US992310A - Cigar-case. - Google Patents

Description

G. U. P. WEST.

CIGAR CASE.

APPLIOATIOKIILED no. as, 1910.

Patented May 16, 1911.

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UIT ST CHARLES U. F. WEST, LONDON, ENGLAND.

, CIGAR-CASE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 16, 1911.

Application filed December 23, 1910. Serial No. 598,934.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, CHARLES UNDERHILL FRANCIS Vnsr, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, and residing at 160 I'Vestbourne Terrace, London, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Connection with Cigar- Cases, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in cases or containers for holding cigars, the object being to provide a case which will be eflicient when in use and when carried in the pocket of the owner but which may be readily collapsed and occupy but little space when no cigars are therein.

The invention is not confined to the particular material from which the collapsible, yielding or elastic case is made, nor to the manner in which such is to be mounted with the fastening or retaining members, as the form of the material and the method of making it up may be modified to suit the style and price of the case that it is desired to manufacture.

The accompanying drawings illustrate several modes of carrying out the invention.

Figure l is an elevation partly in section of one form of cigar case made in accordance with the invention. Figs. 2, 3 and t are detail views showing a second form. Figs. 5 and 6 illustrate a third form.

In carrying the invention into eifect, when constructing a case or container in one convenient manner for a single cigar, and as illustrated in Fig. 1, the case is made preferably in two sections, one portion a forming one end or one half of the completed case and the other 6 to be of like form for the remaining portion of the case.

The two portions a and b are in the form of elongated cones closed at their apices and open at their bases and which may be made from oiled silk, fabric, leather, or other pliable material. The open larger ends of these members a and b are attached to brass or other metal rings so arranged that one 1s adapted to fit inside the other. For example as shown in Fig. 1 the part (a may be secured between two rings 0, d, riveted together while the part b is held between two rings 6, f, the ring 0 being formed to fit inside the ring 6 or vice versa. In

this way a very eflicient case or covering for the cigar 1s formed and when the cigar is removed therefrom, the pliable parts of the pushed inside the rings attached thereto so as to take up very little space in the owners pocket and the flexible material willbe protected by said rings when not in use.

lVhere the pliable parts of the case are to be attached to metal rings, other methods than that illustrated in Fig. 1 may be employed. For example a ring or ferrule may be provided as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 which is stamped out to form, or otherwise provided with spikes, preferably alternately short and pointed, as g, and longer and blunt, as h. The pliable material I) is then placed over the spikes 9 being left slightly split on its top edge for this purpose. The spikes g pierce the material and the seam which was left partially unsewn is then sewn up. Thereafter the spikes g and h are bent or hammered down in opposite directions over the material, which may, if desired, be reinforced with a ring 2' of metal, placed outside or inside of the material. In Figs. 5 and 6, a further method of attaching the metal rings to the material is illustrated. The ring is provided with a number of spikes 7c and also with a number of tongues or projecting places Z provided with shallow recesses m. The material as before is placed over the spikes 7c and the tongue pieces are bent back over the same and pressed or hammered into position, so that the material is firmly held. In all cases the rings attached to the two parts of the case are so formed that one part fits over the other.

case may be folded ina very small space or 7 The application of the invention is not I limited to covers made in the form of a single cigar or a series of cigars, as the case may be made in the form of a rectangular receptacle, the upper and lower ends of which may be of rigid material having a lid-like member capable of being opened to permit of the cigars being withdrawn, but the body portion of the casing to be made of silk or other collapsible material attached to the thin strips of aluminium or other material forming the top and bottom of the case.

The cases with yielding central material are made to open either in the direction of their length or in the direction of their width as may be desired to suit any particular requirement.

Having now described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A cigar case comprising two members,

each consisting of a collapsible portion, a

ring, radial spikes on the ring for engaging the collapsible portion, and means on the ring for retaining the collapsible portion in 5 engagement with the spikes.

2. A cigar case comprising two flexible collapsible members open at one end and closed at the other, said members tapering toward their closed ends, and connecting 10 bands secured to the open ends of said memnesses.

CHARLES U. F. TEST. lVitnesses BERTRAM H. I. MATTHEWS, E. G. WVALKER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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