Improvements relating to Cigarettes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Dec., 1891-Accepted, 19th Dec., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Cigarettes.
I, CHARLES JACOBI of 35 Crutched Friars London E.C. Cigarette Manu-
facturer 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 :-
In accordance with my invention I take any desired size of cigarette paper and
to one end of same I introduce a tip or mouthpiece forming a tube the length of
which may be varied. Said tubular tip or mouthpiece I prefer to make of cherry
wood; but, any other suitable wood may be employed that is to say; either the
bark only, or the bark with a small proportion of the wood, or the wood only with-
out the bark. In proceeding to make up the cigarette, the first operation is to
employ a forming tool or mandrel hereinafter termed the "former," the diameter of
which is equal to that of the cigarette to be made up, but one end of same has a
neck piece of reduced diameter to allow of its being introduced in the end of the
tubular mouthpiece; so that the circular shoulder of the neck piece will abut
against the inner end of the tubular mouthpiece, thus making the external diameter
of the mouthpiece and that of the main portion of the "former" coincident. The
cigarette paper is then covered along the edge and at the mouthpiece end with any
suitable cement and rolled round the "former; " and the tube will be completed on
the adhesion of the cemented portion of the cigarette paper including the mouth-
piece end; the "former" is then removed. The cigarette case is now ready to be
charged with the tobacco which is then introduced to the interior. The tobacco
may extend either through to the mouth end of the wood tube, or, otherwise, to
suit the different requirements of the trade. I do not however confine myself or
lay claim to any particular method of charging or loading cigarettes made up in
accordance with my invention.
In the preceding description I have assumed the wood mouthpieces are in the
form of short hollow tubes or cylinders, I wish it to be understood however that
the mouth end of these tubes or tips may be tapered down, flattened or otherwise
shaped, and the orifice also reduced to suit the requirements of the trade and the
taste of smokers. I also wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to
any particular length of the tubular mouthpiece above described; for instance, in
some cases where smokers object to the taste arising from the burning of the
cigarette paper the mouthpiece might extend through a considerable portion of the
length of the cigarette.
The many advantages arising from the use of cigarettes made up in accordance
with my invention will be apparent to the trade and smokers, notably and amongst
others, the doing away with the cigarette papers sticking to the lips, the saturation
of the tobacco and so forth.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
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First The improvements in cigarettes as herein set forth.
Second: In cigarettes, providing same with wood mouthpieces-preferably
fragrant wood-forming part of the improved cigarette case as herein set forthi.
Dated this 1st day of December 1891
JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agent for Applicant.