Improvements in and relating to Tobacco-pouches.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Feb., 1908
Complete Specification Left. 3rd Nov. 1896-Accepted. 30th Jan.. 1897
Complete Specification Left. 3rd Nov. 1896-Accepted. 30th Jan.. 1897
UNAD
Improvements in and relating to Tobacco-pouches.
I, HENRY WELBY ELWORTHY of 21 Varna Road Edgbaston Birmingham in
the County of Warwick Commercial Traveller do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the article of commerce generally known as a tobacco-
pouch in contra-distinction to a separate article generally known as a cigar-case or
as a tobacco-case.
Hitherto tobacco pouches have been made and used formed from caoutchouc or
india-rubber.
I wish to particularly point out that such rubber pouches consist of a sheet of
soft rubber, folded over so as to form a pouch or pocket receptacle at one end, into
which to put tobacco and that at the other end of sheet of rubber is provided a
second pocket or pouch into which to slip the first (filled) pocket thus securing the
tobacco within its one pouch or pocket by slipping the first (filled) pocket into the
second pocket and thereby dispensing with the use of an elastic band or other
fastenment.
By my invention I form and produce a tobacco-pouch of the class herein before
described and connect thereto the additional parts that constitute my invention as
hereinafter set forth.
I fix or attach one, two, or more pockets to a rubber tobacco-pouch so that when
the tobacco is placed in its ordinary pouch or pocket and tucked into the secondary
pocket, there will in connection with my improved pouch be one or two separate or
distinct pockets not filled with tobacco.
The main object of providing such additional pockets is for the convenience of
cigarette smokers.
The cigarette paper would be put in the new pocket and would of course be
ready and convenient for use when opening the tobacco-pouch to roll a cigarette,
the second additional pocket may be used for railway-tickets tram-tickets, postage-
stamps or for receiving any such small article.
The additional pocket or pockets will in some cases be attached to the inside of
the tobacco-ponch and in other cases to the outside of the tobacco-pouch and in
yet other cases to the outside of the tobacco pouch-cover.
My improved extra pockets can be made out of rubber, silk, plush, metal, or
any other material suitable for combining with an ordinary rubber tobacco-
pouch.
My improved pockets can be attached by means of cement, rubber-solution, or
by means of sewing or any other method whereby the additional pockets can be
conveniently attached and connected to and with the rubber tobacco-pouch.
Dated this 29th day of January 1896.
ALFRED WILLIAM TURNER,
Cobden Buildings, Corporation Street, Birmingham,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: improvements in and relating to Tobacco-pouches.
I HENRY WELBY ELWORTHY of 21 Varna Road, Edgbaston Birmingham in
the County of Warwick Commercial Traveller 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:-
This invention relates to the article of commerce generally known as a tobacco-
pouch in contra-distinction to a separate article generally known as a cigar-case or
as a tobacco-case.
Hitherto tobacco-pouches have been made and used formed from caoutchouc or
india-rubber.
I wish to particularly point out that such rubber-pouches consist of a sheet of
soft rubber, folded over so as to form a pouch or pocket at one end, into which to
put tobacco, and at the other end of sheet-rubber is provided a second pocket or
pouch into which to slip the first (filled) pocket, thus securing the tobacco within
its one pouch or pocket by slipping the first (filled) pocket into the second pocket
and thereby dispensing with the use of an elastic band or other fastenment.
By my invention I form and produce a tobacco-pouch of the class herein before
described and connect thereto the additional parts that constitute my invention in
combination with the old-style tobacco-pouch.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawings the
manner in which my invention is constructed and used.
Figure 1 represents a vertical elevation of improved pouch with tucking-pocket
withdrawn.
Figure 2 represents a section of Figure 1 on the line A-B.
Figure 3 represents a section of Figure 1 on the line C-D.
Figure 4 represents an enlarged plan of snap-fastener.
Figure 5 represents a plan of Figure 4.
Figure 6 represents a front view of rectangular pouch.
Figure 7 represents an edge view of Figure 4.
Figure 8 represents a broken-off elevation of pouch similar to Figure 1 excepting
that the back pocket is not dotted in.
Figure 9 represents a plan of Figure 8 through the line E-F shewing one front
compartment.
Figure 10 represents a plan similar to Figure 9 with the compartment divided
into two pockets.
Figure 11 represents a plan of pouch Figure 8 on the line E-F shewing two front
compartment pockets.
Figure 12 represents a plan similar to Figure 11 with one compartment divided
into two pockets.
Figure 13 represents a plan of single outer back part of main tobacco-pouch
carrying dividing-facings.
Figure 14 represents a plan of Figure 13.
Figure 15 represents a plan of Figure 8 through the line E-F shewing three
front pockets by parting the front compartment into two pockets.
Figure 16 represents a plan of Figure 8 through the line E-F shewing three
back pockets and two front pockets the inner back compartment being divided to
form two pockets.
Figure 17 represents a plan of Figure 8 on the line E-F shewing three back
pockets and two front pockets, the outer back compartment being divided into two
pockets.
In carrying out my invention I provide a tobacco-pouch compartment a suitable

page_text: to tuck into the receiving compartment as shewn at Figures 12 and 3; the
pouch a and the receiving-compartment bare formed in one piece or sheet and will
be hereinafter referred to as the tobacco-pouch.
I secure to the tobacco-pouch one, two, or more pockets as a means of producing
my improved combination, the several sets of pockets are hereinafter described
under several modifications.
