Improvements in Cases for Holding Cards, Cigars, and other small articles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Sent., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 29th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 10th Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cases for Holding Cards, Cigars, and other small
articles.
I, ALFRED WILLMER POCOCK of 66 St. Anne's Hill Wandsworth Surrey
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
At one part of the card, cigar or other case I make an opening for the passage
of the articles and in the interior of the case I place a sliding or rocking piece
which is connected by a rod or lever to a moveable thumb piece attached or
pivotted to the case and workable from the exterior and which piece upon being
pressed moves the sliding or rocking piece and the latter being suitably formed for
the purpose moves a single card cigar or other article wholly or partially out of the
case through the opening aforesaid. The moving parts are brought back into their
original positions upon the pressure being removed, and the articles are brought
into position for the next operation by springs or levers or both suitably placed for
those purposes.
I cover the opening if desirable with a hinged lid kept in position
by a spring. I adjust the size of the opening for different thicknesses or sizes of
the articles by a moveable piece or pieces or by a screw or screws.
Dated this Fourteenth day of September 1892.
ALFD. WILLMER POCOCK.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cases for Holding Cards, Cigars, and other small
articles.
I, ALFRED WILLMER POCOCK, of 66 St. Anns Hill, Wandsworth, in the County
of Surrey, Engineer, 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 improvements in cases for holding cards, cigars, cigarettes
and other like small articles.
I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing,
in which
Fig. 1 is a vertical section of a case to hold cigars or cigarettes ;
Fig. 2, is the plan of the cover;
Fig. 3, is a transverse section on line A B ;
Fig. 4, is an elevation of a case to hold cards;
Fig. 5, is the end view of the case ;
Fig. 6, is a view of the interior of the card case with the lid or cover raised.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
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At one part of the card, cigar or other case a I make an opening for the passage
of the articles, and in the interior of the case I place a sliding or rocking piece
which is connected by a rod or lever d to a movable thumb piece e attached or
pivoted to a stud f in the case a and workable from the exterior and which piece e
upon being pressed moves the sliding or rocking piece c and the latter being simply
formed for the purpose moves a single card, cigar or any other article wholly
or partially out of the case a through the opening aforesaid, in the direction
indicated by arrows.
the
The moving parts are brought back into their original positions upon pressure
being removed from the thumb piece e and the articles are brought into position for
the next operation by springs g or levers d as in Figs. 1, 3, and 6.

page_text: For cigars or cigarettes I fix a lever j on a centre pin gl and pivot the same to
the cover k, as in Figs. 1, and 2, with a roller at the end of the lever ; for pressing
the cigars or cigarettes on to the rocking piece c.
I cover the opening if desirable with a hinged lid has in Figs. 1, and 2, being
kept in position by a spring or otherwise. I adjust the size of the opening for
different thicknesses or sizes of the articles by a movable piece i or pieces as
shown in Fig. 5, partly by dotted lines, or by a screw or screws.
Preferably I construct a case for holding cards as in Figs. 4, 5, and 6, with the
pivoted thumb piece e connected to the pivoted rocking piece or ejector c by a
lever rod d. The dotted lines in Fig. 6, indicates the position of the rocking piece
or ejector c when the thumb piece is pressed inwards to eject or partially eject a
card from the case. The spring g forces the mechanism back into its normal
position directly the thumb piece is released. This said case has a hinged cover m
with a flat spring n fixed to the inside in order to press the cards towards the case.
At the hinged end of the case as in Fig. 5, I provide an adjustable plate i almost
wholly shown by dotted lines for the purpose of regulating the opening b according
to the thickness of the card to be used in the case.
It will be understood that the foregoing is given by way of illustration and that
the shapes, materials, and proportions of the parts may be varied in many ways
within the scope of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. In a case for holding cigars cigarettes or the like, the combination of the
thumb piece e pivot f springs g lever d sliding or rocking piece c, with the lever j
roller pin g', inserted in a case a with covers h and k to eject the articles out of
the opening b, substantially as herein described and according to Figs. 1, 2, and 3,
of the accompanying drawing.
2. In a case for holding cards or the like, the combination of the thumb piece e
ejector c spring g lever d in a case a with hinged cover m and spring n, for ejecting
the articles out of the opening b, substantially as herein described and according to
Figs. 4, 5, and 6, of the accompanying drawing.
3. In a case for holding cards, the adjustable plate i pivoted at one end with a
set screw at the other end, to regulate the opening according to the thickness of
the card to be ejected through the opening b, substantially as herein described and
according to Fig. 5, of the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 29th day of October 1892.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.