IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR MAKING-UP OF CIGARS
Year: 1884

page_text: I OSWALD BARNSDALE of Alexander Street, Sherwood Rise, Nottingham,
Nottinghamshire, Cigar Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR MAKING-UP OF CIGARS,"
to be as follows that is to say :—
This Invention has for its object the manufacture or making up of cigars in
a novel and improved manner whereby, the whole of the tobacco forming such
cigar, may be smoked without the necessity of using a mouth piece or holder, and
the waste at present occasioned by throwing away tho mouth end of the cigar is
obviated.
In carrying out the Invention a conical shaped end piece formed of papier maché
or other suitable substance is employed to form the mouth end of the cigar. This
conical piece is perforated through its axis and is formed with a flange or rim or
a projection at the base. This rim is for the purpose of facilitating the attachment
of the end piece with the "bunch" forming the body of the cigar. One end of
the "bunch" is inserted in the recess formed by the rim (or the projection is
inserted in it) and the envelope or wrapper usually forming the covering of the
cigar is then wrapped round over both the conical end piece and the "bunch" thus
forming what looks to outward appearance like an ordinary cigar. The whole of
the tobacco forming the cigar may be smoked away (except a very small and
immaterial portion covering the conical end piece) without burning the lips of the
smoker.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I, OSWALD BARNSDALE, of Alexander Street Sherwood Rise, Nottingham,
Nottinghamshire Cigar Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR MAKING UP OF CIGARS,"
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement that is to say:-
My said Invention has for its object the manufacture or making-up of cigars in
a novel and improved manner whereby the whole of the tobacco forming such
cigar may be smoked without the necessity of using a mouthpiece or holder and
the waste at present occasioned by throwing away the mouth end of the cigar is
obviated.
In carrying out the Invention a partly conical-shaped end formed preferably of
paper, but it may be of other suitable substance, is employed to form the mouth-
end of the cigar. This conical piece is perforated through its axis and is formed
with a flange or rim round a hollow or recess at the base or thicker end. Or
instead of a hollow or recess and flange it may be formed with a projection. This
hollow and rim or projection is formed for the purpose of facilitating the attachment
of the conical mouth-end piece with the "bunch" forming the body of the cigar. In
the case of the rim and hollow, one end of the "bunch" is inserted in the recess
formed partly by the rim or flange and the envelope or "wrapper" usually forming
the covering of the cigar is then wrapped round over both the conical mouth-end
piece and the "bunch" thus forming what to outward appearance looks like an
ordinary cigar. In the case of a conical mouth end piece having a projection, the
projecting part is inserted into the "bunch" and the whole covered by the
wrapper." The whole of the tobacco forming these cigars may be smoked away
with the exception of a very small and immaterial portion covering the conical
mouth-end without burning the lips of the smoker or being otherwise
inconvenient.
And in order that my said Invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings to
be hereinafter referred to and representing various views of certain apparatus
which I find to be most convenient to use in preparing the conical mouth-end
pieces used in carrying out my Invention. The drawings also show two views of
the conical month-end piece in section which will be hereinafter described. In
these drawings the same reference numerals are used to mark the same or like
parts wherever they are repeated.
Figure 1 on the accompanying sheet of drawings is a longitudinal section taken
along the axis of one of the mouth end pieces and shows the same in a partly
finished state whilst Figure 2 is a corresponding section showing the same in a
more finished state, that is in a condition nearly ready for being made up into
a cigar. These mouth-end pieces are preferably made by rolling or coiling up a
narrow strip of brown or other paper. The width of such strip depends upon the
length it is desired to make the mouth end piece whilst its length will depend
upon the thickness required. In making mouth end pieces for ordinary cigars

