US882427A - Safety-match. - Google Patents

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PATENTED MAP.. 17, 1908 G. E. SCHULTZ.

SAFETY MATCH.

Lzwuow FILED JAN.12,10 6.

RENEWED JAN. 25.1908.

GEORGE SCLIULTZ, Oli" NEW YORK, N. Y.

SAFETY-MATCH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March it?, 1908.

Aplication tiled January 12, 1906, Serial No. 295,741. Renewed January 25, 1908. Serial No. @2,635

To all 'whom it 'may concer/nk l Be it known that i, Gnoiior: E. SCnUL'rz, :i

citizen of tho United States, und :i resident of the city ol' New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county, unii State ol' New York, havo K inventd a new and Improved Saetyshhttch,

of which the following is :i full, clear, and oxact tlgscription.;

' Many forms of safety matches have boon lOzdO/Wfised in which thvy nnitoh itself carries :in ignition composition ior nsoy in lightinw'. thoI match. These hav@ usually hoon exposml, however, to Wear on the ontsidc of tho iinitoh and they have therefor@ boon so lor-:ittici that it carried in certain ways the ignition inzit@- riztl would he rubbed iol?, rind also it' the 'matches were plno'vd in zi Confined space or pocket there was danger that tho burning composition on onfy nnitch Wonid conm in Contact with the ignition composition on nnother and the, match or matches take 'lira itccidentally. These matches have also boon open to Certain other objections,

The principal objects of the present invenio'nition strip, mass o1' composition so pir vd that there vwill be, no danger ol accidents. ignition and no langer of subjecting tho ignitingr Composition to Wear.

l Reference is to be had to the` accompany ing d nwings loi-ming ii pznt of this specification, in which similar characters of relai-once indicato corresponding parts in all the iighres.

Figure l .is :i sido olevattion showing my invention in it Vory simpl@y forni Fig. 2 is n View illustrating tho nmnnm' .in which the match is used for lightingl and F 3 and i are new speotivv 'views showing;` othi-"r Yforms in which the inontion can ho Constructed.

A niiitczh a. provided as usual with u imm-ing composition b. .At i point naar its lowfr sini the match is proi'icloii with n thiulwncil portion c in nhirh i provide it slit ai. rlhis slit Extends prrfcrnhly nt :in acute. angle 'from the edge of the mnu-h so that when the match is lin/nt from its vnlls il will break nor-iss the 'Wood or oth-or ,nniturinl oi tion are to provido :i snloty inntch with an position on one oi' the which it is constrnctoil on n lint4 @Houding l from tht` inne-r @inl ol' thrslil, the proportions being so oalcnlniod that this rosnt will uniformly be obtnincrl. Vent the match from boing'broken nooit eng intim-ont to sfiiil thiciii l mg :in igi But 1n orner io .re- 1 tally at this point 'the thickened pmtion made 'ust wide enoiwh to :illon room for tho slit incl piece ol soiitl mntnrial at the en of the slit only slightly snniller in cxtvn l' ihr-n the balance oi" thi match. in hfy forni shown in Fig. 1 these parts :iro nrrinigml in zt very siinpio nninncr, but the iorins vshown in Figs. inni 4. aro constrnotml in :i way 'which I regard as hotter, the parts being thiclicr it points naar the slit than they urn at tho inner cnil of it there y insnrint` the breaking oi' :the nmtoh :it this point. On the lower sido oi tho slitv that is, the sideawny from the` lighting 'nnitorial Z1 I plans it strip c contniinmg the igniting Composition, or l inohl the igniting composition rlirootly upon the surta/.fo nl' the match this point. .in orilor to further guard. against accidental llrcfilia'@ of the match l have shown tno son/:irrita:,menus for strengthening the match on tho open side of the. slit.

In Fig. 3 l have shown n pieno of ghioj" or similar material secured to the surfaces ol the match so :is to ussistin holdinrf it in mi obvious manner, it being unrlnrstoon that the glue is sniiciently brittle to permit hrfeulinge when this is desirod.

In Fig. 4l l have. showin n. strip oi' paper or fabril.; g pasted or otherwise soeur/rl to the edge o. the match on tho opposite sirius of the open end of the. slit for the sumo 1i iirposo- The manner of using tho match viii he ,remlily understood frinn in iiis'\a.:tion i-' Fig. i. @mii need not he describen in ilotnii. ".iho main adi'nntngis oi' the nnitoh obtained hy any of the, throak constructions have iilnstrntad, hn t than :iro more @filo rovilled for in, the furnis shown in if 1l. A safety match having in incision ox line extending' from the inner and nl thv incision :nross the match, and an igniinff r suriinxos oi' the iin' i2. A. niaitoh hariw? .a nninr one cmi, :ind :1r

n. tiiiohonfxl portion .-.niinml inf-Gioi: located n in tion nne'l huil itil i on the surface; the iighting composi- .iing' rompt thsrvoi' izirthest from tion.

3. A match, the stick of which is adapted to be separated into two parts, said parts having espectively burning and i. ntion Compositions thereon, and the match iaving means for liomifiliy potcting the ignition composition.

n estimon'y Wheieof I have signed my am@ tov this specification in the presence of 2 two subscribing Witnesses.

GEORGE E. SCHULTZ.

Witnesses:

JNO-M, RITTER, ALBERT E. FAY.'

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