IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR."
Year: 1878

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Maurice Jacobs at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th November 1878.
GEORGE MAURICE JACOBS, of Brondesbury Villas, Kilburn, in the County of
Middlesex, Merchant. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS AND IN
APPARATUS THEREFOR."
My Invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of cigars and to
apparatus to be employed therefor.
Hitherto in the manufacture of cigars by the aid of wooden or other moulds or
forms great uncertainty has existed as to whether each cigar will have sufficient
draft to smoke freely; this difficulty of obtaining a proper draft is partly due to the
compression of the filler by the inner wrapper or binder.
But according to my Invention I dispense with this binder or inner wrapper
and form the cigar as follows, that is to say:-'
-The bunch of tobacco is rolled to
the proper thickness, and then a strip of thin paper or other suitable material is
rolled round the said bunch. When the bunch is dry, and is removed from the said
wooden or other mould to be finished by the addition of the outer wrapper, this strip of
paper or other material is taken off; thus it will be seen that the cigar will have
only one wrapper; the draft will therefore be very free by reason of the com-
paratively slight compression of the filler.
I also use in my improved manufacture a brass or other mould, tube, or socket,
wherein the ends of my cigars are inserted and pressed to form thereon a perfect
point, thus obviating the necessity for the skill heretofore required to form the
point perfectly by hand when wrapping the cigar with the outer covering.
Another part of my Invention relates to the piercing of the cigar near its point
with a hole or holes, which may be round, oblong, or of any other shape. The said
mould is perforated with holes corresponding with those to be formed in the cigar;
and I form these holes whilst the cigar is in the said brass or other mould by means
of a wire piercer passed through the said holes in the mould or tube when the cigar
is damp or freshly made: After forming the point on the cigar the said mould or
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page_text: tube can be heated by gas, hot water, or steam, or otherwise, to dry and give
firmness to the point and the indented or punctured holes of the cigar.
My Invention obviates the necessity for the wrapper or outward covering of the
cigar being cut, bitten, slit, or broken in any manner previous to or while smoking
the same, the continuity of the wrapper or outward covering remaining intact to. 5.
its extreme point. Therefore the cigar can be smoked with a perfect point to its
end, whereas it is well known that with ordinary cigars the wrapper is liable to be..
unfurled and destroyed before the cigar is entirely used. And by reason of the
wrapper of my cigar being closed less saliva will enter the same during the smoking...
of the cigar, and the injurious effects of having a ragged end on the cigar when 1
smoking is avoided; and the cigar may be smoked with a perfect point and a
secure enclosure of the filling. Moreover, by my Invention I effect economy in the
manufacture of cigars for the following reasons, that is to say-Broken tobacco,
known in the trade as "scraps," can be used, as well as what are termed "long
fillers." In ordinary cigars if scraps or small pieces of tobacco have been used as the 1
fillers, when the wrapper is cut, bitten, slit, or broken in any manner the said scraps
or small pieces enter the mouth, But by my Invention the whole filler or contents
of the wrapper will be securely enclosed, and will remain so throughout the
smoking of the cigar.