IM- PROVEMENTS IN JOINTS OR HINGES FOR CIGAR AND OTHER LIKE CASES OR RECEPTACLES ALSO FOR POCKET AND OTHER BOOKS AND DIARIES " PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry William Dee, of the Firm of H. W. and
L. Dee, of Sherwood Street, Golden Square, in the County of
Middlesex, Manufacturing Jewellers, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN JOINTS OR HINGES FOR CIGAR AND OTHER LIKE CASES OR
RECEPTACLES ALSO FOR POCKET AND OTHER BOOKS AND DIARIES
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry William Dee at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 22nd November 1873.
I, HENRY WILLIAM DEE, of the Firm of H. W. and L. Dee, of
Sherwood Street, Golden Square, in the County of Middlesex, Manu-
facturing Jewellers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN JOINTS OR HINGES FOR CIGAR AND OTHER LIKE CASES
OR RECEPTACLES, ALSO FOR POCKET AND OTHER BOOKS AND DIARIES," to be as
follows:
"
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This Invention relates to the construction and arrangements of the

page_text: cases or receptacles, also pocket and other books and diaries, the folds,
flaps, or connections forming the joints or hinges when in combination
with an additional tubular body upon which the flaps, folds, or con-
nections can be moved in opening and closing the receptacle or book.
The additional tubular body forming a holder for German tinder,
pencils, pens, or other articles, as desired.
I will describe my Invention as applied to a cigar case, to enable
one construction to be understood without in any way limiting myself
thereto Upon the edge of each of the side flaps or covers I attach at
intervals short pieces of tubing, so that the tubes on one portion fit in
end on the tubes of the other portion; I then pass a tube down the
tubular parts of the short tubes and fix it in position in any suitable
manner to connect the whole together. The inner tube then forms a
hollow pin upon which covers turn as upon an ordinary hinge. The
hollow of this inner or tubular pin is intended to hold German tinder,
pencils, pens, or other accessories designed to be used in conjunction
with the article itself.
"
In some cases I dispense with the additional tubular piece, and then
I form a "step or ledge upon one end of the short tubular flaps, folds,
or connections, and a ring recess upon the opposite ends, so that one
end of one series can be received by the other end of the other series,
and thus compose a tubular joint or hinge in which accessories can be
placed as before mentioned.
The main feature in my Invention is forming tubular joints or hinges
to cigar cases and other similar receptacles, to enable accessories to be
in such joints. hincos os desoxibed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry William Dee in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 22nd May 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY 3
WILLIAM DEE, of the Firm of H. W. and L. Dee, of Sherwood Street,
Golden Square, in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturing Jewellers,
send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of November, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three,
in the thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs
and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Henry William Dee,.
Her special licence that I, the said Henry William Dee, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry
William Dec, my executors, 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 JOINTS OR HINGES FOR CIGAR AND OTHER
LIKE CASES OR RECEPTACLES, ALSO FOR POCKET AND OTHER BOOKS AND DIARIES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry William
Dee, 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 immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry William Dee, 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 thereof, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to the construction and arrangements of the
tubular connections to the sides of cigar and other like cases or
receptacles, also to pocket and other books and diaries, the connections
forming the joints or hinges when in combination with a tubular body
upon which the flaps, folds, and connections can be moved in opening and
closing the receptacle or book, the additional tubular body forming a
holder for German tinder, pencils, pens, or other articles as desired.
The Invention will be clearly understood by reference to the annexed
Drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of one flap or side of
a cigar case A, to one edge of which (the back) is: attached by solder or
otherwise a series of tubular projections B, B, the spaces between them

