s as are made and used in continuous or long lengths or strips for the manufacture of cigarettes by machinery.
Year: 1897

page_text: I, JOSEPH SAMUEL BEEMAN, of 182, Earls Court Road, London, S.W., Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improvement in such cigarette papers as are made and
used in continuous or long lengths or strips for the manufacture of cigarettes by
machinery.
"My invention consists in coating, impregnating or otherwise suitably treating the
continuous paper long lengths or strips at such intervals or distances apart as will
suit the desired lengths of cigarettes to be manufactured with a suitable material
so that the cigarettes made from such continuous paper long lengths or strips have
teach one end so prepared that it will not stick to the lips or mouth of the smoker
and the paper covering is more or less water-proof and thus no separate holder is
required. I am aware that cigarette papers with prepared ends for this purpose are
in use but these papers are not made after the manner of my invention and cannot be
used in cigarette making machines where the paper is used in long lengths.
At present it is impossible to make cigarettes with prepared mouth ends by
continuous cigarette making machines but by the use of my invention this will be
easily attainable and at a cheap rate.
In carrying out my invention the paper strip is transversely coated or treated at
suitable intervals as with gold or silver foil, or composition containing either of these
or their substitutes or with gum or size to receive them or the paper may be coated
or treated with paraffin or other wax or any suitable material.
A serviceable and suitable material is a high grade paraffin wax having a high
melting point. This material not only waterproofs the paper and thereby prevents
any moisture reaching the enclosed tobacco through the paper but likewise prevents
the lips of the smoker being hurt by the paper sticking to them, economises the
cigarettes by preventing them being damaged as well as giving a nice feeling to
the cigarette in the mouth of the smoker by reason of its sinooth surface.
In some cases I may even flavour and colour the material so used.
The width of the treated parts of the strip may be that necessary for the mouth
end of one cigarette say five eights of an inch, in which case the continuous
cigarette roll would be cut off at one edge of each treated part; or the width of
the part so treated may be sufficient, say about one and a quarter inches, to form the
mouth end of two adjacent cigarettes, the cigarette roll when made being out at
the centre of each treated part as well as centrally between each such part. The
treated parts to form the mouth ends may also be adjacent but with a narrow intervening
width of say for instance one thirtieth of an inch not so treated, this narrow line of
untreated paper forming a guide for setting the paper in the cigarette making
machine and being the position at which the paper: will be severed as well as in the
middle of the length of the paper not treated.
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The paper strip for the purposes of carrying out my invention may be coated or
treated in the continuous strip and afterwards rolled up for use in a cigarette making

page_text: machine or it may be coated or treated by suitable apparatus forming part of or
acting in conjunction with a cigarette making machine.
1, JOSEPH SAMUEL BEEMAN, of 182, Earls Court Road, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer, 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 improvements in such cigarette-papers as are made and
used in continuous or long lengths or strips for the manufacture of. cigarettes by
machinery.
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According to this invention portions of such long lengths or strips, at such
intervals or distances apart. as will correspond to twice the length of the cigarette for
which they are to be employed, are coated, impregnated or otherwise treated in such
a manner that the cigarettes for which they are used will each have one end so
prepared that it is more or less waterproof and will not adhere to the lips of the
smoker, the use of a cigarette holder being thus obviated in a manner well
understood.
It is to be clearly understood that cigarette-papers with prepared ends of a like
nature are in use, but these papers are not made according to the present invention
for they have the conted or impregnated portions spaced at distances apart which
are equal to the length of a single cigarette only, and consequently do not possess
the advantages hereinafter detailed as arising from the arrangement of such portions
according to this invention.
In carrying out this invention the paper strip is coated or treated at the described
intervals with, for example, gold or silver foil or a composition containing either of
these or their substitutes, or with gum or size to receive them or the paper may be
coated or treated with paraffin or other wax or any suitable material!
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The length of the individual treated parts of the strip is that necessary to form
the mouth-ends of two adjacent cigarettes, the cigarette-rod or roll when completed
being divided at the centre of each treated part as well as centrally between each
sucli part.
Alternatively each treated part to form the mouth-ends may have a narrow width of
untreated paper or an equivalent distinctive mark such as an ink line extending
transversely of the strip across the centre of each treated portion or there may be
some other central mark at the middle of the treated part. This narrow band of
untreated paper or equivalent indication forms a guide which facilitates the setting
of the paper relatively to the cutting-knife in the cigarette-making machine: when
paper thus treated is used in the production of cigarette-rod the latter will be
divided at these bands, or marks as well as in the middle of the length of the pair
of cigarettes which such division at the bands or marks produces.
The paper strip for the purposes of this invention may be coated or treated in long
lengths and afterwards rolled up for use in a cigarette-rod machine, or it may be
coated or treated by suitable apparatus forming part of or acting in conjunction with
such machine.
The material with which portions of the long lengths or strips are treated as
described may be so applied as to ornament the cigarette; it may if desired be
coloured or even flavoured.

page_text: In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 shows in plan a short length A of a long strip of cigarette-paper, the
portions A of which are treated as indicated at intervals, that is to say at a "pitch,"
equal to the length indicated by the dimension line L, of a pair of cigarettes, the
length of each treated portion being such as will enable it to form the mouth-tips
of two adjacent cigarettes.
Figure 2 shows in elevation a short length of long cigarette rod made with paper
such as is shown in Figure 1; one end of the rod being cut through in two places to
indicate the manner in which single cigarettes are produced from the rod..
Figures 3 and 4 are, views which respectively are similar to those given in
Figures 1 and 2, except that a narrow band A2 of paper is left untreated in the centre
of each of the lengths as hereinbefore described.
When the cigarette rod.shown in Figures 2 and 4 is cut on the lines X-X, Y-Y,
tipped cigarettes Care produced with mouth ends C¹ which will not adhere to the
lips of the smoker.
In Figures 3 and 4 the treated portions are indicated as having ornamentation
along one edge.
One advantage of having the treated portions A¹ at a pitch "which is twice the
length of the cigarette. instead of as hitherto equal only to the length of a single
cigarette is that if the knife by which division of the cigarette rod is effected should
happen to be slightly out of adjustment relatively to the rod, the cut will neverthe-
less take place within the limits of the treated portion so that the mouth ends C¹
although they may be of unequal length on alternate cigarettes will not expose any
untreated paper.
A further advantage is that in a given length of cigarette-paper there will be only
half as many treated places as there would be if each treated portion formed only
one mouth-end C'; this reduction of the number of places treated results in expediting
and cheapening the cost of manufacture of the paper.
The narrow band A2 in the modification illustrated by Figures 3 and 4 forms a
guide to facilitate accurate setting of the cigarette rod relatively to the cutting knife,
but should this setting by any chance be inaccurate no disadvantage would result;
in fact the ornamental appearance of the cigarette would be increased by the untreated
band which would appear as a ring upon alternate sections of the cigarette rod
should the rod be cut through to one side of it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. A strip of cigarette-paper which is adapted for use in the manufacture of
cigarette-rod by machinery and has coated treated or impregnated portions A¹ at a
"pitch" twice the length of the cigarette for which it is intended.
2. A strip of cigarette paper which is adapted for use in the manufacture of
cigarette rod by machinery with coated treated or impregnated portions such as A¹
(Figures 3 and 4) which have a central band A³ or mark substantially as and for the
purpose described.
Dated this 29th day of March 1898.