IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF MAKING CIGARETTS, AND IN THE APPARATUS AND MATERIALS TO BE EMPLOYED THEREIN
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Smith, of Salisbury Street, Adelphi, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF MAKING CIGARETTS, AND
IN THE APPARATUS AND MATERIALS TO BE EMPLOYED THEREIN."--A commu-
nication from abroad by M. Lemaire Daimé, of Andresy, in the Empire
of France.
Sealed the 22nd August 1862, and dated the 27th February 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Smith at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 27th
February 1862.
I, WILLIAM SMITH, of Salisbury Street, Adelphi, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF MAKING:
CIGARETTS, AND IN THE APPARATUS AND MATERIALS TO BE. EMPLOYED THEREIN," to
be as follows:-
Instead of forming the cigarette by placing the paper within the cylinder:
or tube, I place the material to form the cover for the tobacco around the
outside of the cylinder or tube in which the tobacco is contained. The
machine, which consists of a metallic cylinder or tube and a stick, rammer, or
piston is designated a "neotype."
Instead of employing cigarette paper folded and inserted inside the cylinder,
I prepare sheets of the paper or other material of the requisite size, and form
books of them by placing the small sheets one in advance of the other, and
gum or glue a broad part forming, the overlapping pieces, so that one edge.
of each sheet is secured to the next, and several of these sets of leaves thus
formed may be combined, and when it is required to make a cigarette, one

page_text: sheet of this paper, which is in France termed "oregomme," is torn from the
other sheets, and as it has on one of its edges a strip of gum or glue, it may
be placed around the outside of the cylinder or tube, and upon the edge being
moistened, it adheres and forms a tube or case.
The tobacco is charged into the metallic cylinder in the ordinary way, and
the end of the paper tube extending beyond the cylinder being secured, tho
stick, rammer, or piston is used to force the tobacco into the cigarette case or
or tube; the cigarette is then completed.
The apparatus is provided with an external leather or other case, which
may also have a pocket to contain the books of "orgomme," and form a
magazine for fusees, and provide the roughened surface for igniting them.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Smith in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th
August 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
SMITH, of Salisbury Street, Adelphi, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said William Smith, Her special licence that I, the said William
Smith, my executors, adniinistrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said William Smith, 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 METHOD OF MAKING CIGARETTES, AND IN THE APPARATUS AND MATERIALS TO
BE EMPLOYED THEREIN," a communication to me from abroad by M. Lemaire
Daimé, of Andresy, in the Empire of France, upon the condition, amongst
others, that I, the said William Smith, 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 months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that 1, the said William Smith, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompany Sheet of Drawings:-
:-
Instead of forming the cigarette by placing the paper within the cylinder
or tube, I place the material to form the cover for the tobacco around the
outside of the cylinder or tube in which the tobacco is contained. Tho
machine, which consists of a metallic cylinder or tube and a stick, rammer, or
piston is designated a "neotype.".
Instead of employing cigarette paper folded and inserted inside the
cylinder, I prepare sheets of the paper or other material of the requisite size, and
form books of them by placing the small sheets one in advance of the other,
and gum or gluo a broad part forming the overlapping picces, so that ono
edge of each sheet is secured to tho next, and several of these sets of leaves
thus formed may be combined; and when it is required to make a cigarette,
one sheet of this paper, which is in France termed "oregomme," is torn from.
the other sheets, and as it has on one of its edges a strip of gum or glue, it
may be placed around the outside of the cylinder or tube, and upon the edgo
being moistened, it adheres and forms a tube or case.
The tobacco is charged into the metallic cylinder in the ordinary way, and
the end of the paper tube extending beyond the cylinder being secured, tho
stick, rammer, or piston is used to force the tobacco into the cigarette case or
the cigarette is then completed.
tube;
The apparatus is provided with an external leather or other case, which
may also have a pocket to contain the book of "oregomme," and form a
magazine for fuzees, and provide the roughened surface for igniting them.
I prefer to make the case for containing the "neotype," the papers, and the.
tobacco in the form of a purse or clasp bag, and within it I fix a flat hook,
into which the book of the paper "oregomme" is slipped, and by which it is
held securely in its place. On the opposite side of the bag a pocket is pro-
vided with an elastic band around its mouth in which the fusees may be
carried; the rest of the bag may be devoted to holding the tobacco and the,
neotype." The means of igniting the match or fusee may be provided by
roughening the surface of the external plate to which the flat hook is
rivetted, or the frame or clasp of the purse-shaped bag may be suitably
roughened.
وه
Instead of a hook for holding the book of "oregomme paper there may
be a pocket provided for that purpose.
In the accompanying Drawing 1 have shown three views of the "neotype,"

page_text: and two views of the bag or case for containing the apparatus, the "oregomme"
paper, tobacco, and fusees. In Fig. 1, a is the metal tube; b, the loading
stick or rammer; c, the paper tube which is shown as surrounding the metal
tube or mould, the stick or rammer b being detached. In this view the paper
tube is shown in section. Fig. 2 is a section of the "neotype," showing the
paper tube in the act of being forced off with its charge of tobacco; Fig. 3
is a section of the apparatus, the loading stick or rammer having been
forced home, and the cigarette so far completed that it merely requires one
end of the paper tube to be closed. Fig. 4 is a view of the bag or case,
showing the hook, of which a
side and front view is shown detached; and
Fig. 5 is another view of Fig. 4, showing the pocket.
The superior or enlarged end of the tube or "neotype" apparatus is cut
down on one side, as shown, for the greater facility of charging whilst walking.
or riding.
Having now described the apparatus according to this Invention, and illus-
trated the same by the accompanying Drawings, what I claim is,-
First, the apparatus denominated a "neotype."
Second, the combining together of numerous sheets of paper by super-
imposing a number of sheets, one in advance of the other, and gumming or
glueing the projecting edges thereof, for the purpose and in the manner
described.
Third, the mode or method herein described of making cigarettes by
placing around the exterior surface of the metallic tube or "neotype"
apparatus a sheet of paper, one edge of which is gummed or made adhesive.
Fourth, the cigarette-making apparatus herein-before described, as also the
several parts thereof, so far as they may be new, respectively for the purpose
intended.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Smith, have bereunto set my
band and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of August, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two
WILLIAM SMITH. (L.S.)
Witness,
FREDERIC ROBERTS,
19, Salisbury St., W.C..
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