Year: 1885

page_text: I, FRANCIS TAYLOR of High Street, Whitchurch, in the County of Salop,
Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists in combining a cigar, cheroot or other sufficiently stiff
"weed" with a fusee, by fixing a little fusee composition at the end of the cigar or
cheroot. This can be done in a variety of ways; the end can be dipped in the
semi-fluid fusee mixture as in ordinary fusee manufacture, the cigar becoming the
stick, or a thin wire can be used for a stick or a thread with a knot in the fusee
composition, sewn or tied into the cigar, or a flat headed or other fusee can be
used with a small pointed wood or wire shank, and the latter be driven into the
cigar end.
In using these for export a small capsule can be placed over the fusee to shield it
from ignition by accidental friction.
WP. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Lord Street, Liverpool,
Patent Agents for the Applicant.

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There are numerous ways of forming the fusee end. The fusee can be formed
separately and fixed on or in the end by a wood or wire shank. It can be formed
on a knot at the end of a thread or string and sewn on or otherwise fixed, but
I prefer the following plan -
I dip the extreme end of the cigar or cigarette into any mixture, porous when
dry, of nitrate of potash, chlorate of potash, or other highly oxygenated salt,
organic matter, and water or other solvent or diluent, now used for the smouldering
portion of a fusee, and when that is dried on the cigar or nearly so, I add to the end
of the above mixture a single drop or small piece of any ordinary match mixture,
now used for making the striking part of a fusee, and let that dry also. The cigar
is now a fusee with a cigar instead of the ordinary stem. I cover each cigar in
cases where the expense is no great matter with a thin metallic belt or other
capsule in cheaper cases with one made of paper, glazed, parchmented, or prefer-
ably well loaded during manufacture with earthy mineral matter. By this means,
if in transport a cigar were struck and ignited, it would have no air to support
combustion and would go out.
When required for use the capsule is pulled off and the end struck like an
ordinary fusee.
In cases where a capsule is not deemed sufficient protection I cover the igniting
end of the cigar with the smouldering composition, and then place the comple-
mentary chemicals as in the case of safety matches on the box containing the
cigars or on a capsule covering the other (mouth) end of each cigar. The cigar will
then only light on the box or capsule, or will instantly light with a match or even
spark.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I make no claim
for any special receipt or set of chemicals for making the igniting material, not
having invented any such; and using the ordinary materials employed in fusee or
match manufacture, further I do not claim broadly the adding of match or fusee
matter to cigars, but I declare that what I claim is :-
1st. The manufacture of a combined cigar or cheroot, fusee, or match head in
which the ingredients ignitable by friction are protected from igniting in transit
by being separated from each other, or from the air substantially as described.
2nd. The combination with a cigar having a fusee end, of a capsule of difficultly
inflammable material, substantially as and for the purposes described.
Dated this 20th day of September 1880.