UTILIZING. THE STALKS, SMALLS, AND WASTE OF TOBACCO FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Clayton Collyer, of St. George Street East,
in the County of Middlesex, and Charles Lewis Roberts, of St. John
Street, Clerkenwell, in the said County, for the Invention of "UTILIZING.
THE STALKS, SMALLS, AND WASTE OF TOBACCO FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES."
Sealed the 15th September 1865, and dated the 18th July 1865.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said George Clayton Collyer
and Charles Lewis Roberts at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition and Declaration, on the 18th July 1865,
pursuant to the 9th Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852. :
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
CLAYTON COLLYER, of St. George Street East, in the County of Middlesex,
and CHARLES LEWIS ROBERTS, of St. John Street, Clerkenwell, in the said
County, send greeting.
WHEREAS we, the said George Clayton Collyer and Charles Lewis
Roberts, are in possession of an Invention for " UTILIZING THE STALKS,
SMALLS, AND WASTE OF TOBACCO FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES," and have petitioned
Her Majesty to grant unto us, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have made solemn Declaration
that we are the true and first Inventors thereof.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said George Clayton Collyer and Charles
Lewis Roberts, do hereby declare that the, following Complete Specification

page_text: under our hands and seals fully describes and ascertains the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, in and by
the following statement (that is to say) :-
Our said Invention has reference to the manufacture of certain portions of
tobacco known as the stalks, smalls, and waste of the same into sheets or
tissues, or any other similar or suitable forms or bodies for cutting or other-
wise converting the same into any of the various forms of tobacco for
smoking, rolling, or manufacturing the. said sheets or otherwise into cigars, or
employing the said sheets or bodies for burning in greenhouses with the
object of fumigating the same; or treating the said sheets, tissues, or other-
wise in any other suitable method, so as to enable the said stalks, smalls, and
waste to be employed for the various purposes to which' tobacco is or may be
applicable, whereby the said tobacco, cigars, or fumigating material may be
obtained or produced at less cost than hitherto.
And in order that our said Invention may be more fully understood and...
readily carried into effect, we now proceed to describe in detail the mode of
performing. the, same, (that is to say) :—
In producing the several articles above referred to, we take the stalks,
smalls, and waste of tobacco, or such portions thereof as may be found
desirable for the required purpose, and cause the same to be submitted within
suitable closed vessels or apparatus to the action and heat of water and steam,
either surcharged or otherwise, using such proportions of water for steeping
the materials under maceration, as will be taken up and absorbed by the same,.
and causing the action of the steam within, the said vessels. or receptacles to
be continued, until the absorption is rendered complete,, whereby the virtues
and. essential properties, or principles of the tobacco are. retained, and the
materials under. treatment formed into. a. semi-plastic or coherent substance.
The operation thus effected, the mass is then removed from the said vessels
and allowed. to cool, and, subsequently passed through or between rollers or
other machinery which may be found suitable for the purpose of reducing the
same to pulp, preferring to employ for the said purpose rollers of uniform
diameter varying in number and, speed as required for producing the said
pulp; which, after being allowed to dry, is finally formed' into sheets or
tissues by again passing the same through or between rollers revolving
uniformly, and of, equal diameters, by steam power or otherwise. The said
sheets or tissues, when dried in any ordinary manner, are then ready for use.
In conclusion to the foregoing description it may be here necessary to note,'
that in employing the said sheets or tissues in the manufacture of cigars, the
said sheets or otherwise may be at once rolled into form by hand or
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page_text: machinery, and finished and completed in a more effectual and uniform
manner than hitherto.
And we would further note, that the said manufactured sheets or tissues
may be cut and employed for smoking purposes in the ordinary manner, with
or without the admixture of leaf tobacco, selecting in all cases the stalks,
smalls, or waste according to the nature or quality of the cigar or other article
to be manufactured therefrom.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of this our said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, we would have it
clearly understood that we do not confine ourselves to the precise details
herein-before described, as the same may be varied without departing from
the general principle of this our said Invention, nor do we claim the exclusive
use of the several substances and processes herein-before mentioned, except
when the same are employed in and for the purposes of our said Invention,
which we hereby declare to consist in the preparation and employment of the
stalks, smalls, and waste of tobacco, either separately or together, in com-
bination with the processes above described for the purposes herein-before set
forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said George Clayton Collyer and Charles
Lewis Roberts, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Thirteenth
day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-five
GEO. C. COLLYER.
(L.S.)
CHARLES LEWIS ROBERTS. (L.B.)
25 Witness,
FRED. ROB. D. CAMPBELL,.
Clerk to Messrs. Weatherdon & Co.,
77, Chancery Lane.