IMPROVEMENTS IN the City of, for the Invention of CIGARETTES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Schloss, of No. 46, Cannon Street, in
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
the City of London, for the Invention of
CIGARETTES."
Sealed the 15th December 1874, and dated the 2nd July 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Schloss at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd July 1874.
I, JOSEPH SCHLOSS, of No. 46, Cannon Street, in the City of London,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
Cigarettes,” to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to protect that end of the paper
wrapping or envelope of cigarettes which is to be held in the mouth..
With cigarettes as now made with an outer wrapping of thin tissue
paper, the end of the wrapping as it becomes moistened by being held in
the mouth frequently tears and prevents the cigarette from being smoked
to the end,

page_text: To remedy this cigarettes have in some cases had attached to their
end a tube of thick paper to be held in the mouth; to this however thero
is considerable objection.
According to my Invention I construct cigarettes as heretofore with a
wrapping or envelope of thin tissue paper, and around the end which is
to be held in the mouth I wrap a strip of goldbeater's skin or similar
material, and secure it by pasting or by slightly moistening its edges
and pressing them down. By this means the end of the cigarette which
is to be held in the mouth is prevented from tearing, and the cigarette
may readily be smoked to the end.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Schloss in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 1st January 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
SCHLOSS, of No. 46, Cannon Street, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second, day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Schloss, Her special license
that I, the said Joseph Schloss, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Schloss, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all 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.
CIGARETTES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph
Schloss, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Schloss, 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 object of this Invention is to protect that end of the paper
wrapping or envelope of cigarettes which is to be held in the mouth.
With cigarettes as now made with an outer wrapping of thin tissue
paper, the end of the wrapping as it becomes moistened by being held in
the mouth frequently tears and prevents the cigarette from being
smoked to the end.
To remedy this cigarettes have in some cases had attached to their
end a tube of thick paper to be held in the mouth; to this however there
is considerable objection.
According to my Invention I construct cigarettes as heretofore with a
wrapping or envelope of thin tissue paper, and around the end which is
to be held in the mouth I wrap a strip of goldbeater's skin or similar
material, say of about 3/4 of an inch to an inch or thereabouts in width,
and secure it by pasting or by slightly moistening its edges and pressing
them down. By this means the end of the cigarette which is to be held
in the mouth is prevented from tearing, and the cigarette may readily
be smoked to the end.
In place of goldbeater's skin other thin skin or other suitable thin
waterproof material may be similarly secured around that end of a
cigarette which is to be held in the mouth, I however prefer to use
goldbeater's skin as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Schloss, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this First day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.