AN IMPROVED MANNEE OF TREATING TOBACCO
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Tiernan, of Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Gentleman, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MANNEE
OF TREATING TOBACCO."
Scaled the 4th October 1872, and dated the 13th April 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Tiernan at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th April 1872.
I, ROBERT TIERNAN, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Gen-
tleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "An
IMPROVED MANNER OF TREATING TOBACCO," to be as follows:-
"
This Invention consists in the application of glycerine. I use the
glycerine by simply adding from 1 to 5 per cent. in weight of glycerine
to the water in which tobacco is ordinarily steeped or sprinkled...

page_text: PECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Robert Tiernan in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 12th October 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
TIERNAN, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Gentleman, send |
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give:
and grant unto me, the said Robert Tiernan, Her special licence. that I,
the said Robert Tiernan, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Robert Tiernan, my exccutors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED MANNER OF
TREATING TOBACCO," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Robert Tiernan, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months.
next, and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Tiernan, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement, that is to say :
This Invention consists essentially in the application of glycerine
either alone or with water or other substances to tobacco during manu-
facture or preparation for use.
In carrying my Invention into practice in the manufacture of the
kinds or descriptions of tobacco hereafter mentioned, I prefer to proceed
as follows:-
Roll or Twist Tobacco.-I sprinkle the leaf with a mixture of water
and glycerine, using so much glycerine as will amount to about onc-

page_text: The quantity of water
twentieth by weight of the tobacco treated.
added will depend on the condition of the tobacco.
Out Tobacco. Either before cutting the leaf, or after cutting to the
marketable article, I add by sprinkling or intimate admixture from three
to five -per cent. by weight of glycerine with as much water as may be
desirable.
Cigars. To the leaf used in the manufacture of these I add before
forming the bunches, and when preferred also to the wrappers, varying
quantities of glycerine up to but not more than three per cent. by weight
of the leaf under treatment.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and parti-
cularized the same in such manner that others will be enabled to carry
my improvements into effect, I claim, treating tobacco in the manu-
factures described, substantially as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Tiernan, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Ninth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
In the presence of
JAMES JOHNSON,
Clerk to J. T. King,
Liverpool.
ROBERT TIERNAN. (L.S.)