US1599132A - Cigarette packagr - Google Patents

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Sept. 7,1926. 1599,132

H. E. HODGSON CIGARETTE PACKAGE Filed July 10. 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet `1r sept. 7, 192s. 1,599,132

H. E. HODGSON CIGARETTE PACKAGE Filed July 10l 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 E Z NgENro/f i ,8V

Patented Sept. 7, `1926.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HABBIETTE ENSLEY HODGSON, F NEW YORK, N. Y.

CIGARETTE PACKAGE *Application mea my 1o, 1924. serial no. 725,142.

' The invention is a device for cigaretteV smokers, to' avold the mconvemence of being without a match.. It is customary for cigar stores to give a book of paper ymatches with apackage of cigarettes, but nevertheless the smoker frequently finds himself withoutmatches, usually due to the matchbook having been mislaid. The obJect of f this invention is to rmake it possiblevr for a cigarette package and one of these books o1' matches to be presented to the purchaser 1n an assembled condition, and to be carried in that condition, the book of matches being readily Nwithdrawn from the package for use and reinserted ina plocketfaftereachy use. The invention is likewise applicable torefillable cigarette cases, and both applications of the invention lare illustrated herein. In the accompanying drawings forming a Fi l is a perspectlve4 view of a card- 4boar cigarette box, of the hinged lid type` provided with a ocket and entrance for a match-book, whic is'shown in place;

Fig.` 2 is a perspective view of the same box without the match-book, the outer wall of-the, ocket bein shown laid down in -the con 'tion in w 'ch the packages are shipped Fig. 3

Fig. 4 is a vertical ionllgiiudiiiail section;

Fig. 5 is a persplective vie'w of a cigarette `slight inclinatonas seen in Figs. 1 and 4.

This-may be accomplished by cutting the cardboard on parallel lines extending from the opening, and roviding pasted paper stay strips-5 outsi e and/or inside, 'which 'permit the wall section 6 to be slightly7 raised and laid flat, or "otherwise The inside of 'the pocket is formed` by a stout piece of paper or the like 7, which is pasted or Aotherwise unitedto the under part of the clover so as to extend with .some fullness beneath the wall section 6 andthe opening 4,

is atransverse vertical section with the matches 1n place;

.ackage of cigarettes embodying the inven entirely closing off the pocket and its entrance from the interior of the box.

The pocketthus formed is of the proper size and proportions to lreceive one lof the familiar match books 8, which is inserted through the entrance andslid lengthwise into the pocket, in which position it, lies partly above and partly below the top wall, adding practically nothing to the bulk of the pac age for carrying purposes. The match books karenot assembled with the cigarette packages when shipped from the fac;-

tory,.but are put in by the retail tobacconist. The pocket is of such character as to permit. the match book to betaken out and slip ed back readily by the user, so that the matcies 'are always at hand.

Fi 5 illustrates a. cigarette case 9 of meta or other material provided with a similar pocket in on'e of its walls. The entrance opening is marked 4", the lifted wall l section 6, and the inside wall, which in this instance need not necessarily close of the v openin from the interior of the' case, is .marke 7*.1 The pocket walls 6 and 7l may in this case be rigid and fined.

Fig. 6 shows a cigarette ackage 10 of the Oblong paper bag type. T ese packages, as

is well known, have a complete lining of tinfoil or paper; and the pocket can therefore be obtained by cutting a slit 4b slightly wider than a match-book, across onof the broad sides of the outer wrapping near one end. The lining, which is'not severed, thus forms the inner wall of the pocket, closing it of from the cigarettes. When the matchnoV book 8 is inserted, the -flexibility .of the wrappings and the yielding nature of the cigarettes causes the match-book to press.

somewhat into the package, raising the part 6h of the outer wrapping only slightly, the

tension of the outer wrapping binding the book into the package.

Whileit is contemplated that the best use of the invention will be for theretailer to insert the match-books, it is obvious that the -books may be put into the cigarette packages at the cigarette factory if it should be found satisfactory to ship the assemblage. `The .complete package of cigarettes `and matchlos book may be manufactured by the cigarette) -I manufacturer, by the jobber, or by the retailer, as may be most practical underall the conditions.

What I claim as new is: A cigarette box comprising a tray bottom and a hinged lid, said lid having an oblongor slotted entrance opening in its top wall `and a section of said Wall extending from the opening being severed along two sides l5A from the adjoining portions of the Wall, and a flexible connection between said sides and the cover enabling said section to be lifted and laid flat, together.I with a sheet on the inside of the lid forming the inner Wall of a pocket adapted to receive a book of 10 matches lying partly above .and partly below the plane of the Wall.

HARRIETTE ENSLEY' HODGSON. s

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