CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS, AND CERTAIN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SMOKING CIGARS
Year: 1850

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
AUGUSTUS HUDDART, of Bucukir, in the County of Caernarvon, Esquire, send
grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster;
the Twenty-ninth day of August, One thousand eight hundred and fifty, and in
the fourteenth year of Her reign, did give and grant unto me, the said George
Augustus Huddart, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her especial license, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said George Augustus Huddart,
my exors, adñors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George Augustus
Huddart, my exors, adñiors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter, during the term of years
therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called
England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in the
Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Man, and also in all Her Ma-
jesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS, AND CERTAIN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SMOKING
CIGARS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that I, the
said George Augustus Huddart, should particularly describe and ascertain the

page_text: nature of my said Invension, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal to be enrolled in Her
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Augustus Huddart, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by following statement in writing and the Drawings
numbered 1, 2, and 3, hereto annexed (that is to say):-
My Invention of certain improvements in the manufacture of cigars, and
certain improved apparatus for smoking cigars, consists,―
Firstly, in the closing or securing the external leaf or wrapper of cigars
with a cement or varnish adhesive and impervious to wet or moisture, and in
the application to that purpose of amber, gutta percha, india-rubber, or other
adhesive substance impervious to moisture.
Secondly, in dressing or coating the twisted or butt end of the cigar intended
to be introduced between the lips of the consumer with a thin skin or covering
impervious to and unaffected by moisture, made to adhere firmly thereto; and
in the application of amber, gutta percha, and india-rubber or other suitable
substance to that purpose.
And thirdly, in permanently fixing or cementing to the twisted or butt end
of cigars, cigar tubes or mouth-pieces of amber, gutta percha, and india-
rubber.
The operation of closing or securing the external leaf or wrapper of the
cigar with any of the substances before mentioned is to be performed as
follows: The cigar being manufactured according to the methods in use and
in a dry state, a solution of amber, gutta percha, or india-rubber, or other
cement or varnish adhesive and impervious to moisture, is to be made by any
known method of the consistency of common oil varnish. The outer edge of
the external leaf of the cigar is then to be raised with a small pallet, knife, or
other suitable instrument to the extent of about an inch from the twisted or
butt end of the cigar, and the cement or varnish applied with a small brush
or feather on the inside of the edge of the portion so raised, which is then to
be pressed down or rolled until perfect adhesion takes place, when the
operation is complete, and the cigar is to be left exposed to the air until the
cement or varnish so applied has become perfectly dry.
In applying amber, gutta percha, or india-rubber, or other substances
impervious to and unaffected by moisture; to dressing or coating the twisted or

page_text: butt end of the cigar intended to be introduced between the lips of the
consumer, a solution of any of those substances is to be obtained as before
mentioned, and the cigar is either to be dipped into such solution to the extent
of about an inch, or as far as may be thought desirable, or the solution is to be
applied by means of a brush or other instrument, so as to form a waterproof
coating over and adhering (during the process of smoking) to the twisted or
butt end of the cigar. The cigar is then to be left to dry, and when perfectly
dry the skin or coating formed over the end of it by the process above mentioned
is to be perforated with one or more small holes by means of the common
cigar piercer, as occasionally used at present, or other instrument, the object
being to allow the smoke to pass through these holes or perforations in the
operation of smoking the cigar, the rest of the twisted or butt end of the cigar
being during that operation held together by the dressing or coating. The
fixing of tubes or mouth-pieces of amber, gutta percha, or india-rubber to
cigars is to be performed by moistening the inside of the tube or mouth-piece
by means of some suitable solvent, such as chloroform, and while in a softened
state, fitting it to the twisted or butt end of the cigar, or by applying to the
inside of the tube or mouth-piece, or to the ontside of the cigar, any suitable
varnish or cement, and then fitting the tube, as before, to the cigar. Or the
operation may be performed, whem amber or gutta percha are used, by the
application of heat to the tube or mouth-piece after being placed on the cigar,
but I prefer either of the two former methods as being the most efficient.
The twisted or butt end of the cigar may be pierced with one or more holes
for the passage of the smoke, either before or after the fixing on of the tube
or mouth-piece.
I do not intend to claim as any part of my Invention the dissolving or
mixing either amber, gutta percha, india-rubber, or any other substance, so as
to form a cement or varnish, or the composition of any cement or varnish for
any of the purposes aforesaid, nor do I claim the manufacture of tubes or
mouth pieces of amber, gutta percha, or india-rubber.
I claim first, the closing and securing the external leaf or wrapper of the
cigar with a cement or varnish impervious to moisture, and the application to
that purpose of amber, gutta percha, india-rubber, or other suitable water-
proof cements or varnishes.
Secondly, I claim the dressing or coating the twisted or butt end of the
cigar intended to be introduced between the lips of the consumer, with a
thin skin or covering adhering firmly to the cigar, and unaffected by and
impervious to moisture, and the application to that purpose of amber, gutta
percha, india-rubber, or other suitable substances.

page_text: And, lastly, I claim the permanently fixing or cementing to the twisted or
butt end of cigars, tubes or mouth-pieces of amber, gutta percha, and india-
rubber.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Augustus Huddart, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty sixth day of February, One thousand 5
eight hundred and fifty-one.

page_text: or unfolded for the purpose of the same being secured or fastened with a lement or varnish as mentioned in the Specification
and the part a. a. a. defined by the dotted line along the edge of the raised portion of the leaf shews the part to which the
Cement or Varnish is to be applied preparatory to the leaf being pressed down and secured.
The Drawing No 2. represents a Cigar in the ordinary form and the portion marked A comprised within the dotted Line shews
the part intended to be dressed or coated with a thin skin or covering impervious to moisture as mentioned in the annexed Spe
cification/
The Drawing Nº 3. represents a Cigar in the ordinary form with a mouth piece of Gutta Parcha cemented to it the part marked
A.shewing the mouth piece in the position in which the same is intended to be fixed.