IMPROVEMENTS IN POUCHES OR RECEPTACLES FOR TOBACCO AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Horsey, of Belvedere Road, Lambeth, in the
County of Surrey, India-rubber Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN POUCHES OR RECEPTACLES FOR TOBACCO AND OTHER
ARTICLES."
Sealed the 9th July 1861, and dated the 14th January 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Horsey at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 14th January
1861.
I, JAMES HORSEY, of Belvedere Road, Lambeth, in the County of Surrey,
India-rubber Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN POUCHES OR RECEPTACLES FOR TOBACCO AND OTHER
ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
My present Invention is for improvements on an Invention for india-rubber
tobacco pouches for which Letters Patent for Great Britain were granted to
me the 21st April 1858, No. 876.
My Invention, as set forth in the Specification of the said Letters Patent,
consisted mainly in forming pouches with an elastic cover to fit over the
receptacle containing the tobacco. Now my present Invention consists in
constructing pouches, purses, cases, and other like portable receptacles pos-
sessing the properties set forth in the Specification of the said Letters Patent

page_text: of a combination of india-rubber or other elastic fabric and leather or other
non-elastic material, the leather or other non-elastic material being made to
form the cover. For instance, the pouch or receptacle, whether in one or
more compartments, may be formed of india-rubber or other elastic material,
and the cover may be formed of leather or of a textile fabric, or partly of
elastic material and partly of leather or textile fabric. In forming receptacles
for some purposes I apply to the cover, when made wholly or partially of
leather or textile fabric, a metal or other spring, in order the better to secure
the contents of the receptacle when closed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Horsey in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th
July 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
HORSEY, of Belvedere Road, Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, India-rubber
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said James Horsey, Her special licence that I, the said James Horsey,
ny executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James
Horsey, 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 Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN POUCHES OR
RECEPTACLES FOR TOBACCO AND OTHER ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst
ethers) that I, the said James Horsey, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly 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 James Horsey, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement

page_text: thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, that is to
say:
My present Invention is for improvements on an Invention for india-rubber
tobacco pouches for which Letters Patent for Great Britain were granted to
me the 21st April 1858, No. 876.
My Invention, as set forth in the Specification of the said Letters Patent,
consisted mainly in forming pouches with an elastic cover to fit ever the
receptacle containing the tobacco. Now my present Invention consists in
constructing pouches, purses, cases, and other like portable receptacles pos-
sessing the properties set forth in the Specification of the said Letters Patent
of a combination of india-rubber or other elastic fabric and leather or other
non-elastic material, the leather or other non-elastic material being made to
form the cover. For instance, the pouch or receptacles, whether in one or
more compartments, may be formed of india-rubber or other elastic material,
and the cover may be formed of leather or of a textilo fabric, or partly of
elastic material and partly of leather or textile fabric.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings illustrates my Invention as applied
to a pouch for containing tobacco, which is shewn open; and Figure 2 is a
view of the pouch as it appears when closed.
a is the receptacle for tobacco made of india-rubber or other elastic fabric,
and 6 is the cover of leather. The receptacle a is connected to the cover 6 by
solution or otherwise. To close the pouch turn the cover 6 inside out over the
receptacle a, as shown in Figure 2, when the pouch appears made of leather,
of which the cover b is formed, while the tobacco is retained in the india-rubber
receptacle, and thereby preserved in a moist state.
Figure 8 is an end view of a purse open constructed according to my Inven-
tion. Figure 4 is an end, and Figure 5 a face view of the same closed.
a, a, are the compartments for money, capable of extension, as shewn by
the dotted lines; they are made of leather or other non-elastic material. The
cover is made partly of elastic fabric 6 and partly of leather c connected by
india-rubber solution or other cement, or by stitching, or by both. To close
the purse fold down the compartments a, a,-on-the inside of the leather
flap c, and turn the elastic fabric 6 over the compartments a, a, as shown in
Figures 4 and 5.
Although I have illustrated my Invention only as applied to pouches for
tobacco and to purses, yet I do not limit myself to these articles, for my
Invention-is-applicable to all similar receptacles; nor do I limit myself to the
shape of the articles shewn in the accompanying Drawings.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention and in what

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the construction
of pouches or receptacles for tobacco and other articles of a combination o
india-rubber or other elastic fabric and leather, or other non-elastic material
substantially in manner herein-before described and illustrated in the accom
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the construction
of pouches or receptacles for tobacco and other articles of a combination o
india-rubber or other elastic fabric and leather, or other non-elastic material
substantially in manner herein-before described and illustrated in the accom
In witness whereof, I, the said James Horsey, have hereunto set my
band and seal this Thirteenth day of July One thousand eight hundred
In witness whereof, I, the said James Horsey, have hereunto set my
band and seal this Thirteenth day of July One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-one.
JAMES HORSEY. (L.B.)