Improvements in Cigars and Cigarettes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 19th June, 1893-Accepted, 22nd July, 1893
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cigars and Cigarettes.
We, HERBERT LESLIE MANTON of Swanston Street, Melbourne in the Colony
of Victoria, Agent, and JOHN PATERSON of Flinders Lane, Melbourne, in the
Colony of Victoria, Warehouseman, 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 :-
This invention has been devised for the purpose of affording smokers of cigars
and cigarettes an easy, convenient and highly economical, means of lighting cigars
or cigarettes. At present a gentleman desiring to smoke has in most cases to
search or fumble about to find a match with which to light his cigar, and he not
unfrequently scratches the match upon walls or other surfaces, causing disfigure-
ments thereby, and has also in windy weather considerable difficulty in lighting the
cigar, but with our improved cigar or cigarette all such trouble and annoyance
is obviated.
The improvements in connection with our cigar or cigarette are as follows:-
At the lighting end of the cigar or cigarette we attach the necessary compound
for producing flame, such as the material from which matches are manufactured,
and so arrange it that when the smoker scratches the top of his cigar or cigarette
on a rough surface the said compound will ignite and thus light his cigar or
cigarette without the necessity of matches. We prefer to employ the compound
used in safety matches, in which case we coat the end of the cigar or cigarette with
such safety match compound; and on the ordinary small paper strap or title label,
usually placed around the middle of a cigar, we paint or prepare a portion of such
strap with a coating of the necessary frictional material of any approved kind, such
for instance as is usually placed on the side of a safety match-box, so that all the
smoker requires to do is to pull off the strap of prepared paper and rub the end
of his cigar or cigarette on the prepared part of the said paper strap or title label
when the cigar or cigaratte will be found to ignite after the manner of a match, and
the smoker, by applying suction at the other end of the cigar, will find the cigar
properly lighted. We would here point out the great advantage our cigar or
cigarette has over the ordinary ones when the smoker desires to light his cigar in a
windy place or when riding or driving.
In the case of cigarettes we prepare the side of the envelope, or case, in which
they are usually packed, with a strip of approved frictional material, so that all the
smoker has to do, on removing a cigarette from the packet, is to rub its end on
the prepared strip, and his cigarette will be found to light freely. For household
convenience we mount a strip of the prepared frictional material on one or two
ends of the cigar box on which the cigar may be lighted after the manner of
a match.
In order that our invention may be the more clearly understood reference may be
made to the accompanying drawings in which:
Figure 1 shews an illustration of our improved cigar.
Figure 2 our improved cigarette, and
Figure 3 the cigarette box, whilst
Figure 4 illustrates the manner in which a cigar-box may be provided with a
strip of frictional material.
In these drawings "A" represents the cigar or cigarette whilst "B" is the
daub prepared end of the match compound. "C" is the ordinary paper strap or
title label usually placed around cigars and on which "D" represents the prepared
portion, which consists of a daub of adhesive frictional material of approved
composition on which the match compound may be rubbed to cause ignition.

page_text: "D1" (see Fig. 3) represents a strap of similar adhesive frictional material, as does
also "D" (see Fig. 4).
The modus operandi of the invention may be described as follows:-
Presume that cigar "A" (see Fig. 1) is to be lighted, the operator will merely
remove the paper strap on label "C" with one hand and with the other hold the
cigar and rub the prepared end "B" on the prepared part "D" when ignition and
lighting of the cigar will immediately follow, notwithstanding the fact that a strong
wind may be blowing at the time. For lighting a cigarette the operator merely
removes one from its packet (see Fig. 3) and rubs it lightly across the prepared
strip "D" and ignition follows. The action last described may be also applied to
strip "D" on the cigar box (see Fig. 4).
We do not confine ourselves to the employment of any particular igniting
compound, as any suitable material or chemical preparation may be employed for
the purpose, and if preferred the compound may be scented or colored to suit any
peculiarities of taste or market_requirements.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is-
1. In cigars and cigarettes
Mounting the end of the cigar or cigarette with a cap, daub or preparation of a
suitable lighting or igniting compound such as is used in matches as and for the
purposes described.
:-
2. In cigars and cigarettes :-
Affixing a prepared surface of frictional material upon a portion of the paper
strap or title label, usually placed around cigars, for the purpose of enabling a
specially prepared end of a cigar to be ignited thereon as and for the purposes
described.
3. In cigars and cigarettes :-
The combination with a cigar or cigarette, having an end prepared with an
approved match composition, of a strap or title label having a portion of its surface
prepared or daubed as "D" with an approved frictional material as and for the
puposes described.
Dated this 19th day of June 1893.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, London, E.C., Patent Agent.