Improvements in or relating to Cigarettes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 5th Oct., 1895
Improvements in or relating to Cigarettes.
I LEWIS THOMAS BLACK ALLER DEACON of 32 Manor Park, Lee, S.E. Bank
Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in connection with cigarettes, and has for
its object to provide an arrangement by which the smoking of cigarettes will be
rendered more pleasant, and the tobacco can be completely consumed.
In carrying out my invention I propose to form the cigarette papers, which are
made up in the usual manner in books, with an extension of considerably stouter
material than the rest of the paper. This extension is joined on to the ordinary
cigarette paper in the process of manufacture, and may be partially separated
from it by a row of perforations which enable the two portions to be detached from
each other when required.
The cigarette paper itself is preferably slightly longer than the ordinary paper
to allow for the insertion of a plug when the cigarette is completed, formed from
the stiffer piece of paper.
This stiffer material, after being detached from the
cigarette paper is loosely rolled up, and inserted in the end of the cigarette, the
tobacco filling up the remainder of the tube. This roll forms a mouth piece
permitting the smoke to pass from the tobacco, at the same time affording a
good grip for the mouth.
There is also no danger of the tobacco entering the mouth of the smoker, and
the whole of the tobacco can be consumed.
In order that the invention may be more clearly understood, reference is had to
the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which
Fig. 1 is a plan of the cigarette paper provided with my improvement, Fig. 2 is
a side view of the same, and
Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of a complete cigarette according to my
invention.
A is the ordinary cigarette paper which as above mentioned is made up into the
the usual small books. At one end of this paper is furnished an extension B which
as shewn in Figs. 2 and 3 is considerably thicker than the remainder of the sheet.
This is partially separate from the sheet by a row of perforations b as shewn in
Fig. 3. The extension B after being torn off is loosely rolled up to form a plug,
the rest of the paper forming a case or tube in the usual manner.
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
(1.) Improvements in cigarettes consisting in providing a plug formed from a
strip of thick paper loosely rolled, the plug being placed in the end of the cigarette
substantially as and for the purposes specified.
(2.) Improvements in cigarettes consisting in forming the cigarette paper with
an extension of thicker material adapted to be easily removed, to form a plug when
loosely rolled, the said plug being inserted in the end of the cigarette substantially
as and for the purposes specified.

page_text: (3.) Improvements in cigarettes substantially as described and. shewn in the
accompanying drawings, and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 28th day of August 1895.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.