A NEW AND L■- PROVED METHOD OF PRODUCING A DRAUGHT THROUGH CIGARS TO FACILITATE THE SMOKING THEREOF. AND THELEMENS FOR THAT PHRINE
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Hermann Lewis, of Clapton Park, in
the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "A NEW AND L■-
PROVED METHOD OF PRODUCING A DRAUGHT THROUGH CIGARS TO FACILITATE
THE SMOKING THEREOF. AND THELEMENS FOR THAT PHRINE"
Sealed the 9th July 1875, and dated the 13th January 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Georgo Hermann Lewis
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 13th January 1875.
I, GEORGE HERMANN LEWIS, of Olapton Park, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD OF PRODUCING ▲ DRAUGHT THROUGH CIGARS TO
FACILITATE THE SMOKING THEREOF, AND IMPLEMENT FOR THAT PURPOSE,” to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists in a new and improved method of producing
a draught through cigars to facilitate the smoking thereof, and implement

page_text: for that purpose, whereby a clean hole is punched out transversely
through the pointed or closed end of the said cigars.
The means by which I propose to attain the above object are as
follows: In a case or plate of any suitable shape or size I form a
circular hole, so as to allow the pointed or closed end of a cigar to enter ||
a certain distance therein. This holo may be made conical inside the
aforesaid case or plate so as to form a receptacle for the pointed end of
the cigar.
Opposite to each other, and on the sides of the conical hole
aforesaid, I place a small punch and die kept asunder by means of a
spring or springs, and which can be brought together by pressing on :
those parts of the said punch and die projecting out of the case or plate
aforesaid.
The manner by which a hole may be punched out of a cigar to
produce a draught through the same by means of the above described
implement is as follows:-The pointed or closed end of the cigar is
introduced into the circular hole aforesaid until it rests in the conical
part above described; the punch and die are then brought together, by
which a clean hole will be punched transversely through the end of the
cigar. The piece punched out will fall through the open end of tho die
outside the case.
The above implement can be attached to or form part of a locket or
other article and can be made of any suitable shane or material.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said George Hermann Lewis in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 13th July 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HERMANN LEWIS, of Clapton Park, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of January, in the 3
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-

page_text: cessors, give and grant unto me, the said George Hermann Lewis, Her
special licence that I, the said George Hermann Lewis, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George Hermann
Lewis, 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
"A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD OF PRODUCING A DRAUGHT THROUGH CIGARS TO
FACILITATE THE SMOKING THEREOF, AND IMPLEMENT FOR THAT PURPOSE,” upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Hermann Lewis, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Hermann Lewis, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, that is to say:—
This Invention consists in a new and improved method of producing a
draught through cigars to facilitate the smoking thereof, and implement
for that purpose, whereby a clean hole is punched or cut out transversely
or otherwise through the pointed or closed end of the said cigars.
The means by which I propose to attain the above object are as
follows:-In a case, plate, or frame of any suitable shape or size I form a
hole, so as to allow the pointed or closed end of a cigar to enter a certain
distance therein. This hole may be made conical inside the aforesaid
case, plate, or frame, so as to form a receptacle for the pointed end of the
cigar. Opposite to each other, and on the sides of the conical hole
aforesaid, I place a small punch and die kept asunder by means of a
spring or springs, and which can be brought together by pressing on
those parts of the said punch and die projecting out of the case or plate
aforesaid.

page_text: is as follows:-The pointed or closed end of the cigar is introduced into
the hole aforesaid until it rests in the conical part above described, the
punch, double punch, or die are then brought together, by which a hole
will be punched transversely through the end of the cigar.
The above implement can be attached to or form part of a locket or t
other article, and can be made of any suitable shape or material.
And in order to explain my said Invention more fully I now proceed
to describe the means by which it may be carried into practical effect,
reference being had to the illustrative Sheet of Drawings accompanying
these Presents, and to the numeral figures and letters of reference 1
marked thereon respectively, as follows:-
Figure 3 an enlarged sectional view of the punches.
In each of these Figures similar letters are used to denote correspond-
ing parts.
A is a locket furnished in the centre at back and front, with holes 20
B, B', into which the end of the cigar is introduced to punch the hole
therein; C, a male punch kept in position by a spring D, and having at
E a ring by which the locket may be suspended; C', a female punch,
with a spring D' and button F. These punches are shown in section and
on an enlarged scale at Figure 3.
The cigar having been introduced into the hole B the punches are
brought together, by which action a hole will be punched out of the
cigar for producing a draught to facilitate the smoking thereof.
Instead of using a male and female punch, as shown in the above
Figures, two tubular cutters may be used, as shown in Figure 4.
Having now described and set forth the nature and object of my said
Invention for "A New and Improved Method of Producing a Draught
through Oigars to Facilitate the Smoking thereof, and Implement for
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page_text: that Purpose," I would remark in conclusion that I hereby declare my
Invention to consist in and I claim, the method and implement for
producing a draught through cigars to facilitate the smoking thereof,
substantially as described and represented.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Hermann Lewis, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.