Improvements in or relating to Pressing, or Shaping, and Marking Cigars.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 1st July, 1897-Accepted, 4th Sept., 1897
[Communicated from abroad by Dox JUSTO TALADRID Y CATA of San Ignacio 72
Havana in the Island of "Cuba and Kingdom of Spain Manufacturer]
Improvements in or relating to Pressing, or Shaping, and Marking
Cigars.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 322 High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, 6, Lord Street,
Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster, and
Lower Temple Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Civil Engineer,
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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This invention relates to an improved method of packing and marking cigars.
Cigars of inferior quality are frequently fraudulently placed in boxes bearing
well known brands, and this deception is successful because no practicable means
have been devised for marking the said cigars so as to indicate clearly their
original brand. Furthermore, cigars placed when damp in the boxes as now
practised are injured in appearance in as much as only the top and the bottom
layers are smoothly pressed by contact with the top and bottom of the box. The
intermediate layers being pressed against each other and consequently rendered
rough and uneven.
My invention is designed to obviate these drawbacks.
It consists essentially in placing the damp cigars in a suitable receptacle to
which a certain pressure can be applied, the cigars are placed in this receptacle in
layers and plates of zinc, iron or other material are interposed between each layer.
These plates may be plain or they are preferably engraved with the name, number,
trademark or other sign or design in such a way that when the cigars are placed
above and below them a design is imprinted upon each cigar without injury to the
same. When the cigars have remained under gentle pressure for a sufficient time
in contact with these plates they become dried and firmly impressed with the mark
required which cannot be effaced or altered.
Referring to the accompanying drawing:
Figure 1 represents a view partly in elevation and partly in section of the cigar
press with the cigars under operation.
Figure 2 shews a portion of one of the engraved plates. A denotes the box or
container of the press, B the plunger by means of which pressure is applied to the
cigars. C indicates the engraved plates which are inscribed as to impress upon
each cigar the desired inscriptions, trademark or other design. The inscriptions
or the like upon the plates C must obviously be adjusted at such a distance from each
other and at such a portion of the plate as will correspond to the position of each
cigar above or beneath them. The plates are preferably inscribed on each side so
that the cigars may bear an imprint on two sides, but it may of course be arranged
that the imprint shall be only on one side if preferred.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent I declare that what I claim is:
1. The combination of parts forming the improved apparatus for pressing and
marking cigars substantially as described.
2. The method of marking cigars substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
Dat th: 20th of T... 100%
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
322, High Holborn, London, W.C., Patent Agents for the Applicant.