AN IMPROVEMENT IN CIGARETTE PAPERS OR WRAPPERS, ALSO APPLICABLE TO CIGARS."
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred George Goodes, of Newgate Street, in the City
of London, Cigar and Tobacco Manufacturer, for an Invention of "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN CIGARETTE PAPERS OR WRAPPERS, ALSO APPLICABLE TO
CIGARS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred George Goodes at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd January 1882.
ALFRED GEORGE GOODES, of Newgate Street in the City of London, Cigar and
Tobacco Manufacturer. "AN IMPROVEMENT IN CIGARETTE PAPERS OR WRAPPERS
ALSO APPLICABLE TO CIGARS."
My Invention relates to an improvement in cigarette papers or wrappers and it
has for its object to render the paper or wrapper waterproof and prevent it
adhering to the lips in smoking whereby the tearing of the paper and injury to
the lips are avoided and the moistening of the tobacco and its escape from
the wrapper are prevented. I am aware that attempts have been made before to
impart waterproof and nonadhesive qualities to cigarette papers by the use of wax
or other fatty matter which imparts a disagreeable flavor to the cigarette and emits
a greasy odour when the cigarette is consumed down to the mouthpiece.
My Invention has for its object to avoid the objections incidental to the use of
wax or other greasy substance, and to impart to the mouth piece end of the paper
or wrapper a clear transparent glazed polished amber like appearance which the
papers now in use have not, and to this end my Invention consists in applying to
one or both sides of the paper or wrapper at the end which is to form the mouth-
piece, a coating or layer composed of a mixture of albumen and a suitable yellow
coloring matter and by preference the white and yolk of egg beaten up together in
suitable proportions according to the color desired, or the white and yolk may be
used separately. When dry this coating forms an effectual preventitive against
adherence to the lips, tearing and moistening of the paper and other incidental
objections and is much superior both in appearance and effect to the greased paper
heretofore used.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Alfred George Goodes in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st July 1882.
ALFRED GEORGE GOODES of Newgate Street in the City of London, Cigar and
Tobacco Manufacturer. AN IMPROVEMENT IN CIGARETTE PAPERS OR WRAPPERS,
ALSO APPLICABLE TO CIGARS.
My Invention relates to an improvement in cigaretto papers or wrappers and it
has for its object to render the paper or wrapper waterproof and prevent it
adhering to the lips in smoking, whereby the tearing of the paper and injury to
the lips are avoided and the moistening of tho tobacco and its escape from the
wrapper are prevented.
I am aware that attempts have been made before to impart waterproof and
non-adhesive qualities to cigarette papers by the use of wax or other fatty matter
which imparts a disagreeable flavor to the cigarette and emits a greasy odour when
the cigarette is consumed down to the mouth piecc.
My Invention has for its object to avoid the objections incidental to the use of
wax or other greasy substance and to impart to the mouth piece end of the paper
or wrapper a clear transparent glazed polished amber like appearance which the
papers now in use have not, and to this end my Invention consists in applying
to one or both sides of the paper or wrapper at the end which is to form the
_mouth piece, a coating or layer composed of a mixture of albumen and a suitable
yellow coloring matter. I use by preference the white and yolk of egg beaten up
to-gether in suitable proportions according to the color desired, or the white and
yolk may be used separately. When dry this coating forms an effectual preventitive
against adherence to the lips, tearing and moistening of the paper and other
incidental objections and is much. superior both in appearance and effect to the
greased paper heretofore used. A similar coating may also be applied to the ends
of cigars but such application does not possess sufficient practical utility to render
it desirable to lay any claim thereto.
Having described the nature of the said Invention and the manner of performing
the same I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be protected by the
hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is
The application and employment of albumen and a suitable coloring matter and
particularly of a mixture of the white and yolk of egg for coating the mouth pieces
or ends of cigarette papers or wrappers as specified.
In witness whereof I the said Alfred George Goodes have hereunto set my
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