An Improved Mouthpiece for Cigarettes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Nov.. 1888
Complete Specification Left, 7th Aug., 1889-Accepted. 28th Sept., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Mouthpiece for Cigarettes.
1, DANIEL EDWIN UNDERWOOD of Long Row, Temple Street, in the city and
county of Bristol, general commission agent, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The improved mouth-piece for cigarettes to which this invention relates consists
of a perforated piece of baked or kilned clay, such as is used for clay tobacco pipes.
Or
any other material having the same or like natural properties and tastelessness as
clay may be used. The perforation consists of a channel made through the centre
of the mouthpiece and extending from one end thereof to the other.
The mouthpiece is combined with the cigarette by a wrapper of paper which
envelopes both; or it may be otherwise attached.
The mouthpiece being, as aforesaid, of clay or like material, does not become
affected by saliva in the process of smoking and does not yield a flavour foreign to
that of the tobacco of which the cigarette is composed.
Dated this 7th day of November 1888.
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Mouthpiece for Cigarettes.
I, CAROLINE UNDERWOOD, of 34 Easton Road, in the city and county of Bristol,
widow of Daniel Edwin Underwood, late of Long Row, Temple Street, in the city
and county of Bristol, general commission 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 :-
The improved mouth-piece for cigarettes to which this invention relates, consists of
a perforated piece of baked or kilned clay such as is used for clay tobacco pipes. Or
any other material having the same or like natural properties and tastelessness as clay
may be used. The perforation consists of a channel made through the centre of the
mouthpiece and extending from one end thereof to the other.
The mouthpiece is combined with the cigarette by a wrapper of paper which
envelopes both; or it may be otherwise attached.
The mouthpiece being, as aforesaid, of clay or like material, does not become
affected by saliva in the process of smoking and does not yield a flavour foreign to
that of the tobacco of which the cigarette is composed.
The accompanying drawing represents, in longitudinal section, a cigarette with the
improved mouthpiece applied thereto.
The mouthpiece a is made of baked or kilned clay such as is used in the manufacture
of clay tobacco pipes.
Through the mouthpiece a is a channel through which the smoke from the
tobacco c is inhaled.
The mouthpiece and the tobacco are envelopped in the same tissue paper wrapper
of the usual kind. By the wrapper d the mouthpiece a is retained in place at that
end of the cigarette to which it is applied.
Instead of being made of clay, the mouthpiece may be made of porcelain, stone-
ware or like material, which is tasteless and not liable to become saturated, softened
or otherwise prejudicially affected by saliva in the process of smoking. By the use
of such mouth-piece the flavour of the tobacco smoke is not tainted or otherwise
disagreeably affected.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
A mouthpiece for cigarettes, consisting of a suitably shaped piece of clay, or
other like tasteless material, placed at one end of the cigarette and having a central
channel extending longitudinally through it, the said mouthpiece being combined with
the cigarette by envelopping both in a tissue paper wrapper of the usual kind,
substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 6th day of August 1889.
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Applicant's Agent.