page_text: being for the reception of other projections C, C, see Figure 2, also
tubular upon the edge of the corresponding flap or side D, the two
series B and C being held in contact when put into place by a
tubular stem E, such as in Figure 3, this being pushed into the pro-
jections B, B, and C, C, from one end until both ends lie flush, or the
ends of the tube E may be afterwards made flush with the top and
bottom projections in finishing up the article so as to appear as in,
Figure 4, which represents a cigar case complete. The tube E not only
acts as a hinge pin upon which the sides of the case can be moved in
opening and closing it, but German tinder, wax vestas, or other 1
appliances by which a light can be had can be kept in reserve therein,
particularly if one end be stopped up and the other end be provided
with a moveable or a hinged cover by which such articles can be retained
temporarily yet in a secure manner.
In order to prevent the two sides opening further than to bring them 1
flat, I attach a stop piece a on one side so that its edge can come against
the shoulder of the opposite. side as a. butt.
Figure 5 represents a pocket book or diary with the back fitted with
my improved joint or hinge, there being only two tubular pro-
jections B, B, on one side and only one upon the other, the tube E 2
being put into and held in position in any suitable manner so that it
serves as the joint pin and a receptacle for a pencil or "style" F,
which pencil or "style" can be left in while the book is being opened
and closed.
It is not essential that there be only; two sides or flaps in one book;
case, or receptacle, as will be gathered by the view, Figure 6, in which
four sides or flaps are shown, these being connected respectively by their
tubular projections to one tubular stem. In this Figure one may
suppose the flap or side A as having the top and bottom projections b, b,
the other flap or side D as having the projections c, c, upon it, the inside.
flap Gas having the projection d, and the other inside flaps H as having
the projection e down, and in the whole of the projections the tube Ę
is fitted as before explained.
Figure 7 represents a perspective view of a case for cigars or other
articles, as well as a book or treble-leaved slate or memorandum. tablet, a
the projections upon the three leaves being arranged to be moved upon
two tubular stems which can be united by a kind of strap piece fitted in

page_text: one end of the case, or by a connecting piece or pieces between the
projections to hold the two series of projections and consequently the
flaps and sides, which would give freedom to their movement, also of
that of the central flap. By this construction any number of flaps or
sides can be arranged side by side, the projections being so arranged for
the articulation or jointing of the several pieces for the opening and
closing thereof. Any number of tubular projections can also be
employed upon any two or more flaps or sides in conjunction with
ordinary hinge or other joints, the tube E being in all cases available
for the reception of pencils or other articles as before expressed.
Figure 8 shows a purse case fitted with a tubular hinge or joint in
which a pencil can be fitted, particularly if one half portion of the
purse be furnished with slips of paper for memoranda; of course
indelible or other pencils or articles could be carried in the hinge, and
post cards in the body of the purse or book, as desired, thus forming a
handy article in a complete form for persons travelling about. Tobacco
and other receptacles can also be provided with the kind of hinge or
joint above referred to.
Figure 9 represents a series of tubular projections arranged stepped
into one another the reduced portions being free to move in the recessed
portions of the other, the pieces being alternately connected to the same
side or flap of the book case or other article in any suitable manner.
In this and in the modified arrangement of meeting edges, shown at
Figures 10 and 11, the tube E referred to on the previous Figures is
3 dispensed with, the projections themselves acting as the tube for the
reception of the pencil, pen, German tinder, wax vestas, or other article
that it may be desired to hold.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,—
Firstly. The improvement in joints or hinges as herein-before described
and shown as and for the purposes set forth.
Secondly. I claim the construction and employment of joints or
lincos of icon naeng and then such like
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page_text: Thirdly. I claim the modification of tubular hinge or joint, as
referred to with reference to Figure 7 of the annexed Drawings for
the purposes set forth.
Fourthly. I claim the construction and employment of stepped or
chamfered-ended tubular projections, arranged substantially in the
manner shown in Figures 9, 10, and 11, of the annexed Drawings, for
the forming of hinge joints to cigar and other like cases and receptacles,
also books, and as holders for German tinder, pencils, pens, or other
accessories required to be used or not therewith as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry William Dee, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of May, One