IMPROVEMENTS IN CIGARS
Year: 1884

page_text: I, WILLIAM WATSON, 33 Hayburn Crescent, Partick, Glasgow, in the County of
Lanark, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS
IN CIGARS, to be as follows:-
I distinguish the various kinds or qualities of all cigars from each other by
embossing, stamping, or printing tobacco leaf, tobacco paper, paper or other
material with the quality, name and price, or with ornamental designs, and I
attach these so that they become part of the Cigars, and are consumed with them
on being smoked, or I mark them by means of a metal stencil or stamp which may
be heated, or I transfer to them a mark or design from paper; besides using these
means to mark cigars in process of manufacture. I also stamp, emboss, or print,
the tobacco or paper covering which forms the outside layer, or I place them in
stamped or printed wrappers or in paper cases; I likewise press the tobacco and
paper into moulds of various designs, so as to form Cigar. coverings or tubes which
I afterwards fill with tobacco. As a means of retaining the ash in cigars while
being smoked, I form the outer covering of uninflammable paper or other material
which I may pierce with small holes to admit air, As cigars cannot be smoked to the
extreme end in the mouth without injury to the mouth, I therefore as a matter of
economy, cut this smoking end off cigars, and replace the end by tobacco paper, or
paper, cotton, wool, hemp, cocoa fibre, paper pulp, sponge, sawdust, cork asbestos,
kaolin, clay, metal or other material, made so as to form a mouthpiece or smoke
filter, which I make hollowed to fit the lips or of any suitable shape; or I manu-
facture the cigars without the smoking end and afterwards attach this mouthpiece,
or I add it in process of manufacture.
For the purpose of lighting the cigars, I form on the point of each cigar, a tip
of some inflammable material which ignites by friction, or I place in the point of
each a small fusee or vesuvian match, which may have igniting composition at both
front and back, and I may then place over the point a small cap or cover of paper,
metal, or other material, and as a safeguard against self-ignition, I also divide the
igniting compound as in common safety matches, placing part on the point of cigar
and part on the cap; I likewise make cigars in the form of capsules for smoking

page_text: in a mouthpiece or pipe, said capsules can have friction lighter attached and can'
be lighted by the action of the lid or cover on the mouthpiece or pipe, Besides
making cigars of the ordinary tobacco, I also impregnate paper pulp with tobacco
extract, to which perfumes may be added, and I then roll the pulp into tobacco
paper between engraved rollers to give it the appearance of natural leaves; or
I take the plant called Cannabis Indicus and use it like ordinary tobacco, or
I combine the plant, resin, or extract with paper pulp, and convert it into paper.
To extract the oils or nauseous properties from cigars, I treat them with
bisulphide of carbon or benzine.
These improvements are equally applicable to those small cigars called cigarettes.
Dated this first day of November 1884

