IMPROVEMENTS IN CIGAR, CIGARETTE, AND TOBACCO BOXES
Year: 1884

page_text: I, JOSEPH MARCH WEBSTER, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, Timber
Merchant do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for IMPROVEMENTS
IN CIGAR, CIGARETTE, AND TOBACCO BOXES to be as follows:-
The object is to produce boxes for containing cigars, cigarettes, and tobacco of
such a nature that they shall be light, durable, cheap, easily made pleasing to the
eye and preserve their contents in an unimpaired condition.
For the above purpose I construct cigar and like boxes with a compound body of
soft wood, paper, or other like cheap material coated or covered with hard wood or
other suitable substance preferably cedar in the form of pulp, composition or thin
strips, the two being caused to adhere by means of glue, cement, or the like aided
by pressure and heat.
The putting together of the body of the box and the
covering or coating may either take precedence of the other. When the coating is
effected after the formation of the body, suitable dies and tools are used. When
the body and surface materials are first united and then formed into boxes of the
required size, such formation is effected by the use of suitable cutting and shaping
tools.

page_text: I JOSEPH MARCH WEBSTER of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, Timber
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
CIGAR CIGARETTE AND TOBACCO BOXES, and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement
"The object is to produce boxes for containing cigars cigarettes and tobacco of
such a nature that they shall be light durable cheap easily made pleasing to the eye
and preserve their contents in unimpaired condition.
For the above purpose I construct boxes with a compound body of soft wood,
paper, or other like cheap material coated or covered with hard wood or other
suitable substance, preferably cedar, in the form of pulp, composition or thin strips,
the two being caused to adhere by means of glue cement or the like aided by
pressure and heat. The body of the box may be first formed of suitable material
and be afterwards coated or covered, or coated or covered pieces or slabs may be
made and afterwards formed into a box. When the coating is effected after the
body is made, suitable dies and tools are used to form the body and the coating or
covering material is afterwards attached thereto by suitable securing agents. When
the body and surface materials are first united and then formed into boxes of the
required size the united materials are reduced to the required sizes by the use of
suitable cutting and shaping tools and the pieces are joined together in the usual
or any convenient way.
The drawing hereunto annexed is a perspective view of a box constructed under
my invention is the body material. b is the surface material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
Constructing cigar cigarette and tobacco boxes with the bottom sides and top, or
any of them made of body and surface materials united as described, the body
being of soft wood paper or other cheap material and the surface material of hard
wood such as cedar or other suitable substance.
Dated this 7th day of October 1884