Dummy Stock for Display in Tobacconists' Shop Windows.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Sept., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 24th Apr., 1891-Accepted, 30th May, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Dummy Stock for Display in Tobacconists' Shop Windows.
I, WILLIAM CHARLES DAY of 24, Bedford Square in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
My invention relates to cigar show-boxes for exhibition in tobacconists windows
in lieu of exhibiting real cigars in open boxes which are liable to lose in aroma
and to be otherwise deteriorated by exposure to the air, or in lieu of exhibiting
closed empty boxes as is sometimes done.
By my invention the retailer is enabled to make a good show without the
expenditure of much capital and without the liability of the goods being injured
as the genuine stock may be kept in closed boxes to mature or until required
for sale.
My invention consists in stamping or moulding in dies, paper, paper pulp, or the
like, alone or strengthened by combination with a suitable fabric, in imitation of
cigars arranged in rows or bundles, coloring or coating with tobacco leaf the
moulded surfaces, and applying paper labels or bands or silk ribbons to the same
in imitation of the way in which such goods are generally got up for sale, the
row or bundle of dummies being adapted to fit within ordinary empty cigar
boxes so that the latter, when opened and exposed to view, will present the
appearance of full boxes..
Instead of paper or the like, sheet metal or other suitable material may be
used, and in either case the dummies may be in the form of complete cigars or
bundles of cigars or be merely embossed to resemble rows of cigars, as may be
preferred.
Dated this 10th day of September 1890
W. C. DAY.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Dummy Stock for Display in Tobacconists' Shop Windows.
I, WILLIAM CHARLES DAY of 24, Bedford Square, in the County of
Middlesex, 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 dummy stock for exhibition in tobacconists' windows
in lieu of exhibiting real cigars which, when exposed in open boxes, are liable to
lose in aroma and be otherwise deteriorated, or in lieu of exhibiting closed boxes
as is usually dore. By my invention the retailer is enabled to make a good show
for an expenditure of very little capital, and without the liability of the goods
being injured, as the genuine stock may be kept in closed boxes to mature or until
required for sale.
My invention consists in moulding in imitation of cigars arranged in bundles
or rows, coloring or coating the moulded surfaces, and applying paper labels or
bands or silk ribbons to the same in imitation of the way in which such goods
are generally got up for sale, the row or bundle of dummies being adapted to fit
within ordinary empty cigar boxes so that the latter, when opened and exposed
to view, will present the appearance of full boxes.

page_text: In carrying out my invention in practice I find plaster of paris to be the
cheapest and most suitable material for the purpose and I make the dummy stock
in the following way: I take a pattern bundle of real cigars and glue them
together so as to retain them in position, the interstices between the middle
portions only of the cigars being filled up with clay leaving vacant the spaces
for about a quarter of the length of the cigars from either end. The bundle is
then wholly surrounded, except at bottom, with clay about a half an inch thick
and around this a plaster shell is cast in one part with a running hole formed in the
top thereof. The plaster shell is then removed, the clay core thereof is removed
from the bundle of cigars and the latter replaced beneath the shell, the bundle and
sliell resting on a suitable table. Into the space surrounding the cigars, vacated by
the clay, gelatine is now run and when the gelatine has set the whole is removed
from the shell. The gelatine is then cut in two parts in a plane at right angles to
the cigars, the two parts being then removed from the pattern bundle and replaced
in the shell, thus constituting a two-part mould. This gelatine mould is now greased
with oil or other unctuous substance and a cast taken from it in plaster or fibrous
plaster. This cast is baked till dry, then touched up where faulty, and finished if
necessary by hand. The cast is next prepared with linseed oil and painted with a
strong coat of brown color. When dry, this process is repeated, and finally the
cast is shaded to the color required. The cast is lastly encircled with a ribbon
having printed on it the usual indications of the particular brand and quality or
size of cigar to be imitated, and is then placed in an ordinary cigar box branded
and labelled to correspond.
It will be obvious that the modus operandi as herein described for bundles of
cigars, is also applicable to the moulding of dummy separate cigars.
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 manufacture of dummy stock cigars and the combination thereof with cigar
boxes for exhibition in tobacconists' windows, substantially as specified.
Dated this 23rd day of April 1891.
W. C. DAY.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Patent Agents.