Å New or Improved Combined Pocket Flask and Cigarette or Cigar Case.
Year: 1898

page_text: Å New or Improved Combined Pocket Flask and Cigarette or
Cigar Case.
We, GEORGE NATILAN and RIDLEY HAYES, trading together as Nathan & Hayes,
of 285, Icknield Street, in the City of Birmingham, Silversmiths, do hereby de-
clare the nature of this invention to be as follows;-
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This invention consists of the herein described new or improved combined
pocket drinking fläsk and cigarette or cigar case which is constructed as follows;
One form of our invention has the same outline shape and appearance as a silver
or other metallic drinking flask, that is to say, it is of a flattened oblong
or other
suitable shape with the corners well rounded off and is provided with a neck and
cap arranged to stand up above the outline of the task in the usual way, or fe-
cessed within the outline as described in the Specification of our Letters Patent
No. 6491 of A.1. 1896. Instead of the whole of the article forming the flask as
heretofore, we divide the same into two compartments by a vertical or horizontal
or inclined partition; one of these compartments being in connection with the
neck and serving to contain the liquid and the other compartment serving to
contain the cigarettes of cigars. The cigarette or cigar compartment opens
book-wise by being made in halves the division extending from one side or
bottom of the same to the said partition the two parts being hinged together
preferably by a spring hinge and held closed by a spring snap or catch so that
when this catch or snap is depressed the hinged part of the cigarette compart-
ment flies open book-wise and exposes the cigarettes or cigars to view so that they
can readily be removed or replaced.
Instead of the cigarette or cigar compartment being arranged to open book-
wise as above described; this compartment may be provided with a removable
top which may be arranged to lift or to slide off the compartment or arranged
to spring back to expose the cigarettes or cigars.
ず
In another arrangement of our invention the part of the article which serves
as the flask is, made of glass, enclosed or not enclosed in a leather case, and the
other part of the article which serves as the cigarette or cigar case is secured to
the glass part by any convenient means as by being made with a rim or mount
at one side which is closed on to and embraces one side of the glass part which
is suitably shaped to receive the same.
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page_text: A New or Improved Combined Pocket Flask and Cigarette or
Cigar Case.
We, GEORGE NATILAN and RIDLEY HAYES, trading together as Nathan & Hayes,
of 285, Icknield Street, in the City of Birmingham, Silversmiths, do hereby de-
clare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement;-
This invention consists of the herein described new or improved combined
pocket flask and cigarette or cigar case which is constructed as we will describe
by referring to the accompanying drawings on which Fig. 1 is a front elevation
and Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of one form of our combined pocket flask
and cigarette or cigar case open; Fig. 3 is a front elevation and Fig. 4 is a side
elevation of the same closed; Fig. 5 shews another form of our invention; Fig. 6
shews another form of the same and Fig. 7 shews another arrangement of our in-
vention in which the part which serves as the flask is made of glass.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all
the figures.
Referring firstly more particularly to Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 it will be seen that
our invention has when closed the same outline shape and appearance as a silver
or other metallic drinking flask, that is to say, it is of a flattened oblong or other
suitable shape with the corners well rounded off and is provided with a neck a¹
recessed within the outline of the flask and enclosed by the hinged cap a² as
described in the Specification of our Letters Patent No. 6491 of A.D. 1896. Or
as shewn for instance by Fig. 5 the part A may have a neck and cap a² arranged
to stand up above the outline of the flask in the usual way. Instead of the whole
of the article forming the flask as heretofore we divide the same into two com-
partments marked respectively A and B by means of a partition C, the compart-
ment A being in communication with the neck a¹ and serving to contain the
liquid and the other compartment B serving to contain the cigarettes or cigars.
The cigar or cigarette compartment B opens bookwise by being made in halves
the division being at 6 and extending from the side or bottom of the compart-
ment to the partition C. The two parts B and 12 are hinged together at 62 by a
spring hinge and held closed by a spring snap or catch d which secures the
compartment closed as in Figs. 3 and 4 and when this snap or catch d is pressed
inwardly the hinged part 132 of the cigarette or cigar compartment flies open
bookwise and exposes the cigarettes or cigars to view as shewn in Figs. 1 and 2
so that they can readily be removed or replaced. The elastic band stretching
from side to side of the part B secures the cigarettes or cigars therein and a
similar elastic band is stretched across from side to side of the part B2 and
secures the cigarettes or cigars in the same.
Instead of the cigarettes or cigar compartment B B being arranged to open
bookwise as above described and shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 this compart-
ment may, as shewn for instance by Fig. 6, be provided with a hinged top F
hinged to the compartment at f¹ and arranged to turn up off the compartment
as shewn in Fig. 6 so as to expose the cigarettes or cigars and enable them to
be removed. An ordinary snap or catch f secures the hinged top F when closed.
In another arrangement of our invention shewn by Fig. 7 the part A of the
article which serves as the flask is made of glass (which is or may be enclosed
in a leather case as are other drinking flasks) and the other part B B3 which
serves as the cigarette or cigar case is made of metal and secured to the glass
flask part A by any convenient means as by being made with a rim or mount 6³

page_text: at one side which is closed on to and embraces the side forming the partition C
of the glass part A which as shewn is rebated at c' so as to receive the rim or
mount 63
The accompanying drawings illustrate what we consider to be the best ways
of carrying our invention into practice but it is to be understood that our inven-
tion is not limited to the precise forms shewn as these may be modified without
departing from the nature of our invention.
Having now particularly. described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed. we declare that what
we claim is;
A combined pocket flask and cigarette case or cigar case substantially as
described.
Dated this 14th day of December 1898.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.