AN ADVERTISING BOX OR RECEPTACLE FOR CONTAINING CIGARETTES, MATCHES OR OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1884

page_text: I ALPHONSE LAFARGUE (Engineer) Palace Chambers 9 Bridge Street
Westminster London in the County of Middlesex do hereby declare the nature
of my invention for AN ADVERTISING BOX OR RECEPTACLE FOR CONTAINING
CIGARETTES, MATCHES OR OTHER ARTICLES to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to an improved form of box made of Cardboard Wood
Metal or other suitable Material.-The object being to utilise the same both as a
receptacle and a convenient means of Advertising.
In carrying out my Invention I employ a box or frame arranged to allow an
inside box or drawer to slide through either or both of the ends or sides-This
drawer is made somewhat narrower than the box to admit of a roller or rollers
being mounted between it and the external side or end or sides or ends of the box.
Mounted on this roller or these rollers is or are a tape or tapes or the equivalent
capable of winding thereon, the ends of these tapes projecting through a slit in the
side or end or sides or ends of the box to facilitate their being drawn out similar
to a window blind-The roller or rollers is or are provided with a spring or springs
one end of which is fixed to the roller and the other end to the box-By pulling
the tape it unwinds from the roller, thereby causing the spring or springs to
contract and by letting the tape run back the spring or springs causes the roller to
wind up the tape or its equivalent.
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It will be seen that the said tape or tapes may be used as an advertising medium
when required and being concealed they do not interfere with the appearance or
utility of the box as a receptacle.

page_text: I, ALPHONSE LAFARGUE of Palace Chambers Westminster in the County of
Middlesex Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "AN
ADVERTISING BOX OR RECEPTACLE FOR CONTAINING CIGARETTES MATCHES OR
"
OTHER ARTICLES 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 improvements in boxes of cardboard wood or metal or
other suitable material having one or more drawers or receptacles for containing
cigarettes, matches, or other articles combined with a winding tape or tapes on
which advertisements are printed or carried for trade or other purposes.
And in order that my invention may be clearly understood and readily carried
into practice, I will proceed to describe the manner in which the same may be
performed and for that purpose shall refer to the several Figures on the annexed
sheet of drawings, the same letters of reference indicating corresponding parts in
all the figures.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 Sheet 1 of the accompanying drawings is an exterior view of a box or
frame shewing a sliding drawer c partly opened containing cigarettes and working
within the exterior case d and on the right and left hand side of the box or case d
are dotted lines representing one or more rollers a a around which tapes b b are
wound by means of elastic or other springs e e within them, and fastened to the
outside frame of the box d at their extremities as already described.
Figure 2 is a sectional elevation of the box d through the centre axis of the
rollers a a shewing how the said rollers are fixed to the springs e c. A hollow
roller or rollers a a is or aro fixed to an internal filling piece f which carries the
coiled springs ce these springs are fixed at their other extremities to the external
box & by small wires gg made fast to the external box or frame d, when the tape b
is in the act of being pulled or elongated similar to a window blind the rollers a a
cause the springs e e to coil like a spiral screw as shewn in Figure 2. but I do not
confine myself to these precise arrangements of devices for operating the roller or
rollers.
Figure 3 is a transverse section of box shewing two rollers and tapes.
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-
First. The combination of automatically winding tape or tapes having advertise-
ments printed thereon for trade or other purposes with a box or receptacle for
containing articles of utility for sale or otherwise.
Second. The general arrangement and combination of parts forming the
advertising box substantially as herein before described and illustrated in Figures
1. 2 and 3 of the accompanying drawing.
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Contambon 1004.