An Improved Attachment for Tobacco-pouches, Cigar and Cigarette Cases, Purses, Hand-bags, and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Feb., 1899 --Accepted, 29th Apr., 1899
An Improved Attachment for Tobacco-pouches, Cigar and Cigarette
Cases, Purses, Hand-bags, and the like.
I, HENRY KAUFMAN, of 91 and 93, Milton Street, Fore Street, London, E.C.,
Manufacturer, 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 improvements constituting my invention consists of the application to
the front or back face or other part of a tobacco-pouch, cigar or cigarette-case,
purse, hand-bag, portmanteau. or the like, of a locket of any desired shape or
configuration, for containing a portrait of the owner, or the portrait or memorial
of the donor, or other person or persons.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a perspective view of such a locket
as it would appear when open.
Fig. 2 is the front view of an ordinary horsey tobacco-pouch which is given
merely as an illustration of the use of Fig. 1, while Fig. 3 is a top-edge view of
the front portion of Fig. 2 illustrating the manner in which I prefer to fix Fig. 1
thereon.
In carrying my invention into effect I provide of precious or other metal or
material or combination of materials a locket of any desired size, shape or con-
figuration, such for instance as that shewn by Fig. 1, this being one of the shapes
that lends itself most suitable for the purpose, and which may conveniently con-
sist of a hollow body A, provided with a glass B, retained in position by a frame C,
for enclosing a portrait or the like, the said body having hinged thereto a prefer-
ably like shaped lid D, adapted to close upon A and conceal the contents thereof,
and the said lid may, if desired, have engraved or otherwise produced upon its
outer or inner surface any desired initials or monogram, or other device.
For the purposes of my invention a lockét of such or similar construction, I
fix upon the front or other part of a tobacco-pouch, cigar or cigarette-case, purse
or the like, after the manner shewn by Fig. 2, in which I have chosen to illus-
trate its application to an ordinary tobacco-pouch E. The said locket may be
fixed in position by any suitable means, such means being, to a very great extent,
governed by the shape, configuration and material of the article upon which it
is to be mounted, but as a means most acceptable for general use I prefer to
provide upon the back of the body A, two or more (preferably four) extending
pins or wires F, which may, in most cases, be passed from the outer side through
the outer surface of the pouch or the like and be turned down upon the inner face
of same, and concealed by the lining, when such pouch, purse or the like is so
lined, but in the case of rubber pouches having an outer casing of cloth, plush
or other material, the said pins or the like F may be passed through and turned
down upon the inner surface of such casing, and be concealed by the body of the
pouch, as suggested at Fig. 3, in which the said casing is indicated by G, and
the body of the pouch by H, but when the general construction or the material

page_text: or or other conditions of the pouch, purse or other article may not conveniently
lend itself to such a means of fastening. I may employ any suitable form of
cement, or screws, clips or other means to attain the same ends.
Having now particularly described, and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
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The application of lockets to pouches, purses, hand-bags, portmanteaus and the
like, and means for fixing such lockets thereon, substantially as and for the pur-
poses herein described and shewn.
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word day of February 1899.
GEO. THOS HYDE,
1, Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.