IM- PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARETTES
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Garrett Tongue, of the Firm of Tongue and
Birkbeck, Patent Agents and Engineers, of 34, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARETTES." A communication from
abroad by Jean Marie Auguste Lacomme, of Paris, France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Garrett Tongue at tho
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th September 1878.
JOHN GARRETT TONGUE, of the Firm of Tongue and Birkbeck, Patent Agents
and Engineers, of 34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex. 'IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARETTES." (A com-
munication from abroad by Jean Marie Auguste Lacomine, of Paris, France.).
This Invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of cigarettes from
tobacco rolled up in tobacco leaf and secured by a band, binder, or case. For this
purpose in order to make a cigarette according to this Invention tobacco is rolled
up in a piece of tobacco leaf previously moistened by steam or otherwise. Tho
cigarette thus made up prevented from unrolling by binding it with a band or
bands of fine metal, wire, silk, cotton thread, tin or other metal foil or other
suitable material. This protecting band or binder may be wound spirally around
the cigarette from end to end, or separate bands may be applied at each end or at
suitable distances apart, so as to secure the leaf around the core of tobacco.
The bands or binders can be removed if desired from the cigarettes thus manu-
factured before they are used by the smoker; or if the metal bands are used they
may be allowed to fall as the cigarette consumes away.
Or the cigaretto may be enclosed, according to part of these improvements, in a
case or cover of paper, tin foil, or other suitable material, until it is required for
use, when it can be pushed out of or be withdrawn from its case or cover, and
smoked without the contamination of paper or other foreign substance.
The edges of the leaf may be cemented together by starch or gum if desired.
Mouth pieces of paper or other suitable material may be applied to cigarettes of
this character if desired.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Garrett Tongue in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th
March 1879.
JOHN GARRETT TONGUE, of the Firm of Tongue and Birkbeck, Patent Agents
and Engineers, of 34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex. IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARETTES." (A com-
munication front abroad by Jean Marie Augusto Lacomme, of Paris, France.)
"
This Invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of cigarettes from
cut tobacco rolled up in tobacco leaf and secured by a band, binder, or case. For
this purpose, in order to inake a cigarette according to this Invention, cut tobacco
is rolled up in a piece of tobacco leaf previously moistened by steam or otherwise.
The cigarette thus made up is prevented from unrolling by binding it with a band
or bands of fine metal, wire, silk, or cotton thread, tin or other metal foil, or other
suitable material. This protecting band or binder may be wound spirally around
the cigarette from end to end, or separate bands may be applied at each end or at
suitable distances apart, so as to secure the leaf around the core of tobacco.
The bands or binders can be removed if desired from the cigarettes thus manu-
factured before they are used by the smoker; or if metal bands are used they may
be allowed to full as the cigarette consumes away.
Or the cigarette may be enclosed, according to part of these improvements, in a
case or cover of paper, tin foil, or other suitable material, until it is required for
use, when it can be pushed out of or bo withdrawn from its case or cover, and
smoked without the contamination of paper (or other foreign substance), which is
so objectionable to the smokers of cigarettes as usually made up in cases of paper,
consumed with the tobacco.
The edges of the leaf may be cemented together by starch or gum if desired.
Mouth pieces of paper, gutta percha, tin or other foil, or other suitable material,
may be applied to cigarettes of this character if desired. Or sealing wax, or india-
rubber, or gutta percha solution may be applied to one end to serve as a mouth-
piece.
When a cigarette is made up and finished with a binder of thread, silk, or wire,
as previously described, according to this Invention, it can be more or less tightly
bound, and the more tightly it is bound the more slowly it will consume when
smoked. The binder may be secured by gum or otherwise.
By enclosing each cigarette in a cover or case of paper or other material the
cigarette is protected from injury until it is required for use. In using paper as a
cover or case the cigarette is rolled up therein, the edge being secured by gum, so
as to leave the cigarette free to be withdrawn therefrom when frequired. Ordinary
cartridge or other paper may be used for this purpose, and it may be printed upon
for advertizing purposes if desired.
The cigarettes, made up as above described, may be enclosed in temporary
binders or cases, and removed therefrom when sufficiently dry, and then be made
up into bundles or be packed in boxes ready for use.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention communicated to me from
abroad, and the manner of performing or carrying the same into practice, I would
remark that I do not claim the making of cigarettes by rolling tobacco up in an
external case of leaf tobacco; but what I claim is, the improved manufacture
of cigarettes by rolling cut tobacco in an external cover of leaf tobacco and then

page_text: securing it in a binder or band of thread, silk, wire, or other fillement, or in a
temporary cover or case of paper, metal, or other matorial, substantially in the
manner and for the purposes herein-before described.
In witness whereof, 1, the said John Garrett Tongue, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.
JOHN GARRETT TONGUE. (L.S.)