MENTS IN CASES OR HOLDERS FOR HOLDING CIGARS AND CIGARETTES
Year: 1877

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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Philip Betts at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 27th September 1877. A communication
from abroad by Charles Delhaye, of Paris, in the Republic of France.
PHILIP BETTS, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Merchant. IMPROVE
MENTS IN CASES OR HOLDERS FOR HOLDING CIGARS AND CIGARETTES." [A
communication from abroad by Charles Delhaye, of Paris, in the Republic of
France.]
The object of this Invention is to effect in a simple and easy manner the removal
of the cigars or cigarettes one at a time from the case or holder without the necessity
for removing the lid or cover of the case or holder. This object is attained by
constructing and arranging the parts of the said cases or holders in the following
manner: The body of the case is made by preference of metal, and flat, or of au
elliptical figure in cross section. The said body is closed by a detachable lid or
cover, by removing which lid access to the case or holder is obtained for filling it
with cigars or cigarettes. In one end of the lid is an opening sufficiently large for
the passage through it of a single cigar or cigarette. This opening is covered and
uncovered by a small slide on the said lid worked by a button outside the lid. In
that end of the body of the case at which the opening in the lid is situated, a lifter
works, by means of which lifter a single cigar or cigarette from the store in the case
may be lifted through the opening in the lid and removed. The said lifter consists
of a vertical slide fitting closely against the curved end of the case. At the bottom
of the sliding lifter is a foot or step on which the cigar or cigarette to be lifted rests.
This lifter is worked by a button or head outside the case. To the bottom of the
lifter one end of an india-rubber band spring is fastened. This spring passes over a
pulley, and its opposite end is fastened to an eye or loop in a compartment at the
bottom of the case. The top of this compartment forms a false bottom, on which
the cigars or cigarettes are supported. The foot or step of the lifter, when the liftor
is in its depressed state, passes through an opening in the false bottom, and is situated
a short distance below the said false bottom. In order to remove a cigar or cigaretto
from the case, the latter is inclined so as to cause a cigar or cigarette to pass to the
end of the case containing the lifter and to rest over the foot or step of the lifter.
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page_text: The slide in the lid being withdrawn so as to uncover the opening in the lid, the
lifter is pressed upwards or towards the top of the case by means of its button or
head, the said lifter carrying with it the cigar or cigarette which rests upon its foot
or step. The upper end of the cigar or cigarette is thereby projected through the
opening in the lid, and may be taken hold of by the hand and removed from the
case, or by inclining the case the cigar or cigarette falls from the case. On loosing
the button of the sliding lifter the latter takes its lowest position by the action
of its spring, and is ready, on again inclining the case, to lift a second cigar or
cigarette.
Instead of the band spring described for giving the back motion to the lifter, a
coiled metallic spring may be used, and the lid may be hinged to the body of the case.
Instead of a flat or elliptical case, a circular case may be used. In this modifi-
cation the lifter works in a semicircular depression in the case, into which depression
the cigar or cigarette fails by the inclining of the case.