An Improved Box or Holder for Cigars and other Articles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd May, 1894
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Box or Holder for Cigars and other Articles.
1, WALTER FERMOR SARJEANT, of 6, Defrene Road, Sydenham, Gentleman,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a fancy box or holder for containing cigars, cigarettes,
matches, or other articles which it may be desired to deliver singly, the purpose of
the invention being to provide a box for private use or otherwise, whereby the
delivery of the goods singly and in succession is effected by means which are not
apparent to a casual observer, by the use of very simple mechanism, the delivery
depending on the mere relative motion of one part of the box with regard to
another part, so that the construction and operation are more or less of a mystery
to the uninitiated.
The cigars or other goods are contained in a hopper or V-shaped chamber,
through an aperture in the top of which they are delivered by a delivery slide
whereof the upper edge is in the form of a trough.
In the preferred form of the apparatus, the relative motion above referred to is
produced by the sliding of the delivery trough up and down through the hopper-
shaped chamber, the chamber being entirely closed with the exception of a delivery
aperture in the top, which in the normal position of the box is also closed by the
delivery trough rising into it.
The delivery slide is normally held in the raised position by springs, balance, or
other contrivance, and is provided with means whereby it may be depressed until
its trough-like upper part coincides with the inclined sides of the hopper, so that it
will be below the articles contained in the hopper.
Owing to the shape of the hopper any articles contained in it will necessarily
gravitate into the trough which on rising again will bring up one of the articles in
it, the size of the trough and of the delivery aperture being such that the trough
will only contain and deliver oue article at a time, any others which may be lodged
thereon rolling off into the hopper as the trough rises towards the delivery
aperture.
Doted this 2nd day of May 1891
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I, WALTER FERMOR SARJEANT, of 6, Defrene Road, Sydenham, Gentleman,
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 :-
My invention relates to a fancy box or cabinet for containing cigars, cigarettes,
matches, or other articles which it may be desired to deliver singly, the purpose of
the invention being to provide a box for private use or otherwise whereby the

page_text: ´delivery of the goods singly and in succession is effected by means which are not
apparent to a casual observer, by the use of very simple mechanism, the delivery
depending on the mere relative motion of one part of the box with regard to
another part, so that the construction and operation are more or less of a mystery
to the uninitiated.
The cigars or other goods are contained in a hopper or V-shaped chamber
through an aperture in the top of which they are delivered by a delivery slide
whereof the upper edge is in the form of a trough.
In the preferred form of the apparatus the relative motion above referred to is
produced by the sliding of the delivery trough up and down through the hopper-
shaped chamber, the chamber being entirely closed with the exception of a delivery
aperture in the top which in the normal position of the box is also closed by the
delivery trough rising into it. The delivery slide is normally held in the raised
position by springs, counterbalance or other contrivance, and is provided with
means whereby it may be depressed until its trough-like upper part coincides with
the inclined sides of the hopper, so that it will be below the articles contained in
the hopper.
Owing to the shape of the hopper any articles contained in it will necessarily
gravitate into the trough which on rising again will bring up one of the articles
in it, the size of the trough and of the delivery aperture being such that the
trough will only contain and deliver one article at a time, any others which may
he lodged thereon rolling off into the hopper as the trough rises towards the
delivery aperture.
The relative motion of the trough necessary for delivering the goods may,
however, be produced by making the box itself slide up and down, the trough
remaining stationary as hereafter described.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this
Specification, wherein
Figures 1 and 2 are longitudinal and cross sectional illustrations of the one
arrangement of cabinet or holder in which the delivery trough slides up and down
in the box, the trough being represented raised in Figure 1 and lowered in
Figure 2.
Figures 3, 4, 5, illustrate the arrangement in which the relative motion is
obtained by the box sliding up and down on the delivery trough.
The same letters of reference denote like parts in all the figures.
The cigars are contained in a hopper-shaped chamber A within the upper part
of the main body of a box B, the bottom of the chamber A being formed of the
two sloping pieces a which separate the chamber A from the lower body portion B
and slope downwards from the sides towards a central vertical delivery slide C
whose upper edge is slightly hollowed to form a sort of trough c which coincides
with the inclined bottom a, a, of the hopper chamber A. when the parts are brought
to the position shewn in Figures 2 and 3. The chamber A is closed at top except
for a delivery aperture D corresponding in dimensions to the upper end of the
delivery slide C. The slide C is fitted to slide in guide grooves e in the ends of
the main body or box B and, in the arrangement shewn in Figures 1 and 2, is
forced upwards by springs E upon guide rods F fixed in the base of the box B and
entering sockets in the slide C. The latter is provided with a handle G by which
it may be depressed, the handle being pivoted to the ends of the slide C so as to
leave the trough unencumbered and allow of the handle folding down on top of the
box B when the slide is in its normal raised position. When the slide C is
depressed so as to bring its trough-like edge wholly below the goods contained in
chamber A, the cigars or other articles roll down into the trough of the delivery
slide which is of such dimensions as to afford room for but one of them at a time.
When the delivery slide rises again into the delivery aperture D at the top of the
box, it brings up and delivers the cigar so lodged on it.
In the example illustrated in Figures 3, 4, 5, the relative motion by which the
delivery is effected is produced by the sliding motion of the body B upon the

page_text: delivery slide C which, in this case, is a stationary plate fixed on a base C¹ and
rising through a guide slot in the body B of the box. The box B is provided
with a handle G on top for lifting it by, so that by raising the body portion B.
the slide C remaining stationary will be brought below the goods contained in the
chamber A, one of which will be retained in the trough c of the slide and emerge
at the aperture D when the box B is lowered, as shewn in Figure 3.
In either arrangement the space at the lower part of the box B may be utilized
in any suitable way as, for example, by fitting one or more drawers Ĥ to contain
matches or other articles, as shewn in Figures 3 and 5.
The invention has been described as applied to deliver cigars, but it will be
obvious that it is equally adapted for cigarettes or other articles, it being only
necessary to adapt the delivery capacity of the slide C to the size of the article or
packet to be delivered.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The herein described cabinet for containing and delivering cigars or other
articles, and consisting essentially in the combination of a hopper-shaped chamber
with delivery aperture at top, and of a delivery slide or trough working centrally
and vertically through said hopper, the delivery of the article being effected by
the relative motion of the hopper and slide, substantially as specified.
Dated this 4th day of February 1895.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.