CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN CTCARS
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Binnell Harris and John Philip Thomson,
both of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Cigar Manufacturers,
for the Invention of “CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN CTCARS"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Binnell Harris
and John Philip Thomson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 4th November 1864.
We, HENRY BINNELL HARRIS and JOHN PHILIP THOMSON, both of Liver-
pool, in the County of Lancaster, Cigar Manufacturers, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN CIGARS," to be as
follows:-
Our Invention relates to an improvement in the manufacture of cigars, and
is designed to dispense with the usual cutting or slitting the end of cigars,
which is done in order to make them burn freely, and also for the purpose of
forming a cavity within the cigar to collect oil or other liquid.
The improvements consist in cutting or punching a clear hole or perforation
transversely through the cigar with a sharp punch during the manufacture, so
as to form a vent for air through the cigar, and also an internal cavity to
receive the oil.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Binnell Harris and John Philip Thomson, in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 24th April 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, HENRY
BINNELL HARRIS and JOHN PHILIP THOMSON, both of Liverpool, in the County
of Lancaster, Cigar Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Henry Binnell Harris and John Philip Thomson, Her special
licence that we, the said Henry Binnell Harris and John Philip Thomson,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Henry Binnell Harris and John Philip Thomson, our executors, 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN CIGARS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Henry Binnell Harris and John Philip
Thomson, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly 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 we, the said Henry Binnell Harris and John
Philip Thomson, do hereby declare the nature of our 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):-
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Our Invention is designed for the purpose of dispensing with the hitherto
necessary slitting, biting, or cutting the end of the cigar, which is done in
order to make the cigar draw and burn freely.
The improvement consists in cutting, punching, drilling, or otherwise
forming a clear hole, holes, or perforations transversely through the pointed
end of the cigar with a sharp punch or other applicable instrument during
the manufacture of the cigar, and by so forming a vent to make the air draw

page_text: reely through the cigar, and also to form a cavity internally to receive the oil
r other fluid.
In witness whereof, we, the said Henry Binnell Harris and John Philip
Thomson, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eleventh day
of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-five.
HENRY BINNELL HARRIS. (L.S.)
JOHN PHILIP THOMSON.
(L.S.)
HENRY BINNELL HARRIS. (L.S.)
JOHN PHILIP THOMSON.
(L.S.)