page_text: I, WILLIAM WATSON 33 Hayburn Crescent Partick, Glasgow, in the County of
Lanark, Engineer (and Chemist) do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN CIGARS, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:—
My Invention consists in the manufacture or treatment of cigars in a novel or
particular manner, or in certain specified modifications thereof, so that the following
principal objects may be attained, Imparting greater utility of purpose and
elegance of form or appearance to a Cigar. Economically lessening the quantity of
tobacco necessary to form a cigar, and purifying, or partly purifying the smoke
from a cigar. Facilitating the lighting of a cigar, making a cigar from strong
tobacco and other material, so as to be of a milder or more pleasant quality.
I divide the particular description of my Invention into four different sections.
First section. To ornament a cigar or use it as a means of advertisement, and
especially to denote its quality, brand or price, I emboss stamp, print or ornament
the external surface or covering by means of engraved rolls or dies, stamps, type
or stencils, as usually adapted for the purpose of embossing, stamping printing or
ornamenting; or I place the cigar in a printed or ornamented case or tube; and
the mode by which these requirements may be effected admits of the following
modifications. To emboss, stamp, indent or ornament the cigar, I damp it and
compress it betwixt dies specially made of the design desired; or, I place a stencil
plate over the cigar; and mark the impression of it in pigment; or, I emboss,
print, or stamp with or without colour, new tobacco leaf paper or cloth; or I line
paper to represent coloured tartan, or I take a photograph on thin paper, and
I gum, cement or stitch either of them to a cigar;-or, I first damp and unroll the
external layer of a cigar then place it between two sheets of paper, and press it
thus betwixt dies and afterwards replace it; or, after unrolling the layer, 1 cement
a thin sheet of paper to its under side to strengthen it, and then print or press it
between the dies and replace it as before; or, I brand the surface of the cigar by
applying a heated stamp; this stamp may have vacant spaces left, in those parts
of the letters or design, which are generally represented by connecting lines of
attachment in a stencil plato, so that should the stamp burn through a layer the
different parts of it will still remain attached; or, I ornament a cigar by placing
it in a turning lathe and there covering it with parallel rings of colour. To make
a cigar with a stamped or ornamental case or cover of a square, round, oval or other
shape, I also roll tobacco leaf, on a central spindle or mandril of the required
pattern, and I then print or stamp it, or I cover it with plain or ornamental
tobacco leaf or paper, and afterwards fill it with tobacco; I also make a cap for
placing over the lighting end of it in the same manner, so that by replacing it over
the end of a partly consumed cigar, the ash will be prevented from soiling the
pocket; or to make this cover, I also take damp paper, or paper pulp of any
colour wanted and compress it on a mandril in a mould of the required shape, and
after drying it in a heated chamber, fill it with tobacco;-or, I press tobacco leaf
or paper in a -mould made to form the half of a cigar, and I unite two of these

page_text: halves together to form the case of a cigar, by cementing them together and
covering them with tobacco leaf, or thin paper, and I afterwards fill them with
tobacco; or instead of filling them with tobacco I fix them over an ordinary cigar ;
I also make by any of these ways a temporary case or wrapper in which to enclose
a plain cigar. Any of these tubes may be rendered uninflammable by coating
then with a solution of silicate of potash, or asbestos paint, or by soaking them
in alum solution. Sheet metal may also be stamped for an ornamental covering
to a cigar, but I prefer to employ a material which is a non conductor of heat.
Second section. As cigars cannot be smoked to the extreme end in the mouth,
without burning or scorching it, I therefore as a matter of safety and economy,
cut this smoking end off cigars, and in its place I fix a mouth piece, which mouth
piece can be made of any material suitable for this purpose; but as the air and
smoke drawn from a cigar, enters the mouth in a heated state, and thus introduces
the greater part of the nicotine or narcotic oil which in this condition is held in
suspension, I therefore make the mouthpiece preferably of a cool absorbent
material, so that the smoke by passing through it, may be partly cooled, and thus
cause a portion of the oil to be deposited therein. The mode of operating on the
cigar for this purpose and the construction of the mouthpiece, and mode of fixing
it admits of the following modifications. I make the mouthpiece of a shape
suitable for the cigar, by compressing damp paper or paper pulp, in a mould of the
shape desired, which may be hollowed on two sides to suit the lips; or I roll paper
on a mandril and cement it; and after drying either of these shells, I fill them
with dried sawdust, or asbestos fibre, or cocoa fibre; or cotton wool sawdust or
sponge which has been passed through a solution of silicate of potash, alum or
fullers' earth, and dried; or I place in it a plug of either burned pipe clay, gypsum
or compressed kaolin pierced with holes to permit the smoke to pass through; or
I form the mouthpiece of pipe clay only moulded to the shape required and pierced
with holes; or, I cut or turn a shell out of dry wood or cork, and fill it as before;
or I form the mouthpiece of soft absorbent paper rolled spirally into a solid piece
and pierced with holes. To prepare the cigar for receiving the mouthpiece, I take
a cigar of the usual form and size, and after piercing its smoking end, fix the
mouthpiece on it; or, I take a cigar of the usual form and size, and cut off a part
of the smoking end equal in length to the mouthpiece, and I afterwards attach the
mouthpiece to it; or, I make up the cigar shorter than usual, and then fix the
mouthpiece theron. To fix the mouthpiece, I make it to overlap the end of
the cigar and cement or stitch it on; or I cover the juncture, or part of both with
a comented covering of tobacco leaf, paper, cloth, parchment or bladder. Third
section. To afford greater facility in lighting cigars, I place on the point of
cach a tip of inflammable material. The construction of the tip, and the
mode of fixing or using it, admits of the following modifications. I gum a pioce
of touch or fusee paper round the point of a cigar, twist it to a point, and dip
it in inflammable paste; the gum may have nitre, sulphur or gunpowder mixed
with it, and the inflammable composition may be made of chlorate of potash
8 parts, amorphous phosphorous parts, water 9 parts glue 5 parts, fine sand
3 parts, or, I cement on the point a cap of compressed fusee paper faced with the
composition; or I cement part of the stalk of a vesuvian match in the cigar, and
leave the head partly projecting; or, I insert in the point of each cigar, a piece of
fusee paper, with inflammable paste at each end of it; or I insert in the point a
vesuvian head or piece of fusee paper, faced with a composition of chlorate of
potash 3 parts, sulphate of antimony 2 parts, dry glue 1 part, water 4 parts; and
over this I place a sliding paper cap with closed end, on the outside of which I put
part of a paste composed of amorphous phosphorous 10 parts, oxide of manganese
8 parts, dry glue 5 parts, water 7 parts. To light this cigar it is necessary to slide
off the cap, and strike the point of the cigar on it. I also place these inflammable
points on cigars of a short capsule shape, so that if placed in a mouthpiece or pipe
of a size exactly adapted to bring the point in contact with a roughened sliding

