IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF POUCHES, CASES, PURSES, AND BOXES FOR HOLDING TOBACCO, FUSEE OR OTHER LIGHTS, CARDS, BILLS, AND DOCUMENTS GENERALLY, ALSO MONEY OR OTHER ARTICLES AND THINGS." PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Coultas Pilon, of No. 162, Camden
Street, Camden Town, in the County of Middlesex, and of No. 14,
Basinghall Street, in the City of London, Commercial Traveller,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF POUCHES,
CASES, PURSES, AND BOXES FOR HOLDING TOBACCO, FUSEE OR OTHER LIGHTS,
CARDS, BILLS, AND DOCUMENTS GENERALLY, ALSO MONEY OR OTHER ARTICLES
AND THINGS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Coulton Pilon
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 20th February 1873.
I, CHARLES COULTAS PILON, of No. 162, Camden Street, Camden
5 Town, in the County of Middlesex, and of No. 14, Basinghall Street,
in the City of London, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
POUCHES, CASES, PURSES, AND BOXES FOR HOLDING TOBACCO, FUSEE OR OTHER
:
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page_text: LIGHTS, CARDS, BILLS, AND DOCUMENTS GENERALLY, ALSO MONEY OR OTHER ARTICLES
AND THINGS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the construction of articles such as pouches
or similar receivers or holders, and consists in making the body of the
article with both ends open, flaps or covers being provided which can
be drawn or placed over each of the ends to form the bottoms for
retaining the contents in the body, the other end having the flap or
cover withdrawn or removed to enable the contents to be got at.
The flaps or covers may be in a piece with the body or attached to it
by cement, threads, wires, springs, or other means.
The body may be divided or partitioned off into compartments, and
a turn-in flap used for each.
I do not claim as any part of my Invention the fastening of the cap
or cover below the mouth of the pouch or bag, as this forms no portion
of my Invention.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Charles Coultas Pilon in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 20th August 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
COULTAS PILON, of No. 162, Camden Street, Camden Town, in tho
County of Middlesex, and of No. 14, Basinghall Street, in the City of
London, Commercial Traveller, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
'give and grant unto me, the said Charles Coultas Pilon, Her special
licence that I, the said Charles Coultas Pilon, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Coultas Pilon,
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 "Iж-

page_text: PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF POUCHES, CASES, PURSES, AND BOXES FOR
HOLDING TOBACCO, FUSEE OR OTHER LIGHTS, CARDS, BILLS, AND DOCUMENTS
GENERALLY, ALSO MONEY OR OTHER ARTICLES AND THINGS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Charles Coultas Pilon, 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 Charles Coultas Pilon, do hereby
declare the nature of my 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
Drawings hereunto annexed, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to the construction of articles such as pouches
or similar receivers or holders, and consists in making the body of the
article with both ends open, and a clearance through the body from
end to end, flaps or covers being provided which can be drawn or placed
over each of the ends to form the bottoms for retaining the contents in
the body, the other end having the flap or cover withdrawn or removed
to enable the contents to be got at.
.
The flaps or covers may be in a piece with the body or attached to it
by cement, threads, wires, springs, or other means.
The body may be divided or partitioned off into compartments, and
a turn-in flap used for each.
I do not claim as any part of my Invention the fastening of the cap
or cover below the mouth of the pouch or bag as this forms no portion
of my Invention.
My Invention will be clearly understood by the following detailed
description thereof and by the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, in
which Figure 1 is an exterior view of an india-rubber tobacco pouch;
Figure 2 being a section with the covers or flaps turned back to show
a complete opening through the body; while Figure 3, which is another
section, shows the covers or flaps in the position they occupy when the
pouch is closed up.