The first modification of improved-pouch carries one front-pocket as shewn at c
Figure 9.
The second modification of improved-pouch carries two front-pockets as shewn
at d Figure 10.
The third modification of improved-pouch carries two front compartments or
pockets not divided, as shewn at e and f Figure 11.
The fourth modification of improved-pouch carries three front pockets consisting
of the one full-length compartment g and the two smaller pockets h and j formed
by dividing the inner compartment as shewn at Figure 2.
The fifth modification of improved-pouch carries three front pockets, one full-
length and two shorter pockets and m, formed by dividing the outer compart-
ment as shewn at Figure 15.
The sixth modification of improved-pouch carries two front pockets and one
back pocket as illustrated at Figures 12 aud 3, n and o shew the two frout pockets
and p shews the back pocket.
The seventh modification of improved-pouch carries two front pockets q and r
and three back pockets st and u.
The eighth modification of improved-pouch carries two full-length front pockets v
and w and three back pockets y and 2.
In building the several modifications of my invention I provide and utilize a
tobacco-pouch formed from caoutchouc or india-rubber, the pouch as shewo at a
and 6 Figures 1 2 and 3 may be formed out of a sheet of soft rubber and cut to
the required shape and afterwards cemented together at the edges, or the pouch
may be produced by the moulding process.
The pouch "only" as shewn at a and b is known as the Horsey-pouch and is
consequently of itself "not new" and I do not claim the Horsey-pouch as my
invention but I utilize the old Horsey pattern in combination with the new pockets
and thereby produce a new combination of tobacco-pouch with other smaller
pouches or pockets so that the combined article can be used for many purposes that
the old style Horsey pouch could not be used for.
In some cases I prefer to produce my improved-pouch with all its pockets by the
moulding process, in other cases I cement the layers over each other without any
division-facings; my improved pouch produced by either of such methods would
when empty collapse so as to occupy a space equal only to the thickness of the
several partitions lying flat against each other. I can where found advantageous
provide division-facings as shewn at bb Figures 9 and 13 and as also shewn (not
indexed) at Figures 10 11 12 14 15 16 and 17, and it will be readily understood
that when the divisional-facings are used the improved pouch cannot collapse in
the manner hereinbefore described in relation to Figures 1 2 and 3.
I provide a snap-fastenment c c the pin d d of which takes into the eyelet of
Hap ff, such snap-fastenment is of old design excepting that the pin d d is situated
centrally with the bottom-plate, in contra-distinction to the placing of the pin at
the edge of bottom-plate as is usual in old-style fastenments.
Instead of using a tobacco-pouch of the oval configuration shewn at Figure 1,
prefer in some cases to use a pouch of the rectangular shape shewn at Figure 6,
t will be observed that the tobacco-compartment of rectangular pouch is tucked
nto its receiving-pocket b.
When utilizing a rectangular pouch I provide any of the pockets as herein-
efore described under eight modifications, and produce the rectangular pouch and
ts pockets by the moulding process, by the cementing process, or by the divisional-
yer process.

page_text: Although I have only shewn a pouch of an oval horizontal shape and a pouch of
a rectangular horizontal shape nevertheless I do not limit myself to those two
shapes, as I can form my tucking-in-pouches of any suitable horizontal shape, and
in each case of such cases combine with the tobacco-pouch either of the sets of
pockets herein before described as combined with an oval tobacco-pouch and with a
rectangular tobacco-pouch.
The main object I have in view in providing the new pockets attached to the
tobacco-pouches herein before described is for the convenience of cigarette-smokers
who wish to make cigarettes from the tobacco contained in their own pouches,
several sorts of cigarette-papers can be provided and each sort put in a separate
pocket.
As a supplementary object of providing the pockets I intend that some of
such pockets shall be used storing railway-tickets, train-tickets, postage-stamps
and other small articles that will not deteriorate when stored close to tobacco.
As hereinbefore set out I purpose using india-rubber for the tobacco-pouch,
mainly because such substance has been proved to be the best to form containers
for tobacco that requires keeping moist, but I do not confine myself to india-rubber
.as a substance out of which to make the pockets, because some of the pockets may
be advantageously made from other substance in accordance with what is intended
to be stored in the pockets, therefore I can where desired use silk, plush, leather,
metal, or any other material suitable for combining with a rubber pouch in the
manner herein described and suitable for use in the manner herein described.
The pockets may be secured to the rubber-pouch and to the divisional-facings
by means of cement, rubber-solution, sewing, or by any other suitable means
whereby the additional pockets can be conveniently attached to and combined with
the rubber-pouch and to and with each other.
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
1st. The invention as illustrated and described for use in the manner described.
2nd. The combination of either of the sets of pockets illustrated and described
in relation to Figures 29 11 12 15 16 and 17 with an oval rubber tobacco-pouch
as shewn at Figures 1 2 and 3 for use in the manner described.
3rd. The combination of either of the sets of pockets illustrated and described
in relation to Figures 29 11 12 13 16 and 17 with a rectangular shaped rubber
tobacco-pouch as shewn at Figure 6 for use in the manner described.
4th. The combination of either of the sets of pockets illustrated and described
in relation to Figures 29 11 12 15 16 and 17 with a tucked-in rubber tobacco-
pouch of the Horsey type of any horizontal design for use in the manner
.described.
1 Namamber 1906
ALFRED WILLIAM TURNER,
Cobden Buildings, 67 Corporation Street, Birmingham,
Agent for the Applicant.