IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS TO FACILITATE THE ROLLING OR MAKING OF CIGARETTES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Wallace Pope, of Boston, in the State of
Massachusetts, in the United States of America, but at present of
23, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, for tho
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS TO FACILITATE THE
ROLLING OR MAKING OF CIGARETTES."-A communication from abroad
by Albert Augustus Pope, of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts,
in the United States of America.
Sealed the 18th February 1876, and dated the 29th November 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Wallace Pope
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 29th November 1875.
I, ARTHUR WALLACE POPE, of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts,
in the United States of America, but at present of 23, Southampton
Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS TO FACILITATE
THE ROLLING OR MAKING OF CIGARETTES," a communication to me from
abroad by Albert Augustus Pope, of Boston, in the State of Massa-
chusetts, in the United States of America, to be as follows:-
The Invention has for its object improvements in means or apparatus

page_text: to facilitate the rolling or making of cigarettes. For this purpose two
jaws are connected together by hinge or pin joint. One of these jaws
has mounted therein a roller extending from end to end thereof, and in
the other is mounted a curved shelf or tray. Around the roller and the
tray or shelf an endless apron or belt is passed, which occupies the
entire length of the roller. The ends of one jaw are formed with curved
guides and projections, whilst the ends of the other jaw are formed with
curved guides forming recesses into which the projections before men-
tioned are received, but leaving narrow spaces between them, and
thereby forming guides for receiving the ends of the cigarette paper and
closing them in when forming or rolling the cigarette.
To use the apparatus a paper at least one-fourth of an inch longer
than the apparatus should be employed; partially open and spread the
tobacco across the width of the belt, holding the exposed roller towards
you; close the apparatus, and with your two thumbs draw the belt
towards you to shape the tobacco; then insert the paper between the
jaws and finish the cigarette, always rolling towards you. If the paper
wrinkles ease the pressure of the thumbs, and draw the paper slightly at
the ends.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Arthur Wallace Pope in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 29th May 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARTHUR
WALLACE POPE, of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, in the United
States of America, but at present of 23, Southampton Buildings, in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of November, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in
the thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and a
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Arthur Wallace Pope,
Her special license, that I, the said Arthur Wallace Pope, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Arthur
Wallace Pope, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time, and at all 3

page_text: 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS TO FACILITATE THE
ROLLING OR MAKING OF CIGARETTES," a communication to me from abroad
by Albert Augustus Pope, of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, in
the United States of America, upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Arthur Wallace Pope, 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 Arthur Wallace Pope, do hereby
declare the nature of the 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 :-
The Invention has for its object improvements in means or apparatus
to facilitate the rolling or making of cigarettes. For this purpose two
jaws are connected together by hinge or pin joint. One of these jaws
has mounted therein a roller extending from end to end thereof, and in
the other is mounted a curved shelf or tray. Around the roller and the
tray or shelf an endless apron or belt is passed, which occupies the
entire length of the roller. The ends of one jaw are formed with curved
guides and projections, whilst the ends of the other jaw are formed with
curved guides forming recesses into which the projections before men-
tioned are received, but leaving narrow spaces between them, and
thereby forming guides for receiving the ends of the cigarette paper and
closing them in when forming or rolling the cigarette.
And in order that the said Invention may be more clearly understood
and readily carried into effect, I will proceed, aided by the accompanying

page_text: receive a supply of tobacco to form a cigarette; and Figure 4 is a cross
section of the apparatus showing it in its closed position as it would
appear when rolling or forming a cigarette.
The jaws a, b, are hinged or pivotted together at c, and the jaw a has
mounted therein a roller d, whilst the jaw 7 has mounted therein a tray
or shelf e. Around the roller d and the tray or shelf e an endless apron
or belt is passed, which occupies the entire length of the roller. The
ends of the jaw a arc formed with curved guides a¹ and projections a³,
whilst the ends of the jaw bare formed with curved guides 6¹ forming
recesses into which the projections a³ are received, but leaving narrow
spaces between them, and thereby forming guides for receiving the ends
of the cigarette paper and closing them in when forming or rolling the
cigarette.
To use the apparatus a paper at least one-fourth of an inch longer
than the apparatus should be employed; partially open and spread the
tobacco across the width of the belt or apron ƒ, holding the exposed
roller d towards you; close the apparatus, and with your two thumbs
draw the belt or apron f towards you to shape the tobacco; then insert
the paper between the jaws a, b, and finish the cigarette, always rolling
towards you.
When finished the ends of the cigarette paper will be
found to be closed in upon the tobacco. If the paper wrinkles in the
process of rolling ease the pressure of the thumbs, and draw the paper
slightly at the ends.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the mode
in which the same is carried into effect, I would have it understood that 2
what I claim is, the novel construction of apparatus to facilitate the
rolling or making of cigarettes, substantially as herein shown and
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Wallace Pope, have here-
nots not my hand and coal this 13:41.