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a, a, are the two sides of the pouch, and b, b, are inside flaps whose
edges and a portion of the body of them are shaped and "set" in the
curing process to bear against the inner faces of the sides a, a, and
form a temporary bottom to the pouch for holding the contents within
it; c, c, are the two outside flaps or covers, and the side edges of these
are cemented or jointed close up to the corners of the mouths, and down
the outside edges so that when in the position shown in Figure 3 they
grip the outsides of the two sides in such a secure manner that no dust
- nor particles of tobacco can escape. These inner flaps or the outer
flaps or covers can be in a piece with the body of the pouch, or they
may be separate pieces, preferably cemented on at the edges, but they
may be sewn on or otherwise applied.
It will be observed that the mouths or openings and the covers of
my pouches start from the corners of the ends and not from a distance
below the corners, and this forms an important feature of my Invention,
as the mouth from its contracted shape tends to hold the tobacco more
compactly within the body of the pouch, and prevents a bellying or
bulging open of the pouch when the cover is turned back. The mouths
may however be made to bulge open by fitting gussets in the ends,
or by first cutting or shaping the side pieces a, a, of increasing widths
at the corners, so that when the covers or flaps or both are cemented
on the mouth portions are of somewhat larger area than the portion
mid-distance between the mouths. In every case my pouches have,
when the flaps and covers are thrown back, a clearance through the
body, each end being arranged in a similar manner so that both of them
form in their turn a bottom to the pouch when the flaps and covers are
properly arranged.
I have mentioned the enlarged mouths or openings as being formed
· by the insertion of gussets, or by increasing the width of the side pieces
at the corners, but the central portions of the inner flaps and a portion
of the sides where the inner flaps are cemented on may have ☐ shaped
shaped pieces let into them, the covers and their sides may also
be similarly provided with or ✓ shaped pieces, or the meeting edges
or
of the flaps, or their sides, or the covers, or their sides, or both the flaps
and the covers with the sides may be cut of a curved shape, so that
when cemented together the mouths or openings are of broad oval
shape, so that the fingers of the person opening the pouch can be

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inserted freely for withdrawing the tobacco or other contents from the
interior.
Figure 4 represents a match or fusee box with a clearance through
the body a from end to end, each end being fitted with a cover c, c¹,
which in its turn forms a bottom of the box. The flaps or covers are
hinged from opposite sides, and each has an elastic string d, d, fitted
to it and to the body of the box to keep the covers closed. Both of the
covers have an inside bead or flange e within the mouths of the box
ends, which strengthens the box considerably when the covers are closed
and serve to prevent the body becoming crushed. This arrangement
permits of the boxes being more easily filled with fusces or matches,
and also permits of the more easy removal of the fusees or matches
singly than any side flap opening arrangement is capable of giving.
Figure 5 represents a similar box a only with the hinged flaps or
covers c, c¹, on the ends, so that they are both acted upon by one clastic
string or cord d, which in this case is passed through a portion of the
body so that it appears upon the outside. This plan does not interfere
with the contents of the box.
Figure 6 is a view of a box a suitable to be used as a card case.
Both ends are similarly fitted with a spring, hinged flap, or cover c,
and with a spring or other catch to hold the cover close. This form
of box or case may have partitions in it, and several receptacles are
formed as in Figure 7 for dividing the contents, so that if used as a
purse the gold, the notes, and the silver can be kept apart. Of course
6 other things than gold and notes can be inserted and kept separate.
Each compartment may have a distinct inner flap b, b, as shown, or they
may be left open and covered only by the outside flaps or covers c, c,
as in the last case, Figure 6.
Figure 8 shows a sectional view of a flexible purse, portmonnaie,
O bill case, or pocket book with three compartments, the top and bottom
ends, and also the flaps being open to show the clearance through the
body. This article when closed up as in Figure 9 and the flaps fastened
has the appearance of an ordinary purse, portmonnaie, bill case, or
pocket book from either of the sides, each flap when closed acting
5 as the bottom to the article, as described with reference to the pouch
shown at Figures 1, 2, and 3. The side edges of the partitions /
in Figures 8 and 9 are sewn, rivetted, or otherwise secured to the

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side edges of the outside pieces which have the covers c, c¹, upon
them.
Figure 10 represents an oval shape of body a with the cover flaps
c, c, acted upon by spring plates g, g, a clearance through the body
being formed when both flaps are open, as in the previous con-
structions.
Figure 11 shows a box a suitable for cigarettes. The two end covers
c, c, being attached on both sides to each other by elastic cords attached
to the tops or the bottoms, as shown, so that the fastenings of them are
not below the mouths or openings.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood
that I lay no claim to the fastening of the cap or cover below the mouth
of the pouch or bag as this forms no portion of my Invention; but what
I do claim is,―
Firstly. The improvements in the manufacture of pouches, cases,
purses, and boxes for holding tobacco, fusce or other lights, cards, bills,
and documents generally, also money or other articles and things, as
herein-before set forth and shown.
Secondly. I claim the construction of pouches or similar receivers
or holders with both ends open and a clearance through the body,
which ends can be protected by flaps or covers which can be drawn
or placed over or upon the openings, such flaps or covers serving also
as bottoms to the pouches, receivers, or holders for retaining the
contents in the body when required, as described and shown in the
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Coultas Pilon, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of August, One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
CHARLES COULTAS PILON. (L.S.)