IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING TOBACCO IN ORDER TO MANUFACTURE CIGARS AND OTHER ARTICLES FOR SMOKING, TOGETHER WITH THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS AND CHEROOTS FROM TOBACCO SO TREATED
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Vincent Wallace, of Great Portland Street,
in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, and Benjamin Lawrence Sowell,
of Harrow Road, in the same. County,-Gentleman, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING TOBACCO IN ORDER TO MANUFACTURE CIGARS
AND OTHER ARTICLES FOR SMOKING, TOGETHER WITH THE MANUFACTURE OF
CIGARS AND CHEROOTS FROM TOBACCO SO TREATED."-A communication.
Sealed the 12th August 1856, and dated the 22nd February 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Vincent Wallace
and Benjamin Lawrence Sowell at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 22nd February 1856.
We, WILLIAM VINCENT WALLACE, of Great Portland Street, in the County
of Middlesex, Gentleman, and BENJAMIN LAWRENCE SOWELL, of Harrow Road,
in the same County, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING TOBACCO IN ORDER TO MANUFACTURE
CIGARS AND OTHER ARTICLES FOR SMOKING, TOGETHER WITH THE MANUFACTURE
OP CIGARS AND CHEROOTS FROM TOBACCO SO TREATED," (communicated to us by a
foreigner abroad,) to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in first forming the leaves, or such portions of the
tobacco plant as remain after removing the finest and best portions for the-
manufacture of cigars, into pulp, by the addition of liquid or steam thereto..

page_text: and with the aid of suitable pulping machinery, then in forming the pulp into
sheets, by passing it through rollers directly from the pulping engine, or by
previously passing it through draining sieves, or frames, or presses. When in
the sheet state we dry the tobacco and cut it up into such forms as may be
required for the manufacture of cigars, cheroots, cut tobacco, or otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Vincent Wallace and Benjamin Lawrence Sowell in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th August 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
VINCENT WALLACE, of Great Portland Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, and BENJAMIN LAWRENCE SOWELL, of Harrow Road, in the same
County, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said William Vincent Wallace and Benjamin Lawrence Sowell, Her special
licence that we, the said William Vincent Wallace and Benjamin Lawrence
Sowell, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the
said William Vincent Wallace and Benjamin Lawrence Sowell, our 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 TREATING TOBACCO IN ORDER TO MANUFAC-
TURE CIGARS AND OTHER ARTICLES FOR SMOKING, TOGETHER WITH THE MANUFACTURE
OF CIGARS AND CHEROOTS FROM TOBACCO SO TREATED," (communicated to us by a
foreigner residing abroad,) upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said William Vincent Wallace and Benjamin Lawrence Sowell, our executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our 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 we, the said William Vincent Wallace and Ben-
jamin Lawrence Sowell, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention;

page_text: 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:-
This Invention consists in first forming the leaves, or such portions of the
tobacco plant as remain after removing the finest and best portions for the
manufacture of cigars, into pulp, by the addition of liquid or steam thereto, and
with the aid of suitable pulping machinery, then in forming the pulp into
sheets, by passing it through rollers directly.from the pulping engine, or by pre-
viously passing it through draining sieves, or frames, or presses.
When in the
sheet state, we dry the tobacco and cut it up into such forms as may be
required for the manufacture of cigars, cheroots, cut tobacco, or otherwise.
The machinery employed in the pulping of rags, and the draining frames
used in the manufacture of paper, are equally applicable to the pulping and
partially forming of the tobacco into sheets. The tobacco is removed from the
draining frame upon a blanket or apron, and is passed between a pair of ordi-
nary rolls. After the tobacco is rolled into sheets, we sprinkle it, if found
desirable, with the liquor expressed by the rollers.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we do not limit ourselves
to any particular description of pulping, draining, or rolling machinery; and
that we claim,-
First, the pulping of tobacco and forming the same into sheets.
And, second, the manufacture of cigars, cheroots, and other like articles
from sheet tobacco produced from pulp.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Lawrence Sowell, for myself
and on behalf of the said William Vincent Wallace, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of August, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-six.