US683790A - Cigar-pocket. - Google Patents

Description

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ol L. PABMENTEH. CIGAR POCKET.

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(No Model.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 683,790, dated Cctober l, 1901.

Serial No. 6 1,), 3 3. (No model.)

Ahave invented certain new and useful lmprovements in Cigar-Pockets; and I do hereby declare the followi f to be a full, clear, andexact description oi e invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the'same.

This invention relates to certain improvements in sheets or connected series of pouches, pockets, or receptacles, such as are particularly adapted, for instance,vto receive cigars, and are commonly known in the trade as the Parmentcr cigar-pockets.7

An object of the invention is to provide a sheet or series of connected collapsible pouches or receptacles constructed and arranged in an improved manner, whereby the pouches of each sheet can be compressed into as small a compass as possible for packing or shipment and yet so that the pouches can be easily opened for the insertion of cigars or other articles for which the particular pouches may be adapted.

The invention consists in certain novel features in construction and in arrangements or in combinations of parts, as more fully and particularly described and pointed out hereinafter.

tefcrring to the accompanying drawings,

4Figure l is a perspective view of a series of connected cigar-pockets, showing the front side of the sheet or series. Fig. 2 is asimilar View, but looking at the rear side of the sheet or series of pockets and showing the. Opening-strip connecting the upper portions of the expanding/walls of the series of pockets. Fig. i is an end or edge View, enlarged, of the sheet of pockets shown in the preceding figures. Fig. i is a top plan View of the sheet of pockets, illustrating how the opening of one pocket opens those adjacent thereto partially, so that the point or tip of the cigar can be easily inserted therein. Fig. 5 is a perspective View of several connected cigarpockcts provided with the opening-strip, said strip being so formed as to project beyond the mouths of the pockets and form sealing-deps. Fig. 6 is a detail perspective View showing several'counected pockets, the

opening-strip being shown located a light distance below the upper ends or mouths of the pockets and not extending ilush with thc mouths and slitted, as shown in Figs. l, 2, and 3. Fig. 7 is a detail perspective view ot' several connected pockets,illustrating a mod iied arrangement.

In the specilic example shown in the drawings the sheet of connected pocket-s comprises a main connecting or backing sheet a, in length equal to the full length of the series or sheet of pockets and in width equal to or greater than the length of each pocket.

Z) designates the pockets, each preferably composed of a tube of flexible material, having the bellows or collapsible sides o and the liat rear walls or faces. These tubes are all parallei with. each other and are pasted, cemented, or otherwise secured side by side closely ar-v ranged on the backing-sheet a with their mouths at one end along one longitudinal edge of said backing-sheet and having their opposite ends suitably closed, usually compressed and sealed by doubling the backingslieet over said ends and sealing the same down on the rear faces of the tubes. It will thus be noted in the specilic form shown that the front walls of the pockets are entirely covered by the backing-sheet,while the rear walls of the tubes are covered and connected only for a short distance at their lower ends. Each tube is hence free to expand at its rear independently of all other tubes when a cigar is inserted, whereby cigars of different dimensions and diameteis can be inserted in adjacent pockets of the saine sheet without causing the same to bind, and each pocket can be distended to its full capacity and, if need be, its rear flexible wall rounded or convened outwardly to accommodate the cigar without in any Way disturbing or changing the shape of the adjacent pockets. l rlhis advantage does not accrue where the pockets are connected together along both their front and rear walls throughout the full lengths thereof. However, experience hijas demonstrated that sheets ot' pockets constructed about as hereinbefore mentioned are sometimes somewhat inconveuieut to open to receive the cigar-tip and that it is`s0metimes desirable to open the mouth of a pocket partially to properly insert the cigar-tip. Hence IOO it has sometimes been found desirable in the manufacture of the pockets to only slightly `compress the same, so that the pockets will be normally somewhat open at their mouths when delivered for use to facilitate the insertion oi' the cigar-tips therein without requiring that the pockets be first partially opened by the lingers. lVhen the pockets are thus only slightly compressed, leaving them normail;I slightly open at the mouths, the sheets of pockets cannot be tightly packed for shipment, nor can they be conveniently packed tightly, as is usnallydesirable, in cigar-boxes or in cases or covers, nor in certain other connections where it is usually desirable that the sheets of pockets be packed closely and tightly into as small a space or compass as possible. At this point it is appropriate to state that the collapsible sides of eachl pocket are usuforming the tube with angular inturned folds extending longitudinally throughout the length of the tube. Each collapsible side can be formed by one or more angular folds, the ends of the sheet forming the inner wall of the pocket being pasted or otherwise secured to the backing-sheet.

