TREATING AND APPLYING A CERTAIN VEGETABLE PLANT FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE TOBACCO PLANT
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to François César Buisson, of Nantiat, a Market
Town in the French Empire, Gentleman, for the Invention of "TREATING
AND APPLYING A CERTAIN VEGETABLE PLANT FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE
TOBACCO PLANT."
Sealed the 19th October 1866, and dated the 21st April 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said François César Buisson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the.
21st April 1866.
I, FRANÇOIS CESAR BUISSON, of Nantiat, a Market Town in the French
Empire, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "TREATING AND APPLYING A CERTAIN VEGETABLE PLANT FOR THE PURPOSES OF
THE TOBACCO PLANT," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in treating the leaves of the tuberous sunflower or
Jerusalem artichoke (helianthus tuberosus), and applying them to the pur-
poses for which the leaves of the tobacco plant are
now employed. I collect
the leaves of the tuberous sunflower, dry them, and submit them to the opera-
tions to which the leaves of the tobacco plant are ordinarily submitted in order
to manufacture therefrom a tobacco for smoking, cigars, rolls, cakes, snuff, or

page_text: other usual forms. The smoke arising from the tuberous sunflower leaves
when thus treated is odorous, sweet, and slightly acidulous, it is not acrid, and
has no poisonous effect.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said François César Buisson in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 20th October 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCOI8
CÉSAR BUISSON, of Nantiat," a Market Town in the French Empire, Gentle-
man, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Francois César Buisson, Her special licence that I, the said Francois
César Buisson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I; the said Francois César Buisson, 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 "TREATING AND APPLYING A CERTAIN VEGETABLE PLANT FOR THE PURPOSES OF
THE TOBACCO PLANT," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said.
Francois César Buisson, 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 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 Francois César Buisson, 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 thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in treating the leaves of the tuberous sunflower or
Jerusalem artichoke (helianthus tuberosus), and applying them to the pur-
poses for which the leaves of the tobacco plant have hitherto been employed.
I collect the leaves of the tuberous sunflower, dry them, and submit them to

page_text: the operations to which the leaves of the tobacco plant are ordinarily submitted
in order to manufacture therefrom a tobacco for smoking, cigars, rolls, cakes,
snuff, or other usual forms. The smoke arising from the tuberous sunflower
leaves when thus treated is odorous, sweet, and slightly acidulous, it is not
acrid, and has no poisonous effect.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim treating the leaves
of the tuberous sunflower or Jerusalem artichoke (helianthus tuberosus), sub-
stantially as herein-before described, and applying them to the purposes for
which the leaves of the tobacco plant have hitherto been employed.
In witness whereof, I, the said François César Buisson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of September, One thou-
sand eight hundred and sixty-six.
Witness,
JULES ARMENGAND,
Civil Engineer,
No. 28, Boulevard de Strasbourg,
á Paris.
F. C. BUISSON. (LS.)