Improvements in Pocket Boxes for Matches, Cigarettes, Coins, and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Oct., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 14th Oct., 1898-Accepted, 4th Feb.. 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pocket Boxes for Matches, Cigarettes, Coins,
and the like.
I, GEORGE VON REINOLTS, of 50, Elgin Crescent, Notting Hill, in the County
of London, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
This invention appertains to certain improvements as regards design construc;
tion and working of that class of match, cigarette, stamp or coin box or case
known as $6
trick boxes" in which the opening of the box is effected by some
particular or peculiar movement or hidden mechanism. My improvement is
essentially a means of opening the box by releasing a sliding drawer or tray by
a tap or knock, such drawer or the like being caught or held in its closed position
by a point stud or catch in the upper portion of the inside of the cover or outer
case of the said box. In the ordinary form of my match box for containing
various articles I make an outer case or cover of suitable design and material
with one end open. Into this end I slide a drawer or tray which drawer is
reduced in height towards the back part so as to slide under a stud pin or catch
fixed into the top inner side of the outer cover before mentioned. The drawers
or tray has a spring attached to the back, made so that it has a tendency to press
the drawer upwards and outwards. This action tends to force the drawer into the
catch when the said drawer is pushed home; but directly the box is tapped
rapped or knocked in such a manner that the drawer is knocked off the catch
the spring forces the drawer partly out and exposes its contents
It can be well understood that the same system can be applied to a variety of
boxes having sliding drawers or trays, the essential invention being a tray that
has a slight vertical motion and a catch or stud into which it can be raised and
held by an upward and outward tension spring and a stop being used to prevent
the drawer coming right out.
Many modifications are suggested to meet the requirements of the different
boxes always keeping to the principle of the invention.
Dated this Third day of October 1898.
Improvements in Pocket Boxes for Matches, Cigarettes, Coins,
and the like.
GEORGE VON REINOLTS, of 50, Elgin Crescent, Notting Hill, in the County
of London, England, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
a certained in and by the following statement:
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This invention has for its object a new and improved box, or case, for contain-

page_text: ing matches, coins, cigarettes, cigars, cards, or stamps and like articles preferably
to be carried in the pocket, and which box or case, can be opened readily by a
person knowing the internal mechanism, or arrangement; but which is difficult
or impossible, to open by the ordinary way.
In my invention the essential action required to open the match box is a blow,
knock, or tap, delivered on the under side of the back portion of the box or case.
This as will be seen by the accompanying sketch, tends to lower the back, or
inner, end of the drawer, or tray, and remove it from a catch-hook, or pin, or
stop, inserted in the roof, or upper inner side, of the outer cover, or containing
case; and in the usual form of pocket-box, for containing matches, cigarettes,
stamps, or the like, I make a containing outer case, or cover, open at one end,
into which I insert a tray, or drawer, to hold matches, cigarettes, cards, and
similar articles. This tray is made in such a way that it is deeper in the front,
or exposed portion than at the back part. In this way there is a motion, in a
vertical sense in such a manner that a spring, at the back of the drawer, which
is given an upward and outward tendency, forces the said tray upwards and
makes it engage with a catch in the roof of the inside of the outer case; and
the drawing represents sectional views of the box: Figure 1 closed, Figure 2
closed, but with the drawer knocked off the catch, and ready to open; Figure 3
open Figure 4 plan, and Figure 5 siding side section, showing modified hook
instead of stop. The tray not filling up the entire space of the outer case it is
really understood that a slight blow, tap, or knock, on the under side of the case,
at the end where the shallow part of the drawer is situated, will suffice to depress
the spring and to knock the said end of the drawer, or tray, off the retaining
catch, and also allow the spring to push the drawer out as far as it may be
allowed to go, before it is stopped by another catch, or stop, in the outer cover,
or case.
The inner end of the tray is, by preference bent at an angle of about 30 degrees,
so that the spring, when pressed against it, may force the drawer on to the catch,
hook, or stop, upwards, as well as outwards as in the manner herein before
described.
In some forms of my box, I make the inner retaining catch, or stop, with a
slight undercut, or hook, so as to prevent the accidental opening of the drawer
in the pocket. The action for opening the box, then, is a slight knock, as in the
other form; but coupled with a light pressure on the free end of the drawer, to
free the tray from the end of the hook, as in Figure 5.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
(1) In a box, or case, to contain matches, coins, cigarettes, cards, cigars,
stamps, or the like article for the pocket, a drawer of such shape and design
that, by means of a spring at the back of the drawer, or case, the drawer will
engage in a stop, or catch, and the which box required for its opening a knock,
blow, or tap to remove the end of the drawer from its retaining catch and allow
the said drawer to slide forwards and the contents to be exposed and
(2) A box for matches, coins, cigarettes, cards, cigars, stamps, or the like
articles, the opening, or releasing mechanism of which is actuated by a knock,
or blow, in the manner described and set forth in this specification.
Dated this 14th dow of Onta
1000