IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES FOR CIGARS AND SIMILARLY OR APPROXI- MATELY FORMED ARTICLES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Quin, of Poland Street, Oxford Street,
in the County of Middlesex, Jewellery Case Maker, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES FOR CIGARS AND SIMILARLY OR APPROXI-
MATELY FORMED ARTICLES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Quin at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th February 1874.
I, RICHARD QUIN, of Poland Street, Oxford Street, in the County of
Middlesex, Jewellery Case Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES FOR CIGARS AND SIMILARLY OR
APPROXIMATELY FORMED ARTICLES," to be as follows :-
Cigar cases as ordinarily constructed are interiorly simple spaces for
holding a number of cigars, or have pockets to hold several cigars, or
each pocket being intended to hold one cigar only.
Now my improved cigar case is in the interior an open space fitted
with a spring holder, which keeps the cigars tightly fitted in the case in

page_text: such manner that each one can be withdrawn from the case without
difficulty, leaving the other cigars as firmly held in the case as before
the withdrawal of that one.
The means whereby I carry my said object into effect are by preference
as follows:-I construct a case of leather, metal, or other material closed 5
at the ends with the exception of a small opening at each end, which by
preference is made for admission and extraction of one cigar only at a
time. Inside the case is a spring and face piece or spring arrangements
of any suitable shape or construction.
In order to fill the case the cigars are successively put into the case 1
through the openings before described, and in order to extract same all
that is required is to apply the finger at the opening in one end and the
cigar issues from the corresponding opening at the other end.
These cases may also be fitted in order to extract the cigar with a
slide which will push the cigar out in the same manner, such slide being 1
spring or otherwise, and such slide may be fitted with a shoe, so that the
opening at one end would be closed and the cigar be extracted from the
.other.
In some cases instead of both ends of the case being, except at the
said orifices, closed up, one end only may be so far closed up, and the 2
other may have a moveable cap or cover or otherwise; or both ends may
be left open and be provided with tricker flaps, or any convenient
exterior case or cases can be adopted so long as the spring arrangements
before referred to are used.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 2
filed by the said Richard Quin in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 7th August 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
QUIN, of Poland Street, Oxford Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Jewellery Case Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
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page_text: thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Richard Quin, Her special
licence that I, the said Richard Quin, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Richard Quin, my executors,
5 administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
) IN CASES FOR CIGARS AND SIMILARLY OR APPROXIMATELY FORMED ARTICLES,”
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard Quin,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in
the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Quin, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
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Cigar cases as ordinarily constructed are interiorly simple spaces for
holding a number of cigars, or have pockets to hold several cigars, or
each pocket to hold one cigar only.
Now my improved cigar case is in the interior an open space fitted
with a spring holder which keeps the cigars tightly together in the case
in such manner that each one can be withdrawn from the case without
difficulty, leaving the others as firmly held in the case as before the
withdrawal of that one.
The means whereby I carry my said object into effect are by pre-
ference as follows:-I construct a case of leather, metal, or other material
closed at the ends with the exception of a small opening at each end,
which by preference is made for admission and extraction of one cigar
only at a time. Inside the case is a spring and face piece or spring
arrangements of any suitable kind or construction.
In order to fill the case the cigars are successively put into the case
through the openings above described, and in order to extract same all

page_text: that is required is to apply the finger at the opening in one end and the
cigar issues from the corresponding opening at the other end.
These cases may also be fitted in order to extract the cigar with a
slide, which will push the cigar out in the same manner, such slide being
spring or otherwise, and this slide may be fitted with a shoe, so that the
opening at one end may be closed and the cigar be extracted from the
other.
In some cases instead of both ends of the case being except at the
said orifices closed up one end only may be partly closed and the other
may have a moveable cap or cover or otherwise; or both ends may be
left open and be provided with tucker flaps, or any convenient exterior
case or cases can be adopted so long as the spring arrangements before
referred to are used.
The foregoing statements particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention and indicate in what manner the same is to be
performed or carried out in practice, and in further compliance with the
condition in the said Letters Patent contained I will now further and
particularly describe and ascertain the same by referring to the accom-
panying Drawings.
Figure 5 is a view showing how stud may be used for withdrawing the
cigar. In this case the opening is only at one end, the shoe hereafter
described closing the other.
In these Figures A is the case; B, holes or openings in the ends of
the case; C represents the spring which retains the cigars in the case;
D represents the cigars in the case; E (Fig. 3 and 4) represents a band or
piece of metal placed round the ends of the case and formed with a groove
to admit of the opening B being closed up by the cover (F), which works
up and down in the groove; F is the slide cover for closing, the opening

page_text: B being formed with a stud to admit of its readily being moved up or
down as required; G (Fig. 5) represents a stud with spring formed on
the case working in a groove so as to withdraw the cigar without the
necessity of applying the finger as in the other Figures; H is a shoe
which pushes the cigar out by opening B when the cap or stud (G) is
moved. This cap or cover I prefer to make so as to close the opening
made in the case to admit of its working.
Although I have only mentioned cigars it is evident that cigarettes
and even pencils and crayons and similarly formed articles would be
carried and held in my improved case.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature and
object of my said Invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed or carried out in practice, I hereby declare that I claim the
herein-described Invention of ""Improvements in Cases for Cigars and
similarly or approximately formed Articles," wherein peculiar and
important features are that a spring holder keeps the cigars or articles
tightly together in the case in such manner that each one can be with-
drawn from the case without difficulty, leaving the others as firmly held
in the case as before the withdrawal of that one.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Quin, have hereunto set
set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
Witness,
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T. MORGAN,
Secretary,
RICHARD QUIN. (L.S.)
Inventors' Patent Right Association, Limited.
21, Cockspur Street,
London, S.W.