US720060A - Match-safe. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED FEB. l0, 1903.

W. A. PATTBN.

MATCH SAFE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.15, 1902.

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UNITED' STATES PATENT GFFICE.`

WILIJIAM A. PATTEN, OF LESUEUR, MINNESOTA.

MATCH-SAFE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 720,060, dated February 10, 1903.

Application filed March 15, 1902. Serial No. 98,287. (No modelJ To au wwm it 711/002/ @H/007%: To hold back the column of matches, or, in' Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. PATTEN, a other Words, to prevent the same from falling citizen of the United States, residing rat Lein too large quantities onto the retaining-tin- 55 sueur, in the county of Lesueur and State of gers 2, I provide the front plate of the safe Minnesota, have invented certain new and withadepending and inwardly or rearwardly useful Improvements in Match-Safes; and I turned choke-plate 5, preferably afforded do hereby declare the following to be a full, by a pair of prongs stamped from or formed clear, and exact description of the invention, as apart of the blank from which the safe is 6o such as will enable others skilled in the art to formed. In the front plate of the safe are 1o which it appertains to make and use the same. preferably cut one or more slits 6, through My present invention relates to matchwhich a match or pointed instrument may be safes, and has for its object to improve the inserted to force the matches downward in same in the several particulars hereinafter casetheyshould become clogged. These slits 65 noted. further serve to show the height of the col- To the above ends the invention consists umn of matches in the safe. In the upper of the novel devices and combination of deedge of the back plate of the safe is one or vices hereinafter described,and defined in the more perforations 7, which adapt the safe to claim. be hung from the wall on a nail 8. 7o

The invention is illustrated in the accom- To fill the match-safe, rst take an ordinary zo panying drawings, wherein like characters box of matches, and after having broken out indicate like parts throughout the several one end thereof hold the same at a proper views. angle to prevent the spilling-of the matches,

Figure l is a view in front elevation showand slide the same into the safe. Then turn 75 ing a match-safe designed in accordance with the safe into a vertical position and withdraw my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the box. The column of matches within the the said match-safe. Fig. 3 is a vertical secsafe will then be substantially as indicated tion on the line ac3 0130i Fig. l, and Fig. -t is in Fig. 3, by reference to which it will be a plan view showing the blank or stamped noted that the so-called choke-plate 5 con- 8o sheet from which the match-safe is formed. tracts the column of matches at a point in 3o The body of the match-sate is of rectanguline therewith and prevents the said matches lar form, as indicated by the numeral l. It from completely filling the pocket aorded by is open at its top and bottom; but at its botthe retaining-fingers 2 and side guard-plates tom the matches are supported by a pair of 3. As :is obvious, one or more matches may 85 laterally -spaced retainingfingers 2, which at any time be easily removed from the safe are formed as extensions of the rear plate of simply by passing the fingers into engagethe safe and are curved first downward and ment with the same through the passage left forward and then upward, so that their outer between the so-called retaining-fingers 2 and upper extremities project outward of and and forcing the same upward through the 9o above the lower extremity of the front plate throat 4t.

4o of the safe, as best shown in Fig. 3. The The match-safe in its best form is formed sides of the safe are extended downward, outof metal, such as thin sheettin, and is ward, and upward, as indicated at 3, to form formed from a single blank. This blank in side guard-plates to hold the stack of matches its flat form is shown in Fig. 4, and in this 95 againstendwisemovement. The outward and view the various portions of the blank are upwardly extended portions of the guardmarked with those characters which indicate plates 3 are soldered or otherwise rigidly sethe parts which they form in the completed cured to the outer edges of the retaining-finsafe. It will be noted that the upwardly-progers 2, so as to rigidly support said lingers. jecting portions of the so-called side guard- 10o As best shown in Fig. 3, an outlet-throat is plates7 are cut out of the lower portion of the 5o formed between the lower end of the front front plate of the safe and serve to separate plate of the match-safe and the upwardlythe depending prongs of theso-called chokecurved ends of the ingers 2. plate 5 tfrom the blank. This eects an economy in the material used. It will be noted that the body of the safe is formed from a blank with a single seam at one corner edge thereof. The match safe above described may be thus made from thin sheet metal, Such as tin, at a very small cost and is not only efficient for the purposes had in View, but is strong and durable.

From What has been said it will be linderstood that the match-safe above described is capable of considerable modification within the scope of my invention, as herein set forth and claimed.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

A metal match-safe formed from a single blank and involving the body l, laterallyspaced retaining-fingers 2, side guard-plates 3 and choke-plate 5, said retaining-fingers and guard-plates being rigidly secured together and extended outward and upward from said choke-plate, to aord the throat 4, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM A. PATTEN.

Witnesses:

JOHN TAYLOR, P. W. GORRIE.

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