IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF CUT TOBACCO FOR ITS BETTER PRE- SERVATION
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Clayton Collyer, of 152, St. Georges Street
East, in the County of Middlesex, Tobacconist, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF CUT TOBACCO FOR ITS BETTER PRE-
SERVATION."
Sealed the 17th December 1863, and dated the 6th July 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Clayton Collyer at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
6th July 1868..
I, GEORGE CLAYTON COLLYER, of 152, St. Georges Street East, in the
County of Middlesex, Tobacconist, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF CUT TOBACCO FOR ITS BETTER
PRESERVATION," to be as follows:-
My improvement in treating cut tobacco in order to its better preservation
consists, in submitting it to the action of oxide or binoxide of nitrogen or.
other suitable gas. I submit the cut tobacco to the action of the gas either
during the steaming process, or independently of that process, submitting it
to the action of the gas in the same manner as it is submitted to the steam.
Being impregnated or acted on by the gas as described, cut tobacco will be
preserved from decomposition a much longer time than is the case when
manufactured and treated in the ordinary manner.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Clayton Collyer in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 28th December 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
CLAYTON COLLYER, of 152, St. Georges Street East, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Tobacconist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said George Clayton Collyer, Her special licence that I, the said George
Clayton Collyer, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said George Clayton Collyer, 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF CUT TOBACCO FOR ITS BETTER
PRESERVATION," upon the condition, amongst others, that I, the said George
Clayton Collyer, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, 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
I 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 I, the said George Clayton Collyer, do hereby
declare the nature of my 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 :-
.
My improvements in treating cut tobacco in order to its better preservation'
consist in submitting it to the action of oxide or binoxide of nitrogen or
other suitable gas. I submit the cut tobacco to the action of the
gas either
during the steaming process, or independently of that process, submitting it.
to the action of the gas in the same manner as it is submitted to the steam,
or in any other manner that I find most convenient.
Cut tobacco impregnated or acted on by the gas as described will be pre-
served from decomposition a much longer time than is the case when manu-
factured and treated in the ordinary manner.

page_text: Cut tobacco treated by the method herein-before described is much brighter
in appearance, and is better for the purpose of smoking than when treated in
the ordinary manner.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, I wish it to be
understood that what I claim is, the treatment of cut tobacco by submitting
it to the action of oxide or binoxide of nitrogen or other suitable gas as
herein-before set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Clayton Collyer, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.