Improvements relating to Cigarettes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 8th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 9th Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Cigarettes.
We, BENJAMIN POSNER, Cigarette Maker, 112 Commercial Street, London, and
GODFREY PHILLIPS, JOSEPH PHILLIPS, PHILIP PHILLIPS and MOSES DAVID
PHILLIPS, all of 112 Commercial Street, London, Tobacco Manufacturers, trading
as Godfrey Phillips & Sons, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to the production of a mouthpiece for cigarettes.
The objections to cigarettes produced without mouth pieces are well known, and
many suggestions have been made to overcome these objections, by the addition to
the cigarettes of various devices, such as pieces of tube made of thin card or stiff
paper, and other plans, the use of which, though having advantages, does not
successfully overcome the objections, for various reasons.
Now, according to the present invention, we cut the cigarette paper of suitable
length, and we fold it over inside, at one end, once, twice, or more times, as may be
desired, before inserting the tobacco and rolling the cigarette.
The depth of the fold may vary according to preference, but in general a fold of
about half an inch will be sufficient for the purpose.
The fold or folds will be sufficient to protect the paper from becoming torn by
the pressure of the teeth of the smoker, at the same time giving a good hold, and
this without increasing the size of the mouthpiece.
Dated this 17th day of August. 1893.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Cigarettes.
We BENJAMIN POSNER, Cigarette Maker, of 112 Commercial Street, London,
and GODFREY PHILLIPS, JOSEPH PHILLIPS, PHILIP PHILLIPS, and MOSES
DAVID PHILLIPS, trading as Godfrey Phillips & Sons of 112 Commercial Street,
London, Tobacco Manufacturers 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 the production of a mouthpiece for cigarettes.
The objections to cigarettes produced without mouthpieces are well known, and
many suggestions have been made to overcome these objections, by the addition to
the cigarettes of various devices, such as pieces of tube made of thin card or stiff
paper, and other plans, the use of which, though having advantages, does not
successfully overcome the objections, for various reasons.
Now, according to the present invention, we cut the cigarette paper of suitable
length, and we fold it over inside, at one end, once, twice, or more times, as may be
desired, before inserting the tobacco and rolling the cigarette.
The depth of the fold may vary according to preference, but in general a fold of
about half an inch will be sufficient for the purpose.
The fold or folds will be sufficient to protect the paper from becoming torn by
the pressure of the teeth of the smoker, at the same time giving a good hold, and
this without increasing the size of the mouthpiece.
We have illustrated our invention in the accompanying drawings, in which
Fig. 1 shows the paper full size, with dotted lines indicating the lines of the
folds

page_text: Fig. 2 shows the paper with one fold; and Fig. 3 with two folds, ready to receive
the tobacco.
Fig. 4 shows the rolled cigarette with the mouth piece end in section; and
Fig. 5 is an external view of a cigarette made according to our invention.
Fig. 6 illustrates another mode of folding to form the mouthpiece.
In most cases, we may find one fold is sufficient, but if more are required, it is
possible that the single thickness of paper at the edge of the folds, may not be
sufficiently strong, and we may then use the manner of folding shown at Fig. 6, in
which the change from a single thickness to several thicknesses of paper is less
abrupt. The tobacco will extend to the ends of the paper, as usual.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:-
:-
Forining a mouthpiece for cigarettes by folding down, once or more times, one
end of the paper, prior to the insertion of the tobacco and the rolling of the
cigarette, as set forth.
Dated this 3rd day of November 1893
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.