IMPROVEMENTS IN BOXES OR RECEPTACLES FOR CONTAINING TOBACCO, TEA, AND OTHER LIGHT SUBSTANCES."
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Cheswright, of Parkhurst Road, in the County of
Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOXES OR RECEPTACLES
FOR CONTAINING TOBACCO, TEA, AND OTHER LIGHT SUBSTANCES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Cheswright at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th September 1879.
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CHARLES CHESWRIGHT, of Parkhurst Road, in the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BOXES OR RECEPTACLES FOR CONTAINING TOBACCO, TEA, AND OTHER
LIGHT SUBSTANCES."
My Invention relates to boxes or receptacles for containing tobacco, tea, and other
light substances, and has for its object the prevention of fraud by constructing the
boxes or receptacles in such a manner that it will be necessary to destroy them in
order to obtain access to their contents.
In carrying out my Invention in order to effect this object I make the body of
the box of a cylindrical or conical form of a foil of self soldering metal, and I
construct the two ends which are to constitute the bottom and cover in the form of
flanged dises of similar or other suitable metal to the body, but of greater thickness
and strength, and attach them to the body by placing the flanges within the same
and soldering them thereto, the bottom being attached before and the top after
the box has been filled. The body of the box and the two ends are embossed with
any required name, trade mark, or device in the usual manner, the body being
embossed in the same style as the colored side mark capsules. The box may be
opened by cutting round the foil body at either end, so that in any case the box is
destroyed, and thus security is provided against the contents of the box being
fraudulently tampered with.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Charles Cheswright in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd March
1880.
CHARLES CHESWRIGHT, of Parkhurst Road, in the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BOXES OR RECEPTACLES FOR CONTAINING TOBACCO, TEA, OR OTHER
LIGHT SUBSTANCES."
My said Invention relates to boxes or receptacles for containing tobacco, tea, and
other light substances, and has for its object the prevention of fraud by constructing
the boxes or receptacles in such a manner that it will be necessary to destroy them
in order to obtain access to their contents.
In carrying out my said Invention in order to effect this object I make the body
of the box of a cylindrical or conical form of a foil of self soldering or other suitable
metal, and I construct the two ends which are to constitute the bottom and cover
in the form of flanged discs of similar metal to the body, or of other suitable
metal, but of greater thickness and strength than the body, and I attach them to
the body by placing the flanges within the same and soldering them thereto, the
bottom being attached before and the top after the box has been filled. The body
of the box and the two ends are embossed with any required name, trade mark, or
device in the usual manner, the body being embossed in the same style as the
colored side mark capsules.
The accompanying Sheet of Drawings illustrates a box made in accordance with
my said Invention. Figure 1 represents in section the several parts of the box
detached, and Figures 2 and 3 represent the box complete, Figure 2 being a vertical
section, and Figure 3 a plan of the same.
In
A is a conical tube of foil of self soldering metal which constitutes the body of
the box; B is the bottom, with its flange b; and C is the top, with its flange c,
the parts B, C, with their flanges being made of similar metal to the body, or of
other suitable metal, but of greater thickness and strength than the body.
attaching the bottom B to the body A the flange b is placed within the extremity
of the body, as shewn in Figure 2, and soldered thereto, and after the box has been
filled the top C is attached by its flange c to the upper part of the box in a similar
manner. I have represented the box in my Drawings as plain on its external
surface, but it will be understood that both the ends are to be embossed with a
name, trade mark, or device, as before mentioned, and that the body is also to be
embossed in the same style as the colored side mark capsules, as before mentioned.
The box may be opened by cutting round the foil body at either end, so that in
any case the box is destroyed, and thus security is obtained against the contents
of the box being tampered with.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into
effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to be novel and original,
and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the hereinbefore in part
recited Letters Patent is,-
The combination in a box or receptacle for tobacco, tea, and other light sub-
stances of a foil body and semi-rigid ends, substantially as hereinbefore
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Cheswright, have to this my Specifica-
tion set my hand and seal, this First day of March, One thousand eight
hundred and eighty.
CHARLES CHESWRIGHT. (LS.)