Improvements in and relating to Cigarettes and Cigars.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 12th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 26th Oct.,
1895
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Cigarettes and Cigars.
I, JULIUS HORWITZ, Cigarette Manufacturer of 22 Ranipischestrasse Dresden,
Saxony, Germany, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as
follows:-
The present invention consists of a device for use in connection with cigarettes,
by means of which the burning of the cigarette paper when smoking may be
avoided. It is well known that the smell and taste generated by burning cigarette
paper even of the very finest quality is unpleasant and often spoils the flavour of
the tobacco.
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By means of the present invention the paper roll confining the tobacco is
gradually pushed back during the smoking so that the tobacco burns in advance of
the end of the paper.
In its simplest form the invention may consist simply of a tube of any suitable
material which is inserted in the end of the cigarette and over which the paper
sleeve of the latter is drawn a short distance to allow the tobacco at the lighted end
to project beyond the paper; during the consumption of the cigarette the sleeve or
paper roll is gradually drawn further over the tube so that the tobacco burns free
of the paper during the whole time. The diameter of the tube is indifferent but it
is advantageously about the same as that of the cigarette. Instead of the tube a
rod of smaller diameter than the cigarette may be employed to gradually push the
tobacco forwards. In order that the paper may fit tightly on the tube the latter
may be made tapering at the ends. Or a short tube may be provided at the end of
the cigarette which slides over the pusher tube, and if desired such short piece may
have an internal pin or depressed or raised internal screw thread, fitting a corre
sponding external thread of the pusher tube so that the latter will be advanced
through the cigarette by turning the parts against each other. Or the two parts
may be independent of the cigarette and the latter secured to the exterior part by
a suitable clip or held in position by the hand.
Although I have described my invention in regard to cigarettes, cigars may also
be smoked by means of the same and the covering leaf thus dispensed with.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Cigarettes and Cigars.
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I, JULIUS HORWITZ, Cigarette Manufacturer, of Dresden, Saxony, in the
Empire of Germany, 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 :-
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The present invention relates to devices for use in connection.. with cigarettes
and tobacco-fillers in tubes for the purpose of forcing the tobacco from the tube in

page_text: order to obtain the combustion of the said tobacco outside the tube and thus avoid
the burning of the tube itself.
It is a well known fact that the smoke, the taste and the smell of the paper tube,
roll or sleeve containing the tobacco of the cigarette or the like and burning together
with the tobacco, is disagreeable and that cigarette smoking is consequently avoided
by many persons.
All endeavours made to obviate this disadvantage by producing tubes rolls or
Fleeves of the finest and of a chemically inert quality of paper have so far failed to
do away with the defects noticed, and resulting from the combustion of the paper.
The purpose of this invention consists in so producing cigarettes and the like
that on smoking the same, only the tobacco is burnt while the combustion of the
paper is prevented.
This object is achieved by su constructing the cigarette or the like that the
tobacco contained in the said paper tube is caused to sufficiently project from the
latter or is moved forward during the combustion of the cigarette or the like to such
an extent that the paper is not able to catch fire. On consuming the cigarette or
the like a generally uninjured paper tube will be left which will be found slightly
browned at the extremity owing to the products of distillation sucked through the
said paper tube.
In the accompanying drawing I have shown how my said invention may be
conveniently and advantageously carried into practice, the several figures of the
drawing being hereinafter referred to.
The cigarette or the like is represented in its simplest form in Figures 1 and 2 in
which a shows the paper tube, b'the tobacco core or filler placed in such paper tube
and c the mouth piece. In Figure 1 the mouth piece inserted in the paper tube,
of approximately the same length as the tobacco core or filler and is connected
therewith so as to form a tight joint; by means of the movable mouth piece the
tobacco core or filler can be moved forward to such an extent that the outwardly
projecting portion of the tobacco core or filler can be ignited without the paper
tube being burnt; this forward movement being then continued in proportion as the
cigarette is consumed.
In the same manner this withdrawing movement of the tube or the forward
movement of the tobacco in a cigarette or the like can be effected as represented
in Figure 2 in which case it is of no importance whether the mouth piece exactly
fits into the paper tube since that part of the paper tube which bears upon the
mouth piece is closed by the fingers or hy a clip device.
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The mouth piece may, in the first as well.as in the last described device consist
in the usual manner of a rolled up piece of stiff paper or of other material.
According to Figures 3 and 4 the cigarette or the like is provided with.a. tube
or sleeve c'internally connected to the paper tube a, and into which tube a second
small tube is inserted. If the tobacco has been completely pushed forward by
this latter tube, whilst the tobacco has not yet been entirely consumed, then the
paper tube may be slid over the said tube c¹.
The before described device may be modified in so far that the part to be slid
inwardly is constructed so as to form either a tube or a solid pin as shown in
Figure 5 capable of being used for several cigarettes or the like. When a simple
pin is used its cross sectional may be made of any desired shape as shown for
example in Figure 6 and the same is made thinner than the mouth piece so that
the smoke can be drawn through; moreover the material of which such pin is
made, may be of any suitable Kind. The before mentioned small tube c' may also,
as illustrated in Figure. 7, be made cigar-shaped, so that the paper tube a forms an
air fight joint with the said tube c; in this constructional form the withdrawal of
the paper tube a upon the tube elis effected periodically.
In order that the tobacco core or filler may be pushed outward with greater
regularity and more easily, a device, as shown in Figure 8, has been constructed;.in
which the small tube for propelling the tobacco is provided. with a receding.orwith
⚫a projecting. serew thread which is guided. in a corresponding, female screw. thread

page_text: arranged in the small upper tube c. The paper tube or sleeve a is fixed upon the
tube by means of a clipping device c. During the smoking the tube c¹ need only
be periodically turned whereby the tobacco is moved forward.
The before described devices may also be applied to cigar-fillers as shown in
Figure 9 in order to save the expensive tobacco-wrappers. Figure 10 shows the
device illustrated in Figure 8 when applied to cigar-fillers. The apparatus may
be made of any suitable material, preferably light sheet metal, such as aluminium.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
For preventing the paper tube, or sleeve for covering cigarettes or tobacco
fillers, from being burnt together with the tobacco, the combination of appropriate
mouth pieces or of mouth pieces with small tubes or solid pins in such a manner
that, in order to burn down the tobacco core or filler in advance of the paper tube,
either the tobacco core or filler is moved or the paper tube is moved backward or
the forward movement of the core or filler as well as the backward movement of
the
paper tube can be effected during the smoking.
Dated this 12th day of September 1895.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.