Improvements in the Manufacture of Cigarettes.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Oct., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Cigarettes.
We, ISAAC VORON, of 140, Houndsditch, in the City of London, Cigarette
Manufacturer, BARNEY BENKEL, of 7, Clifton Road, Maida Vale, in the County
of London, Tobacconist, and Moss BOTIBOL, of 73, Aldersgate Street, in the City
of London, Tailor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of cigarettes the
object being to provide a cigarette with a tip or mouthpiece so arranged that
practically no nicotine will enter the mouth of the smoker, and the tobacco will
not come into contact with the lips of the smoker.
In carrying out our invention we make the cigarette in the ordinary manner, a
portion of the case at one end not being filled with tobacco. Our improved tip
consists of a thimble of suitable material such as paper, cork, or thin sheet metal
or foil provided with a wad or absorbent material such as felt. This thimble is
placed over or in the end of the cigarette the wad entering the part of the case
not filled with tobacco. The end of the thimble is perforated with one or more
holes for the passage of air and smoke and a strip of suitable material such as
paper, cork or thin sheet metal or foil is placed round the end of the cigarette to
form the mouthpiece.
Dated the 98th day of Ontali 1808
Improvements in the Manufacture of Cigarettes.
We, ISAAC VORON, of 140, Houndsditch, in the City of London, Cigarette
Manufacturer, BARNEY BENKEL, of 7, Clifton Road, Maida Vale, in the County
of London, Tobacconist, and Moss BOTIBOL, of 73, Aldersgate Street, in the City
of London, Tailor, 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 relates to improvements in the manufacture of cigarettes, the
object being to provide a cigarette with a tip or mouthpiece so arranged that
practically no nicotine will enter the mouth of the smoker, and that the tobacco
will not come into contact with the lips of the smoker.
In carrying out our invention we make the cigarette in the ordinary manner, a
portion of the case at one end not being filled with tobacco. Our improved tip

page_text: consists of a thimble of suitable material such as paper, cork, or thin sheet metal
or foil provided with a wad of absorbent material such as felt, blotting paper,
flannel, sponge, charcoal. This thimble is placed over or in the end of the
cigarette, the wad entering the part of the case not filled with tobacco. The end
of the thimble is perforated with one or more holes for the passage of air and
smoke and a strip of suitable material such as paper, cork or thin sheet metal or
foil is placed round the end of the cigarette to form the 'mouthpiece.
In the accompanying drawing,-
Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of a cigarette manufactured according
to the invention;
Figure 2 is an end view thereof;
Figure 3 is a side elevation of the thimble forming the tip;
Figure 4 is an end view thereof; and
Figure 5 is a view of a detail hereinafter described.
All these figures are drawn to an exaggerated scale.
a is the cigarette case and b is the tobacco which is filled into the said case in
the ordinary manner except that a portion of the case a is left empty at one end
thereof. c is the wad of absorbent material, the said wad being advantageously of
felt stamped out of a felt sheet, and d is the cylindrical portion of the thimble
into which the said felt or other wad c is placed and which is adapted to be
inserted into the empty end of the cigarette case a, as clearly shewn in Figure 1.
The thimble is formed, as above mentioned of suitable material such as paper,
cork, thin sheet metal or foil. It may conveniently be stamped in the form of a
blank of star shape as shewn in Figure 5, the arms of the star being turned over
to form the thimble as shewn in Figure 3. ², dare the perforations with which
the end d is provided for the passage of air and smoke. I have found it preferable
to place a disc e of muslin or other suitable material between the wad c and the
end d f is the strip of paper, cork, thin sheet metal or foil which is placed
around the end of the cigarette to form the mouthpiece in the ordinary way.
With cigarettes manufactured in the above described manner practically no
nicotine can enter the mouth of the smoker as it is arrested by the passage of the
smoke through the absorbent wad c which together with the thimble end d¹ also
prevents the tobacco from coming into contact with the lips of the smoker.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. The combination with a cigarette of the thimble & the wad c and the mouth-
piece f, substantially as described.
2. The improved cigarette, manufactured and combined and arranged sub-
stantially as illustrated by the drawings.
Dated the 1th dove of Hav 1900
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.