Improvements in Cigarette Boxes.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Nov., 1898-Accepted, 10th Dec., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY, a Corporation
organized in accordance with the laws of the State of New Jersey, and having
its office at 518, West 22nd Street, in the City of New York, State of New
York, United States of America.]
Improvements in Cigarette Boxes.
1
I, PHILIP ARTHUR NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 6, Bream's Buildings,
Chancery Lane, in the County of London, Patent Agent, 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:-
This invention relates to cigarette boxes of that class having a hinged cover.
With boxes of this kind as heretofore, commonly made, more or less difficulty
is experienced in taking the cigarettes from the box for use, and especially is
this so in the case of boxes for holding a small number of cigarettes, as ten,
packed in two layers of five each, that being the way in which cigarettes are
very commonly packed for retail sale. Efforts have been made to overcome this
difficulty, but the devices heretofore employed have been inconvenient, costly,
or other objectionable.
The object of the present invention is to provide a box of this from which
the cigarettes may be readily removed, and which shall be at the same time of
simple and cheap construction.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings is shown a box for holding ten cigar-
ettes, arranged in two layers of five cigarettes each, constructed in accordance
with the invention.
In said drawings,
Figure is a perspective view of the box opened.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal section, on line 2 of Figure 1, shewing the parts
in position when the box is closed.
Referring to the drawings, A is the body of the box, having the bottom a and
sides a, a, and at, and B is the cover hinged to the rear a of the body-
portion of the box. One of the sides of the box adjacent to the side at to which
the cover is hinged, as the side a', has its ends free from the adjacent sides
and a², and is hinged to the bottom a of the box, so as to swing outward and
downward, as shown in Figure 1, and indicated in dotted lines in Figure 2.
The cover B is formed with a downwardly extending flange b, which extends out-
side the side a', and preferably other sides, as shown, of the body portion of the
box, when the cover is closed, and the part of which at the end or side correspond-
ing with the side a¹, serves to lock the side a¹ of the box in its upright, or closed
position, when the box is closed, as shown in full lines in Figure 2. It will
be noticed that the line on which the side a of the box is hinged, and the line
on which the cover B is hinged to the box body, extend at right angles to each
other. When a cigarette is to be taken from the box, the cover having been
opened, the hinged side a¹ is swung outward, and the ends of the cigarettes,

page_text: which are preferably packed endwise to the hinged side a¹, exposed so as to be
readily engaged by the finger.
It will be seen that the invention provides a box which, while simple and
cheap construction, is very convenient to use, avoiding all difficulty in taking
the cigarettes out of boxes of this kind, and this without introducing any objec-
tionable features.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed (as communicated
to me from abroad), I declare that what I claim is:-
1. A cigarette box having one side of the body portion of the box hinged to
swing outward and downward, and having a hinged cover hinged on ,a line
extending at right angles to the hinge line of the hinged side, and having a
flange extending outside the hinged side, when the box is closed, to lock the
hinged side in position.
2. A cigarette box having one side of the body portion of the box hinged to
swing outward and downward, and of such length transversely to said hinged
side, as to receive the cigarettes packed endwise to said hinged side, and having
a hinged cover hinged on a line extending at right angles to the hinge line of
the hinged side, and having a flange extending outside the hinged side, when
the box is closed to lock the hinged side in position.
Dated this 4th day of November 1898.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.