Improvements in the Manufacture of Cigarettes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd July, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 31st Mar., 1892-Accepted, 4th June, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Cigarettes.
We, FREDERICK LIVERATI ROVEDINO of 21 Mincing Lane in the City of
London, Inventor and THE LEVANT CIGARETTE MANUFACTURING COMPANY
LIMITED, of 56 St. Mary Axe, in the City of London, Cigarette Manufacturers,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of cigarettes.
For such purpose we employ suitable paper manufactured in such manner
that each sheet shall have a sufficient number of thickened straight portions formed
in it during the process of its manufacture. Such thickened portions will be of any
desired width and thickness and they will be formed at such distances from each
other as may be required.
When such paper is cut into pieces of the sizes required to form cigarettes it will
be so cut that each piece will have at one of its ends a thicker portion than the
remainder of such piece. When such piece is rolled and formed into the shape of
a cigarette, the end intended to enter the mouth of the smoker will be the thicker
end and the action of the saliva upon the paper will thus be very considerably
diminished.
Instead of employing for the purposes set forth, paper in which a thickened edge
or other portion has been made therein during the process of its manufacture as
described above, we sometimes use ordinary cigarette paper of uniform thickness
throughout; but in that case we thicken the piece of paper at one of its ends for
the purpose above described by turning over a sufficiently wide portion of the end
before rolling it into the cylindrical shape. Sometimes we turn over such end
portion more than once in order to obtain the necessary degree of thickness, or we
attach separate strips of paper cemented with mucilage or otherwise for the same
purpose.
Dated this Third day of July 1891.
FREDERICK LIVERATI ROVEDINO.
LEVANT CIGARETTE MANUFACTURING
COMPANY, LTD.,
A. P. Scaramanga, Director.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Cigarettes.
We, FREDERICK LIVERATI ROVEDINO of 21 Mincing Lane in the City of
London Inventor and THE LEVANT CIGARETTE MANUFACTURING COMPANY
LIMITED of 56 St. Mary Axe in the City of London, Cigarette Manufacturers
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :—
This invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of cigarettes
by making mouthpieces for the same in the manner hereinafter set forth.
For such purpose we employ paper of the description used in the manufacture of
cigarettes; but manufactured in the manner well known in paper trade so that each
sheet thereof shall have a number of thickened portions formed in it during the
process of its manufacture. Such thickened portions will be straight and of any
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page_text: desired width and thickness and they will be formed at such distances from each
other as may be required.
When such sheets of paper are cut into pieces of the shape and size required to
form the cases of cigarettes they will be so cut, that each piece thereof will have
at one of its edges a straight thicker portion than the remainder of such piece.
When such piece is rolled to form the case of the cigarette the end intended to be
the mouth piece will be the thicker end so that the softening action of the saliva of
the smoker upon the paper will thus be considerably diminished.
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Instead of employing for the purposes herein set forth, paper in which a thickened
edge or other portion has been made therein during the process of its manufacture
as described above, we sometimes use a suitable paper for cigarettes of uniform
thickness throughout; but in that event we thicken each piece of paper intended
to form the case, at one of its edges, for the purpose above described, by turning
over a sufficiently-wide portion of the paper before rolling it into the cylindrical
shape. Sometimes we turn over such end or edge portion more than once in order
to obtain the desired degree of thickness and the paper may be turned over in such
manner as to show the fold or folds either inside or outside the end of the cigarette
case as may be preferred.
By means of our herein above described novel method of forming the mouth
pieces of cigarettes we are enabled to dispense with the use of cement which is
sometimes considered objectionable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
1. In the manufacture of cigarettes the employment of suitable paper for the
cases thereof, in which a sufficiently thickened edge portion devised to form the
mouthpiece of the cigarette has been made or formed in such paper during
the process of its manufacture substantially as and for the purposes herein set
forth.
.
2. In the manufacture of cigarettes the employment of suitable paper for the
cases thereof in which the end portion devised to form the mouthpiece of the
cigarette is thickened by one of its edge portions being turned over or folded a
sufficient number of times substantially as and for the purposes herein described.
Dated this 29th day of March 1892.
FREDERICK L. ROVEDINO.
LEVANT CIGARETTE MANUFACTURING
COMPANY, LTD.,
A. P. Scaramanga, Director.
A. H. Penny, Secretary.
FREDERICK L. ROVEDINO.
LEVANT CIGARETTE MANUFACTURING
COMPANY, LTD.,
A. P. Scaramanga, Director.
A. H. Penny, Secretary.