IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES OR HOLDERS FOR " PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Cheswright, of Parkhurst Road, in the County
of Middlesex, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES OR HOLDERS FOR
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Cheswright at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd July 1880.
CHARLES CHESWRIGHT, of Parkhurst Road, in the County of Middlesex.
IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES OR HOLDERS FOR CONTAINING CIGARS AND OTHER
LIKE ARTICLES."
This Invention consists in the production of a casing or covering for cigars and
other like articles, which, whilst it protects the articles, enables them to be exposed
to view and to smell, and by which also the genuineness of the article enclosed is
guaranteed.
In carrying out my Invention I strike out or otherwise form out of thin metal,
somewhat in the manner metallic capsules are formed, cases or receptacles which
will fit with tolerable accuracy the end portions of the cigars or other articles for
which they are intended. These cases or receptacles may be corrugated or otherwise
ornamented, and may be stamped or embossed with the name of the manufacturer
of the goods and with any desired trademark, device, or date. These cases or
receptacles being placed at each end of the articles intended to be protected, are
united together by a strip of metal, which forms, in fact, a seal for the articles
protected, such articles being exposed to view and smell, whilst an efficient
guarantee is given by the mode in which the cases or receptacles are fitted to them
that the articles are really the production of the manufacturer whose name they
bear.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Charles Cheswright in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th
January 1881.
CHARLES CHESWRIGHT, of Parkhurst Road, in the County of Middlesex.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES OR HOLDERS FOR CONTAINING CIGARS AND OTHER
LIKE ARTICLES."
My said Invention consists in the production of a case or holder for cigars and
other like articles, which, whilst it protects the articles, enables them to be exposed
to view and to smell, and by which also the genuineness of the article inclosed is
guaranteed.
In carrying out my said Invention I strike out or otherwise form out of thin
metal, somewhat in the manner metallic capsules are formed, cases or holders
which will fit with tolerable accuracy the end portions of the cigars or other articles
for which they are intended. These cases or holders may be corrugated or otherwise
mounted, and may be stamped or embossed with the name of the manufacturer of
the goods, and with any desired trademark, device, or date.
These cases or holders being placed at each side of the articles intended to be
protected, are united together by a band or strip of metal, which forms, in fact, a
seal for the articles protected. By means of my said Invention, therefore, whilst
the articles contained in the cases or holders are exposed to view and smell, an
efficient guarantee is given by the mode in which the cases holders are fitted to
them that the articles are really the production of the manufacturer whose name
they bear, since any attempt to abstract them and substitute inferior articles for thei
would result in the destruction of the case or holder, or such permanent injury to it
that detection would unavoidably ensue.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood I shall now
proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose shall refer
to the several Figures on the annexed Sheet of Drawings, the same letters of
reference indicating corresponding parts in all the Figures.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings represents a perspective view of a cigar
case or holder complete, constructed according to my said Invention, the case or
holder being shewn filled with cigars; Figures 2 and 3 are respectively perspective
views of one of the caps of which the case or holder is composed, and of the
connecting and scaling metal band or strip, hereinbefore mentioned.
The case or holder consists of two caps A, A, (one of which is shewn detached in
Figure 2) which are produced from thin metal, by proference in a similar manner
to that in which metallic capsules are formed, and which are placed over the ends
of the cigars, and united together by a metal band or strip B (Figure 3) soldered to
the ends of the caps.
The caps with their band or strip may be corrugated or otherwise ornamented,
and may be stamped or embossed with the name of the manufacturer of the goods,
and with any desired trademark, device, or date, as indicated, for example, at a, a.
As the caps cover only the end portions of the cigars, leaving their central
portion open, the cigars are exposed to view and smell, whilst at the same time au
effectual guarantee is obtained that the cigars are really the production of the
manufacturer whose name they bear, since any attempt to abstract the contents of
the case or holder and substitute inferior articles for them would result in the
destruction of the case or holder, or such injury to it that it will bear on the face
of it unmistakeable evidence of its having been tampered with.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into
effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to be novel and original,

page_text: and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the hereinbefore in part
recited Letters Patent is,-
The production of cases or holders for containing cigars and other like articles,
substantially in the manner hereinbefore described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Cheswright, have to this my
Specification set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of January, One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
CHARLES CHESWRIGHT. (L.S.)