Improvements in Cigarette Cases.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 11th June, 1895-Accepted, 13th July, 1895
We JACQUES WERTHEIMER, and JOSEPH WERTHEIMER, both of Hotel
Saxonia, Berlin, in the Empire of Germany, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
Our said invention relates to improvements in cigarette cases.
We construct a cigarette case in two parts one part for the reception of cigarettes
and the other part for holding other small objects or to serve as a calendar or for
advertisements.
A principal feature of our said invention is that the part which contains the
cigarettes is constructed as a magazine from which the cigarettes may be extracted
singly without opening the case. To this end it is provided with a presser plate
operated by suitable springs, combined in some cases with levers which press the
cigarettes to one side or end of the case. A trough shaped diaphragm is rotatably
mounted at the discharging side of the case and is provided with a knob or other
means for complete or partial rotation. On turning the diaphragm it inserts itself
between the first and second cigarettes and cuts off all but the former from the
opening or outlet while leaving the first cigarette to drop from the trough shaped
diaphragm through an outlet in the case.
I may use a spring in combination with the diaphragm to hold it in position after
the extraction of a cigarette until another is required.
bov 1804
E. T. WHITELOW, A.M. Inst. C.E.,
70 Deansgate, Manchester, Agent for the Applicants.
Improvements in Cigarette Cases.
We JACQUES WERTHEIMER, and JOSEPH WERTHEIMER, both of Hotel
Saxonia, Berlin, in the Empire of Germany, 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 :-
Our said invention relates to improvements in cigarette cases which we preferably
construct in two parts one for the reception of cigarettes and another for holding
small objects or to serve as a calender or for advertisements.
The principal feature of our said inveution is that the part which contains the
cigarettes is constructed as a magazine from which the cigarettes may be extracted
singly without opening the case.
For the better description of our said invention we have appended a sheet of
drawings to which reference is hereinafter made. In the said drawings
Fig. 1 is an interior view showing the case open.
Fig. 2 is an end view of the closed case with a cigarette projecting.
Fig. 3 is an end view at right angles to Fig. 2.
Fig. 4 shows the spring when compressed.
Fig 5 shows the spring extended.

page_text: The case consists of two parts of suitable material connected by a hinge.
The
part a is for the reception of the cigarettes which are kept in position by the
continual action of the flat spring m. A flap or plate s prevents the cigarettes
springing upwards.
A presser plate may in some cases be inserted between the spring and the
cigarettes but I prefer to shape the spring as shown in Fig. 4 in which the last
leaf of the spring acts as a presser plate.
A slide plate having a projection passing through a slott and terminating
outside in a knob or button and turned up at right angles at the end z is used to
partly push the cigarette through the opening.
In some cases the plate t is formed of trough like or semicircular section and is
rotated by a knob projecting through the end. On turning it inserts itself
between the first and second cigarettes and cutting off all but the former-from the
opening or outlet v leaves the first cigarette to drop through the opening
inversion of the case.
on the
Space is provided for the reception of small articles such as a cigarette holder
at matches in the part o¹ provided a rubbing surface and for a railway ticket
calendar or the like at o. The remainder of the side o may be used for advertising
purposes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. A cigarette case for permitting the extraction of cigarettes singly without
opening the case substantially as set forth and shown.
2. In a cigarette case the combination of a pressing spring a casing having an
aperture for the passage of a single cigarette and a sliding or rotating plate t
operated externally for facilitating the extraction of one cigarette at a time
substantially as set forth and shown.
3. A cigarette case such as set forth in the first claiming clause having one part
for the reception of cigarettes smaller receptacles for containing matches tickets
and the like and having internal and external clear spaces for advertising purposes
substantially as set forth and shown.
Dated 10th day of June 1895.
E. T. WHITELOW, A.M. Inst. C.E.,
70 Deansgate, Manchaster, Agent for the Applicants.