US1182449A - Tobacco-pouch. - Google Patents

Description

W. L. BOOTH.

TOBACCO POUCH.

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Patented May 9, 1916.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM L. BOOTH, OF NEW YORK. N. Y.

TOBACCO-POUCH.

Application filed August 4, 1914.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVILLIAM L. BooTH, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tobacco-Pouches, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a partof the same.

This invention relates to improvements in tobacco pouches.

The object of this invention is to provide a pouch which is simple and economical in construction, convenient for filling, for packing during transportation, and for exhibition in the dealers stores, while, at the same time, eminently satisfactory as a pocket pouch to be carried by the user and from which charges of tobacco may readily be removed, as in filling a pipe or making cigarettes. The construction of the pouch is such that it also provides a compartment or pocket suitable for holding auxiliary articles, particularly cigarette papers.

With these general objects in view, the invention consists in the features, details of construction and combination of parts which will first be described in connection with the accompanying drawings and then particularly pointed out.

In the drawings: Figure l is a perspective view of one modification of the invention in its closed condition. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of the same. Fig. 3 is a view showing the pouch partly opened Fig. i is a section on line 4% of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a view, partly broken away, showing the pouch fully opened, illustrating the manner in which it may be filled with tobacco. Fig. 6 is a section of the pouch in the fully opened condition taken on line 66 of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a section on line 7-7 of Fig. 3. Fig. 8 is a view similar to Fig. 3, illustrating a modification.

Referring to the drawings, A indicates the main or central part of the pouch, which is formed as a flattened tube, one end of which merges into a tapered part forming a funnel portion B, through which the tobacco may be discharged from the central portion into a pipe or cigarette paper. The opposite end of the tube has one side, only, extended beyond the end of the other side, this extension forming aflap, indicated at C.

The funnel portion B is arranged to fold Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 9, 1916.

Serial No. 854,911.

down against the central portion A along a line transverse to the length of the said central portion, whereby one end of the tube will be closed, and the fiap C is also ar ranged to fold down against the central portion A, its line of fold also being transverse to the length of the central portion A, whereby the end of the tube may be closed. The pouch is provided with suitable means for holding these foldable portions B and C when folded over.

In the best embodiment of the invention illustrated in the drawings, the two portions B and C are arranged to fold toward each other and thereby one device may serve to hold both in their folded Positions. In the embodiment shown, this holding means comprises a holding strip D secured to one side of the central portion A near one end thereof, the proportions of the parts being such that the flap C may be folded over and tucked down beneath the holding strip D, while the end of the funnel portion B, when in its folded position, may be pushed beneath the said holding strip. This holding strip advantageously is made wide enough to serve as one wall of a pocket large enough to receive a package, E, of cigarette papers, as indicated in Fig. 4. In order to give sufficient room beneath the holding strip for the reception of said packa e of cigarette papers, as well as the flap and the funnel portion B, the end of the holding strip D may be of bellows form, as shown at d, Fig. 7.

It is obvious that any suitable material may be employed for a pouch of the kind described, but it is most advantageously made of somewhat stiffened flexible material, such as any of the leathers, stifiened paper or cloth, and particularly the material known as leatheroid.

Thepouch may be conveniently formed from a blank cut in the desired shape to produce two sides which are then folded over on each other, for example, along the line :1:.r, whereupon the two sides are secured together in any suitable way along the edges, as by pasting. It is advantageous, however, to stitch the edges of the central portion A and of the funnel portion B, as indicated at 1 Instead of making the funnel portion B symmetrical about its longitudinal axis, as shown in Fig. 3, it may be straight along one side and sloped only at the opposite side, as indicated in Fig. 8,

where said funnel portion is designated In this modification, the straight side of the funnel portion may be a fold line con tinuous with the fold line of the central portion A. Furthermore, the line of fold of the funnel portion B along which it is turned down toward the central portion is inclined, so that the point of the funnel will come about at the center of the holding strip. The holding strip D is secured to the outside of the central portion A in any suitable way, as by pasting or stitching.

It will be obvious that a pouch of the kind described may readily be printed, and in the best embodiment of the invention when the funnel portion B and the flap C both fold against the same side of the central portion A, the opposite side is left free for the display of printed matter.

lVhat is claimed is 1. A pouch comprising a flexible flattened tubular portion, one end of which is contracted to form a funnel portion, said tubula' portion having its other end provided with a flap, said funnel portion and said flap being arranged to be folded down toward the tubular portion along fold lines transverse to the length of the tubular portion to close the two ends thereof, and means for holding the funnel portion and the flap in their folded positions.

2. A pouch comprising a flexible flattened tubular portion, one end of which is contracted to form a funnel portion, said tubular portion having its other end provided with a flap, said funnel portion and said flap being arranged to be folded down toward each other along fold lines transverse to the length of the tubular portion to close the two ends of the tubular portion, and means for holding the funnel portion and the flap in their folded positions against one side of the tubular portion.

3. A pouch comprising a flexible tubular portion having a funnel portion at one end, a. flap at the other, and a holding strip on one side, said funnel portion and flap being arranged to fold toward each other and to be held in their folded positions by said holding strip.

Copies of this patent may be obtained tor five cents each, by addressing the A pouch comprising a flexible flattened tubular portion having a holding strip at one side near one end, a flap at said end of the tubular portion, arranged to fed. toward the strip along a fold line near the outer edge of said strip, and to fold inside the strip along a fold line near the inner edge of said strip, and a funnel shaped portion arranged to fold down against the tubir lar portion along a fold line transverse to the length of the tube, said funnel portion having such a length that its end will engage the inside of the holding strip and be held thereby.

5. A pouch comprising a flexible flattened tube having an expansible holding strip at one side near one end, a flap at said end or" the tube, arranged to fold toward the strip along a fold line near the outer edge of said strip, and to fold inside the strip along a fold line near the inner edge of said strip, and a funnel shaped portion arranged to fold down against the tube along a fold line transverse to the length of the tube, said funnel portion having such a length that its end will engage the inside of the holding strip and be held thereby.

A pouch comprising a flexible flattened tubular portion having a holding strip at one side near one end, said holding strip forming one wall of a pocket of such size as to receive cigarette papers, a l'la p at said end of the tubular portion, arranged to fold toward the strip along a fold line near the outer edge of said strip, and to fold inside the strip along a fold line near the inner edge of said strip, and a funnel shaped por tion arranged to fold down against the tubular portion along a fold line transverse to the length of the tube, said funnel portion having such a length that its end will engage the inside of the holding strip and be held thereby.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. WILLIAM L. BOOTH. Witnesses HENRY F. Dnnrs, ALLAN H. Roenvson.

Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C.

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