Cork Mouthpieces for Cigarettes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Nov., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 12th Aug., 1898-Accepted, 12th Nov., 1898
Cork Mouthpieces for Cigarettes.
FRANK MARLAND SEDDON, 12, St. Bride's Road, Egremont, Liverpool, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Mouthpieces for cigarettes formed from strips of cork alone, or strips of cork
lined with paper or other strengthening material and made up into the same
5 shape as the paper mouthpieces with waxed ends at present in general use.
Dated this Tenth day of November 1897.
FRANK MARLAND SEDDON, 6, Hare Place, Liverpool (late 12, St. Bride's Road,
Egremont), Manager of Cigarette Factory, 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:-
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This invention relates to mouth pieces for cigarettes, and it has for its object
to provide a simple and improved mouthpiece which will present a more suitable
and pleasant surface in contact with the lips, and which will possess general
advantages over the ordinary paper or cardboard mouthpieces now usually
employed.
In carrying out my invention, I form the mouthpiece from strips of sheet
cork, or strips of paper or other stiffening material covered with cork, or of a
paper base covered wholly or partly with strips of sheet cork, substantially as
hereinafter fully set forth.
The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the
accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my im-
provement designated by the same letters of reference in each of the views, and
in which:-
Fig. 1 is a side view of a cigarette having my improved mouthpiece;
Fig. 2 is a side view of a mouthpiece constructed according to my invention
and made wholly of a strip of sheet cork.
Fig. 3 is a side view of one form of the improved mouthpiece formed of a
strip of paper partly covered with a strip of sheet cork.
Fig. 4 is an end view of one form of the mouthpiece.
Fig. 5 is an end view of another form of the mouthpiece, and,

page_text: Fig. 6 is a plan view of the blank from which the mouthpiece is rolled or
formed.
The
Referring to the drawings A designates the mouthpiece, which may be
mounted or secured upon the cigarette, in any suitable or desired manner.
mouthpiece may be formed wholly or entirely of a strip of sheet cork, d, as
shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or it may be formed with a strip of paper or other material
forming a stiffening base and having a cork covering or surface, in which latter
case it would present the same exterior appearance as that shown in Figs. 1
and 2; or it may be formed from paper or other material partly covered, with
a strip of sheet cork, as shown in, Fig. 3, or wholly covered with such cork strip.
The mouthpiece is preferably formed by rolling a suitable blank, as illustrated
in Fig. 6 into a conical tube, and securing the terminal outer edge, e, by pasting
or in any other suitable manner. Thus, the strip of sheet cork may be simply
rolled into the form just stated, or a strip of paper or other stiffening material
having its surface covered with cork may be rolled into such form, or strip of
paper or other material may be first rolled into the form stated and then partly
or wholly covered by a strip of sheet cork.
The blank from which the mouthpiece is rolled (as indicated in Fig. 6) prefer-
ably has a projecting tongue or extension, t, at one end, which is adapted to form
a fold or loop, located interiorly and transversely at the smaller end of the
rolled mouthpiece, as shown at r in Fig. 4, which fold or loop will not impede
the free passage of the smoke through the mouthpiece but will form a stiffening
device by which collapsing of the mouthpiece at the point will be prevented.
This tongue or extension, t, and the resulting loop r, may be provided either
upon the sheet cork blank from which a mouthpiece formed wholly of cork is
produced, upon the strips of hard paper or other stiffening material and their
coating or covering of cork or upon the paper base which is rolled into shape
and exteriorly covered partly or wholly with strips of cork or said tongue or
extension, may be entirely omitted, as shown in Fig. 5.
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. An improved mouthpiece for cigarettes, having an exterior surface formed
of cork..
2. An improved mouthpiece for cigarettes, provided with a covering of cork.
3. An improved mouthpiece for cigarettes, comprising a stiffening piece and a
covering of cork.
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4. An improved mouthpiece for cigarettes comprising a strip rolled to form a
tubular body and having a cork surface.
Dated this Tenth day of August 1898