US608603A - Match-safe - Google Patents

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No. 608,603. Patented Aug. 9, I898. W. H. HOOKER. MATCH SAFE. (Application filed Oct. 15, 1897.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 608,603, dated August 9, 1898.

Application filed October 15, 1897.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HENRY IIOOKER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of North Arlington, county of Bergen, and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Match-Safes, of which the followingis a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to that class of matchsafes which embody a rotary cylinder designed to automatically deliver one match at a time as the cylinder is revolved.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and improved match-safe of this character which will possess advantages in point of positive action, safety, extreme simplicity, convenience, and general efficiency.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional View taken on a transverse plane with relation to the cylinder, showing the mechanism in position for retaining the match preliminary to dropping it. Fig. 2 is a corresponding view showing the mechanism in position for dropping the match. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view taken on a longitudinal plane through the cylinder.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a base, which may be of any suitable construction, having bearings a a, in which the match cylinder or reservoirB is mounted. The base is provided with a transverse concavity or recess, as at a, at its front portion, into which the match is adapted to be droppedor delivered by the cylinder, and said concavity may have a roughened surface, as at 3, upon which the match can be ignited.

In the wall of the cylinder is provided a longitudinal opening, as at b, one edge of which forms a shoulder, as at Z), while the other edge is curved or beveled, as at 12 to facilitate the passage of the match. WVithin the opening 1) is fulcrumed, as at c c, a jaw C, which is in the form of a lever and occupies approximately the area of the opening in the cylinder. This jaw is of segmental contour in cross-section and is provided at a point in rear of its fulcrum with a shoulder 0, adapted to bear against and with relation to the shoulder 12', while in rear of its shoul- Serial No. 655,329. (No model.)

der and back of the fulcrum the jaw has a weighted extension 0 projecting interiorly within the cylinder and adapted to form a counterbalance, as hereinafter described. The front portion of the segmental jaw is extended in front of the fulcrum in a segment of a circle of somewhat smaller diameter than that of the cylinder, so that the front segmental end forms a lip, as at 0 operating with relation to the curved or beveled edge I) and adapted to bind the match in position, as shown in Fig. 1, and release the same, as shown in Fig. 2, during the revolution of the cylinder.

The lip c and beveled edge Z2 in conjunc tion with the opening I), form the mouth, through which the match is delivered.

To provide for the convenient rotation of the cylinder, a head or disk D, having a milled periphery, as at cl, may be connected with the shaft of the cylinder at one end.

The operation and advantages of my invention will be readily understood. The jaw swings upon its fulcrum during the revolution of the cylinder, so that its lip c bears upon a match, as in Fig. 1, and retains the same between said lip and the edge b until the cylinder reaches the position in which the match is to be dropped, when the lip releases the match, as in Fig. 2, and the latter drops through. the opening I) to the receiving-recess ct in the base. In this operation of the jaw when the weighted end thereof is above the horizontal plane of the axis of the cylinder the shoulders I) and a will be held in contact and the weighted end will serve to cause the lip c to bear against the match and retain it in position preliminary to the dropping operation, Fig. 1. Then when the weighted end passes below the plane of the axis of the cylinder it will spring against the interior wall of the latter, thus drawing the front portion of the jaw away from the edge 0 and releasing the match,so that it drops by gravity from the opening 1).

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An improved match-safe, comprising a rotary cylinder having an opening in its wall, one edge of which opening forms a shoulder, and a segmental jaw fulerumed in said openv curved or beveled, and a segmental lever-j aw fulcrumed in said opening and corresponding in area thereto, said lever-j aw being provided With the shoulder in rear of its fulcrum adapted to bear against the limiting-shoulder of the opening and with the Weighted end interiorly projecting from said shoulder within the cylinder and having at its segmental portion in front of its fulcrum a lip adapted to bear with relation to the beveled edge of the cylinder-opening, substantially as and for the a purpose set forth.

I11 testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of two Witnesses, this 12th day of October, 1897.

WILLIAM HENRY HOOKER.

Witnesses:

EDWARD FRANK MCCARTHY, FRANK P. WooDoooK.

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