IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF CIGARS AND MODE OF LIGHTING THE SAME
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Graham Tatters, Walter Keeble, and
Benjamin Newbery, all of Plymouth, in the County of Devon,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF CIGARS
AND MODE OF LIGHTING THE SAME."
Sealed the 30th June 1868, and dated the 20th March 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Graham Tatters,
Walter Keeble, and Benjamin Newbery at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 20th March
1868.
We, JAMES GRAHAM TATTERS, WALTER KEEBLE, and BENJAMIN
NEWBERY, all of Plymouth, in the County of Devon, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION
OP CIGARS AND MODE OF LIGHTING THE SAME," to be as follows:--
This Invention consists in an improvement in the preparation of cigars
whereby they are rendered self-igniting or capable of carrying the means
of ignition without the necessity of resorting to any extraneous source of
light, whilst at the same time they are when so prepared perfectly free
from danger or probability of ignition when packed or during transit.

page_text: In the first instance the ends of the cigars which are intended to be
ignited are dipped into a mixture composed of gum, nitrate of potash,
charcoal, chlorate of potash, and water, such mixture being formed of a
proper consistency, so as to set hard and solid when dry. The composition
thus prepared will not ignite by friction. Sheets of paper are then
taken, one side thereof coated with gum and the other side thereof
coated with a mixture of gum and amorphous phosphorus, the paper
being afterwards dried. It is then cut into small narrow strips which
are rolled around the cigars about the middle or any other suitable
part thereof, each strip being secured in its position by wetting the
end and causing it to adhere to that part which is already rolled around
the cigar. Care must be taken in performing this part of the operation
that the paper be not gummed to the cigar, lest in tearing it off the
exterior of the cigar should be injured. In order to light the cigar
the band of paper should be removed therefrom and struck against
the end of the cigar which has been prepared as before mentioned,
when the same will be immediately ignited.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Graham Tatters, Walter Keeble, and;
Benjamin Newbery in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th
August 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JAMES
GRAHAM TATTERS, WALTER KEEBLE, and BENJAMIN NEWBERY, all of
Plymouth, in the County of Devon, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said James Graham Tatters, Walter Keeble,
and Benjamin Newbery, Her special licence that we, the said James
Graham Tatters, Walter Keeble, and Benjamin Newbery, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said James Graham
Tatters, Walter Keeble, and Benjamin Newbery, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,

page_text: 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
PREPARATION OF CIGARS AND MODE OF LIGHTING THE SAME," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said James Graham Tatters, Walter
Keeble, and Benjamin Newbery, our executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly 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 filed 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 we, the said James Graham Tatters, Walter
Keeble, and Benjamin Newbery, do hereby declare the nature of our
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say :-
Our said Invention consists in certain improvements in the preparation
of cigars whereby they are rendered self-igniting or capable of carrying
the means of ignition without the necessity of resorting to any extra-
neous source of heat, whilst at the same time they are when so prepared
perfectly free from danger or possibility of ignition when packed or
during transit.
In the first instance the ends of the cigars which are intended to be
ignited are dipped into a mixture prepared and composed as follows:-
Eight parts by weight of boiling water are poured into a mortar, and
one part by weight of powdered gum Arabic or other gum possessing
similar properties added thereto. The gum is intimately mixed with the
boiling water until every particle thereof has combined with the latter.
Four parts by weight of fine vegetable charcoal are then added to the
mucilage thus formed and well mixed or ground therewith; four parts
by weight of powdered nitrate of potash are afterwards added, and the
whole intimately mixed or ground; twelve parts by weight of powdered
chlorate of potash being finally added, and the whole combination of
substances well mixed, but not ground as in the previous cases. The
composition, if properly prepared, will be of such a consistency as to set
hard and solid when dry, and not ignite by friction. Sheets of paper

page_text: are then taken, one side thereof being coated with gum or other suitable
adhesive material, and the other side coated with a composition formed
as follows: Two parts by weight of boiling water are poured into a
mortar, and one part by weight of powdered gum Arabic or other gum
possessing similar properties added to and mixed therewith until every
particle of the gum has combined with the water; four parts by weight
of amorphous phosphorus are then added, and the whole mixed together.
The composition is then evenly spread upon the paper and dried. The
paper having been thus prepared is then cut into small narrow strips,
which are rolled around the cigars about the middle or any other
suitable part thereof, each strip being secured in its position by wetting
the end of the gummed side and causing it to adhere to that part which
is already rolled around the cigar. Care must be taken in performing
this part of the operation that the paper be not gummed to the cigar
itself, lest in tearing it off the exterior of the cigar should be injured.
In order to light the cigar, the band of paper should be removed
therefrom and struck against the end of the cigar which has been
prepared as before mentioned, when the same will be immediately
ignited.
Having thus fully declared and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we would
observe in conclusion, that what we consider novel and original and
therefore claim as constituting the Invention secured to us by the said
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent are, the methods of treating
and preparing cigars as and for the purposes herein-before set forth
and described, or any mere modifications thereof.
In witness whereof, we, the said James Graham Tatters, Walter
Keeble, and Benjamin Newbery, have hereunto set our hands and
scals, this Twenty-fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
JAMES GRAHAM TATTERS. (L.S.)
WALTER KEEBLE.
BENJAMIN NEWBERY.
(L.S.)
(L.S.)
JAMES GRAHAM TATTERS. (L.s.)
WALTER KEEBLE.
BENJAMIN NEWBERY.
(L.S.)
(L.S.)