An Improved Case or Book for Holding, and Method of Arranging,- Sheets of Paper for Cigarettes and other purposes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 21st Apr., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Case or Book for Holding, and Method of Arranging,-
Sheets of Paper for Cigarettes and other purposes.
I, PIERRE FRANTZ, of 25, Rue de Trésite, Paris, in the Republic of France,
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 and accompanying drawing, that is to say :-
My invention consists, first, of a novel form of case or book for holding paper
for cigarettes or other purposes, having two parallel cases with or without a
fastening. Second, of a novel method of folding and partially dividing the
separate sheets.
In the accompanying drawing which is in illustration of my invention,
Figure 1 is a front and end view of the improved case when closed, Figure 2, a
front view of the case when open, Figure 3 a plan of the same, one sheet being
shewn ready to be detached.
Figure 4 shews the method of folding the paper.
Figure 5 shews a method of partially dividing a strip of paper, leaving a part
attached at the middle of the breadth of the sheets.
Figure 6 shews a similar kind of partial division, but with the edges left.
attached.
Figure 7 shews a series of interrupted slits across the paper.
Figure 8 shews a series of perforations across the paper weakening it sufficiently
to ensure its separation in the right direction when torn.
As illustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15, the covers of the-
case form, either in their length or their width, two parallel cases B into which a
strip of paper A. folded as shewn in Figure 4, is introduced and held.
The sheets may be folded either in the direction of their length (as shewn in
Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, and 14), or of their breadth (as shewn in
Figures 9 and 12), and the sheets may be folded either at the part which is to be
separated by tearing, or at their centre, their fold being either longitudinal or
transverse (as shewn in Figures 11 and 12).
Finally, Figures 13, 14, and 15 shew an arrangement in which separated sheets
of any desired size, are re-united by small strips of gummed or cemented paper b
(Figure 13) or simply by spots of gum or cement at the part c (Figure 14) or by
other equivalent means.
The paper may be folded and the line of rupture arranged in any desired.
direction.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
The improved case or book and method of arranging sheets of paper for
cigarettes, handbills, or prospectuses, or hygienic purposes, and the like.
1. The case or book containing two parallel receptacles for the paper, substantially
as described and illustrated.
2. The methods of folding and partially severing the strip of paper or of attaching
together separated sheets, substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated this 7th day of March 1894
EDWARDS & Co.,
65 & 66, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.