Match boxes are primarily used for lightening the fire for
different uses. Match boxes are in use since a long time and these are being
made all around the country and the world. Match box is basically the box made
of light wood or cardboards with friction strip at sides so that fire can be
produced by rubbing the match sticks on it.
Matchbox manufacturing is a process of different series where
soft wood or cardboards are purchased. The paper that has to be stuck on
cardboards are printed and then affixed. These cardboards are cut into the size
of matchboxes and then matchboxes are arranged in the shapes that we see in
market. Finally the match sticks are filled in the boxes and the whole pack is
packed into big boxes for better safety and handling.
Matchboxes are available in market in different sizes for
both household and industrial purposes. These are safely produced and catch
fire at one spark.
The first modern matchbox which is self igniting was invented
in the year 1805. Earlier than this, glasses were used to ignite fire with
focus towards sun. Matches that were earlier used were known as chemical
matchboxes in which head of match stick consisted of mixture of rubber, sulfur,
sugar and potassium chlorate. The fire used to get ignited when the match stick
was dipped in bottle filled with sulfuric acid. But these kinds of matchboxes could
not be produced at a large level and thus were limited to experiments and
research centers only. For masses, it was still a dream to light a fire through
match stick. Then in around mid of eighties, friction match sticks were
invented which brought transformation in the industry.
Today matchbox
manufacturers are able to produce matchboxes at a very large scale and now
for every single use of igniting fire.
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