A New or Improved Cigar Box.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 22nd June, 1891-Accepted, 25th July, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Cigar Box.
"We, HUGH STEVENSON and ARTHUR WILLIAM STEVENSON, both of 71 to
75 Silver Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Paper Box Manu-
facturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to the manufacture of cigar boxes and our chief object is to
make a box which has the appearance and finish of an ordinary cedar or bay wood
cigar box but which costs much less to produce.
We attain this object by manufacturing the sides, bottom and lids of our
improved cigar box of what is usually known in the trade as brown wood pulp or
"leather board," the surface of which we grain or print to imitate cedar or bay
wood. The same object might be accomplished by employing card or straw board
or other similar material and covering it with grained paper but we prefer to use
leather board as it is so much stronger and in other ways more suitable.
We prefer to join the sides together and the bottom to the sides by serrated
metal strips or angle clamps in order to gain additional strength; and we surround
each side as well as the bottom and lid with a marginal covering of white enamel
paper or it may be ordinary white or coloured paper or other material.
Dated this 16th day of October 1890.
H. B. BARLOW,
Agent for Applicants.
A New or Improved Cigar Box.
We, HUGH STEVENSON and ARTHUR WILLIAM STEVENSON, both of 71 to
75 Silver Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Paper Box Manu-
facturers, 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 :-
Our invention relates to the manufacture of cigar boxes and our chief object is
to make a box which has the appearance and finish of an ordinary cedar or bay
wood cigar box but which costs much less to produce.
We attain this object by manufacturing the sides, bottom and lid of our improved
cigar box of what is usually known in the trade as brown wood pulp or "leather
board," the surface of which we grain or print to imitate cedar or bay wood. The
same object might be accomplished by employing card or straw board or other
similar material and covering it with grained paper but we prefer to use leather
board as it is so much stronger and in other ways more suitable.
We prefer to join the sides together and the bottom to the sides by serrated
metal strips or angle clamps in order to gain additional strength; and we surround
each side as well as the bottom and lid with a marginal covering of white enamel
paper or it may be ordinary white or coloured paper or other material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
A cigar box the sides bottom and lid of which are formed of leather board or

page_text: like material treated to resemble cedar or bay wood substantially in the manner
and for the purposes herein specified.
Dated this 19th day of June 1891.
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for Applicants.