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Popular Science Monthly 



An Obliging Cigar-Lighter Which Feeds 

 Lighted Matches 



COMPRESSION 

 ^ I 5PRINS 



JROUGH SHAPED 

 TUBE. 



The match is deposited in a chute and 

 held in position until burned out 



IN THE usual type of cigar-lighter found 

 " in tobacco shops a constantly burning 

 gas-jet is provided. Instead of this, John 

 A. Cunningham proposes the use of ordi- 

 nary matches, so arranged that, by pushing 

 a button, not only will a match be fed 

 forward and lighted, but it will be held 

 in place during the interval taken up 

 in lighting the cigar. The economy and 

 freedom from danger are obvious features, 

 for even the remnants of the unused 

 portions of the matches are taken care of 

 in the tray beneath. 



Within a chute a number of matches 

 are placed. At the narrowed bottom of 

 the chute a shuttle is provided, for 

 carrying only a single m.atch. W'hen 

 this shuttle is turned it deposits the match 

 into a tube in which is a plunger intended 

 to push the match forward against the 

 head of a movable clip placed at the 

 end of the tube. 



The jaw of the clip is arranged v;ith 

 a scratching surface upon which the head 

 of the match can strike as it is pushed 

 forward by the piston. 



By the continued forward movement of 

 the piston the match head will not only 

 be struck but will pass beyond the striker 

 till the end of the match is clipped by the 

 jaw against a plate which holds the 

 lighted match in place for the smoker's use, 

 and then drops it into the metal tray 

 provided for the purpose. 



A Periscope Attached to 

 Field-Glasses 



THE present war of the trenches 

 has stimulated inventive mar 

 to devise all sorts of periscopic 

 glasses. The soldier under fire has 

 made periscopes out of any materia 

 which happened to be at hand 

 while skilled opticians in the shops a1 

 homes have constructed great super- 

 periscopes out of the best materia 

 obtainable. 



Several citizens of this country have 

 turned out practical instruments ol 

 this kind. One of these is a periscopic 

 field-glass, the invention of Charles F 

 Smith, of Brooklyn, New York. It car 

 be folded into a compact form wher 

 not in use and inclosed in a casing 

 supported by a conventional form ol 

 field -glass. 



Smith's periscopic mounting consists 

 of lazy-tongs supporting mirrors which 

 are held in inclined position, and which 

 reflect the view ahead to the field- 

 glasses, fixed to a frame at one end. When 

 the periscope is to be used the frame is 

 moved from the casing and the lazy-tongs 

 extended, after which the mirrors at the 

 top of the frame are alined so that the ob- 

 ject viewed will be reflected to the person 

 using the glasses. To fold the periscope 

 it is only necessary to disconnect the top 

 mirrors from the frame, whereupon the 

 mirrors fold over thin sheets of felt tc 

 protect their surfaces, and the tongs are 

 pressed down until they fit into the space 

 assigned to them in the field-glass casing 



The periscope 

 The frame is col- B^ addition does nol 

 lapsiblesothatthe S*4 make it bulky, 

 entire periscope 

 may be concealed 

 within the usual 

 field-glass casing 



