IMPROVEMENTS IN TOBACCO POUCHES
Year: 1881

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Albert Fleuss at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd March 1881.
HENRY ALBERT FLEUSS, of Haverstock Hill, in the County of Middlesex.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TOBACCO POUCHES."
The object of this Invention is to produce a compact, secure, and air tight pouch
for the reception of tobacco.
To this end I cut from a sheet of plastic rubber compound, by preference two
circular pieces, which are to be joined at their edges by means of solution, and into
the space between these two pieces I insert before the join is completely effected a
wood, metal, vulcanite, or other suitable core. A flap piece of any desired shape
and size, also cut from a sheet of plastic rubber compound, is then applied to the
pouch and is secured thereto by solution.
The article thus formed is placed in a suitable mould and subjected to the
vulcanizing process, by which means all the parts will be firmly secured or united
together, and the pouch will be caused to retain externally the form of the
mould.
Some powdered talc or other suitable material is inserted under the flap piece
to prevent it adhering to the body of the pouch except at those parts which have
received the solution.
After vulcanization the flap piece is turned back and the pocket is opened by
running a sharp knife along a certain portion of the join to remove the core.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Henry Albert Fleuss in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
22nd September 1881.
HENRY ALBERT FLEUSS, of Haverstock Hill, in the County of Middlesex.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TOBACCO POUCHES."
The object of this Invention is to produce a compact, secure, and airtight pouch
for the reception of tobacco.
In the accompanying Drawing Fig. 1 is a front view of my improved pouch,
Fig. 2 is a cross section, and Fig. 3 a side view showing the pouch as open for the
contents to be withdrawn.
a, a¹, are two circular pieces cut from a sheet of plastic rubber compound, which
are to be jointed at their edges for about two thirds of their circumference by
means of solution. Into the space between these two pieces a, a', I insert a wood,
metal, vulcanite, or other suitable core. A flap piece b of any desired shape and
size, also cut from a sheet of plastic rubber compound, is then secured by solution
to the circular piece a¹ at the part where the pieces a, a³, are not attached to one
another.
The article thus formed is placed in a suitable mould, and subjected to the
vulcanizing process by which all the parts will be firmly united together, the pouch
taking externally the form of the mould.
Some powdered talc or other suitable material is inserted under the flap piece
to prevent it adhering to the body of the pouch, except at those parts which have
received the solution..
After vulcanization the flap piece is turned back and the pocket is opened to
remove the core.
Having now described the nature of my Invention of "Improvements in
Tobacco Pouches," and explained the manner of carrying the same into effect, I
wish it to be understood that under the above in part recited Letters Patent I
claim, the manufacture of a vulcanized india rubber tobacco pouch, substantially
as herein shewn and described.
İn witness whereof, I, the said. Henry Albert Fleuss, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty first day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
TENDV A TITION
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