An Improvement relating to Oigarette and like Boxes or Cases.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 4th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 9th Jan., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement relating to Oigarette and like Boxes or Cases.
I, JAMES PLENDERLEITH, of 3 Princes Hotel Buildings, Coventry Street,
London, Tobacconist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to an improvement in cigarette and like boxes or cases,
and has for object separating the end cigarette from the layer by an appliance on
or in connection with the hinged lid, and then rolling it over into the lid, on said
lid being opened.
Great difficulty is often experienced in separating or selecting a cigarette
from a layer in a hinged lid box or case after opening the lid particularly by a
person wearing gloves, and in many instances the cigarette becomes crushed or
damaged.
By my invention, each cigarette is separated in succession from its neighbouring
one, turned or rolled over, and laid openly on the inner surface of the lid ready for
being lifted.
For the purpose of my invention, I arrange or affix a wire or piece of metal or
its equivalent to the inner surface of the lid near the hinge line and preferably
centrally of the lid, the projecting portion of the material being curved or hook
shaped that when the lid is closed its end rests on the inner bottom of the box.
On the box being canted or tilted by the hand, the cigarette nearest the hinge
rolls into the curved portion, and when the lid is opened the cigarette thus selected
is lifted and it rolls over into the lid.
I prevent the remaining cigarettes leaving the box by suitable shields or
guards.
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I, JAMES PLENDERLEITH, of 3 Princes Hotel Buildings, Coventry Street,
London, Tobacconist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to an improvement in cigarette and like boxes or cases,
and has for object separating the end cigarette from the layer by an appliance on
or in connection with the hinged lid, and then rolling it over into the lid, on said
lid being opened.
Great difficulty is often experienced in separating or selecting a cigarette
from a layer in a binged lid box or case after opening the lid particularly by a

page_text: person wearing gloves, and in many instances the cigarette becomes crushed or
lamaged.
By my invention, each cigarette is separated in succession fro.n its neighbouring
one, turned or rolled over, and laid openly on the inner surface of the lid ready for
being lifted.
For the purpose of my tinvention, and as I show 'in' the annexed drawings,
Figure inside perspective elevation of a cigarette box open with a guard
plate.
Figure 2 transverse section of box closed. Figure 3 partially open and a
cigarette in the catcher.
Figure 4 view of box open and showing wire guard.
Figure 5 view of double layer box with incline for cigarettes to roll on to
rengage in catcher.
I arrange or affix a wire 'A, or piece of sheet metál B (or its equivalent) to the
inner surface of the lid C near the hinge line and preferably centrally of the 'lid
at D, the projecting portion of the material being curved or hook shaped, as
at E, so that when the lid is closed its end rests on the inner bottom 'F of the
box G.
On the box being canted or tilted by the hand with the lid closed, the cigarette
nearest the hinge rolls into the curved portion of the catcher E, and when the
lid C, D,'is opened the cigarette thus collected is lifted and removed, or it can be
allowed to roll over into the lid as shown by the dotted lines, Figure 4.
I prevent the remaining cigarettes leaving the box by suitable shields or
guards 'H.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
clain is:-
1. In a cigarette 'box or case having a hinged lid, an appliance in the lid
thereof into which cigarettes in succession can be received by a tilting of said
box for the easy removal of such cigarettes singly from said lid when opened, as
set forth.
2. Providing a cigarette box having a hinged lid, with a guard and the lid
with an appliance for singling out and collecting the cigarettes in succession for
removal from the lid when opened, as described and substantially as shown in the
annexed drawings.
The 4th day of November 1904