residing PROVEMENT IN CIGAR CASES
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Flect Street,
in the City of London, E.C., Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN IM-
A communication from G. Scriba, residing
LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Flect Street,
in the City of London, E.C., Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN IM-
A communication from G. Scriba, residing
PROVEMENT IN CIGAR CASES"
in Paris.
Sealed the 24th May 1859, and dated the 24th November 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 24th November 1858.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, E.C., Patent Agent, do bereby declare the nature of the said.
Invention for AN IMPROVEMENT IN CIGAR CASES," (communicated to me by
G. Scriba, residing in Paris,) to be as follows:-
"
This improvement consists in connecting two recessed or corrugated plates
at the sides only to the inside of a case or pocket made of leather or flexible
material, and back to back, so that the cigars or cigarettes may lie in the
corrugations or recesses in the plates, and between them and the case.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 24th May 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, E.C.,
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, ler special licence that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, adminis-
trators 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 In-
vention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN CIGAR CASES," (a communication from G.
Scriba, residing in Paris,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, 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 Richard Archibald Brooman, 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 Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-
This improvement consists in connecting two recessed or corrugated plates
at the sides only to the inside of a case or pocket made of leather or flexible
material, and back to back, so that the cigars or cigarettes may lie in the
corrugations or recesses in the plates, and between them and the case.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is an exterior view of one of these
cigar cases closed; Figure 2 is a horizontal section; Figure 3 is a vertical
section, shewing a cigar in one compartment; and Figure 4 is a horizontal
section of the same, showing all the compartments full. a is the outer case;

page_text: bis the inside pocket or pouch, which is made of leather, skin hextile fabric,
or any other suitable material; c, c, are corrugated plates arranged back to
back in the interior of the pouch b. The corrugated plates are held at
their sides only to the inside of the pocket b. A cigar case thus made is
most flexible, and will contain cigars of various sizes, which are kept from
rubbing together, as shewn in Figure 4.
Figures 5 and 6 are views in section of a similar cigar case with the
addition of an expanding flap e, e, and Figures 7 and 8 are views of a cigar
case, where the expanding flaps are composed of elastic material g, g. In
these last Figures the corrugated plates are not shewn.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as the improve-
ment in cigar cases, connecting two recessed or corrugated plates at the sides
only to the inside of a case or pocket, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of May, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.