A New or Improved Material for Making Pipe Mouth-pieces, Cigar or Cigarette Holders, Ornaments, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Dec., 1892-Accepted, 18th Feb., 1893
PROVIDIUNAL DILUIFICATION.
A New or Improved Material for Making Pipe Mouth-pieces, Cigar
or Cigarette Holders, Ornaments, and the like.
I MAX SIMON, of 10 Silver Street in the City of London Agent, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention (a communication to me from abroad by the
firm of Gebrueder Simon of Vienna in the Empire of Austria) to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to a new or improved material for making pipe mouth-
pieces, cigar or cigarette holders ornaments and the like.
The object of this invention is to utilise the waste from amber to produce
therefrom a material that shall present all the desirable features of jet and yet
shall be easily manufactured and consequently much cheaper than jet.
According to the invention fragments or small pieces of yellow amber are taken,
pulverized and mixed with lampblack or the like, the mixture is preferably
moistened with alcohol or the like and filled into moulds and in these consolidated
by the application of a suitable degree of heat and high pressure.
The resulting material presents all the beauty, hardness lustre and other
desirable qualities of jet and may be turned and otherwise worked with tools like
the same.
Dated this 25th of March 1891.
BERNHARD DUKES,
226, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Material for Making Pipe Mouth-pieces, Cigar
or Cigarette Holders, Ornaments, and the like.
I, MAX SIMON, of 10 Silver Street, in the City of London, Agent, 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 relates to a new or improved material for making pipe mouthpieces,
cigar or cigarette holders, ornaments and the like.
The base of the material is amber, of which small fragments or pieces can be
employed, utilising, if necessary, the waste from the working of amber, to produce
a material which presents all the desirable features of jet and is much less
expensive.
According to this invention, fragments or small pieces of amber are pulverized
and mixed with more or less lamp black according as the product is desired to be
more or less black.
The mixture is moistened with alcohol and filled into suitable moulds, and in
these it is heated to a temperature nearly that of melting amber and subjected to
sufficient pressure to consolidate it.
The resulting material presents all the beauty, hardness and lustre of jet,
combined with the desirable qualities of amber of which it mostly consists, and it
can be turned or otherwise worked like jet or amber.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The material produced as herein described from pulverised amber and lamp
black.
Dated this 02nd 1
1000
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.