IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS AND CHEROOTS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred George Goodes, of the Firm of G. and S.
Goodes, of Newgate Street, in the City of London, Cigar Manu-
facturers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
CIGARS AND CHEROOTS."
Scaled the 1st June 1869, and dated the 9th December 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred George Goodes
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 9th December 1868.
I, ALFRED GEORGE GOODES, of the Firm of G. and S. Goodes, of
Newgate Street, in the City of London, Cigar Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS AND CHEROOTS," to be as follows:-
For manufacturing cigars and cheroots the inner wrapper, known as
the "bunch" wrapper, has hitherto been composed of leaf tobacco..
Paper has also been used as the inner wrapper.
According to my Invention I employ the husk of the Indian
corn or maize plant (zea mays) to form said wrapper instead of using

page_text: either paper or tobacco, whereby the flavor of the cigar or cheroot is
greatly improved. The cigar or cheroot is finished in the ordinary way
by wrapping tobacco leaf round the inner or bunch wrapper of maize
husk.
An additional improvement is also obtained inasmuch as cigars or
cheroots made with inner "or bunch" wrappers of maize husk are much
less liable to become damaged in packing.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred George Goodes in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 9th June 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
GEORGE GOODES, of the Firm of G. and S. Goodes, of Newgate Strect,
in the City of London, Cigar Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Alfred George Goodes, Her special
licence that I, the said Alfred George Goodes, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred George
Goodes, 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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS AND CHEROOTS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alfred George Goodes, 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 monthis next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alfred George Goodes, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same

page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement (that is to say):
--
In manufacturing cigars and cheroots the inner wrapper known as
the "bunch" wrapper has hitherto been composed of leaf tobacco.
Paper has also been used as the inner wrapper.
According to my Invention I employ the husk of the Indian corn or
maize plant (zea mays) to form said "bunch" wrapper instead of using
either paper or tobacco for this purpose. The flavor of the cigar or
cheroot will in this manner be greatly improved. The husk is applied
in its natural sun dried condition for wrapping round the "bunch" in
the same way as when using tobacco leaf or paper for the purpose. The
cigar or cheroot is then finished in the ordinary way by wrapping
tobacco leaf round the inner bunch wrapper of maize husk, and may
or may not be provided with a suitable mouth piece.
An additional improvement is also obtained inasmuch as cigars or
cheroots made with inner wrappers of maize husk are much less liable
to become damaged as the husk gives greater strength to the cigar or
cheroot, and does not become soft and pulpy by absorbing moisture from
the mouth in smoking, as is the case with tobacco or paper. Instead of
using the husk or sheath enclosing the ear or spike of the maize or
Indian corn plant to form the bunch wrapper I may apply the leaf of
the said plant for the same purpose, but with less advantage.
Having described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I declare that what I claim as my Invention of
"Improvements in the Manufacture of Cigars and Cheroots" to be pro-
tected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, forming the
inner or "bunch" wrapper of the husk or leaf of the maize or Indian
corn plant (zea mays) as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred George Goodes, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Ninth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
ALF. G. GOODES. (L.S.)