IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF POCKET CASES SUITABLE FOR CONTAINING CIGARS, CIGARETTES, MATCHES OR SEWING REQUISITES.
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Percival Everitt of Queen Victoria Street in the City of
London Engineer for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION
OF POCKET CASES SUITABLE FOR CONTAINING CIGARS, CIGARETTES, MATCHES
OR SEWING REQUISITES.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Percival Everitt at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th July 1882.
PERCIVAL EVERITT of Queen Victoria Street in the City of London Engineer
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF POCKET CASES SUITABLE FOR CONTAINING
CIGARS, CIGARETTES, MATCHES OR SEWING REQUISITES.'
The object of this invention is to provide a pocket case of convenient form and
size which besides containing such articles as it may be ostensibly designed for
shall present for use a shifting tablet or calendar carried by a pair of rollers the
turning of which in one or other direction will wind the calendar to and fro past
an opening in the case or will present to view memoranda made upon a band of
paper or other material attached to the rollers.
The pocket case which may be made of metal leather or paste board will
conveniently take the form of a flattened tube closed at one end and open at the
other to receive an inner case or tray which is slidden endwise into place. This
inner case or tray will be suitably arranged according to the article or articles it is
intended to receive. Thus it may be provided with partitions to keep apart the
several articles intended to be placed therein. Or it may be made without partitions
when the articles it is to receive will pack closely, like cigarettes or matches for
example. In the outer case on opposite sides of the space which will be occupied
by the tray or inner case I mount rollers the bearings for which are in the
opposite ends of the outer case, the open end being partially closed for this purpose.
To these rollers I attach a band or strip of paper, paper cloth, or other material
suitable for receiving memoranda, or for receiving a printed calendar or diary,
which band I make fast to the rollers at its opposite ends. The rollers may be

page_text: made hollow, and in that case pencils or other small articles such as a tooth pick
and tweezers may be inserted therein, the same being however furnished with a
plug or equivalent contrivance to ensure their being held in place. The rollers will
be fitted with milled heads to provide for turning them and in the side of the
outer case an opening is made to bring into view the band of paper or other
material as it is drawn off from one roller to the other.
To give proper tension to the band I provide a friction brake which pressing on
the rollers will retain them in the position in which they are set. The inner case
or tray it will be understood will support the band against the pressure of the
writing instrument when memoranda are being inscribed upon it.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Percival Everitt in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
27th January 1883.
PERCIVAL EVERITT of Queen Victoria Street in the City of London Engineer
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF POCKET CASES SUITABLE FOR CONTAINING
CIGARS, CIGARETTES, MATCHES OR SEWING REQUISITES.
The object of this Invention is to provide a pocket case of convenient form and
size which, besides containing such articles as it may be ostensibly designed for,
shall present for use a shifting tablet or a calendar carried by. a pair of rollers, the
turning of which in one or other direction will wind the calendar to and fro past
an opening in the case, or will present to view memoranda made upon a band of
paper or other material attached to the rollers.
The pocket Case which is made preferably of sheet metal will conveniently take
the form of a flattened tube closed at one end and open at the other to receive the
articles to be inserted therein, or an inner case or tray for containing such articles
which tray is slidden endwise into place. In the pocket case on opposite sides of
the central space for containing the tray or the cigarettes or other articles to be
inserted therein I mount rollers, to which I attach a band or strip of paper,
paper cloth or other material suitable for receiving memoranda or for receiving a
printed calendar or diary. In the side of the case an opening is made to bring
into view the band of paper or other material as it is drawn off from one roller to
the other.
case
In the accompanying drawing Fig: 1 shows in plan view my improved pocket
Fig: 2 is a sectional plan view of the same. Fig: 3 is a transverse section
taken on the line 1. 2 of Fig: 1 and Fig 4 is a longitudinal section taken on the
line 3. 4 of Fig: 1.
A is a case rectangular in plan formed of sheet metal. Its sides are rounded to
conform to a pair of reels B B which are inserted in chambers formed to receive
them on opposite sides of a central chamber D. These side chambers are
permanently closed at one end and are open at the other for the insertion of the
reels which reels carry the paper or other material intended to receive memoranda,
or they may be fitted with a band printed with a monthly calendar. The reels B
are preferably made of split or open tubes of metal furnished at their opposite ends
with metal discs or flanges which form journals for the reels. The longitudinal
opening in the reel tube being virtually closed at its extremities by the discs or
flanges is extended laterally as shown at Fig: 2 to give the tube elasticity. In
the space or chamber D between the reel chambers a lining a of metal is fitted.
This serves to close an opening made in the case A for exposing the web of paper
or equivalent material, C, extending from one reel to the other. The central space D
is closed at one end and left open at the other and a detachable plate a¹ is placed
over this closed end to cover the open ends of the reel chambers. A button fitted
to the closed end of the chamber D serves to secure this detachable plate a¹ in
place. To complete the case A it is furnished at its opposite ends with hinged
covers A¹, which are held closed by means of any efficient form of soap attachment.
Within the reels B pencils carrying an ivory knob b are inserted, they being made
of such size that the reel tubes will bind upon them and enable them when turned
to move the reels and wind the band upon either of the reels. To maintain a proper
tension on this band the reels are each provided with a friction brake
convenient form of brake being that shown at B¹, Fig: 2, which consists of a
coiled spring laid between the end of the reel and the closed end of its chamber,
ab

page_text: I have said that an opening is made in the case A to expose to view a portion of
the band of paper or other material attached to the reels. This band is secured to
the reels before inserting them in place, and to provide for this insertion a free
space is left in the case that is between the front of the case and the partitions
which form the reel chambers, and between the front of the case and the lining a
at the insertion end of the case, or that end at which the removable plate a is
situate.
The chamber D, is shown as proportioned to receive a package of cigarettes but
it may be made of sufficient size to carry cigars if thought desirable. Similarly the
reels which are hollow may receive other articles than pencils provision being
made for turning them by buttons or otherwise.
Fig 5 shows in sectional plan a slight modification of the pocket case in which
a tray is provided to occupy the central chamber reels being used as before for
carrying a calendar or band for Memoranda. The tray is shown as filled with
cigarettes and matches, but it may be fitted to receive needles and thread and
other small matters such as shirt and brace buttons.
Having now set forth the nature of my Invention of "Improvements in the
construction of Pocket Cases suitable for containing cigars, cigarettes matches or
sewing requisites," and explained the manner of carrying the same into effect I
wish it to be understood that under the above in part recited Letters Patent
I claim
Constructing pocket cases in the manner above described with reference to the
accompanying drawing, whereby provision is made for the insertion of cigars
cigarettes matches or sewing requisites and at the same time a shifting calendar
or tablet suitable for receiving memoranda.
In witness whereof I the said Percival Everitt bave hereunto set my hand and
seal the twenty-sixth day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty three.
PERCIVAL EVERITT (L.S.)