page_text: on a cigar in another way, I place a small slip of wood covered with sand paper in
the point of a cigar, and leave its point projecting about of an inch, I then
cement over the point a cap of thick fusee paper with a hole in its centre to admit
the slip of wood, the hole is lined with inflammable paste, and the cigar is lighted
by withdrawing the slip of wood. Fourth section. Strong tobacco in cigars, acts
on some or most persons in an injurious manner, from the large quantity of
poisonous alkaloids present in it. It is therefore a matter of importance to
remove part of the essential oil contained in them, and a matter of economy as
well for to combine the tobacco with a material of a cheaper and less deleterious
nature. To accomplish these purposes I adopt the following means. For the
purpose of extracting part of the narcotic oil from strong cigars, I place them in
a quantity of benzine, or bisulphide of carbon for a short time, and keep the
vessel closely covered, I then transfer them to a heated chamber commun:-
cating with a receiver, and there thoroughly evaporate all traces of these liquids.
To make the paper for forming or covering a cigar, I pulp tobacco, and add it in
any required proportion to unbleached paper pulp, which has preferably been
made from wood or straw, and then roll it into paper which I afterwards pass
through engraved rolls or dies to give it the appearance of natural leaves, and I
use it in a similar way to tobacco leaf; or, I immerse absorbent paper in a solution
or decoction of tobacco, to which a little starch, gum, or gelatine, has been added,
and then dry and impress it in a similar manner. I make use of the plant called
Cannabis Indicus for cigars, by pressing it into cakes, and cutting it down and
mixing it with tobacco, or by using it in any of the before mentioned ways
adopted for tobacco.
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
First. Imparting greater utility of purpose and elegance of appearance to a
cigar, by utilizing its covering for ornamentation or advertisement, in the several
modified ways of effecting this as described in the first section.
Second. Economically lessening the quantity of tobacco in a cigar, and other-
wise improving it by the means adopted in the second section.
Third. Facilitating the lighting of a cigar by the modes described in the third
section.
Fourth. Making a novel or improved cigar by the means described in the fourth
section.
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