CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO FOR SMOKING PURPOSES
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Augustus de Reginald Hely, of 2, Park
Village. West, Regent's Park,, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman.
for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
TOBACCO FOR SMOKING PURPOSES,"
Scaled the 10th February 1860, and dated the 12th October 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said. Alfred Augustus de
Reginald Hely at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 12th October 1859.
I, ALFRED AUGUSTUS DE REGINALD HELY, of 2, Park Village, West, Regent's
Park, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
TOBACCO FOR SMOKING PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in manufacturing rolls or tobacco leaf, or combined
leaf and stalk, in lengths varying from one to two inches and from half an inch
to one inch in diameter or thereabouts; which rolls may either be made of the
required length and breadth by one process, or divided off a roll of given breadth
but indefinite length, so as to suit the bowl of a tobacco pipe, and form one
piece or mass like a cigar, instead of a multitude of shreds or clippings like
tobacco (so called), thereby combining the merits of both methods of smoking.
namely: the luxury of a dry old Havannah cigar & of a pipe, together
Price 8d1

page_text: with other advantages. These rolls (termed "quids") may be made with an
cnvelope of tobacco leaf, and the inside of shreds or cuttings of tobacco, or the
envelope may be of any suitable material other than tobacco, or the shreds or
cuttings may be held together in one piece.
:
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alfred Augustus de Reginald Hely in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 12th April 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
AUGUSTUS DE REGINALD HELY, of 2, Park Village, West, Regent's Park, in
the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand cight hundred and fifty-nine in the twenty-third year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Alfred Augustus de Reginald Hely, Her special licence that I, the said
Alfred Augustus de Reginald Hely, my executors, administrators; and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Alfred Augustus de Reginald Hely, my ex-
ecutors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO FOR SMOKING PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Alfred Augustus de Reginald Hely, my ex-
ecutors and administrators, by an instrument in writing under. my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent."
'
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alfred Augustus de Reginald Hely, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in aud
by the following statement, that is to say:-
My said Invention consists in manufacturing "rolls" or bundles of tobacco
leaf (more particularly such leaf as is commonly cut up for smoking in pipes),

page_text: or, when desired; of combined leaf and stalk of varying lengths and diameters,
though I prefer to make them up in lengths of from one to two inches, and from
half an inch to one inch in diameter or thereabouts; and these "rolls" should
be made as hereafter described, by first forming a long roll of the required
diameter (which may, however, be of indefinite length), and then dividing the
same into these shorter "rolls," such as herein-before adverted to, so as to suit
the bowls of tobacco pipes; thus forming one piece or bundle somewhat similar
to a cigar, so that the pipe may be charged with one piece, as it were, instead
of being filled with a multitude of shreds or cuttings of tobacco, whereby, when
this "roll" or pipe-charge is smoked in a tobacco pipe, the merits of both methods
of smoking are combined, namely, the luxury of a mellow cigar with the satis-
faction of using a favourite pipe, together with sundry other advantages, as
economy, improved flavour, portability, and the like.
To form the afore mentioned long roll, which is to be afterwards divided into
these short "rolls" or pipe charges, I recommend the process of "spinning,"
that is to say, taking the tobacco leaves and feeding the same to the wheel for
spinning tobacco, whereby it is spun or wound round to the required length
and thickness, ready for dividing into these short "rolls" or pipe charges, as
aforesaid; after which it is divided by any suitable cutter. Or, I roll the
tobacco leaves into a long roll by hand, in similar manner to that in which
cheroots or cigars are rolled, that is, upon a flat surface by hand. Or, I use a
combination of "rolling" and "spinning," that is to say, spinning the interior
and rolling the outside leaves.
I do not, however, confine or limit myself to precisely these methods of
manufacture.
I also recommend that the small "rolls" or pipe charges should have both
the ends flat or square, like a cheroot, or one end tapered like a cigar and the
other end flat or square, in which latter case it may be at first made of double
length with both ends taper and then cut into two; the cutting through at the
middle producing two short "rolls" or pipe-charges, possessing each one taper
end and one square, or flat end.
I likewise purpose to make these "rolls," pipe charges, pipe cigars, pipe
cigarettes, or whatsoever they may be called, of an envelope of tobacco leaf-filled
with tobacco shreds or cuttings; or of tobacco leaves, shreds, or cuttings
covered with any suitable substance or material not being tobacco; or even of
tobacco leaves, shreds, or cuttings combined or held together by any cohesive
medium or by pressure in one piece or body of the desired shape and size,
taking care to leave passages for the air-draught through the same.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner-

page_text: the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the manufacture of the tobacco
"rolls or bundles adapted for smoking in pipes or smoking tubes, as herein-
before set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Augustus de Reginald Hely, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand enght hundred and sixty.
ALFRED A. DE R. HELY. (L.S.)
Signed and sealed in my presence,
F. W. CAMPIN, Patent Agent,
156, Strand.