IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING TOBACCO. FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS, SNUFF, AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Lazarus Morgenthau, of Basinghall Street, in the
City of London, and of Mannheim, in the Grand Duchy of Baden,
Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING TOBACCO.
FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS, SNUFF, AND OTHER PURPOSES."
Sealed the 6th June 1865, and dated the 10th December 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Lazarus Morgenthau at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
10th December 1864.
I, LAZARUS MORGENTHAU, of Basinghall Street, in the City of London, and'
of Mannheim, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING
TOBACCO FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS, SNUFF, AND OTHER PURPOSES," to be
as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to remove nicotine and other injurious
elements from tobacco, and to render it more fit for smoking and other
purposes.
My Invention consists, first, in steaming tobacco with spirit or alcohol (say,
in the proportion of about five gallons of spirit to every cwt. of tobacco), in
a hermetically closed vessel for from half an hour to three hours according to
the quality of the tobacco, whereby nicotine and other injurious elements are
removed therefrom.
My Invention consists, secondly, in placing the tobacco when dry in a
hermetically closed vessel containing extract essence and oil obtained from
the pins or leaves, branches, or other parts of trees of the pine genus ; F

page_text: allow the tobacco to steep in this vessel for from two to five hours, in order that
it may become impregnated with the extract, essence, and oil. I afterwards
dry the tobacco in a hermetically closed chamber. It may then be worked
up in the ordinary manner.
Without limiting myself to any particular proportions of the extract,
essence, and oil in which the tobacco is steeped, I may mention the following
as answering well
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Lazarus Morgenthau in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 10th June 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LAZARUS
MORGENTHAU, of Basinghall Street, in the City of-London, and of Mannheim,
in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year
of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Lazarus Morgenthau, Her special licence that I, the said Lazaus
Morgenthau, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Lazaus Morgenthau, 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 "IMPROVE.
MENTS IN PREPARING TOBACCO FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS, SNUFF, AND OTHER
PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Lazarus.
Morgenthau, 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 Lazarus Morgenthau, 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 thereof, that is to say:-
The object of my Invention is to remove nicotine and other injurious
elements from tobacco, and to render it more fit for smoking and other
purposes.
My Invention consists, first, in steaming tobacco with spirit or alcohol (say,
in the proportion of about five gallons of spirit to every hundredweight of
tobacco), in a hermetically closed vessel for from half an hour to three hours
according to the quality of the tobacco, whereby nicotine and other injurious
elements are removed therefrom.
My Invention consists, secondly, in placing tobacco when dry in a
hermetically closed vessel containing extract, essence, and oil obtained from
the pins or leaves, branches, or other parts of trees of the pine genus; I
allow. the tobacco to steep in this vessel for from two to five hours, in order
that it may become impregnated with the extract, essence, and oil. I after-
wards dry the tobacco in a hermetically closed chamber. It may then be
worked up in the ordinary manner.
Without limiting myself to any particular proportions of the extract,
essence, and oil in which the tobacco is steeped, I may mention the following
as answering well :-
Tobacco
Extract
Essence
Oil
1 cwt.
30 lbs.
6 gallons.
1 lb.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim preparing tobacco
for the manufacture of cigars," snuff, and other purposes, substantially in
manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof. I. the said Lazaus Morgenthau have herennte.
LAZARUS MORGENTHAU. (LS.)