page_text: with brown paper the length of the strip of paper is preferably of about 12 inches
in length and about one inch in width. In order to roll up or coil the strips of
paper into the required shape for forming the mouth end pieces, the apparatus
shown in Front elevation in Figure 3 on the accompanying drawings has been
devised. One end of a strip of paper is passed between the split ends of a mandril
or spindle 1 to which a rotatorry motion is given at the same time that a forward
movement of the mandril takes place. This action rolls the strip round the
mandril in a slightly spiral or screw like form as shown in Figure 1. To enable
the mandril to produce this spiral form the mandril 1 is fixed to a horizontal
shaft 2 carried in bearings 3 on a table or framing. This shaft 2 has a screw
thread formed at the end nearest the mandril working in a corresponding female
screw thread in the bearing 3 at that end. The shaft 2 has fixed upon it between
the bearings 3 a pulley 4 round which a belt or cord 5 is passed once completely
round and then carried down and passed round a large grooved fly wheel pulley 6
fixed on a shaft 7 carried in bearings at about the middle of the framing 8.
Motion is given to the shaft 7 and By wheel pulley by means of a well known
arrangement of a cord 10, pulleys 11, 12 and treadle 13. By drepessing the treadle
the mandril is moved forward by the action of the screw thread on the shaft 2
whilst at the same time it is rotated. A flat angularly inclined flanged guide
plate 14 fitted on the table in front of the mandril near its end, ensures the level
winding of the paper strip. The mandril is brought back to its first position by
an arrangement of a pulley, cord and helical spring. The spirally wound up strip
of paper is next removed from the mandril and the outer end pasted or fixed and
forms the partly conical shaped mouth-end piece as seen in Figure 1. To consoli-
date and improve the shape and appearance of the mouth end piece it is next
subjected to the action of a screw press apparatus.
This apparatus is shown in sectional side elevation in Figure 4 and in sectional
plan in Figure 5. This apparatus consists essentially of a horizontal fly wheel 15
for turning a quick threaded screw shaft 16 working in a corresponding female
screw in a cross head 17 carried by standards 18 fixed in a base plate 19. The
screw shaft 16 terminates at the lower end in a piece 20 forming a die and a drill.
This piece 20 consists of a steel cylindrical piece which is turned or reduced in size
to form firstly two shallow truncated cones, the upper of slightly larger diameter
than the lower one and terminating at a long thin spindle forming a drill. This
peculiar formation of the piece 20 produces the conformation of the mouth end
piece shown in Figure 2 and to effect this change from the spirally rolled up strip
of paper into the form shown in Figure 2, the rolled up strip is placed in a matrix
or mould. This mould is formed so as to give a partly conical shape to the finished
mouth-end piece like the mouth end of an ordinary cigar and is in two halves
hollowed out of two steel blocks 21. 22. One of these blocks 21 is fixed to the
base plate 19 and the other is attached to a hand lever 23 which is centered on the
end of a bar 24 so as to be capable of rising vertically. The bar is centered upon
the base plate 19 and by this means the block 22 having the half mould in it may
be moved away from the block 21 by raising and moving the hand lever 23 which
when the two blocks are brought together is held secured by an inclined catch
piece 25. The coiled up strip of paper is placed in the mould and the two halves
of the mould closed together and on the flywheel being turned causing the cylin-
drical piece 20 to descend the spindle or drill at its end and the two coned parts
enter the coiled up strip of paper the flat end of the cylindrical upper part resting
on the top of the mould. This action forms a hole through the axis of the roll of
paper and the conical parts on the piece 20 form the hollow or recess 26 and the
rim or flange 27 shown in Figure 2. The conical mouth end piece is then removed
from the press or mould and submitted to the action of an instrument (or is cut by
knives or scissors) and is knotched or knicked round the edge of the rim 27. The
knicked end of the mouth-end piece has one end of a "bunch" forming the body
of a cigar next inserted into it and the worker then places the embryo cigar into
suitable moulds as commonly done in the trade with a bunch of an ordinary cigar

page_text: and the article is then finished by being enveloped in the ordinary manner by a
wrapper" which is wound over and covers entirely the "bunch" forming the
body of the cigar and the paper mouth end piece. The finished article is then to
all outward appearance identical to an ordinary cigar except that on looking at the
mouth or coned end there is a small hole discernible which thus obviates the
necessity for cutting away any part of the end of such cigar previous to smoking.
The mouth end piece may be formed of paper, pulp, or papier maché but it is
found preferable to form them of coiled up strips of paper in the manner herein.
before described as a certain amount of elasticity is preserved in the mouth end
piece similar to that possessed by an ordinary cigar and is thus more agreeable to
the smoker than a harder substance.'
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
(1) The manufacturing or making up of cigars with mouth end pieces of paper
or other substance differing from the tobacco, substantially as and for the purposes
herein before described with reference to the accompanying drawings,
(2) The forming of mouth end pieces of strips of paper substantially as and for
the purposes hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated his 20th
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