Improvements in Boxes or Packages for Cigarettes, Matches, and other like Articles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 15th May, 1897
Improvements in Boxes or Packages for Cigarettes, Matches, and
other like Articles.
1, AUGUST BORLINGHAUS, of 317, Olive Street, St. Louis, in the State of Missouri,
United States of America, Engraver, do hereby declare 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 :-
The object of my invention is to provide a simple, and efficient construction for
boxes or packages from which cigarettes matches or other like articles may be
conveniently and quickly extracted, and in which the said articles may be protected
until withdrawn.
I attain this object by means of the construction and arrangement of parts
substantially as herein described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings,
in which:
Figure I is a perspective view of the box, showing a cigarette partly removed
therefrom.
Figure II shows a prepared blank ready to be formed into a box.
Figure III shows, in perspective, the box filled with cigarettes, preparatory to
closing and sealing the same.
Figure IV is a vertical section, taken along the line IV-IV, of Figure V,
showing the box filled with cigarettes.
Figure V is a top view of the box.
Figure VI is a cross section, taken along the line VI-VI, of Figure IV.
Figure VII is a perspective view of a modified construction.
Figure VIII is a blank from which said modified form is made.
As shown by the drawings, the box is made from a blank creased to predetermine
the various lines upon which the box body is folded into shape. 1 and 2 are the sides
of the said box body, 3 and 4 are the flaring ends thereof, and 5 and 6 are the
edges. One of these edges is wider than the other, which gives the box a hopper
shape. The narrower edge 6 is approximately slightly wider than a cigarette.
On either side of the edge 6, and cut from the sides 1 and 2, are two ears 7 and 8.
These ears fold back as shown in the drawings, exposing the cigarette that lies
in the bottom of the hopper shaped box. At the narrow portion of the end 3 is
a tongue or flap 9 covering an opening into the box, said opening being slightly
larger than the circumference of a cigarette, and adapted to allow the removal
of such cigarette from the box.
10, 11 and 12 are flaps upon the ends 3 and 4 and side 2, respectively, which
are folded in under the wider edge 5. In my preferred construction, I paste the
edge of edge 5 to these flaps, said paste being placed over area 13. 14 and 15 are
folds placed inside of the ends 3 and 4, and to which said ends are pasted along
edges 16 and 17. 18 is an ear to fold under the end of the box opposite the opening
for extracting the cigarette.
I prefer to construct the box out of the blank shown in Figure II, pasting the
portions thereof together after the box is filled with cigarettes, but instead of pasting
said portions together, the blank shown in Figure VIII may be used, and the box
which is made therefrom and which is shown in Figure VII secured in shape by

page_text: means of the flap 19 on the flap 12' engaging in the slot 20 between the side 1 and
the wide edge 5. The folds 14¹ and 15º in the modification are formed on the flaring
ends 3 and 4 respectively.
After the box is filled with cigarettes, closed and secured as described, a cigarette
may be extracted therefrom as follows:-The ears 7 and 8 are opened, as shown in
the perspective views, and the flap 9, covering the opening in the narrow end of the
box, is opened or removed. With the thumb and forefinger enough purchase is
obtained on the sides of the cigarette 21, through the openings made by the ears 7
and 8, in the sides of the box, to push the same thorefrom. The cigarette extracted is
taken, it will be readily seen, from the bottom of the hopper, which, after its
removal, will be immediately replaced by another cigarette when the box is held with
the narrow edge downward.
The box I have shown is adapted for ten cigarettes, but it is evident that it may
be made to receive any desired number, and while I have described the box
as adapted for cigarettes, I do not limit myself to this use, as it may be used for
many other purposes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A box-blank comprising the narrow edge, the rear side having a cut portion
adjacent to the narrow edge providing an ear, the wide edge formed on the rear side, a
flaring end having a flap and formed on the rear side, the flaring end having a flap
and a tongue and formed on the rear side, the front side having a cut portion
adjacent to the narrow edge providing an ear, the flap formed on the front side, and
the flaring end folds, substantially as described.
2. A box-blank comprising the narrow edge, the rear side having a cut portion
adjacent to the narrow edge providing an ear, the wide edge formed on the rear side,
a Haring end having a flap and formed on the rear side, the flaring end having a flap
and a tongue and formed on the rear side, the front side having a cut portion
adjacent to the narrow edge providing an ear, the flap formed on the front side, and
the flaring end folds formed on the front side and means for securing the wide edge to
the edge-flap, substantially as described.
3. A box comprising the two flaps 7 and 8 cut from the sides of the box, and
providing two openings at the sides, and the end flap 9 covering an opening in the
end of the box co-incident with the end of the article exposed through the side
openings; substantially as described.
4. A box having a hole in its end and arranged to permit the passage therethrough
of an article in said box and having finger holes arranged in its sides with
reference to the said end hole to permit such article to be grasped with the fingers
and pushed endwise through said end hole, substantially as described.
5. A cigarette box having a hole in its end arranged to permit the passage
therethrough of a cigarette and having elongated finger holes in the sides arranged
with reference to the said end hole, whereby a cigarette inside of the box may
be grasped with the fingers and pushed endwise through said end hole, substantially
as described.
6. A cigarette box of a breadth at one of its narrower sides to contain a single
cigarette, said box having a hole in its end at such side and having elongated finger
holes arranged opposite each other in the main sides immediately next to said narrow
side, whereby the cigarette may be grasped with the fingers and pushed end wise
through the end hole, substantially as described.
7. A cigarette box having a hole in its end arranged to permit the passage
therethrough of a cigarette and having elongated finger holes in the sides arranged
with reference to said end hole, whereby a cigarette inside of said box may be
grasped with the fingers and pushed end wise through said end hole, said box having
also flaps for said holes, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

page_text: 8. The combination of a hopper-shaped box or package and means for enabling
articles to be removed therefrom one at a time, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 6th day of April 1897.
For the Applicat
J. G. LORRAIN, M.I.E.E., M.I. Mech. E.,
Norfolk House, Victoria Embankment, London, W.C.,
Chartered Patent Agent.
The Applicab
J. G. LORRAIN, M.I.E.E., M.I. Mech. E.,
Norfolk House, Victoria Embankment, London, W.C.,
Chartered Patent Agent.