AN IMPROVED SYSTEM OR MODE OF MANUFACTURING CIGARS AND CIGARETTES IN WHICH THE BUNCHES OR INTERIORS ARE FORMED OF CUT TOBACCO HAVING ALL ITS QUALITIES PRESERVED, AND THE ENDS or. THE CIGARS WHICH ARE PUT IN THE MOUTH MADE IMPERMEABLE
Year: 1872

page_text: ETTERS” PATENT to Edward Thomas Hughes, of the Firm of Hughes
and Son, Patent Agents, 123, Chancery Lane, London, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVED SYSTEM OR MODE OF MANUFACTURING CIGARS
AND CIGARETTES IN WHICH THE BUNCHES OR INTERIORS ARE FORMED OF
CUT TOBACCO HAVING ALL ITS QUALITIES PRESERVED, AND THE ENDS or.
THE CIGARS WHICH ARE PUT IN THE MOUTH MADE IMPERMEABLE."-A com-
munication from abroad by Monsieur le Comte Edgar de Lannoy
Clervaux, of 34, Rue du Progrès, Schaerbeck, Brussels, in the
Kingdom of Belgium.
.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Thomas Hughes.
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 15th August 1872.
I, EDWARD THOMAS HUGHES, of the Firm of Hughes and Son, Patent
Agents, 123, Chancery Lane, London, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for. "AN IMPROVED SYSTEM OF MODE OF MANUFACTURING

page_text: CIGARS AND CIGARETTES IN WHICH THE BUNCHES OR INTERIORS ARE FORMED OF CUT
TOBACCO HAVING ALL ITS QUALITIES PRESERVED, AND THE ENDS OF THE CIGARS
WHICH ARE PUT IN THE MOUTH MADE IMPERMEABLE," a communication to
me from abroad by Monsieur le Comte Edgar de Lannoy Clervaux, of
34, Rue du Progrés, Schaerbeck, Brussels, in the Kingdom of Belgium,
to be as follows:-
'
In consequence of the great difference in the price of leaf and cut
tobacco the object of this Invention is to manufacture cigars and
cigarettes so that cut tobacco can be used simultaneously with a wrapper
or cover of leaf tobacco, and at the same time preserve the aroma and all
the qualities of the internal and external tobacco. For this purpose
the bunches or interiors of the cigars or cigarettes are formed by placing
cut tobacco in a mould of wood or other material which can be opened
in the middle to allow the extraction of the bunch, which is then be
covered or wrapped by leaf tobacco in the same manner as the bunches
or interiors of ordinary cigars.
For cigars or cigarettes of great length I cause the bunches or
interiors to be enveloppèd in paper, which is torn off after sufficient time
has clapsed to enable them to have a proper consistence. This descrip-
tion of cigars and cigarettes can be terminated by rolled ends of
impermeable paper, in order to isolate the cut tobacco in such a manner
that the smoker will not draw in any particles, and this paper end is
covered as the rest of the cigar with the leaf tobacco, and a piece of thin
impermeable paper may be rolled upon the extreme end of the cigar in
order to prevent the contact of the tobacco with the lips of the smoker,
and also to allow the cigar to be smoked to the end without any necessity
of slitting the paper.
In the application of these processes to the manufacture of ordinary
cigars I place on the bunch near its end a prolonged end made of strong
impermeable paper which may be covered partially or entirely by the
leaf tobacco forming the ordinary wrapper or cover of the cigar, and to
this can be applied an end of thin impermeable paper. To adopt this
system to the ordinary manufactured cigars I place on their ends a cover
of thin impermeable paper of such length as to prevent the cigars from
being moistened by the saliva, heating or burning the lips of the smoker,
and also to allow them to be agreeably smoked to the end.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Thomas Hughes in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 15th February 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
THOMAS HUGHES, of the Firm of Hughes and Son, Patent Agents, 123,
Chancery Lane, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of August, in the
year of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, Her special
licence that I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Thomas
Hughes, my executors, administrators, 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 SYSTEM OR MODE OF MANUFACTURING CIGARS AND CIGARettes in
WHICH THE BUNCHES OR INTERIORS ARE FORMED OF CUT TOBACCO HAVING ALL ITS
QUALITIES PRESERVED, AND THE ENDS OF THE CIGARS WHICH ARE PUT IN THE
MOUTH MADE IMPERMEABLE,' a communication to me from abroad by
Monsieur le Comte Edgar de Lannoy Clervaux, of 34, Rue du Progrès,
Schaerbeck, Brussels, in the Kingdom of Belgium, upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and scals, 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 Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
"
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, do hereby
declare the nature of the 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 :-
J
In consequence of the difference in price of leaf and cut tobacco the
object of this Invention is to manufacture cigars and cigarettes so that

