IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I THOMAS ROBERT WITHECOMB, of the City of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Tobacconist, do hereby declare the nature of said invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS to be as
follows:
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The object of my invention is to construct and manufacture cigars with a tip
applied to or combined with the material of the cigar, this tip being an arrange-
ment for filtering the smoke and retaining and absorbing the nicotine and moisture
so that when my improved cigars are smoked the smoke has to pass through this
filtering tip arrangement before entering the mouth of the smoker, and as the tip is
thrown away when the cigar is finished, each cigar has its own fresh and not before
used filter and absorbent of nicotine and moisture.
My invention consists in constructing cigars with a tip formed of paper, card
board, paper pulp, or other suitable material in the shape of a hollow cone or
cylinder by preference partly filled with cotton or other suitable fibrous material,
blotting paper or its fibre, sponge or other suitable filtering and absorbing material.
The cigar is made in the ordinary manner, that is, the consolidated core part is
first made to which the filtering tip is applied, secured by preference with (if
required) gum or other suitable cement, then the outer leaves of tobacco are rolled
round the core and its secured tip, and the cigar is finished, and is in appearence
similar to ordinary cigars.
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Another mode of constructing my improved cigars is to make them in the
ordinary manner and then apply my cone filtering tip formed in external shape
something like a thimble to one end.
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This filtering tip or thimble may be gummed or cemented or otherwise secured
to the cigar
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T'he paper or material of the tip is made in color same as the cigar if desired,
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Dated this ninth day of Mou 18ei
PETER J. LIVSEY,
Applicant's Agent.

page_text: COMPLEIE DIECIFICATION
I THOMAS ROBERT WITHECOMB of the City of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Tobacconist, do hereby declare the nature of said invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The object of my invention is to construct and manufacture cigars with a tip
applied to or combined with the material of the cigar, this tip being an arrange-
ment for filtering the smoke and retaining and absorbing the nicotine and moisture
so that when my improved cigars are smoked the smoke has to pass through this
filtering tip arrangement before entering the mouth of the smoker and as the tip is
thrown away when the cigar is finished, each cigar has its own fresh and not before
used filter and absorbent of nicotine and moisture.
My invention, consists in constructing cigars with a tip formed of paper, card
board, paper pulp, or other suitable material in the shape of a hollow cone or
cylinder by preference partly filled with cotton or other suitable fibrous material
blotting paper or its fibre, sponge or other suitable filtering and absorbing material.
The cigar is made in the ordinary manner that is, the consolidated core part is
first made to which the filtering tip applied, secured by preference, with (if
.required) gum or other suitable cement, then the outer leaves of tobacco are rolled
round the core and its secured tip, and the cigar is finished, and is in appearence
similar to ordinary cigars.
Another mode of constructing my improved cigars is to make them in the
ordinary manner and then apply my cone filtering tip formed in external shape
⚫ something like a thimble to one end.
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This filtering tip or thimble may be gummed or cemented or otherwise fixed or
secured to the cigar.
The paper or material of the tip is made in color same as the cigar, 'if desired.
Fig 1 is an outside view of one of my improved cigars with filtering tip which
is applied when the cigar is partly formed, and which tip is covered by the outer
leaf when finished so as to appear like an ordinary cigar, fig 2 is an end view at
the tip end of the cigar,
Fig 3 represents a longitudinal section of the cigar.
Fig 4 shows a flat view of the shape in which the paper for the tip is cut when
formed of rolled paper or similar material,
Fig 4 an alternative shape.
Fig 5 shows a longitudinal section, and fig 6 an outside view of the tip when
rolled into the cone form.
Fig 7 is an outside view and fig 8 a view at the tip end of a cigar when it is
first fully formed and then has the tip applied and secured thereto, and fig 9 is a
longitudinal section of the same.
The tips are or may be formed as hereinbefore described or out of pieces of paper
or thin card board of the shape shown by fig 4 these tips being made of two pieces
of paper, that is, a piece a with another piece a¹ pasted inside of it, before being
Folled up into the cone form, the overlapping edge a* being then secured by

page_text: suitable paste or cement. Or the shape of the paper is or may be as shown by
fig 4 In both forms figs 4 and 4ª the end a* is the part first rolled up to form the
cones.
When the tips are prepared, they are filled at the small end with any suitable
filtering fibrous material as hereinbefore described, sponge being used by preference,
then when the core or inner part of the cigar bis rolled or formed, the tip a is
applied to the end and secured by gum or other suitable cement, and the outside
leaf of the tobacco is then rolled upon the cigar entirely enclosing and covering the
exterior of the tip a and part of the leaf at the end is turned into the hole at the
end of the tip a.
The interior of the tip as before stated is filled with filtering fibrous or other
suitable material from the small end to about the line a³ fig 3 where the tobacco of
the cigar commences--The large part of the cone of the tip extends to the part a³
fig 3.
Figs, 7, 8 and 9 illustrate a cigar having a tip which may be constructed as
hereinbefore described, applied to the exterior of the cigar after being fully formed,
the tip being secured by gum or cement or otherwise fixed upon the cigar.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed,-I declare that what
I claim is
Cigars constructed with smoke filtering tips combined therewith as herein before
described and illustrated by the drawings.