IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES FOR HOLDING CIGARS AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Newton, of the Office for
Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES FOR HOLDING
CIGARS AND OTHER ARTICLES."-A communication from abroad by
Henry Belcher Wheatcroft, Samuel Bushnell Guernsey, and Franklin
Jackson Terrell, all of the City and State of New York, United
States of America.
Sealed the 24th August 1869, and dated the 11th March 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Newton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 11th March 1869.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery
5 Lanc, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES FOR HOLDING
CIGARS AND OTHER ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in a case of double hollow leaf form, struck or
cut and stamped out of a single piece of sheet metal or other suitable

page_text: material, with corrugated formations to form pockets for the article or
articles it is designed to carry. The corrugated sheet is then folded
intermediately of its length to constitute a spring hinge or connection,
and gives to the case its necessary hollow double leaf or book form.
This completes the case which may however afterwards be lined with
paper or other thin material, and if desired have any suitable fastening
applied.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Edward Newton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 11th September 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of March, 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 suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said William Edward Newton, Her
special licence that I, the said William Edward Newton, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Edward
Newton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES FOR HOLDING CIGARS AND OTHER ARTICLES," being
a communication to me from abroad by. Henry Belcher Wheatcroft,
Samuel Bushnell Guernsey, and Franklin Jackson Terrell, all of the
City and State of New York, United States of America, upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Edward Newton,
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

page_text: 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 William Edward Newton, 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, reference being had to the Drawing
hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is
to say)
This Invention consists in a case of double hollow leaf form, struck or
cut and stamped (with corrugated formations to form pockets for the
article or articles it is designed to carry) out of a single piece of sheet
metal or other suitable material. The corrugated sheet is then folded
intermediately of its length to constitute a spring hinge or connection,
and gives to the case its necessary hollow double leaf or book form.
This completes the case, which may however afterwards be lined with
paper or other thin material, and if desired any suitable fastening may
be applied thereto.
A case constructed in accordance with this Invention may be got up
cheaply, and affords all necessary protection to the article or articles it
serves to hold or carry.
In the accompanying Drawing, Fig. 1 represents a face view of a
blank as struck or stamped to form a case (for holding cigars) made
according to the improvement; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the
case in its open condition; and Fig. 3 is a transverse section thereof.
In the accompanying Drawing the improvement is shewn as applied
to a cigar case, which is constructed by stamping out of a sheet of
pasteboard, metal, or other suitable material a blank, as represented in
Fig. 1. By this operation the case is at once cut to the required shape,
dished or hollowed, and fluted or corrugated, so that when folded as at a
it forms hollow leaves or backs A, A, having pockets 6 in them for the
separate retention of the cigars, as shewn in Figures 2 and 3 of the
Drawing. The flutes or corrugations formed in the blank (Fig. 1) are so
arranged in two rows or sets B, B, that when the blank is folded as at a,
and the case closed, the cigars lic within both leaves or backs A, A.
The folding of the blank as at a establishes a spring hinge or connection
of the two halves of the case. In this way a cigar case may be con-
structed cheap at a single blow or operation, as it were, and as a

page_text: receptacle all necessary protection secured for the cigars with every
requisite facility for extracting them from the case.
In making the case of paper it is advisable to form the blank out of
two or more layers cemented one upon the other by glue or other
cquivalent substance of an adhesive character, and which is made to
saturate the paper. The blank before the glue has become dry is pressed
into its required form in hot moulds, and the glue is allowed to set.
This gives stiffness to the case and permanency to its configuration,
causing it if pressed out of shape to resume its original form on the
pressure being removed. Of course the number, size, and shape of the
corrugations or pockets formed by them in the case may be varied
according to the number, size, and shape, or description of the articles
the case is designed to hold or carry. Thus for a spectacle case the
blank shown in Fig. 1 may be made much narrower, and only have a
corrugation or corrugations in it to form a single pocket or cavity
adapted in size and shape to holding a pair of spectacles.
Having now described the Invention which has been communicated to
mc as aforesaid, and having explained the manner of carrying the same
into effect, I claim as the Invention secured to me by Letters Patent as
aforesaid, making a cigar receptacle or other similar case by striking the
same out of sheet metal or other suitable material and folding it up as
described, so as to form a spring hinge or connection of the two halves
of the case, as herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Newton, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, the Tenth day of September,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
ninc.