US1186519A - Tobacco-package. - Google Patents

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A. SCHNEIDER.

TOBACCO PACKAGE APPLICATION FILED APR. 5, 1915.

atented Jun 6, 1916.

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ANTHONY SCHNEIDER, 0F JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN'CIG-AR COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, .N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

TOBACCO-PACKAGE.

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, ANTHONY SCHNEIDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Tobacco-Packages, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to tobacco packages, and the invention is particularly applicable in forming packages of cigars.

A principal object of the invention is to produce a very simple and inexpensive package in the form of a pocket pouch which will neatly hold a number of cigars ready to be used and which will hold them so as to best offer protection for the ends of the cigars and at the same time permit ready withdrawal thereof without breaking up or destroying the pouch form of the packa 'e.

A fiirther object of the invention is to roduce apackage of this kind which can be readily sealed, as with a revenue stamp, and which can be readily opened and closed like a pouch.

Further objects of the invention Wlll appear more clearly hereinafter.

The invention consists in the general combination of parts and details hereinafter described, all of which contribute to produce an eflicient tobacco package.

The preferred embodlment of my nvention will be particularly described in the following specification, while the broad scope of my invention will be pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of the complete package. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is an end elevation. Fig. 4 is a perspective showing the inner part of the package before it. receives its outer binder or protecting sheet, and Fig. 5 18 a perspective showing the package or pouch which remains after the same has been opened and the cigars removed.

Referring more particularly to the parts, 1 represents the main flexible wrapper of the package, which is preferably composed of an outer sheet 2, of light tinfoil, and an inner sheet 3 of waxed paper, or similar material the two sheets constituting a composite wrapper. These sheets are preferably superposed but unattached to each other.

In forming the package a plurality of cigars Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 5, 1915. Serial No. 19,158.

' 4 are laid side by side in arow, and the sheet 1 is then wrapped around them continu-- ously with its edges 5 and 6 overlapped. In this way the wrapper forms an envelop for the cigars and the edges 5,and 6 of the wrapper extend substantially parallel with the axes of the cigar. This wrapper sheet is preferably of greater width than the length of the cigars so that when wrapped about the cigars, as suggested, the ends of the sheet project beyond the ends of the cigars. These projecting ends 6 are then pressed in to close them andare then folded in or over upon the side of the package. They may, if desired, be folded against the same side of the package as shown in Fig. 4. After forming such {a package as that indicated in Fig. 4 I complete the package by attaching a binder or protecting sheet 7, which is preferably of relatively stiff, strong paper, and this sheet is Wrapped around the package in a direction at right angles to that in which the sheet 1 is wrapped. This sheet is preferably of substantially the same width-as the width of the package. The binder sheet 7 is smeared with paste and passed completel around the cigars lengthwise; the paste 1s preferably not applied to the outer end 13 of. the binder so that this end forms a loose flap between the overlappcd edges 9 and 10.

The free end or flap 13 of the strip 7, at one edge may bos'ealed bymeans of a revenue stamp 12, which may be applied near one end of the package over the unsealed overlapping edges 9 and 10, (see Fig. 1).

It will be noted that the edges 9 and 10 extend substantially at right angles to the edges 5 and 6, that is, they are, substantially at right angles to the longitudinal axes of the cigars. By seizing the loose corner 11 of the flap 13 evidently the package can be very readily opened by pulling the flap out so as to tear the seal or stamp 12. The relatively stiff binder 7 operates as a protector at the ends of the package to protect the ends of the cigars and prevent them from becoming broken, and this is augmented the latter can be drawn over the end of the package to close the package and throwm back when the package i to be opened, it will thus be seen. that the package is in reality a pouch which. be opened and closed at will. The binder sheet '7 is preferably printed upon and constitutes the label of the package, w

I do not limit myself to the use of all of the features or combinations of parts together, but I may employ a wrapper embodying one or more of the features of the invention. It is also understood. that the embodiment of the invention set forth here in is only one of the many embodiments or forms the invention may take, and I do not wish to be limited in the practice of the in vention nor in my claims to the particular embodiment set forth;

What I claim is 1. A. cigar package and pocket pouch, comprising a plurality of cigars inclosed within a wrapper of flexible material, said wrapper being of greater length than the cigars and having its ends infolded toward each other about the ends of the cigars and overlying a face of the package whereby the ends of the cigars are protected by the cushion formed by the folded ends of the wrapper, a label strip of greater length than and of substantially the same width as the package, pasted to opposite faces thereof and folded longitudinally thereabout and having its ends overlapping one another, and a breakable seal for holding the ends of the label strip in overlapping relation until the seal is broken, the construction and arrangement of parts being such that after said seal is broken one end of the label may be lifted whereby the wrapper at said end may be unfolded to permit withdrawal of the cigars and again refolded without otherwise breaking the package 2. A tobacco package, comprising a plu rality of cigars incloeed Within a wrapper of flexible material said wrapper being of eater length than the cigars and having its ends infolded toward each other and overlying a face of the package, and a label of greater length than the package pasted to and folded longitudinally thereabout, and having its ends overlapping one an i ieeeie other at one end of the package, the construction and arrangement of parts being such that one end of the label may be lifted whereby the wrapper at said end may be unfolded to permit the. withdrawal of the cigars without otherwise breaking the package, and a revenue stamp secured at one point to one face of the package and secured at another point to a portionof the label-at one end to hold the package sealed, the other portion of the label at said end being free and serving as a grasping portion whereby the said stamp may be torn to open whereby the ends of the cigars are protected by the cushion formed by the folded ends of the wrapper, a binder sheet of relatively stiff material and of substantially the Width of the package extending longitudinally of the cigars in the form of an encircling band having tportions thereof pasted to opposite faceso the package one end of the said binder sheet being unattached to the package but folded about an end thereof and temporarily secured, said unattached end being free to be turned back to permit unfolding of the composite wrapper at one end of the package, and thus permit withdrawal of the cigars without otherwise breaking the. package In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

ANTHQNY SCHNEIDER.

Witnesses:

DAN HALL, JUNIUS PARKER.

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