[Illustration: FIG. 2.
_Inventor
Thomas Parker_
_By his attorneys
Howson and Howson_
_Witnesses:
George Baumann
John Revell_]
[Illustration: Figure 11.--DIPPING OF MATCHSTICKS in France, about 1870.
The frame which holds the matches so that one end protrudes at the
bottom, is lowered over a pan containing molten sulfur. The
sulfur-covered matches are then dropped into a phosphorous paste. See
figure 12. (From FIGUIER, _Merveilles de l'industrie_, volume 3, 1874,
page 575.)]