Improvements in Matches, Fusees and the like, for use with Cigarettes and Cigars.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Dec., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 21st Aug., 1903-Accepted, 24th Nov., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Matches, Fusees and the like, for use with Cigarettes
and Cigars.
I, AARON JONAH JACOBS, of Chandos House, King Square, London, Boot Factor,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows;-
This invention consists in improvements in matches, fusees and the like for
use with cigarettes and cigars.
According to one form this invention consists of a match or fusee or the like,
having a hollow or tubular stem adapted to be slid on to the end of a cigarette
or cigar which it fits closely enough to retain its position without any other
means of attachment but not so tightly as to prevent its being readily with-
drawn.
The end of the hollow stem to which the match or fusee composition
is applied may be open, or partially closed, or completely closed as may be most
convenient. The hollow stem may be made from any suitable material or sub-
stance and may be either inflammable or non-inflammable. The match or fusee
may be slid off the cigarette or cigar on which it is fitted and used in the ordinary
way; or the cigarette or cigar may first be ignited and the match or fusee stem
discarded afterwards. In the latter case the stem of the match or fusee imparts
to the end of a cigarette on which it is fitted the rigidity necessary for striking
conveniently.
According to another form the stem of the match or fusee forms a frame
or holder composed of wire or any other suitable material adapted to clip or
slide on to a cigarette or cigar.
Dated this 16th day of December 1899
AARON JONAH JACOBS.
Improvements in Matches, Fusees and the like, for use with Cigarettes
and Cigars.
I, AARON JONAH JACOBS, late of Chandos House, King Square, London, and
now of 8, St. Paul Street, Portland Square, Bristol, Boot Factor, 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 state-
ment:-
This invention consists in improved matches or fusees for lighting cigarettes
and cigars.
In one of the forms in which my improved lighters are made, the lighter is
a tube of paper or other suitable material, preferably inflammable, sufficiently
Price 871

page_text: strong to impart to a cigarette a degree of rigidity which enables such cigarette
to be handled in lighting as an ordinary match is handled in being struck. At
the outer or igniting end the lighter carries lighting composition of any of the
kinds of which match-heads are made. The composition forms a ring encircling
the tube and may extend inwards to any desired extent. The tube, which may
be split or divided longitudinally throughout a part of its length, is adapted to
be slid on a cigarette and is made of such diameter as to fit such cigarette
sufficiently closely as to retain, without other means of fixing, its position when
placed thereon. The fit is, however, loose enough to enable the lighter to be
slid off readily. The same conditions apply to the lighter as made for cigars ;
the lighters being of course, of larger diameter than as made for cigarettes.
In practically using the lighter, it is adjusted on the cigarette or cigar to the
requisite position thereon. Ignition of the composition is then caused by strik-
ing, as an ordinary match is struck, by friction; and the fire is communicated
to the cigarette or cigar which is thus lit, lighting being assisted by inhalation
on the part of the smoker in the usual way. Or, the lighter may be slid off
and used in lighting as an independent match.
The composition, instead of being in the form of a ring, may be in the form
of a disc or lump which may wholly or partially close the outer end of the
lighter. Or, the lighter may be made as a cap having the outer end closed by
paper or other inflammable or readily combustible material coated outside with
the igniting composition.
According to another form the lighter consists of a skeleton frame such as a
coil of wire, the outer convolution of which is coated with the igniting composi-
tion or otherwise carries the composition. The coil is adapted to clip lightly the
cigarette or cigar to which it is applied.
Or, the lighter may be made as a clip in other ways, a hollow or skeleton
stem being the leading characteristic of the lighter so designed as not to require
extraneous means to hold it in place.
Referring to the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 shows a view of a cigarette
lighter as made in accordance with one form comprised in this invention. Fig. 2
is a similar view showing the lighter placed on a cigarette and in position for
lighting the same.
In this form the lighter consists of a tubular stem of comparatively stiff
paper or other suitable material. At the igniting end the tube « carries a ring a¹
of composition of any kind of which match-heads are made. The lighter may be
used in either of two ways. It may be ignited while on the cigarette in the
position shown at Fig. 2, the combined lighter and cigarette being handled
together as one match. Ignition may be brought about by "striking" or rubbing
the composition or lighter head on a suitable surface such as the prepared surface
of a match-box or by friction elsewhere or otherwise. The composition having
been ignited, the leading end of the cigarette 6 has the fire communicated to
it. After the cigarette is lit the lighter is slid off the cigarette and discarded.
Instead of igniting the lighter while on the cigarette it may be first slid off,
then ignited and finally applied in the same way as an ordinary fusee or match.
Instead of being applied in ring form to the outer end of the tube a the
match head composition may be a disc or lump fixed over and closing or partially
closing the outer end of the hollow stem.
At Fig. 3 of the accompanying drawings is shown a modified form of lighter.
In this form it consists of a coil e of wire, the outer convolution e¹ of which
is a ring which extends evenly, and not inclined, around the cigarette d. This
ring is coated with igniting composition. Or a disc or lump of the composi-
tion may be fixed within the ring. The coiled wire lightly clips the cigarette d.
The lighter can be used in either of the ways above described with reference to
the lighter shown at Figs. and 2 of the drawings. Instead of a wire coil,
the stem of the lighter may consist of spring arms adapted to clip the cigarette,
such arms being adapted to carry at the outer end the igniting composition.

page_text: The lighter as made for cigars is substantially the same as for cigarettes, but,
of course, the diameter is larger accordingly to fit cigars.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
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Means for lighting cigarettes and cigars, being a lighter having a hollow stem
adapted to be slid on and off cigarettes and cigars and carrying at its outer or
igniting end igniting composition such as is used in the manufacture of match-
heads or being a lighter having a stem of coiled wire or being otherwise made
in skeleton or like or analogous form and similarly provided with igniting com-
position and adapted to be slid on and lightly grip cigarettes and cigars, sub-
stantially as hereinabove described.
Dated this 20th day of August 1900
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Chartered Patent Agent, Bristol.