Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes, and Snuffs, and Wrappers or Packages therefor.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 24th May, 1895.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Tobacco,
Cigars, Cigarettes, and Snuffs, and Wrappers or Packages
therefor.
I EDWARD JOHN LUBBY of 10 Minories in the City of London, Tobacco
Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
This my invention relates to improvements in the mauufacture of tobacco, the
objects of my said improvements being to neutralize the nicotine or alkaloid con
tained in the tobacco, at the same time imparting to the tobacco valuable
medicinal and beneficial properties, besides rendering it antiseptic.
In order to carry these improvements into practice I treat the leaves of tobacco
during the process of manufacture, or when manufactured with certain vegetable
oils or essences hereinafter mentioned. The said oils or essences are those prepared
from extracts obtained from the pinus pumilio, sylvestris or other trees of the
tarry or coniferous order of the pine family, or 1 may use the oils or essences of
the amygdalini or oleosa of the myrtle family of tress either; separately or in
combination.
Or I can accomplish the same purpose to a lesser degree by impregunting or
otherwise treating paper or wrappings of any material with the said oils or
essences heretofore mentioned and using such materials as a covering, case, box
or envelope for wrapping or packing tobaccos, cigars, cigarettes and snuffs in bulk
or otherwise.
The tobacco is moistened or steamed by the method usually employed in the
process of manufacture of tobacco as will be readily understood by those skilled in
the art, the essential oils or essences employed being steamed into the leaves
during the process, or the tobacco can be sprinkled with the said oils or essences
hereinbefore mentioned after it is manufactured.
Tobacco treated in this manner will be found pleasant to the taste when smoking,
and the alkaloid properties of the tobacco will be almost, if not, entirely destroyed
by virtue of the properties of the oils or essences employed while at the same
time the quality, flavour, or aroma of the tobacco is unimpaired. Tobacco leaves
steamed or moistened by my improved process may be made up into cigars in the
usual manner, or the manufactured tobacco may be cut and used for cigarette or
pipe smoking, or making into snuffs. The smoking of the tobacco treated by iny
process will be found to be beneficial in all affections of the throat and lungs, such
as quinsy, asthma or influenza. The essences or oils will act as a soothing agent
thereby counteracting the irritant properties of tobacco prepared by the ordinary
method which properties are injurious and seriously affect the condition of the
throat when the latter is in an unhealthy state.
The tobacco may therefore be smoked and enjoyed by ladies or persons of the
weakest constitutions and persons subject to sorethroat or hoarseness will find relief
from the soothing properties of the tobacco, the latter at the same time affording
most enjoyable smoking. Tobacco so treated will act as powerful antisceptics and
| proof against contagion of all sorts.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare what I
claim is :-
1. Treating tobacco leaves and tobacco whether unmanufactured, manufactured,
or in process of manufacture with the oils or essences prepared from extracts
obtained from the pinus pumilio, sylvestris or other treas of the tarry or coniferous
order of the pine family or oils or essences prepared from the amygdalina or oleosa
of the myrtle family of trees either separately or in combination.
2. Flavouring, fumagating, impregnating or otherwise treating cigarette paper
or paper or other material used as a covering, case, box or envelope for wrapping
or packing tobaccos, cigars, cigarettes and snuffs in bulk or otherwise with the oils or
essences prepared from extracts obtained from the pinus pumilo, sylvestris or other
trees of the tarry or coniferous order of the pine family; or oils or essences
prepared from the amygdalina or oleosa of the myrtle family of trees either
separately or in combination substantially as and in the manner hereinbefore set
forth and described.