IMPROVEMENTS IN CIGARS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Lewis Roberts, of Clerkenwell, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CIGARS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Lewis Roberts at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
29th March 1859.
I, CHARLES LEWIS ROBERTS, of Clerkenwell, in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN CIGARS," to be as follows (that is to say):
My Invention, which has reference to improvements in cigars, with the
view to render the same more agreeable and the effects less pernicious to the
smoker than hitherto, consists in enclosing within the ends of cigars during
manufacture tubes or mouthpieces of glass or other suitable material provided
with inner tubes or linings of straw or other suitable absorbant substance and
so placed as to admit of one end being conveniently held within the mouth of
the smoker whilst the other is firmly embedded in the cigar, the said mouth-
pieces being ornamented or not as may be found desirable, or coloured in
imitation of amber or otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Lewis Roberts in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th September 1859.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Charles Lewis Roberts, Her special licence that I, the said Charles
Lewis Roberts, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Charles Lewis Roberts, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN CIGARS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles
Lewis Roberts, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Lewis Roberts, 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 fol-
lowing statement and the Drawings therein referred to, (that is to say):-
My Invention, which has reference to improvements in cigars, with the view
to render the same more agreeable and the effects less pernicious to the smoker
than hitherto, consists in enclosing within the ends of cigars during the
manufacture tubes or mouthpieces of glass, earthenware, wood, or other like
material provided with inner tubes or linings of straw or other suitable
absorbant substance and so placed as to admit of one end being conveniently
held within the mouth of the smoker, whilst the other is firmly embedded in
the cigar.
But in order that my said Invention may be more fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I now proceed to describe it by the aid of the
accompanying Drawings, reference being had to the letters and figures thereon
marked, (that is to say) :-
Fig. 1 represents an exterior view of my improved cigar; Fig. 2 a longi-
tudinal section thereof; Fig. 3 a transverse section taken through the dotted
line in Fig. 1; Fig. 4 a detached view of the outer tube or mouthpiece;
Fig. 5 a longitudinal section of the same; Fig. 6 a top or front view; Fig. 7
an end view; Fig. 8 a side view of a straw or tubular lining separately shown;

page_text: Fig. 9 a longitudinal section thereof, and Fig. 10 a sectional end view. In
each Figure the same letters of reference denote similar corresponding parts.
a, a, the cigar; b, b, tube or mouthpiece formed of glass, earthenware, wood,
or other suitable or similar material as aforesaid; c, c, draught hole or
perforation through which the smoke is drawn into the mouth; d, d, lip or
flange for enabling the cigar to be more conveniently held in the mouth of
the smoker; c, e, inner tube or lining of straw or other absorbant substance;
ff, wrapper or label surrounding the cigar and mouthpiece as in manner
shown.
In conclusion to the foregoing description, I would here briefly note that
the said tubes or mouthpieces may be applied in like manner to any or all of
the various descriptions of cigars that are or may be manufactured, and that
the same may be ornamented if found desirable or coloured in imitation of
amber, meerschaum, or otherwise.
Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of this my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I would
have it clearly understood that I do not intend to confine myself to the precise
details herein-before described, as various modifications in the form and
dimensions of the tubes or mouthpieces may be made and employed with like
advantages, or the same may be otherwise varied without departing from the
general principle of these my said improvements, but that which I do claim
as new and of my said Invention is the employment of tubes or mouthpieces
in connection with the straw or inner lining in the manner and for the
purposes herein-before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Lewis Roberts, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
Witness,
0
CHARLES LEWIS ROBERTS. (L.S.)
F. R. DARKIN CAMPBELL,
Clerk to Messrs. Weatherdon & Co.
77, Chancery Lane.