US295098A - Match-box - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J.. C. BAUER.

*MATCH BOX.

Patented Mar'. 1l, 1.884".

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MATCH-Box.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,098, dated March 1l, 1884:.

Application tiled January 28, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JACOB C. BAUER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in Matchoxes, ot which the following` is a specification. My invention consists of matchbox in which a tray for holding` the matches and an outer casing are combined with a'band passing` longitndinallyover and beneath the tray, asdescrihed hereinafter, the objects of my invention being to keep the matches in place, and to prevent their ignition on withdrawing the tray from the Outer casing.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of my improved match-box as it appears when partly open; Fig. 2,-a longitudinal section, showing a portion only of the inner box or tray in section; Fig. 3, a transverse section on the line l 2, Fig. 2, and Fig. 4, a perspective view, drawn to a reduced scale, ot' the retaininghand, which extends ,longitudinally over and nnder the tray.

My Vimproved match-box is composed of three parts#nainely, the match-holding` tray B, the retaining-band A, and the outer easing` or envelope, D, all these parts being preferably made of eoinmon straw-board. The'tra-y B is a simple quadrangular box open at the top when detached from the other parts of the box. The hand A, which is continuous, as shown in Fig. 4, extends under and over the tray and is tted Vsnugly thereto, but so that it can he adjusted laterally thereon ton any position desired. The outer casing, D, which is open at both ends, is made to fit so snugly to the tray and its band that a slight eilbrt will be required to push them in and out of the said casing. If the hand A is properly ad- 40 justed over the tray, match after mateh can be readily removed, the band, however, pre-l venting the spilling of the matches from the i tray, even if the box should he held upside down when the tray is withdrawn. In pulling the tray in and out of the easing, moreover, the band will eii'eetnally prevent the ignition hy friction of any of the matches, even if some of the heads of the latter be eX- posed, as in Fig, l, for the upperportion of the band bearing` on the upper portion of the tray edeetually isolates the matches from the top ofthe easing. An attempt has been made to thus isolate the matches from the easing by a simple stri p' passed longitudinally across the matches, and having` turned-down ends iitting wit-hin the tray and between the matches and the ends oi the said tray; but in'this case the strip is independent of the tray, and cannot always prevent the matches from falling from said tray, on partially withdrawing the sam e, when the box is upside down, unless the strip is made of such heavy material that it cannot be bent by the weight of the matches upon it, and when the tray is entirely withdrawn while the box is inverted there is nothing to prevent the retainingstri ps from falling from the tray with the matches. In my improvement,V 0n the eo11trary,tlie band is essentially part of the tray, and cannot he detached therefrom, ex- @opting` by removing it laterally.

I claim as my invention- The within-described match-box, the same consist-ing` of the combination of the tra-y B, the outer easing, D, and the band A, extend ing longitudinally over and under the tray, all substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereoiI have signed my name to this specitieation in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JACOB C. BAUER.

Viitnesses:

JOHN M. CLAYTON, JOHN E. PARKER.

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