Improvements in Cases for Cigarettes, Cigars, or Tobacco.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 18th May, 1893-Accepted, 24th June, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cases for Cigarettes, Cigars, or Tobacco.
I, JOHN ALEXANDER LLOYD, of Bush Lane, in the City of London,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to portable cases for holding cigarettes, cigars, or tobacco,
such cases being also provided with a receptacle for wax or other matches.
I make the case preferably of sheet metal such as tinned plate decorated with
ornamental or other designs in any desired way, and of any suitable shape, such for
instance as that of an ordinary cigar or cigarette case, one end being provided with a
hinged or separate end or cover having a fastening of any ordinary kind or a sliding
cover may be used.
The bottom of the case is arranged and fixed at a short distance from the
lower end so as to form a recess at the bottom to receive the wax or other
matches, and is also provided with a hinged or separate or sliding cover similar to
that at the top.
Any convenient part of the case or of one or both covers may be roughened
or provided with a suitable surface upon which the matches can be struck and
ignited.
The improved case may be used to contain cigarettes, cigars, or loose tobacco,
and it is very simple, cheap, effective in appearance, and useful.
Deted this 5th day of December 1892.
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cases for Cigarettes, Cigars, or Tobacco.
I, JOHN ALEXANDER LLOYD, of Bush Lane, in the City of London,
Manufacturer, 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 and accompanying drawing, that is to say:-
My present invention relates to portable cases for holding cigarettes, cigars, or
tobacco, and it consists in a novel method of making such cases so that a separate
receptacle is also provided in them for wax or other matches.
I make the case preferably of sheet metal such as tinned plate decorated with
ornamental or other designs in any desired way, and of any suitable shape, such for
instance as that of an ordinary cigar or cigarette case one end being provided with
a hinged or separate end or cover having a fastening of any ordinary kind, or a sliding
cover may be used.
The bottom of the case is arranged and fixed at a short distance from the lower
end so as to form a recess at the bottom to receive the wax or other matches,
and is also provided with a hinged or separate or sliding cover similar to that at
the top.
The accompanying drawing is in illustration of my invention, and represents a
cigarette case, having a separate receptacle for matches constructed in the manner
just described in accordance with my invention.
Figure 1 represents the case closed,
Figure 2 represents the same case with the receptacle for matches uppermost and
onen. and that for the cigarettes below and closed.

page_text: Figure 3 represents the case with the receptacle for cigarettes uppermost and
open and that for matches below and closed.
Figure 4 is a vertical transverse section through the cigarette case.
a is the body of the case, and 6 is a recess or receptacle formed at one end by the
transverse plate c fixed at a short distance in from the end.
d is a hinged cover which closes the receptacle so formed. e is a similar hinged
cover which closes the other end of the body of the case which contains the
cigarettes as shewn.
Any convenient part of the case or of one or both covers may be roughened
or provided with a suitable surface upon which the matches can be struck and
ignited.
It is to be understood that the figures are only in illustration of my invention, and
that the shape and proportion of the case and of the different parts may be varied to
any desired extent, the essential feature of the invention being the separate receptacle
to hold matches, in cases of the kind described.
The improved case may be used to contain cigarettes, cigars, or loose tobacco, and
it is very simple, cheap, effective in appearance, and useful.
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 :-
:-
In cases for holding cigarettes, cigars, or tobacco, the separate receptacle for
holding matches, and forming part of the case, substantially as described and
illustrated.
I this 18th day of May 1893.
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.