AN IMPROVED POUCH OR RECEPTACLE FOR HOLDING TOBACCO AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Antil Richards, of Clarence Road, Holloway,
in the County of Middlesex, Commercial Clerk, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED POUCH OR RECEPTACLE FOR HOLDING TOBACCO AND OTHER
SIMILAR PURPOSES."
Sealed the 12th January 1866, and dated the 18th July 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Antil Richards
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th July 1865.
I, WILLIAM ANTIL RICHARDS, of Clarence Road, Holloway, in the County
of Middlesex, Cominercial Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED POUCH OR RECEPTACLE POR HOLDING TOBACCO AND
OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to construct pouches in such manner as to
adapt them for conveniently holding tobacco or other matters placed therein,
and to allow of their being so opened that ready access may be obtained
to their contents-without scattering them and without great space being
taken up.

page_text: My improved pouch or receptacle is composed of caoutchouc or other elastic
or flexible material, and is constructed of two portions connected together
by the frames, which are of peculiar construction. The under frame extends
along the entire edge of the under portion; the frame of the upper portion
extends along the entire edge or nearly the entire edge of the upper portion
and is made in two pieces, one hinged and the other rigidly fastened to the
lower frame. The binged part opens to form the mouth or jaw. The two
portions of the frame form, as it were, trays. A peculiar mode may be
adopted for connecting the caoutchouc or other flexible material of each
portion with its frame. The edge of the former is placed and fixed flatwise or
horizontally between the inner surface of each frame and the surface of a
parallel frame piece and is not turned over. Any convenient fastening may
be provided, but the fastening preferred is a staple or catch sliding in guides
and controlled by two springs, one on each side. When the pouch is to be
opened the lower part may be held or laid downward and the upper part
opened, so that the receptacle is easily used and convenient access obtained to
the interior.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Antil Richards in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 18th January 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ANTIL RICHARDS, of Clarence Road, Holloway, in the County of Middlesex,
Commercial Clerk, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of
Hor reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Antil Richards, Her special licence that I, the said William
Antil Richards, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I;
the said William Antil Richards, 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
"AN IMPROVED POUCH OR RECEPTACLE FOR HOLDING TOBACCO AND OTHER SIMILAR

page_text: PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William
Antil Richards, 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 William Antil Richards, do hereby
declare 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, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say:-
The object of my Invention is to construct pouches in such manner as to
adapt them for conveniently holding tobacco or other matters placed therein,
and to allow of their being so opened that ready access may be obtained
to their contents without scattering them and without great space being
taken up.
My improved pouch or receptacle is composed of caoutchouc or other elastic
or flexible material, and is constructed of two portions connected together by
the frames, which are of peculiar construction. The under frame extends along
the entire edge of the under portion; the frames of the upper portion extend
along the entire edge or nearly the entire edge of the upper portion and is
made in two pieces, one hinged and the other rigidly fastened to the lower
frame. The hinged part opens to form the mouth or jaw. The two portions
of the pouch form as it were trays. A peculiar mode is adopted for connect-
ing the caoutchouc or other flexible material of each portion with its frame.
The edge of the former (that is to say of the caoutchouc or other flexible
material) is placed and fixed flatwise or horizontally between the inner surface
of each frame and the surface of a parallel frame piece, and is not turned over.
Any convenient fastening may be provided, but the fastening preferred is a
staple or catch sliding in guides and controlled by two springs, one on each
side. When the pouch is to be opened the lower part may be held or laid
downward and the upper part opened, so that the receptacle is easily used and
convenient access obtained to the interior.
The accompanying Drawings exemplify more particularly in what manner
the Invention may be carried into effect. Figure 1 is a longitudinal section;
Figure 2, edge view; Figure 3, plan; and Figure 4, transverse section of a
pouch constructed according to my Invention.

page_text: A is the lower portion, and B the upper portion of the pouch; both these
portions are of caoutchouc, and made of a tray shape, bulging or bellying at the
edges as shown, to give considerable internal capacity. c, cx, is the frame of
the lower portion. It consists, as shewn in section, Figure 5, of an upper
frame plate c and a lower frame plate c*; between these plates the edge of the
caoutchouc is inserted flatwise or horizontally. The caoutchouc is made fast
to the frame plates by pins or rivets p rivetted on the upper face of the frame
plate c. This upper frame plate c is of angle shape as shewn (that is to say
it has an edge at right angles to the main plate). The frame c, c*, extends
all round the upper edge of the portion A. The portion B has two frames
d, d*, and e, ex, or in other words the frame is formed in two parts; one frame
or part d, d*, being for the front part of the portion B, and the other frame or
part being for the back part of the said portion B. The front frame d, d*, is
hinged to the frame c, cx, so as to open and close like a mouth or jaw and
afford access to the interior of the pouch. The back frame or part e, e*, is
rigidly fastened to the frame c, c*, so that it does not open with the front part;
and hence the contents of the pouch are not liable to be scattered or wasted:
The caoutchouc of the portion B is attached to its frames d, dx, and e, 'e*, in
the same manner as the caoutchouc of the portion A is attached to its frame
c, cx, as shewn in Figure 5, that is to say, the frame d, d*, consists of two
parts, namely a plate d and a plate d*; and the frame e, ex, consists of two
parts, namely a plate e and a plate e*, the under plates d, e, being angle
shaped like the upper plate c of the under frame c, cx, and the edge of the
caoutchouc of the front part of the portion B is inserted flatwise or horizontally
between the plates d, d*, and fastened by pins or rivets p, and the edge of the
caoutchouc of the back part of the portion B is inserted flatwise or horizontally
between the plates e, ex, and fastened by pins or rivets p, all as described in
reference to Figure 5. The bulging edges of the parts A, B, preserve the
metal from the heat of the pocket. The fastening shown consists of a hollow
sliding plate g working in a guide slot in the frame plate d, and a guide h* on
the frame plate d, and in it is an orifice g*, which engages a pin i on the frame
plate c, and thereby effects the fastening. The plate g is kept to its work by
two flat springs i, j, one at each side, each spring being attached at one end to
the frame d, d, and pressing at the other end against the interior of the
plate g. However, I lay no claim to this form of fastening and other ordinary
forms of fastening may be used.
Having now deseribed the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same may be performed, I declare that I claim the improved pouch in so

page_text: far as regards the arrangement and combination of parts of which the same
consists, substantially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Antil Richards, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
Witness,
M. HENRY,
68, Fleet Street,
London.
W. A. RICHARDS. (L.S.)