page_text: cut tobacco can be used simultaneously with a wrapper or cover of leaf
tobacco, and at the same time preserve the aroma and all the qualities
of the internal and external tobacco. For this purpose the bunches or
interiors of the cigars and cigarettes are formed by placing the cut
tobacco dry, or rather in its ordinary hygrometric condition, in a mould |
of wood or any other suitable material and opening in the middle to
allow the extraction of the formed bunch, which is then covered or
wrapped by leaf tobacco in the same manner as the bunches or interiors
of ordinary cigars.
For cigars or cigarettes of great length I cause the bunches or interiors
to be enveloped in paper, which is torn off after sufficient time has
clapsed to enable them to have a proper consistence. This description
of cigars and cigarettes can be terminated at their ends by tightly rolled
impermeable paper, in order to isolate the cut tobacco in such a manner
that the smoker will not draw in any particles, and this paper end is
covered as the rest of the cigar with the leaf tobacco, and a piece of thin
impermeable paper can be rolled upon the extreme end of the cigar in
order to prevent the contact of the tobacco with the lips of the smoker,
and also to allow the cigar to be smoked to the end without any necessity
of slitting the paper.
As a sequel or consequence of this improved system or mode I also
apply the following modification in the manufacture of the ordinary
cigars-I place on the bunch near its end a prolonged end made of
strong impermeable paper, which is covered partially or entirely by the
leaf tobacco forming the ordinary wrapper or cover of the cigar, and an
end of thin paper is rolled just outside the end of the impermeable paper
as an indicator to the smoker.
To adapt this system to the ordinary cigars already manufactured I
place on the end of each a cover of thin impermeable paper of such length
as to prevent the cigar from being moistened by the saliva, or heating or
burning the lips of the smoker, and also to allow it to be agreeably
smoked to the end.
By means of this improved system cigars can be manufactured of all
shapes, and perfect in all conditions, that is to say, hygienic, of exquisite
taste, and of elegant appearance, qualities that the ordinary cigars do
not possess. The present cigar when it gets near the end is impregnated
with saliva mixed with nicotine, creosote, ammonia, in fact with all the

page_text: deleterious substances contained in the tobacco, thereby giving it a bad
taste and making it detrimental to health, whereas in the improved
system of manufacture the impermeable paper, which is incapable of
being acted upon by the condensed vapours from the tobacco and the
saliva, is not penetrated by them and they have no contact with the
mouth, thereby, assuring the innocuousness of the tobacco; but this can be
further augmented by soaking a cover of wadding, which separates the
tobacco from the end of rolled paper, in a solution of tannin, which is
known to be an antidote to nicotine.
This improved cigar might with reason be called the cigar of health,
if the title can be compatible with the use of tobacco, inasmuch as
deleterious effects are prevented as much as possible, and at the same
time the smoker is enabled to enjoy all the aroma of the plant. By this
system is obtained a cheap manufacture of elegant cigars, composed of
tobacco of fine quality, which itself becomes day by day more inaccessible
and its price continuously increasing, and this system is also a substitute
for the pipe, having all its advantages without any of its grave incon-
veniences, and it is the same with the ordinary cigarette, as it does away
with the paper so injurious to health.
There is also great economy in the manufacture as well as in the
consumption. First, leaf tobacco is replaced by cut tobacco; secondly,
there is no necessity for the cigars to be kept in stock for a greater or
lesser length of time in order to attain the age and dryness desired,
thereby causing capital to be stationary, loss of interest, and also the
losses arising from the expense of stocking and warming; and thirdly,
the consumer is able to smoke the tobacco to the end of the cigar,
thereby effecting an economy of from 15 to 20 per cent.
As will be seen, this new description of cigar is distinguished from
others by the constitution of its bunch or body and its impermeable end,
whilst the cigarette is distinguished by its spiral envelope of leaf tobacco
and also its impermeable end.
The leaf for enveloping the tobacco should be previously rolled on a
tube, stick, or rod, in order to give it a spiral form if the filling mode is
adopted, which however is not considered the best, for that which is
preferable is to make the bunch first and then cover it. The end of the
cigar which is put into the mouth can also be made impermeable by the
junction of a thin piece or sheet of caoutchouc, of wood, or other suitable
material, formed as a cigar sheath or end.

page_text: It may be here remarked that in this system it is not merely the
central part which is made of cut tobacco but the entire body of the
cigar with the exception of the enveloping leaf, from which none of the
qualities of the tobacco are taken away any more than from the bunch
of cut tobacco forming the body of the cigar, which mode is different to 5
some in which the bunch is covered with several layers. When desired,
both ends of the cigar are covered, either with the covering leaf or a
small tube of caoutchouc or paper, to prevent the cut tobacco from
coming out of the cigar or cigaretto, and the end can also be terminated
by placing under the covering leaf a little wadding to prevent the 1
tobacco from getting to the mouth.
'
The principal characteristic of this Invention is the formation of a
bunch or body firm enough to be covered with ordinary cigar covering
leaf, so that the cigar can be smoked without the loss of any of the
qualities of the tobacco forming the bunch or body, or its cover.
This 1
leaf of tobacco is rolled spirally round a thin tube or rod, which is with-
drawn to introduce the tobacco to the interior, "but this method is not so
good as that in which the bunch is made separately.
I
If the plan of rolling the leaf round a tube or rod is adopted it is
necessary that the leaf should be carefully glued, it being preferable to 2
use mouth glue or other adhering matter which is not injurious. To
introduce the tobacco into the space formed by the rolled leaf it is well
that it should be dry enough, that is, in such a hygrometric condition
to suit the wish of the smoker, and it may be remarked that if in this
system the tobacco is finely cut into long filaments it should not be too 2
dry.
Having now described the nature and particulars of this Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, as communicated
to me from abroad, I desire it to be understood that I claim,—
First. The manufacture of cigars, the bunches, bodics, or interiors of 3
which are made of cut or fragmental tobacco and have impermeable
ends.
Secondly The manufacture of cigarettes havino snirally rolled envelones

page_text: tion which is covered partly or entirely like the cigar itself and
afterwards by thin impermeable paper to the head of the rolled end.
And, fourthly. The application to the cigars already finished according
to the method at present in use, of ends made of impermeable paper for
preventing the contact of the tobacco with the lips of the smoker, as all
such improvements are herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, have liere-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of February,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.