An Improved Mouth-piece for Oigarettes.
Year: 1887

page_text: An Improved Mouth-piece for Oigarettes.
I, JOHN ROBERT COOK, of 1 Market Place, Reading, Berkshire, Banker's Clerk,
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:
This my invention relates to an improved mouth-piece for cigarettes, and which
invention has for its object, firstly, to prevent loose pieces of tobacco from entering
into the mouth, secondly, to arrest all nicotine thus preventing same from entering
the mouth, thirdly, to provide a convenient and simple mouth-piece for the cigarette,
the thin paper of which is liable to stick to the lips when wet, fourthly, to render the
use of the ordinary cigarette holder unnecessary, fifthly, to make the cigarette smoke
cooler.
I now proceed to describe my said invention, reference being had to the accom-
panying drawings and the figures and letters marked thereon, similar letters of reference
indicating corresponding parts throughout.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of my said invention. Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, are alternative
forms of my said invention. Fig. 7. shews an alternative form of my invention in
section.
A, represents an ordinary cigarette, around one end of which 1 wrap a piece of
paper or other suitable material B which has been previously gummed on the inside,
or rendered tenacious by any other suitable adhesive.
I then place in the ferrule thus formed a small piece of wool or other absorbent C,
(Fig. 7) which sticks to the adhesive upon the paper. The projecting end of the
paper ferrule is then pressed and adheres together and is then trimmed or cut to any
desired shape substantially as shewn at D. Two slits E are then cut in the edges of
the mouth-piece for the purpose of allowing the smoke to enter the mouth of the
smoker.
In Fig. 2, I have shewn the piece D of pyramid form, trimmed off short and the
slits E cut in the paper at right-angles to the ferrule B, and not as shewn in Figs. 1
and 3.
Fig. 3. is in all respects similar to Fig. 2 but having the piece D rounded.

page_text: It will be understood that the slits E may be made in any of the figures where
they are shewn, both at right angles, and slanting to the surface of the cigarette.
In Fig. 4, the mouth-piece D, after being gummed at the edges as indicated by
dotted lines is pressed together and the aperture F is made for the egress of the
smoke.
In Fig. 5 I have shewn the projecting piece of the ferrule turned over and gummed,
substantially as shewn in the end view at G, and through which end is pierced the
aperture H.
In Fig. 6, the end of the ferrule B is folded as in Fig. 5 but in place of the aperture H,
I make a slit E in the surface of the ferrule above the absorbent substantially as
shewn. Fig. 7. is in all respects similar to Fig. 4 except that the slit E is substituted
for the hole F.
Although the wool or absorbant is shown only in Fig. 7, it will be readily under-
stood that the same may be used in all the alternative forms of my invention, for
the purpose of filtering the smoke and arresting the nicotine and loose pieces of
tobacco.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed,. I declare that what I claim is :-
1st. The combination of a cigarette and mouth-piece, said mouth-piece made of paper
or other suitable material, provided with an adhesive on one side, said paper or suitable
material folded as shewn and provided with slits or other apertures, and the piece of
wool or other absorbent placed in said mouth-piece, all substantially as and for the
purposes hereinbefore described and fully illustrated in the drawings hereunto
annexed.
Dated this 8th day of November 1887