Improvements in or relating to Cigarettes and Cigars.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Cigarettes and Cigars.
I EDWIN GUTHRIE of 71 King Street Manchester Chartered Accountant do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I insert or embed the whole length of a match except the igniting end in the
tobacco of a cigarette or cigar allowing the igniting point of the match to
project slightly so as to enable that end to be struck and ignited if desired
without removal from its position in the cigarette or cigar so that the smoker
on placing the other end to his lips may cause the desired ignition of the
tobacco. In cases where it is not intended to remove the match I preferably
make the stick of the match of the stalk of tobacco leaf or some other
agreeable fragrant or innocuous substance but should the smoker prefer so
to do the match may be withdrawn from its position and used separately in
the ordinary way. In either case the cigarette or cigar may be sold or passed from
hand to hand combined with the means of obtaining the necessary light for the
purpose of ignition.
Dated this 4th day of May 1896.
EDWIN GUTHRIE,
71 King Street, Manchester.
I, EDWIN GUTHRIE, of 71 King Street, Manchester, Chartered Accountant,
do bereby 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 :-
This invention has for object to ensure that a person having a cigarette or cigar
shall also possess means whereby the cigarette or cigar can be lighted in an easy
and convenient manner. For this purpose there is combined with the cigarette or
cigar according to this invention a match the splint or stem of which is arranged
lengthwise within the cigarette or cigar whilst its head carrying the igniting
composition is left exposed at the lighting end of the cigarette or cigar so as to
allow of its being readily struck on a suitable surface and thereby ignited without
removal so that the smoker on then placing the other end of the cigarette or cigar
in his mouth and drawing in the ordinary way can cause the desired ignition of the
cigarette or cigar. In cases where it is not intended to remove the match from the
cigarette or cigar, the splint or stem of the match is preferably made of some
agreeable, fragrant or innocuous substance, (as for example of the stalk of tobacco
leaf or of wire). The match may, however, if desired, be capable of being
withdrawn and used in the ordinary way for lighting the cigarette or cigar.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a longitudinal section of a cigarette

page_text: having arranged longitudinally in the centre thereof a match 1, the head 2 of which,
composed of a suitable igniting composition, such as that used for ordinary matches
or for fusees, is left exposed and projecting slightly beyond the end of the cigarette,
Fig. 2 is a similar view of a cigar provided with a centrally arranged match like
that shown in Fig. 1. In each case the match may be placed in the cigarette or
cigar when making up the same, so that it will be held firmly in place but so
nevertheless as to permit of its being readily withdrawn if this be desired. It may
however be inserted in place in the cigarette or cigar after the same has been
made up.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
A cigarette or cigar having a match held lengthwise therein with its head exposed
and whereby the cigarette or cigar can be ignited when desired, substantially as
described and shown.
Dated this 26th day of January 1897.
For the Applicant,
W. LLOYD WISE,
46 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.