New or Improved Means for Lighting Cigarettes and Cigars.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Aug., 1897-Accepted, 16th Oct., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Means for Lighting Cigarettes and Cigars.
I, MARTIN HUGGARD, of Carcur House, Wexford, Ireland, Solicitor, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
My invention has for its object a lighter for cigarettes and cigars by means of
which they may be lit without resorting to the use of the ordinary match, fuse,
or the like, and lighting in windy or exposed situations thus greatly facilitated.
In carrying my invention into practical effect, I attach to one side of a strip of
paper or other suitable material a strip of very fine wire gauze, having affixed to
the centre, and so as to project slightly to a peak bor point at either side thereof,
a cap of any suitable ignition compound. This lighting strip may form part of
the cigarette paper, or wrapper, or may be made separately and afterwards attached
to a cigar or cigarette. The lighter is of the same width as the diameter of the
cigarette or cigar to which it is to be attached, and is affixed to the top of the cigar
or cigarette as hereinafter described.
I will now proceed to describe my invention in connection with the accom-
panying sheet of drawings in which the same letters of reference indicate like
parts in the various figures.
Fig. 1 is a plan of a cigarette paper or wrapper having the lighter made in one
piece therewith.
The cigarette wrapper or paper a is provided with the usual gummed edge b
and has a flap or extension c at one end thereof to which is stuck or affixed in
any convenient manner a piece of very fine wire gauze d having attached to the
centre thereof a cap of ignition compound e. The flap or extension c is provided
with a coat of mucilage or of any other suitable adhesive substance on its inner
surface as at f, and when the tobacco has been rolled up in the wrapper a and
the cigarette thus made, the flap or extension c is bent over and secured in position
by having its free end stuck down, by means of the said adhesive substance, to
the side of the cigarette. When it is now required to light the cigarette it is only
necessary to rub the ignition cap end thereof on any suitable surface, when the
said cap will ignite and be firmly held against the end of the cigarette by means
of the fine wire gauze until a sufficient light has been obtained.
Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a cigarette rolled up and having the lighter
attached thereto and ready for use.
Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of a cigarette having the lighter attached thereto
and shows the cap of ignition substance e protruding on either side of the fine
wire gauze d.
Fig. 4 is a plan of the under side of a lighter made separately and for use with
either a cigar or cigarette and consists of a strip of paper or other suitable material c
with a strip of fine wire gauze d, having an ignition cap e affixed as previously
described to the centre thereof, attached thereto. The under surface of this strip
being provided with a coat of mucilage or other suitable adhesive substance f.

page_text: This lighter, which is of the same width as the diameter of the top of the
cigarette or cigar to which it is to be attached, is placed on the one end of the
cigarette or top of the cigar, so that the ignition cap comes in contact with
the tobacco; the ends of the strip are then bent down and fixed, by means of the
adhesive substance f, to the sides of the cigar or cigarette; the latter is now ready
for use and can be lit as previously described.
Fig. 5 shows the reverse or top side of Fig. 4.
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. An ignition cap for cigarettes consisting of a flap or extension made in one
piece with the cigarette wrapper and having its inner side lined with a piece of
wire gauze having a cap of ignition substance affixed thereto, the said flap or
extension being provided with a coat of mucilage or other adhesive substance and
being turned down over and secured to the top of the cigarette after the latter is
rolled, substantially as and for the purpose herein described and illustrated.
2. an ignition cap for attachment to cigars and cigarettes consisting of a strip
of paper or other suitable substance lined with a piece of fine wire gauze having a
cap of ignition substance affixed thereto and having a coat of mucilage or other
suitable adhesive on the inner side thereof substantially as and for the purpose
herein described and illustrated.
3. Cigars and cigarettes having attached thereto ignition caps consisting of
strips of paper or other suitable substance each lined with a piece of fine wire gauze
and having a cap of ignition substance affixed thereto and having a coat of muci-
lage or other suitable adhesive on the inner side thereof substantially as herein
described and illustrated.
this 4th day or August 1897.
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CASTLE SMITH,
'Invention" Office, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.