Improvements in the Manufacture of Cigarettes.
Year: 1894

page_text: This Print is in accordance with the Original Specification as it stands after
Amendment (under Section 18 of the Patents, &c. Act, 1883) as allowed by
the decision of the Comptroller General of the 30th day of June 1898.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Cigarettes.
I, GEORGE COPE DIXON, of 217 Graham Road, Hackney in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for its object to improve the construction and manufacture of
cigarettes so as to prevent escape of the contained tobacco, contact of the tongue
or mouth therewith and fracture of the outer case should the end of the same
become soddened by the saliva.
In manufacturing my improved cigarette, I form the case of suitable paper in
cylindrical form filled with tobacco, say flush with one or both ends and I lock the
end of the cigarette and impound the tobacco by filling the stump of the cigarette
over the tobacco with wax or wax composition of a suitably tasteless description,
which on cooling will set hard and firm, or sufficiently so for my purpose and this
end I pierce.
To strengthen or reinforce the mouth end of the case I find it convenient to
apply thereover a second cylinder of paper, foil or other suitable leaf or material;
or if the re-enforce paper or other material be capable of such treatment I fold it
partially, wholly or doubly before forming a cylinder of it to apply on the
cigarette case.
Having attained my short reenforce or strengthening over case I slide its end
from being flush with the stump of the mouth end to form a slightly projecting
wall all round the same and the tobacco, or I so form it at first and then this
recess I utilize to form the gauge or measure of the amount of wax or composition
to form the sealing.
This sealing may have the draught hole or holes pierced or formed in any
convenient direction either longitudinally, transversely or otherwise either before
or after the material has set hard by a hot or other piercer.
The wax or sealing material may be applied by pouring, dipping or in any other
convenient method.
In practice I sometimes insert into the tubular cover of the tobacco of the
cigarette at the mouthpiece end a short length of moulded or shaped charcoal or
other suitable porous or filtering matter or burned clay or stoppering material of
somewhat solid character and through this material I form a draw hole or holes or
the inserted piece may be formed with a large bore and this may be closed by a
film of suitable wax composition to retain the tobacco.
The case, or cover, of the cigarette I secure by the tightness of this overlying

page_text: material to the inserted perforated block or I further secure this by the cement, .
wax or other suitable connecting means referred to.
Dated the 3rd day of November 1894.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56 Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 shows my improved cigarette by a part sectional view.
Fig. 2 is a sectional view, and Fig. 3 an end view, of the mouthpiece end drawn
to a larger scale in an unfinished state.
Figs. 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 show details to be described.
Fig. 9 shows a side view, partly in section, of a modified form of my
improvements.
Figs. 10, 11, 12 and 13 show details of the same, to be described.
Figs. 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 show further modifications of my improved cigarette,
to be hereinafter described.
Referring to the cigarette shown in Figs. 1-8 in order to strengthen or
reinforce the.mouth end of the cover a I find it convenient to apply thereover, at
the mouthpiece end b, a second cylinder c of paper, foil or other suitable leaf or
material; or if the reinforce paper or other material be capable of such treatment
I fold it partially, wholly or doubly before forming a cylinder of it to apply on
the cigarette case a. Fig. 4 shows by an edge view one way in which the
cylinder c may be folded by way of example. Having attained my short reinforce
or strengthening over case c I slide its end from being flush with the stump of the
mouth end to form a slightly projecting wall c¹ all round the same and the tobacco,
or I so fòrm it at first, and then this recess I utilize to form the gauge or measure
of the amount of wax or composition d to form the sealing.
For the purpose of preventing the heat from the burning tobacco having any
deleterious effect by coming into contact with the wax-like composition d and with
the further object of absorbing all the nicotine contained in the cigarette I insert a
disc of Italian asbestos e or other suitable material between the tobacco a¹ and the
wax composition d. Figs. 5 and 6 show by edge view and front view respectively,
the asbestos disc e separately. The description of asbestos paper that I. have

page_text: found best adapted for the purpose is that known in the trade as Italian asbestos
paper.
Figs. 7 and 8 show by sectional view and front view respectively the wax-like
composition d. This sealing may have the draught hole (or holes) f pierced or
formed in any convenient direction either longitudinally, transversely or otherwise
either before or after the material has set hard by a hot or other piercer. The
wax or sealing material may be applied by pouring, dipping or in any other
convenient method.
In practice, I sometimes form my improved cigarette, as shown in Figs. 9-13,
by inserting into the tubular cover a of the tobacco a¹ of the cigarette at the
mouthpiece end ba short length of moulded or shaped charcoal or other suitable
porous or filtering matter or burnt clay or stoppering material y of somewhat solid
character and through this material I form a draw hole g¹ (or draw-holes), or the
inserted piece may be formed with a large bore and this may be closed by a film of
wax composition d to retain the tobacco a'. Figs. 10 and 11 show by sectional
and front views respectively the stoppering material y and Figs. 12 and 13 show
by like views the wax composition.
The case or cover a of the cigarette I secure by the tightness of this overlying
material to the inserted perforated block or I further secure this by the cement,
wax or other suitable connecting means referred to. The mouthpiece end 6 may
also be reinforced by applying to it a second cylinder c as shown with respect to
Figs. 1-8.
Fig. 14 shows by an outside view and Fig. 15 by a part sectional view a modified
form of my improved cigarette in which the wax composition d is simply applied to
the end of the cigarette, at the mouthpiece end b, a draft passage f, as already
described with respect to the previous figs., is formed or pierced through the wax
composition d.
In the modification shown in Figs. 16 and 17 the wax composition is applied
some distance up the length as well as at the end.
Fig. 18 shows a further modification in which the paper or other case a is not
entirely filled with tobacco, but a recess is left at the mouthpiece end b. This
recess is filled with wax composition d which has a draft passage f pierced
through it.
I find a composition analogous to tasteless sealing wax to answer well.
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. The construction of cigarettes as shown and described with reference to
Figs. 1 to 8.
2. The construction of cigarettes, with plug or stoppering piece secured by a
covering of wax or equivalent composition, substantially as described and shown
with reference to Figs. 9 to 13.
3. The combination with either of the foregoing constructions of cigarettes of an
intervening disc or piece of asbestos applied substantially as described with refer-
ence to Figs. 1 to 8.
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Bated the 17th day of July 1905.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56 Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.