IMPROVEMENTS IN TOBACCO POUCHES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edwin Townshend, of 25, Palace Road, Lambeth, in
the County of Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TOBACCO
POUCHES."
Sealed the 15th April 1868, and dated the 26th November 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edwin Townshend at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th November 1867.
I, EDWIN TOWNSHEND, of 25, Palace Road, Lambeth, in the County of
Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN TOBACCO POUCHES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in tobacco pouches. Here-
tofore in many cases tobacco pouches have been made in vulcanized india-
rubber.
Now my Invention consists in forming the bottom and ends of such pouches
with a corrugation or corrugations along them, so that they may be capable
of expanding or opening out in a similar manner to the sides and end of a
bellows. Pouches thus constructed will when filled hold a considerable
quantity of tobacco without distending to any great extent the material of

page_text: which the pouch is composed, whilst at the same time the pouches when
empty may be folded up flat so as to occupy but little space. When the
pouch is filled the bottom of the pouch will also form a base by means of
which the pouch can be made to stand, so that when open the tobacco may
easily be taken out without the pouch being held as is usually necessary.
The cover for closing over the open top of the pouch is cut out in one piece.
with the piece which is to form one of the sides of the pouch, and the part of
this piece which is to form the cover is turned down so as to overlap the
other side of the pouch, and its side edges are united or cemented to the ends
of the pouch along the bottom of the corrugations or one of the corrugations
formed along each of them.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edwin Townshend in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
25th May 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWIN
TOWNSHEND, of 25, Palace Road, Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Edwin Townshend, Her special licence that I, the said
Edwin Townshend, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Edwin Townshend, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TOBACCO POUCHES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Edwin Townshend, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edwin Townshend, do hereby declare

page_text: the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in tobacco pouches. Here-
tofore in many cases tobacco pouches have been made in vulcanized india-
rubber.
Now my Invention.consists in forming the bottom and ends of such pouches
with a corrugation or corrugations along them, so that they may be capable
of expanding or opening out in a similar manner to the sides and end of a
bellows. Pouches thus constructed will when filled hold a considerable
quantity of tobacco without distending to any great extent the material of
which the pouch is composed, whilst at the same time the pouches when
When the
empty may be folded up flat so as to occupy but little space.
pouch is filled the bottom of the pouch will also form a base by means of
which the pouch can be made to stand, so that when open the tobacco may
easily be taken out without the pouch being held as is usually necessary.
cover for closing over the open top of the pouch is cut out in one piece with
the piece which is to form one of the sides of the pouch, and the part of this
piece which is to form the cover is turned down so as to overlap the other
side of the pouch, and its side edges are united or cemented to the ends of the
pouch along the bottom of the corrugation or one of the corrugations formed
along each of them.
The
The Drawing hereunto annexed shows a tobacco pouch constructed as
above described.
Figure 1 shows an end view of the pouch when empty, showing that the
pouch may then be folded up flat so as to occupy but little space; Figure 2
shows an end view of the pouch when filled, from this view it will be seen
that the pouch is capable of holding a considerable amount of tobacco, and
also that the bottom of the pouch thus forms a broad base upon which the
pouch can be made to stand; Figures 3 and 4 show transverse sections of the
pouch when open and closed respectively; Figure 5 is a face view of the
pouch.
"
The pouch shown in the Drawing is made with one corrugation only along
its ends and bottom, but it might be made with more corrugations if desired.
The pouch is made up in the ordinary manner from a sheet of india-rubber
changed or "cured" by
capable of being vulcanized, and is afterwards "
sulphur fumes as is usual. Each side of the pouch is cut out separately from
the sheet of material, one side having the piece which is to form the flap cut
out with it; the inner side pieces of the two corrugations are also cut out

page_text: separately; the edges of the several pieces are then cemented together with
an india-rubber cement, and the ends of the flap are also cemented down.
Afterwards the pouch is "changed" or "cured" by being
"cured" by being subjected to the
action of the sulphur fumes.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edwin Townshend, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
E. TOWNSHEND. (L.S.)