To permit close or tight compression of the lpockets of a sheet or series into as small a transwersel space or thickness as possible and yetso as to automatically open the mouths of the pockets of a series adjacent to one pocket into which a cigar has been inserted, i provide what might be termed an openingstrip c, which is 'secured to the rear or Vindependentlyexpanding faces of all the pockets of the sheet. This strip or connection can be formed and secured in any desired ner and can be composedof any suitable material for the purpose intended. I usually employ a narrow strip of flexible materialsuch, for instance, as paper-in length equal tu the length of the sheet or series and secure tle same across and connecting the rear face ol' each pocket, usually adjacent or close to the mouth ends of the pockets. This strip in no way interferes with the independent expansion of the pockets hereinbeforedescribed, nor does it in any way interfere with a close compression of the sheet of pockets to an exeeedingly small thickness transversely, and yet with a tightly-compressed sheet if a cigar is inserted in any one of the pockets the mouths ot' the immcdiately-a'djacent pockets will he slightly distended to a greater or lesser extent through the medium of said openingstrip connecting the expanding walls of the pockets. The advantages of connecting thc mouth portions of the expanding walls of the connected pockets are hence obvious. The insertion of a cigar in one pocket thus automatically opens the mouths of adjacent pochets, so that the cigar-tips can be easily and quickly inserted therein without the necessity of first partially opening the mouths with the fingers, and as each pocket is iilled additional porkcts have their mouths automat-ically formed by providing the sheet of paper ally opened to receive other cigars, and yet .all the advantages of the iudcpendehtly-expanding walls of the sheet of pockets are retained. y

in the specific example illustrated the pock- -ets are detachably or separably connected ving-strip on lines between the pockets, as said narrow strip readily tea-rs transversely lietween the pockets when the pockets are separated one from lthe other. Howeverg'if desired, said strip can be weakened on lines between the pockets. Also, if desired, said strip can be formed of suitable width and so arranged as to project beyond the mouths of the pockets to form sealing-[laps c', as shown in Fig. 5, and said iaps can be 4provided with paste or cement, so that when the pockets are filled the ends of the pockets can be cornpressed and the flaps closed over the same and pasted down on the front walls of the pockets to form sealed inclosed oigar-packages. Vvhen the opening-strip is thus provided with seal-Y ing-flaps, it can be transversely weakened on lines between the pockets, so as to readily separate with thepockets.

If desirable, it is possible that the pockets might be separately formed complete and then detachably connected together in sheets (see Fig. 7) by somewhat-narrow strips doubled over and sealed to and compressing the lower ends of the pockets and extending up the front walls of the pockets no farther than the sheet shown extends u p the rear walls ol' ICO log

the pockets and then connecting the mouth portions of the pockets along the front "and rear Walls by two opening-strips arranged er. opposite walls of the pockets and both eolnected and arranged as the one strip cis shown arranged in the drawings. In such :i oonstruction the front and back walls of fach pocket would be free to es grand independen tl y, the mouths would be automatically openedI by the opening and connecting strips, and the pocket-s would be readily separable one from the other, as the lines of weaknesswoul lie between the pockets whether or not the :onnecting-strips be cut or perforated.

lt is evident that various changes and rrodiieations might be resorted to in the forms and constructions described without departing from the spirit and scope otl my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

l. As an article of manufacture, a sheet or series of detachably-connected cigar-pockets provided with a continuous sevcrable opening-strip traversing the mouth end portions of all the pockets and mem-ed to the a@ in.

f. said pockets being detachable one from th and cspebie of expanding between its end portions independently of the other pockets,

dependeDtiy-,expansibie IWalls or facesof the pockets, end means other'thsn seid strip securing the pockets together et their closed ends and opposite weils or feces, snostenam opening-striptraversing and secured to 2o tiaiiy as described. eil the pockets near their mouth ends and 2. A sheet or series of connected pockets, -extended to form sealing-deps to close the each pocket having coilepsibie side Weils and mouths of the pockets and means, substanhsving a side expanding between its ends intiady es described, other than said strip de 'dependentiy of the other pockets, en opentechsbiy connecting seid pockets to form the 25 sheet or series, substantially as described.

1n testimony whereo` I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses. 4

ORVILLE L. PARMENTER. Witnesses:

E. B. HAND, MAUDE WILDA ing-strip extending transversely across an secured to end connecting sii the pockets, e other and means, other than seid strip,- detachahiy connecting said pockets, substantisiiy as described;

r 3. A sheet or series of connected pockets,

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