have their lower portions spaced a considerable distance from the end of the strip, as indicated at 2| in Figs. 3 and 6. This unslitted portion of the lower edge is cut away with sloping

side edges

22 and 23, as indicated in Figs. 3, 4 and 6, and the

edges

22 and 23 terminate in

small notches

24 and 25, which are of a size adapted to fit around the

shanks

26 and 21, Fig. 7, of the staple l8.

From the above it will be apparent that the pack strips may be printed, punched and scored, as indicated in .Fig. 6, and run through the usual machine for turning the flap l5 over the bottom ends of the match strips 5 and I1 and affixing the staple 18. This is all done by the identical machinery which has been employed in putting together match packs. However, with my invention it is only necessary to push the free end of the pack strip under the turned-up end IS, with the sloping

walls

22 and 23 of the opening between them on each side of the staple I8, until the

notches

24 and 25 come in position over the

staple shanks

26 and 21 and the match pack will be complete as shown in Fig. 1 and will have all the advantages which would have come from stapling the free end under the flap l5. This is a very substantial advantage, as above pointed out,

since it does not require a new type of machinery, as would otherwise be the case. It is also of advantage because it will enable users of the pack who become interested in the advertisement on the inside of the pack to pull out the free end and satisfy their curiosity in reading the advertisement, which of course is more apt to be effective for the advertiser.

The matches are removed by first inserting the thumb-nail in the slits 2B and pulling out the pieces 30 on the front of the match strip and taking the matches out one at a time successively under each piece removed. This will, of course, bring to light the advertising on the inside and arouse the curiosity of the user so that he may finally decide to pull the flap out to read the entire advertisement, this being a more efiective I form of advertising than where the advertisement is on the outside where all of it can be seen at all times.

I claim: i

A match pack comprising an extended pack strip folded at one end and gripping a match strip between the folded parts of the pack strip, a staple passing through the folded portions of the pack strip and the match strip to permanently hold them together, a portion cut out of the free end of the pack strip with sloping edges that narrow the cut-out portion toward its inner end to less than the distance between the spaced outer limits of the staple shanks, and notches at the inner ends of said edges beyond the portions nearest together, whereby when the end of the pack strip-is inserted beneath the folded portion thereof said cut-out portion will straddle the shanks of the staple and the notches will be brought about said shanks to lock the free end of the pack strip folded over the heads of the matches.

- DAVID H. WARNER.