Improvements in or applicable to Cigars or Cigarettes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Sept., 1894--Accepted, 27th Oct., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or applicable to Cigars or Cigarettes.
We PAUL CONSTANTINE SARAPATA, Cashier, and PERICLES SOUVAZOglu,
Merchant, both of Chepstow Buildings Oxford Street Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, 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 object of this invention is to provide simple and efficient means for lighting
a cigar or cigarette without the aid or application of matches, fusees, or any other
external and detached means of ignition, the charge which produces the light being
permanently attached to the cigar or cigarette itself and sold therewith so that it is
rendered " self-lighting."
Our invention consists of a convenient means for attaching the fulminating and
inflammable substances to the end of the cigar or cigarette in such a manner that
after ignition they may be conveniently detached and part of the same may be used
as a mouthpiece.
The exact nature of our said invention and the manner in which the same is to
be performed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference
to the sheet of illustrative drawings hereunto annexed and the following explanation
thereof.
Fig. 1 on the annexed drawing shows a cigarette with the "self-lighter" ready
to be attached.
Fig. 2 represents the same with the "self-lighter" in place. Fig. 3 a similar
view with a stiff paper tube holding the same in place; and Fig. 4 shows the same
with the paper tube withdrawn so as to release the "self-lighter" and applied at
the other end so as to form a mouthpiece.
According to our invention we apply to the end of an ordinary cigarette a
(see Fig. 1 on the drawing) a bent strip b or equivalent piece of paper, papier-mache
or other material prepared with saltpetre or other chemical substance which will
cause it to smoulder when ignited, and onto the centre of which is dropped a small
patch c of fulminate such as is used for matches or fusees. This strip or equivalent
piece of paper may be cemented to the cigarette or cigar as shown at Fig. 2 but
according to our invention it is held in place by means of a short tube d (Fig. 3)
of paper or other suitable material which is passed over it and keeps it in place
preventing the "igniter" from being accidentally detached.
As soon as the cigarette is lighted, the tube may be slidden to the other end,
releasing the spent "igniter" and forming a convenient mouthpiece, as shown at
Fig. 4, enabling the cigarette to be smoked to the end. This latter remark applies
only of course to cigarettes and to such cigars or cheroots as are of a cylindrical
formation but for ordinary cigars the tube is made slightly conical so that when
the cigar is lighted it can be slipped off the end carrying the "igniter" with it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
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The improved means of attaching an "igniter" to the end of a cigar or cigarette
substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the drawings annexed.
Dated this 25th day of September 1894.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.