IMPROVEMENTS IN-POUCHES
Year: 1861

page_text: Sealed the 16th May 1862, and dated the 19th November 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Schloss at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th November 1861.
I, JOSEPH SCHLOSs, of Cannon Street West, in the City of London, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN-POUCHES," to be as follows:-
. My Invention consists in cementing or otherwise securing inside of ordinary
flap pouches one or more division pieces with or without a flap or flaps.
Supposing only one division piece with a flap is used, then I cement the
bottom and side edges to the inside of the pouch, and leave the flap free.
The tobacco or other material to be contained in the pouch is inserted between
the back of the pouch and the division piece. The flap of the division piece
is turned over the tobacco towards the back of the pouch, and the flap. of the
pouch is brought over the flap of the division piece, and tucked in between
the division piece and the front of the pouch.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Schloss in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
19th May 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
SCHLOSS, of Cannon Street West, in the City of London, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen -Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Joseph Schloss, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph
Schloss, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Joseph Schloss, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN POUCHES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I; the said Joseph
Schloss, 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 perforined, 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.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Schloss, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, 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:-
My Invention consists in cementing or otherwise securing-inside-of-ordinary
flap pouches one or more division pieces with or without a flap or flaps.
Supposing only one division piece with a flap is used, then I cement the
bottom and side edges to the inside of the pouch, and leave the flap free.]
The tobacco or other material to be contained in the pouch is inserted between
the back of the pouch and the division piece; the flap of the division piece.
is turned over the tobacco towards the back of the pouch, and the flap of the
pouch is brought over the flap of the division piece, and tucked in between
the division piece and the front of the pouch.

page_text: Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is an elevation of one of my
pouches, with a flap forming the cover, open, all made of india-rubber. A is
the pouch, and B the cover; C, shewn detached at Figure 2, is a single sheet
for forming a division piece D and flap E'; the edge of this division piece
from a to a is cemented to the sides and bottom of the pouch, and thus
separates the pouch into two compartments b and c, as shewn in the section
Figure 3. Supposing tobacco to-be-inserted-in-the-compartment-b-the-flap-E
is turned over the tobacco, and tucked in between it and the back of the
pouch. Tobacco may or may not be placed in the compartment c,-and the
pouch is closed by folding down and tucking in the cover B, as shewn in the
sectional view Figure 3.
Although I have described the division piece D, formed with a flap E, and
prefer so to make it; yet the flap E may be dispensed with, and again,
instead of one division piece only, several may be inserted, all with or all
without, or some with and some without, flaps, as may be desired. In some
cases I form my division pieces by cementing on an additional flap, as shown
in section at Figure 4, one flap E to fold over one compartment, and the other
flap F. to fold over the other. The pouches are applicable for containing
other substances as well as tobacco, and the division pieces and flaps may be
made of india-rubber or other suitable material.
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 as my improve-
ments in pouches, constructing pouches for containing tobacco and other
substances, by cementing or otherwise securing inside of ordinary flap pouches
one or more division pieces with or without a flap or flaps, substantially as
berein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Schloss, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this. Nineteenth day of May, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two.
JOSEPH SCHLOSS. (L.S.)