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IVI. J. STRAIN. GIGAR CASE.

No. 474,613. Patented May 10, 1892-.

ilNITED STATES PATENT Ottica.

MUR'lAGl-l J. STRAIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO EMMA R. STRAIN,

` OF SAME PLACE. I

ClGAR-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 474,613, dated May 10, 1892.

Application filed May 13, 1891. Serial No. 392,570. (No model.)

To wl whom, it may concern.- ends are turned or curved outwardly, as

Be it known that I, MURTAGH J. STRAIN, a illustrated, and are made to terminate at the citizen of the United States, residing at New open end of the section in which they are se- York, in the county of New York and State of cured and are separated at that end. By thus 5 New York, have invented certain new and forming the iingers the maximum of both 55 usefullmprovements in Cigar-Cases; andI do strength and firmness of elasticity is imdeclare the following to be afull, clear, and eX- parted to them. It will be observed, also, that act description of the invention, such as will the fingers next to the mouth of the case are enable others skilled in the art to which it free and disconnected, so that they will yield 1o appertains to make and use the same, referat once to the insertion of the mouth end of 6o ence being had to the accompanying drawings, a cigar and readily accommodate or adjust and to the letters of reference marked therethemselves to the cigar whatever its diameter on, which form a part of this specification. may be. These springs or clasps are elastic My invention relates to cigar-cases for holdenough to yield to the pressure of the cigar I5 ing partially-consumed cigars; and it has for without injuring it, and yet they have irm- 65 its object to construct the case, which is espeness enough to hold it securely against accicially adapted for pocket use, so that the cigar dental dislodglnent. can be inserted and held in the same and car- If the fingers had their free ends toward ried in the pocket without breaking the the closed end of the box and were connected zo lighted or burned end of the cigar and withtogether at their outer ends by a band, there 7o out the odor of the cigar being imparted to would be stiffness instead of elasticity at the the clothesof the person. mouth of the box, thereby necessitating the To the accomplishment of the foregoing insertion of the cigar quite a distance into objects the invention consistsin the constructhe box to reach the elastic portion of the 25 tion and combination of parts hereinafter ingers. Furthermore, the insertion of the 75 particularly described and then claimed. lighted end between the `fingers would result The invention will now be fully described, in breaking the wrapper at that end, as it and then claimed, reference being had to the would be dry and crisp, and also in the knockaccompanying drawings, forming a part hereing of ashes from the cigar, and as the mouth 3o of, and in whichend would be moist the ashes would adhere 8o Figurelisavertical section illustrating the thereto and the inconvenience therefrom preferred form of the case. Fig. 2 is a similar would be great; but by having the ends terview to Fig. 1 with the cigar shown in position. minare at the open end of the section and Fig. 3 is a cross-section on theline of Fig. 1. separated from each other and rendered elas- 3 5 Fig-.4 is a vertical section illustrating a moditic at that end the lighted end never comes 85 fied form of the invention. in contact with the fingers or with any part In the drawings the letter A designates the of the case, as the mouth end of the cigar base or lower portion of the case, which is comes between the fingers, while the lighted formed at its mouth with the flange B, and end projects centrally therefrom and extends 4o over this flange there will tit the cap or cover into the cap without coming in contact with 9o C, so that when the two are together the eX- any part thereof. As a consequence the ternal surfaces will be flush with each other lighted end is not in any degree injured and and there will be no projecting edge to catch does not have even so much as the ashes in any other object that may be in the pocket. knocked off.

45 Vithin the lower portion A of the case there The cigar may be inserted while still burn- 95 is secured, either to the sides or the bottom ing, and when the cap is applied the case is thereof, but preferably to the bottom,a series made air tight, so that the ire is soon extinof spring or elastic fingers D. These fingers gnished, while at the same time the odor of are made to converge toward each other in the tobacco is confined within the case..

5o the direction of their outer ends, and at such The case is illustrated as of cylindrical form Too in cross-section, but maybe of any other form desired, and it may be of metal or any suitable material.

Having described my invention and set forth its merits, what I claim is- The Cigar-Case composed of the two hollow sections adapted to t one to the other and the spring-fingers contained within one section and having free open ends terminating l at the open end of the section in which they are secured, the lower ends of the ngers being secured to the inside of the shell, substantially as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

MUR'IAGH J. STRAIN.

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