IMPROVEMENTS IN POUCHES OF INDIA-RUBBER FOR HOLDING TOBACCO OR OTHER SUBSTANCES."-BER FOR HOLD OR OTHERSTANCES." PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John William Mott, of Lea Bridge Road, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN POUCHES OF
INDIA-RUBBER FOR HOLDING TOBACCO OR OTHER SUBSTANCES."
INDIA-RUBBER FOR HOLDING TOBACCO OR OTHER SUBSTANCES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John William Mott
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 27th October 1858.
I, JOHN WILLIAM MOTT, of Lea Bridge Road, in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
POUCHES OF INDIA-RUBBER FOR HOLDING TOBACCO AND OTHER SUBSTANCES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in pouches of india-rubber
for holding tobacco or other substances. Heretofore pouches of india-rubber
have been made consisting of a bag with a flap to cover the mouth, and the
flap has been kept closed by a detached india-rubber ring passed over the top
of the flap. Now, according to my Invention I attach to the flap, or make in.
one piece with it, an elastic band, which serves to keep the flap closed by
passing from side to side of the flap behind the back of the pouch. Or in
some cases I form the flap of the same shape as the front of the pouch, and I
attach to it (or form in one piece with it) all. round its edge an elastic rim or
edge which serves to keep the flap closed by springing over the edge of the
pouch. In some cases also in constructing pouches of this description I close

page_text: up the top of the pouch, and in place of this opening I cut a circular or other
hole in the side of the pouch under the flap; I also attach to the side of the
pouch under the flap an elastic band for holding fuzees.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John William Mott in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 27th April 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
WILLIAM MOTT, of Lea Bridge Road, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said John William Mott, Her special licence that I, the said
John William Mott, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said John William Mott, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man,
an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN POUCHES OF INDIA-RUBBER FOR HOLDING
TOBACCO OR OTHER SUBSTANCES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said John William Mott, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John William Mott, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in pouches of india-rubber
for holding tobacco or other substances. Heretofore pouches of india-rubber
have been made, consisting of a bag with a flap to cover the mouth, and the
flap has been kept closed by a detached india-rubber ring passed over the top

page_text: of the flap. Now, according to my Invention, I attach to the flap, or make in
one piece with it, an elastic band which serves to keep the flap closed by
passing from side to side of the flap behind the back of the pouch. Figure 1
is a front view of a pouch constructed in this manner, and as it appears when
open; Figure 2 is a front view of the same, as it appears when closed;
Figure 3 is a transverse section taken at the line 1, 1, Figure 2. a is the
bag of the pouch; b, the flap; and c, the strap. Figures 4, 5, and 6, show
views similar to those shewn at Figures 1, 2, and 3, of another pouch of a
somewhat modified form. Or, in some cases I form the flap of the same shape
as the front of the pouch, and I attach to it (or form in one piece with it) all
round its edge an elastic rim or edge, which serves to keep the flap closed by
springing over the edge of the pouch. Figure 7 is a front view, when open,
of a pouch constructed according to this part of my Invention; Figure 8 is a
front view of the same when closed; and Figure 9 is a section taken at the
line 2, 2, Figure 8. d is the bag of the pouch; e is the flap; and f is the
elastic rim or edge.
I would remark, as respects pouches of this construction, that I am aware
that pouches have before been made consisting of two bags of equal size, the
one to fit into the other, but this I do not claim; the novelty of this part of
my Invention consisting in the combination of a single bag, a flap, and a rim
or edge, as herein described. .
In some cases also, in constructing pouches of this description I close up the
top of the pouch, and in place of the opening, I cut a circular or other hole
in the side of the pouch under the flap. Figures 10, 11, and 12 show
respectively a front and back view and section of a pouch of this construction.
g is the bag of the pouch closed at the top, and having a hole cut through its
side at g; h is the flap; and i, the elastic rim or edge as before. Atj in
the several Figures is shown an elastic band, which I attach to the side of
the pouch under the flap, for holding fuzees.
In witness whereof, I, the said John William Mott, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Twenty-sixth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
Witness,
GEORGE SAUNDERS.
JOHN WILLIAM MOTT. (L.S.)