US1152815A - Cigarette-box. - Google Patents

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C. W. HUBBARD, In. CIGARETTE BOX.

APPLICATION FILED 0CT.24. I914.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedSept; 7,1915.

Application filed October 24, 1914. Serial No. 868,354.

To all re/1.0m it may concern:

Be it known that I, CrranLns /V. HUB- HARD, Jr, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the borough of llllanhattan, in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Cigarette-Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple and practicable box in which cigarettes may be sold to the, consumer, having the attractive appearance and convenience of the carrying cases of more expensive materials to which cigarettes are commonly transferred from the original package. Otherwise stated, the object is to enable a receptacle on the order of a cigarette case to be made of comparatively cheap and perishable materials suitable for the retail package, so that it may serve the purposes of both, to insure the cigarettes beingsafely guarded and held, and to admit of their individual removal safely and without spilling. These ends are attained by a combination of outer receptacle, consisting of box halves formed of dished cardboard blanks, with an elastic retaining band and an inner pocket or folder beneath the band, whereby the cigarettes are securely held and perfectly protected without the necessity of dishing the box parts deeply or of providing fastening means, thereby simplifying the manufacture, avoiding breakage of the carboard stock, and ultimately facilitating the extraction of the cigarettes, and whereby, also, bending of the cigarettes by the hand, while being held or in the act of removal, is avoided.

Further features and advantages will be apparent to those skilled in the art from the specification and drawing.

In the said drawings: Figure 1 is'a perspec tive view of the box closed, its halves being held together by a revenue stamp or paster; Fig. 2 is a View of the box opened, portions being broken away; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4. is a view partially in side elevation and partially in longitudinal section through the box; and Fig. 5 is a fragmentary view showing one of the cigarettes partially withdrawn.

The box comprises two oblong halves 2 and 3, of suitable cardboard stock, united at two of their short sides by a hinge 4, preferably consisting of a piece of textile fabric glued or pasted to both halves. These box members consist of singleblanks formed in dies, so as to have imparted thereto agentle curvature 5 at the four sides, the shallowness of the dishing avoidinginjuryto the stock. The blanks areintended to be. covere-d outside with a suitable finishing paper, and theedges of the members are preferably formed as flat, outwardly-directed rims l2 constitutingdesirable jbearingfsurfaces v and improving the appearance of the box. '3

The member 3, which may be termed the bottom.member, bears an elastic retaining band 6, stretched lengthwise across its interior, at right angles to the line of the hinge,

the ends of this band being inturned and embedded in and pasted to the material of the sloping portion ofthe box member, and covered by a finishingsheet 7, as;,more par.- ticularly set forth in my co-pending applications Seriah N umber 833,424; filed :A ril 21,:l91 1', and Serial Number 833,425, filed April 21, 191%. Beneath the band is a folder 8, forming a pocket in which the cigarettes are held in a single row. The said folder preferably consists'of a sheet of heavy foil with a lining of paper, which are folded on two lines to form a back 9, a bottom and inner flap 10, and an upper and outer flap 11. The bottom flap is interposed between the band and the cigarettes, and isthus held in place by the former and serves as a guard for the latter to prevent them being bent by the band. The upper flap overlies the band and may be readily turned up to expose the ends of the cigarettes. In order to prevent displacement, the back of the folder pocket is preferably glued to the bottom of the box member. It will be observed that the eliicacy of the folder as a pocket is due to the cooperation therewith of the elastic band, and that this mode of holding the cigarettes between the box halves renders it unnecessary to dish the box members deeply and thereby secures the advantages as to manufacture and use already indicated. The cigarettes are slid outward in almost a straight line, which is not only convenient but also insures their removal in good condition, the operation being further facilitated by the fact that the upper flap 11 folded backward affords an easy sliding surface to guide the end of the cigarette over the curve of the box. A further advantage of the inner pocket in which the cigarettes are held is that a catch for the box halves is rendered unnecessary, and thus a serious item of expense and a considerable manufacturing difiiculty are avoided. Previous to sale, the boX may be held closed by the revenue stamp or by a paster. In addition, the pocketinsures the cigarettes being kept in a fresh condition and adequately protects them, even though the edges of the boX halves do not come together closely. In the drawings the edges are shown meeting on a straight line, but in actual practice they are likely to be separated to a certain extent and may be more or less uneven, without detracting from the efiectiveness or appearance of the package.- As indicated in Figs. 2 and 5, an important function of the foil pocket is to conform to the number of cigarettes remaining at any one time, clasping them in such a way that it is practically impossible for them to fall out or become displaced.

What I claim as new is:

1. A package for cigarettes, comprising an outer receptacle consisting of oblong dished box-halves joined by a hinge at one of the short ends and adapted to receive the cigarettes in a single row, in combination with an elastic retaining band secured lengthwise acrossthe interior of one of the Copies of this patent may be obtained for box-halves, and a folder pocket beneath said band, said pocket comprising a back overlying the bottom of said box-half, a lower flap continuous with said back and carried up over the cigarettes from their lower ends and held by said retaining band, and an upper flap continuous with the back and covering the upper portions of the cigarettes and adapted to permit the removalof the same.

2. A package for cigarettes, comprising an outer receptacle consisting of hinged box halves, each consisting of a single piece of dished cardboard stock, in combination with an elastic retaining band secured across one of the boX halves, and a folder comprising a back applied to the bottom of said box half, a lower and inner flap interposed be tween the band and the cigarettes, and an upper and outer flap adapted to be turned back to expose the ends of the cigarettes.

In testimony whereof I have'signed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES W. HUBBARD, JR.

Vitnesses J. F. BRANDENBURG, E. GREENBERGER.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0.

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