Improvements in Mouthpieces for Oigarettes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Nov., 1892-Accepted, 17th Déc., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mouthpieces for Oigarettes.
I, WALTER CHARLES PERRINS of Albert Villa, Olton near Birmingham,
Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :---
This invention refers to mouthpieces for cigarettes, and has for object the
prevention of the tobacco from touching the lips or tongue while smoking.
It consists of a piece of tissue paper soaked in an alcoholic solution of gumlac,
(either brown or colourless) which renders the paper waterproof, or other suitable
material formed into a movable band which encircles the cigarette.
When the cigarette is required for use the end of it is slightly moistened. The
forefinger and thumb are also moistened and the band slipped by them along the
cigarette so as to project about a quarter of an inch over the end of it.
The moistening renders the mouthpiece airtight. The cigarette is now ready for
use. The object of the band projecting over the end of the cigarette is to prevent
the tobacco from coming into contact with the lips or tongue.
If desired the mouthpiece can be gummed inside so as to form a perfect union.
Dated this 4th day of February 1892.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, London, S.E., Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mouthpieces for Cigarettes.
I, WALTER CHARLES PERRINS of Albert Villa, Olton near Birmingham,
Jeweller, 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 refers to cigarettes or to cigars of uniform thickness and is
designed to protect the mouth of the smoker from contact with the tobacco.
My improved mouthpiece consists of a small movable cylindrical band or
wrapper about three quarters of an inch in length made of thin paper or other
suitable material, which is of such a size as to encircle and slide easily along the
cigarette.
The paper or other material of which the mouthpiece is composed is made
waterproof, so as not to be affected by the moisture of the mouth. This can be
effected in several ways but by preference I soak it in an alcoholic solution of
gum-lac, either brown or colourless.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 shows a cigarette a, with my improved mouth piece b, placed near the
middle of its length.
Fig. 2 shows a cigarette with the mouth piece b, drawn to the end ready for use.
Fig. 3 shows a view in perspective of the mouthpiece a, detached from the
cigarette.
As shewn in Fig. 2 when not required for immediate use the mouthpiece lies on
the cigarette at a short distance from its end. When the cigarette is about to be
consumed, its end is first moistened, and the mouthpiece drawn along so as to
project about a quarter of an inch over the end. Should the mouthpiece be hard
to move the finger and thumb of the operator should also be moistened, when its
removal can be easily effected.

page_text: The end of the cigarette having been moistened as aforesaid and the mouthpiece
drawn over it, the moisture will cause an airtight joint between it and the cigarette,
whereby the band becomes an effective mouth piece, protecting the tongue and lips
of the smoker from contact with the tobacco. If preferred a thin coat of gum
can be laid inside in the band or on the end of the cigarette so as to form when
wetted an adhesive surface between the two.
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 :-
In a cigarette or cigar of uniform diameter the combination therewith of a
movable mouthpiece consisting of a cylindrical band of waterproofed paper or other
suitable material, and with or without the addition of some adhesive substance to
attach it to the cigarette or cigar, as herein described and set forth.
Dated this 3rd day of November 1892.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, London, Patent Agent.