Improvements in Cigar Bands.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Oct., 1898-Accepted, 26th Nov., 1898
Improvements in Cigar Bands.
I, ALBERT EDWARD MORRIS, of 208 St. James Street, in the City of Montreal, in
the County of Hochelaga, in the Province of Quebec, Canada, Tobacconist, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
It has been desirable in the manufacture of good cigars, to mark each individual
cigar, in order that it may be identified by the consumer, and to do this cigar
manufacturers put on their cigar bands, these bands being designated as cigar
bands.
These bands, as now employed, are made as paper rings which embraces the
cigar, and in removing these bands they are either slid or some instrument is put
hetween the ring and the cigar to break and remove the band off from the ends of
the cigar, and in practice it has been found that the removal of the bands, as
described, from the cigar breaks the fine delicate external wrapper of the cigar,
thus injuring the same, and the difficulty of removing the band is very incon-
venient to the consumer.
It has been my aim to produce a cigar band which might be readily detached
from the cigar without any longitudinal movement of the band on the cigar or
without any liability of destroying the external wrapper or surface of the cigar.
In my experiments I have solved this difficulty by providing a band presenting
one or more tabs or projections capable of being easily grasped. between the thumb
and finger, a slight pull on said tab or projection disrupturing the band and
detaching the same from the cigar.
My improved cigar band is composed of an easily separable material preferably
paper, because of its cheapness, and because it may be readily printed upon or
ornamented to present the name of the maker and the brand.
It will be obvious that a band of the character defined, as constituting my in-
vention, may be variously modified in its construction, and I have herein shown
several modifications of my invention, but it will be understood that these different
modifications do not by any means show all the varieties and shapes which would
come within the scope of my invention, which consists essentially in a cigar band
composed of an easily separable material presenting one or more tabs or projections,
which may be easily grasped, strain on said tab or projection parting the band and
detaching it from the cigar.
To enable this band to be more readily parted, it may be provided with a line or
lines of weakness, such for instance as a series of perforations.
Fig. 1, shows a blank from which to produce a cigar band embodying one form
of my invention.
Fig. 2, shows the said band applied to a cigar.
Fig. 2, a section across Fig. 2, through the band.
Fig. 3, shows a modified form of band, and

page_text: Fig. 5, shows yet another modification of my invention.
Fig. 6, shows it applied to a cigar.
Fig. 7, is a perspective detail of the band shown in Fig. 2.
Fig. 8, is a detail of an alternative form.
In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each
figure.
The blank shown for the band a, Fig 1, is supposed to be composed of some easily
separable material, such for instance as paper.
This band is cut in one or more places, as at a¹, removing preferably some of
the material of the band, leaving a well defined tab or projection as a².
A little mucilage is applied to this band at one end, as at a³, and in applying this
band the mucilage may be moistened and the band wrapped about the cigar, as
shown in Fig. 2.
In applying the band, the curving of the body of the band about the cigar, has
a tendency to cause the tabs or projections a² to stand out somewhat from the body
of the cigar so that they may be easily grasped when it is desired to part and
remove the band from the cigar.
In Fig. 2, the band b is notched at its edge as at 61, and it may have a line of
weakness as at bª.
To apply this band to a cigar, as in Fig. 4, a notched part of the band will be
put into another notched part thereof, leaving the tabs or projections 6 extended
ready to be grasped between the thumb and finger.
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In Fig. 5, I have shown a band made by cutting two slits e, in a blank,
leaving the ends of the band to form tabs or projections d³. In this
band the cigar is slipped into the two slots, while the wrapper
and strong, leaving the tabs 3 extended from the cigar as shown in Fig. 6. This
band may also have lines of weakness as at 4, so that by slightly pulling or strain-
ing the band it will part in such lines.
In Figs. 1, 2 and 7, I also show a notch a*.
This notch may be left out. In Fig. 8, I show tabs d, such form being provided
with a double slit in the centre between the tabs so that the portion d' extends out
to one side and the portions d³ extend out to the outer side completing the circle
or band.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. A cigar band composed of an easily separable material to embrace the cigar.
and present one or more tabs or projections adapted to be readily grasped between
the thumb and finger, and thus enable the band to be laterally removed from the
cigar by a slight strain, substantially as described.
2. A cigar band presenting one or more tabs or projections which may be
grasped and subjected to slight strain to part the band, substantially as described.
3. A cigar band presenting one or more tabs or projections having lines of
weakness to facilitate the easy parting of the band, substantially as described.
Dated the 15th day of October 1898.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.