IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS AND IN APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE SAID MANUFACTURE.
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Diedrich Leonardt, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS AND IN APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE
SAID MANUFACTURE.'
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Diedrich Leonardt at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 1st June 1875.
I, DIEDRICH LEONARDT, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS, AND IN APPARATUS TO BE
EMPLOYED IN THE said Manufacture," to be as follows:—
My Invention has for its object the manufacture of cigars uniform in
shape, and in the compactness of the tobacco leaf of which they are
made, so that they not only present an elegant and uniform appearance,
but burn with great regularity.

page_text: Cigars made according to my Invention have all the advantages of
cigars made wholly by hand, and have a much more elegant and
uniform appearance.
I will describe the manufacture of a cigar according to the method
and by the use of the apparatus which constitute my Invention.
I make the inside of the cigar by the ordinary method from damped
tobacco leaf, but before finishing the cigar by the application of the
outer covering I operate upon it by an apparatus constructed and used
in the following manner :-)
-The said apparatus consists essentially of a
mould made of strong paper, cardboard, gutta percha, sheet metal, or
other hard but elastic material. The said mould has internally and
externally the figure of the cigar to be made, it is slit longitudinally on
one side throughout its whole length so that it can be readily opened to
permit of the introduction of the inside of the cigar to be operated upon.
The damped inside of the cigar is introduced into the mould, which by
its clasticity closes upon it. In order to determine the degree of
pressure with which the mould presses the cigar, a slightly conical tubo
fitting the outside of the mould is passed on to the mould by a sliding
motion being passed to the requisite position on the mould to give the
desired pressure on the cigar.
After the cigar has been under pressure in the mould for about ten
minutes its form becomes sufficiently fixed, and the mould may be
removed from it by first sliding the conical tube off the mould and
opening the mould.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Diedrich Leonardt, Her special license
that I, the said Diedrich Leonardt, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Diedrich Leonardt, my executors,
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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS AND IN APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE SAID
MANUFACTURE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Diedrich Leonardt, my exccutors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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
filled 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 Diedrich Leonardt, 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, that is to say:
My Invention has for its object the manufacture of cigars uniform in
shape, and in the compactness of the tobacco leaf of which they are
made, so that they not only present an elegant and uniform appearance
but burn with great regularity.
Cigars made according to my Invention have all the advantages of
cigars made wholly by hand, and have a much more elegant and uniform
appearance.
I will describe the manufacture of a cigar according to the method
and by the use of the apparatus which constitute my Invention.
I make the inside of the cigar by the ordinary method from damped
tobacco leaf, but before finishing the cigar by the application of the
outer covering I operate upon it by an apparatus constructed and used
in the following manner:-The said apparatus consists essentially of a

page_text: mould made of strong paper, cardboard, gutta percha, sheet metal, or
other hard but elastic material. The said mould has internally and
externally the figure of the cigar to be made, it is slit longitudinally on
one side throughout its whole length, so that it can be readily opened to
permit of the introduction of the inside of the cigar to be operated upon.
The damped inside of the cigar is introduced into the mould, which by
its elasticity closes upon it. In order to determine the degree of
pressure with which the mould presses the cigar, a slightly conical tubo
fitting the outside of the mould is passed on to the mould by a sliding
motion being passed to the requisite position on the mould to give the
desired pressure on the inside of the cigar.
After the cigar has been under pressure in the mould for about ten
minutes its form becomes sufficiently fixed, and the mould may be
removed from it by first sliding the conical tube off the mould and
opening the mould.
The outer covering is applied to the cigar in the ordinary way.
The mould may be made in two halves jointed together by a hinge,
but I prefer to make it in one piece, as described.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying
Drawing the manner in which my Invention may be performed.
Figure 1 represents in side elevation and cross section a mould or
apparatus constructed according to my Invention for operating upon
the damped inside of the cigar prior to finishing it by the application of
the outer covering. Figure 2 represents the same open with the damped
inside of the cigar therein. The said mould is marked a, and consists of 2
an elastic tube open at one end and slit longitudinally through its whole
length, and having internally and externally the figure of the cigars to
be made. The said mould a closes by its elasticity, and when closed its
edges overlap one another, in the manner shown in the section of
Figure 1. On opening the clastic mould a by its edges, as represented a
in Figure 2, the inside of the cigar may be introduced into it. On
releasing the edges of the mould a the said mould closes upon the inside
of the cigar.
Figure 3 represents in elevation and section the mould a, Figure 1,
to which is applied the slightly conical tube c for giving the required 3
pressure to the inside of the cigar within the mould. The said conical

page_text: tube c is represented separately in Figure 4. The tube c is passed on to
the mould a from the smaller cnd by a sliding motion, and is pressed
towards the larger end of the mould until the desired pressure is put
upon the inside of the cigar. After the figure of the damped inside of
the cigar has become set the conical tube c is removed from the mould
by a sliding motion, when the mould may be opened, as seen in Figure 2,
and the inside of the cigar may be taken from tho mould and finished
in the ordinary way.
When the mould is made of strong paper, gutta percha, or other
clastic material capable of being moulded or shaped on a mandril, I
prefer to make the said mould on a solid moulding peg or mandril of the
kind represented in Figure 5, the said pcg or mandril having the
general figure of the cigar to be made
When the mould is made of slicet metal it is bent or rolled up into a
tubular figure in the ordinary way of bending or rolling up shoot metal
for other purposes.
Instead of making the mould of one piece of paper, gutta percha, or
other like material, or of sheet metal, as described, the said mould may
be made in halves jointed together.
Figure 6 represents in clevation, and Figures 7 and 8 in section a
paper or non-metallic mould made in halves d, e, the inner edges of the
half moulds d, e, being jointed together by a joint of paper or other
elastic material marked f, the said joint f being formed by pasting or
otherwise attaching a strip to the outer sides of the halves, as seen in
the section.
In Figures 6 and 7 the mould d, e, is represented open, and in
Figure 8 closed, the pressure tube being marked g.
Figure 9 represents in clevation and Figure 10 in section an open
mould made in halves and of sheet metal; and Figures 11 and 12
represent the same closed with the pressure tube applied to it. The
metallic halves of the mould are marked h, i, and are jointed together
at k, k. The pressure tube is marked l.
Figure 13 represents in elevation a mould for the making of cigars,
having a different shape from that described, that is, the said mould is
open at both ends.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I

page_text: claim as my Invention of improvements in the manufacture of cigars,
and in apparatus to be employed in the said manufacture,-making
cigars by the method and by the use of the apparatus herein-before
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, that is to say,
giving cigars uniformlty in shape and compactness by subjecting the
damped inside of the cigar prior to finishing it by the outer covering to
-the pressure of a tubular mould consisting of one piece, or of two hinged
or jointed pieces of strong paper, cardboard, gutta percha, sheet metal,
or other hard but clastic material, as described and illustrated, the
requisite pressure being put upon the inside of the cigar contained in
the mould by means of a conical tube sliding outside the said mould,
substantially as described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Diedrich Leonardt, have hercunto
set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of November, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.
Witness,
JACOB BECKER,
Cologne,
Germany.
DIEDRICH LEONARDT. (L.S.)