Improvements in Cigarette, Cigar and Match Boxes and other Cases and Enclosures.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application
5th
Aug 1800
Complete Specification Left, 2nd June, 1900-Accepted, 7th July, 1900
Complete Specification Left, 2nd June, 1900-Accepted, 7th July, 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cigarette, Cigar and Match Boxes and other Cases
and Enclosures.
We, FREDERICK HAIGH RICHARDSON, of 13, Hatton Garden, London, Manu-
facturer, and THOMAS HAROLD MARCH, of 101, Hatton Garden, London, E.C.,
Diamond Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has relation to cigar, cigarette and match boxes, and to other
cases, boxes and enclosures for various uses, and has for its object, to so construct
a box or enclosure that it admits of being opened indifferently from either
side.
In carrying out our invention as applied to a metal cigarette case, we take two
halves or sides, or a box and a lid and connect them together by an interposed
pair of frames, which may together comprehend the figure of the box and coin-
cide with the outline shape thereof. The outer edge of each frame is jointedly
connected to the contiguous outer edge of each side of the case, whilst the inner
edge of each frame is jointedly connected to the contiguous inner edge of the
casing sides respectively, that is to say, each frame is connected at one edge to the
one side or half of the enclosure and at the other edge to the other side or half
thereof in such a manner that the box will open and hinge from either side.
The intervening frames together comprehend the figure of the box and the
upper frame is transversely divided from the lower one, but when the box is
closed, there is apparently a continuous hinge down each side, but by inserting
the nail into the joint between the meeting ends of the one side of the two
frames, the box is open upon the continuous hinge lying along the other side
of the frames.
Fastenings or spring catches are provided for the purpose of holding down or
rigidly connecting to the holes of the casing, the side of the one frame which
is for the time being forming a part of the opening hinge, the other hinged
side being permanently secured to the half of the casing.
Instead of arranging the intervening, oppositely jointed and transversely
separated frames section to comprehend the whole of the outline of the box, we
may use only part frames, or instead of complete frames, straps may be arranged
to cross the box sides from one side to the other and thus incidentally serve as
a means for retaining the cigarettes or other contents in position.
The application of our invention to match, cigar and other cases, boxes and
enclosures, whether made of metal or otherwise, differs in no essential respect
from its application to a metal cigarette case as herein described.
Dated this 4th day of August 1899.

page_text: Improvements in Cigarette, Cigar, and Match Boxes and other Cases
and Enclosures.
We, FREDERICK HAIGH RICHARDSON, of 13, Hatton Garden, London, Manu-
facturer, and THOMAS HAROLD MARCH, of 101, Hatton Garden, London, E.C.,
Diamond Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement;-
This invention has relation to cigar, cigarette and match boxes, and to other
cases, boxes and enclosures for various uses, and has for its object, to so construct
a box or enclosure that it admits of being opened indifferently from either
side or from either edge.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents an elevation of our improved
case, closed.
Figure 2 is a view showing the case opened from one edge.
Figure 3 represents an end view of the closed case and Figure 4 is an edge
view of the same opened.
Figure 5 is an end view showing the fastenings on both edges of the case un-
fastened and the sections pulled apart. This view is an exaggerated diagram
for the purpose of showing how the half frames which connect the sides of the case
cross one another.
Figure 6 represents the two halves or body parts of the case separated from
one another and with the special form of joint frames by which they are con-
nected, removed.
Figure 7 is a view of the said joint frames or connections separately.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawings.
According to this form of our invention, the improved cigarette case comprises
two halves or sides a, b, made of metal or other material connected together by
an interposed pair of frames c and d, which may together comprehend the figure
of the box and coincide with the outline shape thereof. The outer edges c, d,
of these frames are respectively jointed to the contiguous outer edges a¹, b¹ of
each of the sides or halves, whilst their inner edges c, d are jointedly connected
to the contiguous inner edges 62, a² of the casing sides respectively; that is to
say, each joint frame is connected at one edge to the one side or half of the
case, and at the other edge to the opposite side or half thereof in such a manner
that the box will open and hinge from either side, upon one or the other of the
half frames interposed between the halves.
The rigid intervening frames, which constitute, as it were, connecting links,
together comprehend the figure of the box and the upper frame is transversely
divided from the lower one, but when the box is closed, there is apparently a
continuous hinge down each side, but by inserting the nail into the joint between
the meeting ends of the one side of the two frames, the box is open upon the
continuous hinge lying along the other side of the frames.
Fastenings or spring catches e are provided on the joint frames for the pur-
pose of engaging under the flanged or overhanging edges a5, 65 of the case sections
and thus holding down or rigidly connecting to the halves of the casing, the
side of the one frame which is for the time being forming a part of the opening
hinge, the other hinged side being permanently secured to the half of the
casing.
Instead of arranging the intervening, oppositely jointed and transversely

page_text: separated frames section to comprehend the whole of the outline of the box, we
may use only part frames, or instead of complete frames, straps may be arranged
to cross the box sides from one side to the other and thus incidentally serve as
a means for retaining the cigarettes or other contents in position.
The application of our invention to match, cigar and other cases, boxes and
enclosures, whether made of metal or otherwise, differs in no essential respect
from its application to a metal cigarette case as herein described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
In cigarette, cigar and match boxes and other cases and enclosures, connecting
together the two halves of the case, or the lid and the body, by a pair of rigid
interposed and crossing half frames or part frames, or their equivalent, each
being jointed respectively at one edge to the one half or section of the case, and
at the other edge to the opposite half or section, and each being provided with
a catch or fastening for the purpose of connecting to the body of the case, the
side of the frame which is, for the time being, forming a part of the opening
hinge, the several parts being so arranged that the case or enclosure may be
opened from either side substantially as herein described and set forth in the
accompanying drawing.
Dated thin 14 d
1000
FREDERICK HAIGH RICHARDSON,
THOMAS HAROLD MARCH.
By Henry Skerrett,
24, Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.