AN IMPROVED POUCH FOR TOBACCO AND OTHER ARTICLES USED BY SMOKERS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Stuart Harington, of the Saint
James's Club, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire,
for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED POUCH FOR TOBACCO AND OTHER
ARTICLES USED BY SMOKERS."
Sealed the 17th December 1869, and dated the 19th June 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Stuart
Harington at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 19th June 1869.
I, ALEXANDER STUART HARINGTON, of the Saint James's Club,
Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED POUCH FOR TOBACCO
AND OTHER ARTICLES USED BY SMOKERS," to be as follows:-
A pouch constructed according to this Invention is made to roll up
with a gusset on each side, and lined with vulcanized india-rubber,

page_text: thereby rendering it capable of keeping tobacco moist for a long time
in any climate. To close this pouch it is simply necessary to roll it up
and then to twist a leather thong, with which it is provided, round and
round, and afterwards to double the end of the thong under the turns
of the thong. This pouch will not come undone nor spill the tobacco
when closed in the pocket, and the gusset enables a pipe to be held
inside to be filled when open and a larger quantity of tobacco to be
in
thereby rendering it capable of keeping tobacco moist for a long time
any climate. To close this pouch it is simply necessary to roll it up
and then to twist a leather thong, with which it is provided, round and
round, and afterwards to double the end of the thong under the turns
of the thong. This pouch will not come undone nor spill the tobacco
when closed in the pocket, and the gusset enables a pipe to be held
inside to be filled when open and a larger quantity of tobacco to be
carried in such pouch.
Inside the pouch a tab or tabs is or are provided for securing a stopper
and prick or pricker, or any other appliances adapted to the use and
convenience of smokers.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alexander Stuart Harington in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 17th December 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
STUART HARINGTON, of the Saint James's Club, Piccadilly, in the
County of Middlesex, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Iler
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Alexander Stuart Harington, Her
special licence that I, the said Alexander Stuart Harington, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Alexander Stuart Harington, 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 King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED POUCH FOR TOBACCO AND OTHER
ARTICLES USED BY SMOKERS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Alexander Stuart Harington, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands

page_text: and scals, 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 Alexander Stuart Harington, 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 :-
A pouch constructed according to this Invention is made to roll
up with a gusset on cach side and lined with vulcanized india-rubber,
thereby rendering it capable of keeping tobacco moist for a long time
in any climate. To close this pouch it is simply necessary to roll it up
and then to twist a leather thong, with which it is provided, round and
round, and afterwards to double the end of the thong under the turns
of the thong. This pouch will not come undone nor spill the tobacco
when closed in the pocket, and the gusset enables a pipe to be held
inside to be filled when open and a larger quantity of tobacco to be
carried in such pouch.
Inside the pouch a tab or tabs is or are provided for securing a stopper
and prick or prickers, or any other appliances adapted to the use and
convenience of smokers.
Fig. 1 is a front view of my improved tobacco pouch (open); Fig. 2
is a back view of same; Fig. 3 is a side view of same; Fig. 4 is a view
showing pouch rolled up. In each of the Figures the same letters
indicate corresponding parts wherever they occur.
a, the pouch; b, b, the gussets; c, c, leather thong; d, d, tabs; c, e, a
combined stopper and prick; ff, striking surface for lights.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I
hereby declare that I claim the Invention of "An Improved Pouch for

page_text: Tobacco and other Articles used by Smokers," as herein-before set forth
and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Stuart Harington, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of December,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine.
Witness,
ALEX". P. WRIGHT,
21, Cockspur Street,
Charing Cross.
A. S. HARINGTON, LT. (L.s.)
2nd Batt". the Rifle Brigade.