Improvements in Cases for Carrying Cigarettes or Matches.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cases for Carrying Cigarettes or Matches.
We, CHARLES DONNELL BARROWS, of 36, Pickering Place, Harrow Road, in the
County of Middlesex, Chemist, and CHARLES HENRY SMITH, of 1, Wharncliffe
Villas, Potters Bar, in the county aforesaid, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:
This invention relates to an improved construction of case for holding cigarettes
or matches, and it has for its object delivering the same out of the case one at a
time.
The case consists essentially of a body part of such a size and width as will
allow the cigarettes or matches to lie side by side. To one end of the case is
hinged a part carrying suitable spring mechanism adapted to exert pressure
longitudinally in the case in such a manner as to force the cigarettes or matches
to the opposite end thereof, in which said end there is mounted a slide adapted to
engage with the ends of the cigarettes or matches and deliver them out of the
case either at one end or at both ends alternately.
When the cases are designed to carry and deliver matches the orifices at the
bottom and top of the box are provided with roughened teeth or equivalent
devices so that the matches are ignited as they are withdrawn from the case.
The spring device which I propose to use for forcing the cigarettes or matches up
to the one end of the case consists of a pair of bell-crank levers pivotted at the top
and bottom of the hinged part of the case and acted upon by means of a suitable
spring or springs so that the long arms of the levers press outwards simultaneously.
The bell-crank levers are controlled through their shorter arms by means of a
spindle operated from the outside of the case by a suitable knob and carrying
cams or their equivalents so arranged as to act on the levers and either free them
to permit them to act as springs or withdraw them from operation.
Improvements in Cases for carrying
We, CHARLES DONNELL BARROWs, of 36, Pickering Place, Harrow Road, in the
County of Middlesex, Chemist, and CHARLES HENRY SMITH, of 1, Wharncliffe
I Uvine R17

page_text: Villas, Potters Bar, in the county aforesaid, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement;
-
This invention relates to an improved construction of case for holding cigarettes
or matches, and it has for its object delivering the same out of the case one at a
time.
.
1. C.
The case consists essentially of a body part of such a size and width as will
allow the cigarettes or matches to lie side by side. To one end of the case is
attached a part carrying suitable spring mechanism adapted to exert pressure
longitudinally in the case in such a manner as to force the cigarettes or matches
to the opposite end thereof, in which said end there is mounted a slide adapted to
engage with the ends of the cigarettes or matches and deliver them out of the
case.
When the cases are designed to carry and deliver matches the orifices at the
bottom and top of the box may be provided with roughened teeth or the usual
equivalent devices so that the matches are ignited as they are withdrawn from the
case. The spring device which I propose to use for forcing the cigarettes or
matches up to the one end of the case consists of a pair of bell-crank levers
pivotted at the top and bottom of the case and acted upon by means of a suitable
spring or springs so that the long arms of the levers press outwards simultaneously.
The bell-crank levers are controlled through their shorter arms by means of cams
or their equivalents so arranged as to act on the levers and either move them to
permit them to act as springs or withdraw them from operation.
In order to more fully explain this our invention we have appended hereunto
an illustrative drawing upon which are figures and numbers of reference, similar
reference numbers referring throughout the several views to the same thing or
part.
Fig. 1, is a plan view of the case, with a portion of the lid removed:
Fig. 2 is an end view of the case.
Fig. 3, is a part sectional view of the end of the case on line A-B (Fig. 1)
more particularly intended to show the locking device.
Fig. 4, is an enlarged plan view of the spring mechanism removed from the
case, and showing the thrust arms in their closed position ready for filling the
case.
Fig. 5, is a front view of the mechanism shown in Fig. 4.
Fig. 6, is a similar view to that of Fig. 4, but with the parts changed in their
position, so as to open the thrust arms to their fullest extent.
Figs. 7, 8 & 9, are side and plan and end views in detail of one of the thrust
arms.
Figs. 10 and 11, are side and plan views in detail of the spring arrangement.
Figs. 12, 13 and 14, are side, plan, and end views of the operating cam slide.
Fig. 15, is a part sectional view on line C-D (Fig. 2) showing the extracting
mechanism.
We have illustrated our invention as carrying and delivering cigarettes, but it
will be readily seen that these may be substituted by matches with altering the
size of the case &c. accordingly.
16, is the case in which are carried the cigarettes 17. In the one end is secured
the frame 18, upon which is carried the operative mechanism. 19, 19ª, are thrust
lever arms pivoted at 20, 20%, having short arms 21, 21ª.
22, is a spring bar having outwardly standing pivots 23, and to which is rivetted.
the rear plate 24. 25, is a cam slide having the cam grooves or slots 26, one in
each side, in which the pivots 23, work, and by means of which the spring bar 22,
is pushed outwards or drawn inwards.
1
.l.
In working position it will be seen that the short arms 21, 21, of the thrust
arms 19, 19, lie between the ends of the bar 22, and plate 24.
It will therefore be seen that when the cam slide 25, is drawn outwards as seen

page_text: in Fig. 4 the bar 22, is drawn inwards by the cam slots 26, and in so doing the
bar 22, presses upon the short arms 21 and 21ª, so as to turn them about their
pivots and bring down the arms 19 and 19" down to their closed position. The
case may now be charged with the cigarettes 17. The cam slide 25, is now
pushed inwards, by which the bar 22, is pushed outwards and with it of course the
plate 24, which latter again endeavour to lift the short arms 21 and 21", and
thereby the arms 19, 19. The case however being charged, the arms 19, 19ª &c.
cannot rise, but the bar 22, and plate 24 being springy, the pivots 20, 20ª, are forced
outwards by the slots 26, and the ends of the plate 24, are striving springwise to
force outwards the arms 19, 19", which latter thus thrust forward as far as possible
the cigarettes 17. At the other end of the case is an opening 27, which is opposite
to the farthest cigarette. 28, is a slide having an inwardly turned footplate 29,
and a pull out projection 30. This slide is held down in its lowest position by
means of spring 31. Hence by pushing outwards the projection 30, the foot-
plate 29, pushes forward the cigarette to the position shown in Fig. 1, whence it
may be completely withdrawn by the thumb and finger.
When the case is charged and the lid closed, the act of locking the same is
effected as follows:-
Upon the underside of the lid is the catch projection 32, over which the upper
overhanging part 33, of the slide 25, passes when the latter is being pushed home,
and thus effectually locks the case lid. The drawing outwards again of the
slide 25, (for recharging &c. purposes) opens the case.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is―
1. In cases for carrying cigarettes or matches, the combination with case 16,
having outlet opening 27, and extracting mechanism, of pivoted thrust arms 19, 19*,
with bar 22, and plate 24, operated by a cam slide 25, all substantially as set forth
and shown.
2. In cases for carrying cigarettes or matches, the combination with case 16,
having suitable outlet openings for delivery of such articles, of pivoted thrust
arms 19, 19 all substantially as set forth and shown.
1001
T 1
1000
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicants' Agent, 12, Cherry Street, Birmingham.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicants' Agent, 12, Cherry Street, Birmingham.