Improvements in or relating to Mouthpieces for Cigarette and Cigar Holders, Pipes, and the like, and Process for Making the same.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Mar., 1896-Accepted, 9th May, 1896
Improvements in or relating to Mouthpieces for Cigarette and Cigar
Holders, Pipes, and the like, and Process for Making the same.
A communication by HEINRICH HEISLER, of Chrast, Bohemia, in the Empire.
of Austria, Manufacturer.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6 Bank Street,.
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster, 118 New Street, Birmingham
in the County of Warwick and 31 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,.
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 :-
As is well known goose quills are generally employed as mouthpieces for the
so-called paper cigarette and cigar holders. These quills however have the draw-
back that the end which is inserted in the smoker's mouth has a sharp cutting edge-
and thus there is a great danger of the lips and tongue being scratched or injured,.
which in itself might cause nicotine poisoning.
Efforts have been made for years to overcome this drawback by making the end!
of the quill which is inserted in the mouth flanged or rounded in order to obtain a.
smooth edge, thereby rendering impossible any cutting or scratching of the lips and
tongue. This flanging of the end is obtained by placing the sharp edge of the quill
on a heated metal plate, and pressing it lightly thereon. By this means the edge.
of the quill is softened, and flanged or bent round, forming a small ring or pad r as.
shown in Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing.
This flanged edge however soon becomes softened in the mouth when used for
smoking purposes and becomes separated from the quill, and in a more or less short
time the bare quill again remains with a more or less sharp edge.
The object of the present invention relates to a process for preparing the quill
in such a way as to prevent its flanged edge from becoming softened in the mouth,.
but on the contrary to render it hard, and even when held for a long time in the
mouth, no longer liable to become soft, nor loosened from the quill. To attain this.
object the process is carried out in the following way:
The quill previously cut and cleaned, as shown in Figure 2, is placed with the-
end to be flanged vertically on a heated metal plate and is lightly pressed thereon,
by which means the flange, or ring r is formed as shown in Figure 1.
By a short further pressure, another piece of the quill becomes more or less.
flanged according to the temperature of the metal plate, and the hardness of the
quill, and there is formed at a certain moment, as soon as the quill ceases to bend
round or flange, a second small, horny and hard ring, v, such as is shown in.
Figures 3 and Figure 3^; at this moment the quill is removed from the hot metal
plate, and pressed upon a second flat, smooth, cold plate by which means the annular
pad or ring is widened, and rapidly hardens in the process of cooling, and becomes.
horny.
In Figure 4 is thus the white ring first produced, a the thickened or flanged
body of the quill, w the horny or hardened widened annular pad.
By cutting off and scraping the flanged part of the quill a on the line -, and
removing the part cut off, the finished quill, as shown in Figure 5, is then ready-

page_text: for use and provided with a smooth, hard, horn-like, and yet elastic, annular ring w,
which does not soften in the mouth. The feather quills thus prepared are prefer-
ably employed for forming the mouthpieces of paper cigar or cigarette-holders.
They may also be employed as mouthpieces for tobacco pipes, and also for making
camels hair pencils.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention 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. A process for making quills with flanged, durable, hard and permanently
horny annular rings, such process consisting in pressing the edge of the raw quill,
on a heated metal. plate until it ceases to flange or, bend over, then broadening or
thickening the small annular ring (v as in Figure 3) thereby formed by pressing
the quill on a cold plate, and finally by removing the originally formed soft
thickening (r) of the edge of the quill; substantially as herein before described.
2. As a new article of manufacture; feather quills having a flanged permanently
hard, and horn-like ring, substantially as herein before described and illustrated on
the accompanying drawing.
Dated 'this 21st day of March 1896.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.