Improvements in Cigarette Mouthpieces as Part of or for Applying to Cigarettes.
Year: 1887

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cigarette Mouthpieces as Part of or for Applying
to Cigarettes.
I JOHN STEVENTON RHODES of 170 Lozells Road, Birmingham, England
Merchants Clerk do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
The invention consists in the application to a Cigarette of a mouthpiece in which
are a number of small draft holes running from one end of the mouthpiece to the
other and then wrapping the mouthpiece round with paper or other material to make
it more pleasant for the teeth to grip; the object being to prevent the nicotine,
tobacco or ashes getting into the mouth and to enable the smoker to grip the cigarette
mouthpiece firmly between his teeth.
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There are several ways of doing this but the one generally preferred is as follows:-
1st Method. The mouthpiece is made of a piece of wood the same length but
rather thinner than the mouthpiece required. This wood has a series of grooves on
the outside going from end to end giving it a corrugated appearance on the exterior.
A piece of paper or other material is wrapped round this, and the corrugations in
conjunction with the paper form a series of draft holes through which the smoke is
drawn. A variety of substances can be corrugated or groove to answer the same
purpose such as paper or baked clay.
2nd Method. In the case of some substances instead of being corrugated they will
be found sufficiently soft to allow of a number of draft holes being pressed, pierced
or stamped through them from end to end, and they may then be wrapped in paper or
other material to make it more pleasant to hold between the teeth.
3rd Method. Some kinds of wood, cane, pumice-stone and other substances are
sufficiently porous in their natural state to allow of the smoke passing through them
and these need not be perforated or corrugated more than they are naturally. The
paper is wrapped round as in the other cases.
4th Method. A mouthpiece may be made sufficiently porous for the smoke to be
drawn through, by placing a number of thin pieces of wood or other substance

page_text: together until they assume the size and shape of a mouthpiece and then binding
them firmly together with paper or other material. The smoke is drawn between the
several parts that form the mouthpieces.
In all these cases the same object is achieved with practically the same method,
that is preventing the nicotine or tobacco entering the mouth, by using a solid
mouthpiece yet sufficiently porous to allow the smoke to pass through; and wrapping
the mouthpiece in paper or other material.
Dated 29th day of December 1887
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cigarette Mouthpieces as Part of or for Applying
to Cigarettes.
3, JOHN STEVENTON RHODES of Llanberis Villa, Durham Road, Sparkhill,
Birmingham, England, Clerk 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 :-
The invention consists of a wood mouthpiece in which draught hole or holes extend
from end to end of the mouthpiece, the whole of the mouthpiece being cased or
wrapped in paper, thin metal or such like material, to make it pleasanter for the
teeth or lips to touch. The object of all this being to prevent the bits of tobacco,
tobacco juice or ashes getting into the mouth and to enable the smoker to grip the
cigarette mouthpiece firmly between his teeth with stopping the free draught of the
cigarette.
There are several ways of doing this but the one generally preferred is as
follows:-
1. The mouthpiece is composed of a piece of wood of the length and thickness
desired (say) half an inch and upwards in length and as thick as the cigarette.
This wood is grooved on the exterior with grooves or slots (one or more) extending
from end to end of the mouthpiece. The groove or grooves being of sufficient
depth to allow of a free passage of the smoke through them when the draught
holes are completed by wrapping the mouthpiece in paper, thin metal or such like.
The paper used for wrapping round the grooved wood may also serve the purpose of
attaching the mouthpiece to the cigarette by simply having the paper a little larger
than the wood, so that it will project over the one end of the mouthpiece when wrapped
round and secured to the wood. By this means the cigarette and mouthpiece may be
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page_text: combined together, by pasting (gumming or such like method) the paper wrapper
and finally wrapping round the mouthpiece and cigarette, when the latter are placed
in a line together, thus completing the cigarette. If it is desired for the mouthpiece
and cigarette to be kept separate, they may be made ready for combining, by wrapping
the wood only, in paper, leaving the projecting edge beforementioned so that the
cigarette may be inserted and secured by pasting (or such like method) when
desired.
2. In the case of some woods they will be found sufficiently porous to allow of
the smoke passing through them without grooving, and other woods will be soft enough
to allow of holes being drilled, bored, pressed or stamped through them from end
to end, the wood may then be wrapped in paper and attached to the cigarette as in
the grooving method.
3. A mouthpiece may also be made by combining two or more pieces of wood
together in such a manner as to form draught hole or holes and then binding them
together with paper or such like and attaching to cigarettes as in previous cases.
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. A wood mouthpiece with draught hole or holes formed by grooving, in
conjunction with the paper or such like casing.
2. A wood mouthpiece with draught hole or holes naturally formed or produced
by mechanical means, in conjunction with the paper or such like casing.
Substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this the 17t1.
1000