IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER SUITABLE FOR FORMING CIGARETTES, AND FOR OTHER PROVISIONAL PECIFICATION
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Etienne Roche, of Marseille, Town in the French
Empire, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF PAPER SUITABLE FOR FORMING CIGARETTES, AND FOR OTHER
PROVISIONAL
PECIFICATION it by the said Etienne Koche at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 2nd
March 1859.
I, ETIENNE ROCHE, of Marseille, Town in the French Empire, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF PAPER SUITABLE FOR FORMING CIGARETTES, AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES, AND ALSO IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of paper
suitable for forming cigarettes and for other purposes, and also improvements
in the manufacture of cigars, and consists in the application of the leaves of
the tobacco plant, or the ribs of the leaves, or their juice, to the manufacture
of paper, and also consists in manufacturing cigars from the pulp obtained
from these substances. For the purpose of manufacturing paper, 1 beat the
leaves, or the ribs of the leaves of the tobacco plant in their juice, by means
of rollers, in the ordinary way of making pulp for paper-making from other
substances, and if this pulp is not sufficiently fibrous, I add to it from 5 to 50

page_text: per cent. of rag beaten in tobacco juice, and I then form the pulp so obtained
into paper in any ordinary manner. Or, in place of adding a per-centage of
rags to the pulp obtained from the leaves, or the ribs of the leaves and their
juice, I add to the pulp a small quantity of paste, or size, or a small quantity
of glycerine or gluten, and then pass the pulp through a series of rollers,
which consolidates the matters, and forms them into a sheet of the thickness
desired. Paper manufactured in the above manner is applicable for making
cigarettes, and for other uses, such as wrappers for packages of wools, furs,
and other articles, as on account of its natural smell it keeps off insects.
In order to manufacture cigars from pulp made from the above-mentioned
substances, the pulp may either be pressed into moulds of wire cloth, when
the liquid part of the pulp will escape through the cloth, or the pulp may be
forced through a die of the requisite section, or it may be otherwise formed
into cigars.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Etienne Roche in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
2nd September 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ETIENNE
Rocne, of Marseille, Town in the French Empire, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Etienne Roche, Her special licence that I, the said Etienne
Roche, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Etienne Roche, 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 "In-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER SUITABLE FOR FORMING CIGARETTES, AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES, AND ALSO IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Etienne Roche,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and

page_text: 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 Etienne Roche, 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 follow-
ing statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention has for its object the application either of the rib of the leaf,
or of the leaf or juice of tobacco, to the manufacture of hygienic cigarette
paper, and also the moulding the paste obtained from these matters to form it
into cigars, as is herein-after explained. The manufacture of cigarette paper
is at present conducted in the manner long practised, that is to say, by
maceration in lime, afterwards immersion in acids, so as completely to
decolorize the matters,and then washing with chlorine water, to obtain perfect
whiteness in the rags. All these matters, which remain in part incorporated,
evidently render the paper in the highest degree unhealthy and dangerous in
its use. Convinced of the defects I have mentioned, I have made numerous
experiments, with the object of producing a paper fulfilling the three following
essential conditions:-
First, that it should be rendered hygienic, and of improved quality."!
Second, that the aroma and perfume should be agreeable.
Third that the paper should be furnished to the consumer at a cheap rate.
These conditions are united by my system of hygienic paper, and at the
same time the ribs of tobacco leaves are applied to the manufacture of paper
(a manufacture which is everywhere becoming more costly), and which has
always, up to the present time, been thrown away as useless.
In employing the ribs of the leaves, the leaves and the juice of tobacco in
the manufacture of paper, I proceed in the following manner:-I crush the
ribs of the leaves or the leaves of tobacco in their own juice, by means of
rollers, as is done in the manufacture of ordinary paper.
After this crushing
I make the paper by the ordinary processes, either by hand or by machinery,
with this precaution, that if I see that the quality of the material (the ribs or
the leaves) is not sufficiently fibrous, I add five, ten, fifteen, or even. fifty
per cent. of rag, whito linen cloth, or other similar material, without any
chemical preparation, triturated in the juice of tobacco. This enables me
easily to make paper,and however bad may be the textilé quality, or however
badly the materials (the ribs of the leaves or the leaves) may be prepared,
produce always, a perfect paper. This paper, which is hygienic to the-highest

page_text: degree when smoked or masticated, is not less suitable for packing certain
products, as by its patural odour it keeps away insects from woollen fabrics
.and furs.
The idea of triturating the useless ribs of the leaves of tobacco (up to the
present time a waste material), to convert them into paper, is that which
forms the base of my Invention, and following out my researches, I have
made various applications of it. I have found that thematters whentriturated
may in other ways be made into paper; in fact, with a small addition of paste,
glue, glycerine or gluten, and other similar matters incorporated with the
triturated materials, paper may be made by passing the compound between
rollers several times in succession, so as to obtaiu sheets of the thickness
desired. The triturated material when obtained may be made up into any
form which may be desired, and as it is exclusively composed of tobacco, it is
easily converted mechanically into cigars as it has been converted into paper;
.thèse cigars, which are of the best quality, are made with great economy, as
they are produced from matters hitherto thrown away, and with a very small
expenditure of labour. It will be seen, that as the material from which these
cigars are made is perfectly homogeneous, they will evidently burn well, and
will necessarily be of superior quality.
I will now proceed to indicate the methods I consider most suitable for
converting this material into cigars.
First, the paste may be formed in moulds of wire cloth, or other material
. of suitable size and shape, the paste falling little by little or all at once into
*such moulds. It will be seen, that when the liquid parts escape through the
wire cloth, as usual in the manufacture of paper, the molecules take the form
of the mould containing them.
Second, the material mixed with a sufficient quantity of juice may be taken
.up in an ordinary paper mould, having only at intervals of the frame gutters
..of the size and depth of the cigars to be manufactured.
i. Third, cigars may also be made by compressing the triturated materials, as
is described, in hollow cylinders of suitable form and size, and of which the
*extremities are closed by a filtering material.
Fourth, they may be made also by means of cylinders.either grooved or
plain, turning constantly in a trough of the form of the cylinder, embracing a
third: part of its circumference. If at the front of the trough, which should be.
⚫ a little wider, a strip of suitable size and thickness of the triturated material
'is introduced, it will be rolled by the cylinder until it is discharged on the
other side of the trough; during all this time the pressure will agglutinatethe
*matters, and when discharged the strip will be perfectly uniform and
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page_text: cylindrical throughout. Asthematters are agglutinated and pressed together
by the rollers, it is necessary, in order to make the cigars draw well, to form
a passage through them from end to end by means of a needle inserted while
the material is soft, and withdrawn when it is nearly dry. The same is the
case when they are manufactured according to the methods previously
described.
I claim as my Invention the application of the ribs of the leaves, the leaves
and the juice of tobacco to the manufacture of paper suitable for forming
cigarettes, and for other purposes, and also the moulding the paste obtained
from these matters into cigars.
In witness whereof, I, the said Etienne Roche, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
ETIENNE KOCHE.
(L.B.)