US1509311A - Protector for cigarettes - Google Patents

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Sept 23, 1924. 11 5mm J. W. PERRY PROTECTOR FOR CIGARETTES Filed July 29. 1920 a h I I u ATTORNEY Patentwse t. 23, 1924.

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I Application filed July 29, 1920. Serial No. 899,762.

\ To-all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN WALTER PERRY,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Southport, county of F airfield, State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement in Protectors for Cigarettes, of which the following is a specifica'tion,,v

This invention produces a protector for cigarettes which may housed in connection with the original package in which the cigarettes are put up, an object of the invention being to provide protecting means to make certain that the cigarettes do not become mashed or otherwise materially damaged. Additional objects are to provide a protector equippedwith means for properly moistening the cigarettes and for precluding the entrance of moisture from the atmosphere to the original package, and also equipped with means whereby the outside paper container or cover for the original package can be released from the stamp or other means used by manufacturers for 010s ing the exposed portion of the foil wrapping for the cigarettes, in order that the foil wrapping, together with the cigarettes, can be removed from the outside paper container or cover and placed in the protector of the invention, and the protector and its contents can be subsequently placed in said container or cover.

With the above and other objects in view the invention comprises the construction and arrangement of parts as now to be fully described and hereinafter ificall claimed.

In the accompanying awing orming a part of this specification, I 1

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the protector;

Fig. 2 a sectional view thereof;

Fig. 3 a perspective view of the protector and of a package of cigarettes, illustrating the manner in which the stamp or other closing means is disconnected from the container or cover; and

F at is a perspective view of the container and of a package of cigarettes, illustrating the manner in which the'protector is used.

As is well known certain types of ciga- 'rettes now on the market are ut up in ackages consisting of an outsi e paper con tainer or cover; A, a foil wrapping; B for the cigarettes, which is inserted in the container or cover, and a stem C, the opposite ends of which are attac ed to the outcontainer or cover,

side opposite edges of the open end of the container to ho d the foil wrapping and cigarettes in place. When the package reaches a consumer, hefirst tears the stamp and afterwards removes the visible part of the foil wrapping, or a portion thereof, as indicated at D in Fig. 4 so that the cigarettes are readily accessible. Cigarette smokers are aware of the fact that as soon as a few of the cigarettes are removed from the original pack the package is liable to become disto when being carried on the person so that the remaining unsmoked cigarettes are mashed and otherwise damaged. In fact, it almost always occurs, when a partial package is carried for even a short length of time, that the cigarettes last smoked are badly disfigured. I have found that a number of the paper containers or covers for diii'erent makes of cigarettes are of approximately the same size, and to overcome the difliculties encountered by smokers as hereinbefore set forth the protector of the invention has been deslgn'ed to be located between the original container or cover and the foil wrappin That is, the, foil wrapping containing e cigarettes is adapted to be located in the protector and the protector is adapted to be then located in the original container or cover. In view'of the fact that the foil wrapping as now made by the ditferent manufacturers, loosely fits the paper it will be obvious that the protector invented by me can be inserted between sald foilwrapping and cover, and will, when inserted, reclude the accidental removal of either p e wrapping or cover, while not causing the cigarettes in the foil iZratpping to be mashed to the slightest ex- As willbe clear from the drawings, the protector consists of a box having sides 10, ends 11, an open bottom 12 and a top 13. The top is out awa as indicated at 14 and a slide 15 is provi ed for covering the cut away portion, the slide being equipped with means whereby it may be manipulated adapted to enter a slot 16 in the protector top. The means shown for causing the slide to travel in the slot to cover the cut away portion are tongues 17. Other convenient means may be used.

18 denotes a blotter or other humidor carried b the slide. The bottom edgeof either or bot sides of the protector is cut away as indicated at 19 to provide a cutter for reconstitutin and container or cover for the original package, and may be constructed of any relatively stifit' material suitable for its purposes, such as cardboard, celluloid ormetal.

The manner of use will be apparent. When the consumer purchases a package of cigarettes, he first causes the cutter to break the seal. He next lifts the foil wrapping and c1 e next removes a portion of the upper end of the foil wrapping to expose a fewof the cigarettes, as suggested in Fig. 4. He next inserts the foil wrapping and cigarettes into the open end of the rotector so that the exposed ends of the clgarettes lie beneath the cut away portion adapted to receive the slide. The protector is lastly inserted in the paper container or cover open end first.

When a cigarette is'to be removed from'the I arettes from the paper container or cover.

protector the slide is moved to open position,

toward the left in Fig. 1. The slide normally covers the opening made in the foil wrapping so that the humidor has contact with the cigarettes. As cigarettes are removed, others may be made to come under the opening in the foil wrapping b simply tilting the package in the proper irection, as has heretofore /been the practice when cigarette smokers have removed only a portion of the foil Wrapping.

What I claim is:

As a new article of manufacture, a. protector for cigarettes comprising a body shaped to fit a package of cigarettes and having one end open, acover carried at the other end of said protector body and comprising a rigid section and a slidable section, a side ofsaid body being cut away at its open end to provide a recess, one side of a said recess being extended inwardly over the recess at the free edge of the body and sharp ened to provide a cutter.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature.

J. WALTER PERRY.

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