Improvements in Cigar and Cigarette Cases.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd July, 1887
Complete Left, 14th Mar., 1888
Complete Accepted. 15th June, 1888
PROVISIONAL DI BUIFICATIO
Improvements in Cigar and Cigarette Cases.
We GEORGE EDWARD JOHNSTONE of 38 Millman Street, London, W.C. Cigar
Importer and JOSEPH SUSKIND and SIGMUND SUSKIND both of 12 Edmund Place,
Aldersgate Street, in the City of London, Tobacconists' Warehousemen do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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A bag of cloth, canvas, leather or other flexible material of convenient size to
hold cigars or cigarettes in the pocket, the bag being stretched into flat position
by means of a framework of metal or whalebone or similar material which forms a
spring either by means of a continuous spring wire or by means of two metal
cylinders one on each side of the bag and connected at the bottom by a tempered
wire bent into a bowed position and forming the bottom edge of the bag. The bag
being fixed to the spring framework either by being sewn at the top or by a metal
clip on each side at the top or opening of the lips of the bag. The whole forming a
cigar bag or case which upon being pressed together by the hand allows the Hat
closed top lip edges of the bag to open so that the contents may be withdrawn or fresh
cigars inserted.
1000
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
Agents.

page_text: Improvements in Cigar and Cigarette Cases.
We GEORGE EDWARD JOHNSTONE of 38 Millman Street, London W.C. Cigar
Importer, and JOSEPH SUSKIND and SIGMUND SUSKIND both of 12 Edmund Place,
Aldersgate Street in the City of London, Tobacconists' Warehousemen do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to bo particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
The object of our invention for improvements in Cigar and Cigaretic cases is to
provide a simple and durable case which may be easily and expeditiously opened and
closed for the insertion and withdrawal of the cigars or cigarettes and which shall at
the same time when closed occupy a minimum amount of space in the pocket.
In constructing a cigar or cigarette case according to our invention, we employ a
bag of ordinary rectangular form open at one end and of any convenient size, and
composed of any flexible substance such as cloth, canvas leather or other suitable
material. To the inside or outside, but preferably to the inside of this bag, we secure
a Ushaped spring which, may be of steel or whalebone or of any other suitable
material or combination of materials. The said spring is inserted into the bag under
initial strain or tension so that its tendency is to automatically close and flation the
said bag and thereby keep the cigars or cigarettes in their proper positions and cause
the case to occupy the least possible space in the pocket.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings, Fig. 1 is an elevation of a
Cigar or Cigarette case constructed according to our invention, Fig. 2 is a sketch of
the enclosed spring for stretching the same.
To the inside of the rectangular bag a is secured the U shaped spring b, the ends of
the
prongs of the said spring being secured to the sides of the bag by means of metal
clips or by sewing as inay he preferred.
To insert or extract a cigar or cigarette, it is necessary merely to compress the
edges of the bag to which the two legs of the spring are secured, when the mouth of
the bag, being relieved of the tension of the spring opens as desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
The arrangement and construction of a cigar or cigarette case comprising a bag
open at one end, and a hent Ụ shaped spring inserted therein under initial tension, so
that the said bag in its normal condition is always stretched in a direction tending to
close it, whereby the cigars or cigarettes are retained in their proper positions
substantially as described and shewn in the foregoing specification and accompanying
drawings.