Improvements in and connected with Cigarettes and Cigars.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 16th Dec., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Cigarettes and Cigars.
1, CHARLES TREVOR of Bodlondeb House, Upper Bangor, North Wales,
Gentleman, (communicated to me by Alexander Henry Walker, of Kununatta,
High Flats, Natal, South Africa, Government Land Surveyor,) 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:-
My invention relates to improvements in and connected with cigars and cigarettes,
and has for its object to render cigars and cigarettes self lighting so that no
difficulty will be experienced in lighting same in exposed situations such as the top
of omnibuses, tramcars, and the like.
In carrying my invention into practice, I furnish the end of the cigar or
cigarette with a circular piece of touch paper over which is placed a narrow strip
of paper centrally provided with a small quantity of igniting mixture, and the
edges of which are gummed and placed over the end of the cigars or cigarettes and
affixed to the side of the same.
In order that my invention may be more fully understood, I will now proceed to
describe same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which
Fig. 1 is a plan of the covering strip provided with the igniting mixture,
Fig. 2 is a similar view of a slightly modified form,
Fig. 3 is a side view of a cigarette with the touch paper and outer cover ready
for fixing,
Fig. 4 shows them in position,
Fig. 5 shows my device as applied to a cigar.
My improvements consist in placing over the end of a cigarette c or cigar ca
circular piece of touch paper t held in position by a covering strip a, the edges d of
which are bent over and fixed to the side of the cigar or cigarette by means of
gum, while the said covering strip is furnished with a small quantity of igniting
mixture i. In the modification shown at Fig. 2 the covering strip is dispensed
with and the touch paper is furnished with extensions for affixing it to the sides of
the cigar or cigarette.
I do not restrict myself to any igniting mixture but for preference I use the
following, viz., potassium chlorates 6 parts, antimony sulphite 2 parts, glue 1 part,
such mixture would not be injurious to the health, and in this case the side of the
box in which the cigars and cigarettes are packed would have to be covered with a
mixture composed of the following ingredients, amorphorous phosphorus, 10 parts,
oxide of manganese 8 parts, and glue 3 to 6 parts, or any other suitable compound,
may be employed.
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 :-
The improvements in and connected with cigars and cigarettes for rendering the
same self lighting by means of the touch paper t, covering strip a provided with a
small quantity of igniting composition i, substantially as herein described and shown
and for the purpose set forth.
CHIE OLI UBY UI Tovember 1893
Lovember 1893
F. G. CASSELL,
Of Cassell & Co.,
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W.,
Agent for the Applicant.
ZAUCU CHIB OLI UBY UIovember IXYA
F. G. CASSELL,
Of Cassell & Co.,
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W.,
Agent for the Applicant.