Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 27th June, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 20th Mar., 1889
⚫ Complete Specification Accepted, 20th Apr. 1889
I, ADOLPH STRAUSS, of 42 Basinghall Street, City of London, Tobacconists Fancy
Goods Importer and Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows :-
The object of this invention is to tip or cover one end of a cigaretto with pure
gold leaf to serve as a mouthpiece.
Many methods have been adopted for preserving or protecting the mouth of a
smoker from the unpleasant flavour of tobacco which, as is well known, gets charged
with saliva and becomes pappy or soft as well as heated by the smoke passing through
and in many cases the paper of which the cigarette is made is of an injurious
character from the alkalis and other chemical matters contained therein which also in
many cases destroys the flavour of tobacco and produces an unpleasant taste as well
as being destroyed by becoming wet. The consequences resulting from these
imperfections is that the cigarette is thrown away before it is half consumed.
Some of the plans adopted has been a separate mouthpiece, or a gummel coated
paper, a metallized paper, an india rubber varnish, a shellac varnish but each and all
have been found objectionable and the nearest and most perfect plan yet adopted has
been to cover or tip a cigarette with silver leaf but from the ductility of the metal
it has been impossible to beat it or otherwise prepare it to that extreme thinness of
body as to make it practically available for the purpose intended.
Now according to my invention, all the objections hitherto made to tipped cigarettes
are overcome gold being the only metal that preserves its colour, retains its cleanliness,
and obviates increase of thickness of the cigarette tip.
According to my invention, I apply by brush or otherwise to the end of a made
up cigarette a thin solution of glare or its equivalent and this I coat with pure gold
leaf or 1 first prepare the cigarette papers by coating them with glare or its equivalent
and pure gold leaf.
I am aware that pure gold leaf is much more expensive than any other metal or
material that could,be used for the purpose but the advantages obtained by its use more
than counterbalance that difference.

page_text: jartares terra Pure Gold Leny as a Mouthpiece.
Further to a careful smoker, a much greater advantage could be obtained by saving
the pure gold leaf tipped ends and selling them to a Refiner, he could recover a
certain value with which to buy fresh Cigarettes.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Stroot, London,
Agent for the said A. Strauss.
1, ADOLPH STRAUSS, of 42 Basinghall Street, City of London, Tobacconists Fancy
Goods Importer and Manufacturer, 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 :-
The object of this invention is, to tip or cover one end of a cigarette with pure
gold leaf to serve as a mouthpiece.
Many methods have been adopted for preserving, or protecting the mouth of a
Smoker from the unpleasant flavor of tobacco which, as is well known, gets charged
with saliva and become pappy or soft as well as heated by the smoke passing through,
and in many cases the paper of which the cigarette is made is of an injurious
character from the alkalies and other chemical matters contained therein which also in
many cases destroys the flavor of tobacco and produces an unpleasant taste as well as
being destroyed by becoming wet. The consequences resulting from these imporfoc-
tions is that the cigarette is thrown away before it is half consumed.
Some of the plans adopted lins boen a separate mouthpiece, or a gummiod coated
paper, a metallized paper, an india rubber varnish, a shellac varnish but each and all
Ive been found objectionable and the nearest and most perfect plan yet adoptod has
been to cover or tip a cigarette with silver leaf but from the ductility of the metal it
has been impossible to beat it or otherwise proparo it to that extreme thinness of body
as to make it practically available for the purpose intended.
Now according to my invention all the objections hitherto made to tipped cigarettos
are overcome, gold being the only metal that preserves its colour, retains its cleanliness
and obviates increase of thickness of the cigaretto tip.
According to my invention, I apply by brush or otherwise to the end of a made up
cigarette, a thin solution of glare or its equivalent and this 1 coal with pure gold
leaf, or I first prepare the cigarette papers by coating them with glare or its
equivalent and pure gold leaf.

page_text: I am aware that pure gold leaf is much more expensive than any other metal or
material that could be used for the purpose but the advantages obtained by its use
more than counterbalance that difference.
Further, to a careful Smoker a much greater advantage could be obtained by saving
the pure gold leaf tipped ends, and selling them to a Refiner, he could recover a
certain value with which to buy fresh cigarettes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. Tipping cigarettes with pure leaf gold as and for the purpose described.
2. The employment of gold leaf as a cover to the mouthpiece or the mouth end of
a cigarette, as and for the purposes set forth.
The 20th day of March 1889.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Adolph Strauss.