Mouth Shields for Cigars and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Nov., 1890-Accepted, 23rd May, 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Mouth Shields for Cigars and the like.
I, Joux Daw, of Rye Lane, Peckham, Surrey, Potato Salesman, 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 :-
This invention relates to flexible mouth-shields designed to be fitted onto, so as
to receive, surround and retain the ends of cigars and the like inserted into the
mouth, such shields combining the advantages of being tasteless, waterproof and
sufficiently tough or firm to resist the pressure of the teeth in holding the cigar
and inexpensive enough to be thrown away after being once used, and avoiding the
disadvantages of any joining of parts and the unpleasantnesses consequent on the
presence of any adhesive or sticky matter, and being designed, inter alia, to prevent
the tobacco-leaf from direct contact with the lips and mouth and from being tasted,
frayed-off and sucked, which excites the flow of saliva and is objectionable, and the
discoloration of the teeth and moustache.
To this end, the invention consists in the manufacture of such shields by pressing,
moulding or otherwise equivalently forming the same from paper pulp and subse-
quently converting the same into the material known as vegetable parchment.
The shields may be made of any desired form such as plain or fluted and of any
desired dimensions but they are preferably formed plain and adapted to fit onto the
end of the cigar and to project to about the outer parts of the lips, and they may be
made of any desired color being preferably colored like a cigar by a suitable
fast dye.
The shield may be slit, perforated cut or otherwise equivalently formed at the
end entered into the mouth either at the time of manufacture or at any time prior
to its application to the cigar, to permit of the suction of air lengthways through
the cigar, which latter also at its adjacent end would be slit perforated or cut as
customary, or the shield may be perforated or cut after being applied to the cigar,
and may be sold applied thereto, so that both may be conveniently slit, perforated
or cut by the smoker according to his fancy.
Examples of the flexible shields are represented on the accompanying drawings,
in which
Fig. represents a cigar with a flexible shield applied thereto, and Figs. 2
represent flexible shields separate from the cigar. 3, represents the cigar; 4, the
shield; and 5, perforations, cuts or slits made at the end thereof.
The shields are made by pressing, moulding or otherwise equivalently forming
them in or between moulds or moulding plates or the like made of the desired
formation from paper pulp and are subsequently parchmentized.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
1. A flexible mouth-shield adapted to be fitted onto the ends of cigars as afore-
said, manufactured by being pressed, moulded or otherwise equivalently formed
from paper pulp and subsequently parchmentized.
2. A flexible mouth-shield adapted to be fitted onto the ends of cigars as afore-
said, manufactured by being pressed, moulded or otherwise equivalently formed
ديم

page_text: from paper pulp and subsequently parchmentized and perforated, cut or slit at the
end thereof inserted into the mouth.
Dated this 2nd day of October 1890.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.