Improvements in or relating to Cigarettes.
Year: 1892

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Cigarettes.
[A communication from JOACHIM DIEDRICHMUES trading as "Tabak and
Cigarettenfabrik Sulima' F. L. Woolf" of Dresden, Saxony, in the German
Empire.]
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT, of 323 High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
M.I. Mech. E., and Chartered Patent 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:-
Hitherto the paper mouth-pieces employed in cigarettes have been rolled up
spirally, the spiral being compressed as it is introduced into the sheath or tube of
cigarette paper, and then allowed to expand therein and to be retained in place by
friction. These spirals meet the end of the tobacco roil enclosed in the tube of
cigarette paper, but do not allow of the tobacco extending through them as does
the improved mouth-piece forming the subject of this invention.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 shows a cigarette made in the usual manner a being the cigarette paper
tube or case, b the mouth-piece and e the roll of tobacco enveloped by the tube, but
not extending into the mouth-piece.
Fig. 2 is a longitudinal, and Fig. 3 a cross section of one form of cigarette made
in accordance with this invention. The mouthpiece here consists of a paper
or cardboard ring d, formed of a strip which is pasted on the inner side of the
cigarette paper a and cut into shape together with it, the mouthpiece thus being
open and allowing the tobacco c to extend through it to the smoker's mouth. The
simplest and most economical way of making the tube of cigarette paper and its
mouth-piece, all in one, is to paste upon a strip of cigarette paper a¹ (Figs. 6
and 7) a narrower strip of thick paper d', and then form tubes of the combined
strips.
The mouthpiece may be made of any suitable material other than paper, such as
metal-foil, Tonquin reed, clay or the like, and in these cases it may assume the
shape illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5 of the drawings, being, respectively, a longitudinal
and a transverse section thereof. But, whatever the shape of the mouth-piece the
essential point is that it shall be substantially annular and that the tobacco or the
cigarette shall extend into or through it.
The object of this arrangement is to afford both the manufacturer and the
smoker many advantages of which a few may be here mentioned.
A very considerable economy is realized in the manufacture, as not only material,
but especially a great deal of time and trouble is saved, while the percentage of
shavings or waste, which can be turned to no useful purpose, is materially reduced.
The tobacco is inserted into the cigarettes through the end of the mouthpiece
which it has hitherto been been impossible to do as the cigarette was produced by
two successive operations instead of one; first, the introduction of the tobacco, and
then the insertion of the spiral mouthpiece. The usual cigarette-paper being very
thin and liable to tear quickly in the smoker's mouth is conveniently stiffened or
strengthened by the improved mouthpiece, which is a very important point
considering that cigarettes provided with such mouth pieces can be smoked without
a cigarette-holder. On the other hand the mouthpiece does not allow the tobacco
to slip out of the cigarette and to get into the smoker's mouth, as easily as it has
done before, as, although the tobacco-roll extends throughout the cigarette, mouth-
piece included, yet it naturally expands somewhat where it joins the inner end of
the mouth-piece, causing the tobacco to be as it were compressed at that end, so
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page_text: that it cannot become loose so readily. This advantage will be noticeable even
where the mouthpiece consists merely of paper (Figs. 2 and 4).
Another very advantageous feature of the improved cigarettes is this,-in the
usual cigarette the tobacco e comes close up to the mouthpiece forming as nearly
as possible a flat end surface at this point, (line Fig. 1), and as is well-known
cigarettes are very liable to break there in consequence. This inconvenience is
entirely avoided in the new arrangement herein proposed, owing to the fact that
the tobacco-roll here extends right up to the mouthpiece end of the cigarette.
Again this arrangement enables the useful i.e. actually smokeable portion of the
cigarette to be comparatively enlarged, as, fearing lest the cigarette should too
readily break at the joint, as just stated, the manufacturer has had to make the
mouthpiece of such length as to prevent the lips of the smoker from reaching and
moistening the joint (line Fig. 1) whereas in the improved cigarette the mouth..
piece may be of any suitable length which is a point of some importance as it is
connected with the question of facility of packing.
It will therefore be seen that this improved cigarette combines the advantages of
both kinds of cigarettes hitherto known i.e. those provided with a mouth-piece of
the old construction, and those having no mouth piece at all, while they are free
from the disadvantages attending either kind of cigarettes. They may in fact be
smoked with or without a cigarette holder as the smoker prefers.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is,―
A cigarette provided with a mouthpiece combining the advantages of economy
in manufacture and of increased strength of paper tube the construction being such
that a mouthpiece such as d d of paper or other suitable material is arranged to
occupy part of the length of the tobacco roll substantially as described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 28th day of December 1892.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Of London, Liverpool, Nottingham and Manchester,
Agents for the Applicant.