IMPROVEMENTS IN CIGARETTES AND CIGARS
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard William Carter, of 7, Paulet Road, Camberwell,
in the County of Surrey, and Albert Domeier, of La Bagatelle, Blackheath, in
the County of Kent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CIGARETTES AND
CIGARS."
Sealed the 27th May 1879, and dated the 7th December 1878.
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard William Carter and
Albert Domeier at the Office of the Coinmissioners of Patents on the 7th
December 1878.
RICHARD WILLIAM CARTER, of 7, Paulet Road, Camberwell, in the County of
Surrey, and ALBERT DOMEIER, of La Bagatelle, Blackheath, in the County of Kent.
IMPROVEMENTS IN CIGARETTES AND CIGARS."
This Invention has for its object improvements in cigarettes and cigars.
For this purpose we apply to one end of a cigarette or cigar a composition analo-
gous to that which the ordinary well known safety matches now carry, and which
will ignite when rubbed on a corresponding composition applied to the package in
which such cigarettes or cigars are contained.
We prefer that the paper at the end of a cigarette should be twisted together or
compressed to bring it to a point before having the igniting composition applied
to it.
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By the means above described we dispense entirely with the necessity of using
separate matches or fusees for lighting, whilst at the same time the cigarettes or
cigars can without difficulty be lighted in the open air.
The composition carried by the cigarette or cigar is also perfectly harmless and
free from smell, so that the flavour of the tobacco is not in any way altered by the
burning of the igniting composition.
"

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Richard William Carter and Albert Domeier in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 7th June 1879.
RICHARD WILLIAM CARTER, of 7, Paulet Road, Camberwell, in the County of
Surrey, and ALBERT DOMEIER, of La Bagatelle, Blackheath, in the County of Kent.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CIGARETTES AND CIGARS."
This Invention has for its object improvements in cigarettes and cigars.
For this purpose we apply to one end of a cigarette or cigar a chemical com-
position which will ignite when rubbed on a corresponding composition applied to
the box or package in which such cigarettes or cigars are contained. By a corre-
sponding composition, we mean one adapted to ignite the composition on the cigar
or cigarette when the one composition is rubbed against the other, the composition
applied to the ends of the cigarettes being incapable of ignition by rubbing it upon
an ordinary or unprepared roughened surface.
By this Invention we dispense entirely with the necessity of using separate
matches or fuzees for lighting cigarettes or cigars, whilst at the same time they can
without difficulty be lighted in the open air. Moreover the composition we apply
to the cigarette or cigar is perfectly harmless and free from smell, so that the
flavour of the tobacco is not in any way altered by the burning of the igniting com-
position.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention we will proceed to describe
more fully the manner in which we perform the same.
We apply to the ends of cigarettes the following compositions :-
COMPOSITION No. 1.
Chlorate of potash
Gun cotton
Carbonate of magnesia
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20 parts
0.6 "
6.5 "
These are mixed with a solution of gum arabic and water until perfectly
COMPOSITION No. 2.
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Chlorate of potash
Powdered glass
Bisulphide of iron
Peroxide of manganese
Bichromate of potash
Blotting paper
Gum arabic
Flower sulphur
mixed with water.
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11.0 parts
1.5
1.5
3
"
"
1.0
22
2.0
3
"
.25
1.25 "
0.5 "
"
The white composition No. 1 being in a smooth and well assimilated mass is fixed 4
on the end of the cigarette, either by dipping or other means so as to form on the
end of the cigarette a short truncated cone of the material.
The cigarette is then placed in a drying closet, and after the composition has
become hard its end is redipped in composition No. 2, and again dried.
The corresponding striking composition for igniting the composition No. 24
applied to the ends of the cigarettes is composed of
Amorphous phosphorus
Peroxide of manganese
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mixed with a solution of gum arabic in water.
5.0 parts
6.5 parts
This composition can be applied by means of a brush to the exterior of the boxes 5
in which the cigarettes are to be contained.

page_text: In the same way the lighting ends of cigars may have applied to them a com-
position which contains no phosphorus or hurtful ingredients, and which conse-
quently does not ignite when rubbed on a roughened surface, but which can be
ignited by rubbing it against a composition containing amorphous phosphorus
applied to the box or case in which the cigars are contained.
Having thus fully described the said Invention and the manner of performing
the same, we would remark that we are aware that it has before been proposed to
apply to the ends of cigarettes and cigars a composition that shall ignite when
rubbed against any roughened surface, as in the case of an ordinary friction match,
but in such cases the ignitable composition has necessarily contained phosphorus or
other material injurious or prejudicial to health, and which would also impart an
unpleasant flavour to the cigarette or cigar when smoked, and which is liable to
accidental ignition in the pocket, consequently such method of preparing cigarettes
and cigars has not come into general use; but by our Invention these defects are
entirely remedied, and no deleterious or noxious ingredients are applied to the
cigarette or cigar, but the phosphorus used for effecting the ignition of the com-
pound on the cigarette or cigar is applied in its amorphous state to the box or
package in which the cigarettes or cigars are contained, and we claim, —
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The improvements in cigarettes or cigars whereby they are prepared or provided
with a chemical composition which will not impart to them any deleterious or
noxious quality, and is not ignitable upon any ordinary or unprepared surface, but
which may be ignited by friction upon a surface also prepared with a suitable
composition, as above set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard William Carter, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy nine.
RICHARD WILLIAM CARTER. (L.S.)