A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS OR INSTRUMENT FOR MAKING PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION FOR MAKING CIGARETTES, ALSO APPLICABLE AS A CIGARETTE HOLDER
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Telford Macneill, of No. 1, Warwick
Street, Cockspur Street, in the County of Middlesex, for the In-
vention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS OR INSTRUMENT FOR MAKING
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Telford Macneill
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 30th June 1871.
I, Thomas TeLFORD MACNEILL, of No. 1, Warwick Street, Cockspur
Street, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS OR INSTRUMENT FOR
MAKING CIGARETTES, ALSO APPLICABLE AS A CIGARETTE HOLDER," to be as
follows-
My Invention consists in constructing an instrument for making
cigarettes composed of a thin metal tube open at both ends, into which
the tobacco is introduced in the first instance, and in which it is com-
pressed to the requisite degree by means of a plug, stopper, or piston

page_text: fitting the tube. Upon the outer surface of the tube is rolled the
cigarette paper in such manner as to leave a portion thereof projecting
from the one end of the tube. This end is then closed by twisting or
folding, and the paper is held closed upon the tube by an india-rubber
ring placed on the tube in the first instance, and which is slipped over
the end of the paper when this is rolled up, or the paper may be secured
by gumming or simply wetting it. The tobacco is then forced out of the
tube into the closed end of the paper by means of the plug, and by such
forcing out of the tobacco the paper is at the same time drawn off the
tube and over the tobacco, whereby the formation of the cigarette is
completed. The tube is by preference provided at the back end with a
small rim in order both to prevent the india-rubber ring from passing
off the tube and to afford a convenient means for holding the tube while
forcing out the tobacco...
I prefer to arrange the above-described instrument to act at the same
time as a holder for smoking the cigarette after it has been formed
thereby. For this purpose the before-mentioned plug is perforated in.
the direction of its length, and is provided at the outer end with a
suitable mouth piece. In forming the cigarette the tobacco is entirely
forced out of the tube, but the paper .covering is not quite withdrawn
from the outside of the tube, thus causing the cigarette to be held on
the end of the tube while it is being smoked.
For facilitating the introduction of the tobacco into the tube in the
first instance a half tube may be arranged to slide in and out of the
tube, fitting between the surfaces of the tube and the plug. This half
tube is first slid out at the front end of the tube and the charge of
tobacco is inserted therein, after which the half tube with its charge is
slid back into the tube.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent;
filed by the said Thomas Telford Macneill in the Great Seal Patent 30
Office on the 29th December 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
TELFORD MACNEILL, of No. 1, Warwick Street, Cockspur Street, in
the County of Middlesex, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Telford Macneill, Her special
licence that I, the said Thomas Telford Macneill, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Telford
Macneill, my exccutors, 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 "A
NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS OR INSTRUMENT FOR MAKING CIGARETTES, ALSO
APPLICABLE AS A CIGARETTE HOLDER," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Thomas Telford Macneill, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, 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 I, the said Thomas Telford Macneill, 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 thereof, reference being had to the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in constructing an instrument, for making
cigarettes and holding them to be smoked as represented in the accom-
panying Drawing.
Figure 1 represents a longitudinal section of the instrument with its
two parts shewn detached from each other, and Figure 2 represents a
longitudinal section of the instrument as it is used for holding a cigarette
to be smoked.
A is a thin metal tube or sheath open at both ends, and B is a per-
forated piston or rammer provided with an amber or other suitable
mouth piece C. A piece of thin paper D is wrapped in a tubular form
round the tube A, and has its edge secured by gum or by simply

page_text: moistening it, or it may be secured by a caoutchouc ring E slipped
over the paper. The paper tube is of such a length as to extend beyond
the end of the tube A, and the projecting end of the paper is twisted so
as to form a closed end at F. The tube A having been previously
charged with tobacco the rammer B is pushed into it so as to force the
tobacco through the tube A, and to cause the paper tube D to slide
nearly off the metal tube A and to project in front of it charged with
tobacco, thus forming a cigarette. The rammer B remains within the
tube, as represented in Figure 2, and the apparatus in this condition
constitutes a holder for smoking the cigarette formed by its means.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and in what
manner it is to be performed, I would have it understood that I lay no
claim to the forming of a cigarette by forcing the tobacco from a metal
tube or sheath into a paper tube; but what I claim is, the construction
of an instrument for making cigarettes and holding them to be smoked,
as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Telford Macneill, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of December,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
T. TELFORD MACNEILL. (L.S.)