US1647906A - Cigar band - Google Patents

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Nov. 1, 1927 Y 1,647,906

- L. L. DORMAN ET AL CIGAR BAND Filed Sept. 11. 1925 ATTORNEY wrmzss:

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UNITED STATES LEWIS L. DOBMAN AND WILL V.

CIGAR Application filed September The object of this invention is to provide an improved band of the general type usually applied to cigars for the purpose of indicating the brand.

A further object is to provide a cigar band having an element projecting outwardly from the surface thereof 1n order that it may be readily grasped and the band removed from the cigar without injury to the latter.

A further object is to provide for cutting the bands from a sheet of paper so folded and gummed that a number of bands may be severed from the main sheet by means of 1 dies, the elements projecting outwardly from the surface of the band, at any point thereon, being the result of making a series of cuts at predetermined points with reference to the fold previously formed in the sheet of paper constituting the blank.

In the drawings forming part of this ap-' plication:

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a band of the type herein disclosed applied to a cigar.

Figure 2 is a View showing the band in edge elevation as applied to a cigar.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the band per se.

Figure 4: shows a blank sheet from which a series of bands is cut, the fold in the sheet being illustrated in top plan.

Figure 5 is a section through the structure of Figure 4:.

Figure 6 illustrates the band with a single row of perforations and with a double row, these perforations permitting prompt 'detachment of the band from the cigar.

The band as shown in Figure 3 includes 40 a strip 10, a portion of which is approximately rectangular in form, includes an enlarged portion 11 designed to carry the trademark or other printed or illustrated subject matter, and the article further includes the end portion 12. The tab or other similar device designed to be engaged by the fingers of the user in removing the band, is designated 13 and is formed by folding the paper, so that element 13 comprises two thicknesses of material, and forms a convenient handle portion relatively strong as compared with the remainder of the band, which is of course of a single thickness.

PATENT OFFICE- GAGE, 0F WORLAND, WYOMING.

BAND.

11, 1925. Serial No. 55,786.

The band is gunnned at the point 14, and. is applied in the usual manner.

In order to facilitate detachment, it is frequently desirable to provide a single or a double row of perforations. In Figure 3 these perforations are designated 16, and in Figure 5 one portion of the view shows a double row of perforations at 16. V

The use of the device, and the function of the tab 13 being apparent, no further description of the article per se is required, but We desire to direct special attention to the mode of manufacture.

Figure 4 shows a sheet of paper or the like designated 18, and on this sheetthere are outlined a number of bands of the type herein disclosed. The long parallel portions of the cuts are designated 19, the circular portions 20, and the cuts for the end portion at the left, are shown at 21. Prior to making the cuts by means of dies, in any well known manner, the paper sheet 18 is folded as shown in plan in Figure 4, the fold being designated 20, and being further. illustrated in Figure 5, constituting a section through the folded sheet. This arrangement provides a portion of double thickness extending the full length of the sheet, and when a number of bands are cut at one time by means of a series of dies, suitably directed, it will be observed that each band will carry a folded portion at the proper point to provide the structure of Figure 3.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

1. The method of forming cigar bands, which consists in folding a sheet of material to form an outwardly projecting'rib,

securing oppositely located portions of the fold with adhesive material, and then cutting out strips of material from the sheet to form bands, in a direction perpendicular of the fold, so that said fold will form an outwardly extending element, transversely of the bands, to be grasped by the fingers when removing the bands, said strips including end portions narrower than the intermediate portion, and the fold extending across one of the end portions, leaving the wider portion unobstructed.

2. The method of forming cigar bands, which consists in folding a sheet of material to form an outwardly projecting rib, and then cutting out strips of material from the sheet to form bands, in a direction perpendicular of the fold and extending but slightly beyond it, so that fold Will form an outwardly extending element,transversely of the bands, to be grasped by the fingers when removing the bands, said strips including end portions narrower than the intermediate portion, and the fold extending across one 10 of the end portions, leaving the Wider portion unobstructed.

In testimony whereof they a ifix their signatures.

WILL V. GAGE. LEWIS L. DORMAN.

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