Improvements connected with Cigarette-making Appliances.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 30th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 1st Feb., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with Cigarette-making Appliances.
I, THOMAS HENRY AGARD EVANS, of the firm Munro and Evans of Glenroy
House, Speenham Road, Brixton, Surrey, importer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a novel construction and combination of appliances to be
employed for making Cigarettes.
For the purpose of said invention, I make two half tubes and hinge them longi-
tudinally along two of their meeting edges, and I arrange two wings, or finger
pieces on the barrel portion to enable the half tubes to be opened out for the recep-
tion of the tobacco, so that when closed to, confines the tobacco in a circular compact
form. The half tubes thus filled are pushed into another tube, having a slot in it,
for the passage of the projecting hinge of the two half tubes.
The tube is provided with feet, and a portion projecting from one of the feet is of
scoop shape and has a cutting edge to cut the superfluous tobacco projecting from
the meeting edges of the two half tubes.
Over this scoop like projecting end, a Cigarette paper, preferably of tubular shape,
is placed and then a pusher, composed of a stem and head only, is pushed into and
through the closed half tubes to force the tobacco into the paper, the paper being
gently held by the thumb and forefinger during the operation.
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H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the said T. H. A. Evans.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with Cigarette-making Appliances.
I, THOMAS HENRY AGARD EVANS, of the Firm Munro and Evans of Glenroy
House, Speenham Road, Brixton, Surrey, Importer, 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 appliances in, or by which Tobacco can be formed or
moulded into rod shape, the superfluous fibre removed and the Tobacco in rod form
be pushed into a paper case, and constituting a Cigarette.
My invention will be understood by the annexed drawings, I make two half
tubes A, A, and hinge them longitudinally along two of their meeting edges, as at B,
I arrange two wings, or finger pieces C, C, on the lower barrel portion to enable
the half tubes to be opened out, as at Figure 2, for the reception of the Tobacco,
so that when closed to confine the Tobacco in a circular compact form. The half
tubes A, A, thus filled are pushed into another tube D, Figure 3, having a slot E in it
for the passage of the projecting hinge B of the two half tubes A, A.
The tube D may be provided with feet F, F, and the portion G projecting from
one of the feet is of scoop shape, and has a cutting edge to cut the superfluous
Tobacco from the meeting edges of the two half tubes A, A. Over this scoop like
projecting end, a Cigarette paper H, preferably of tubular shape, as at Figure 4, is
placed, and then a pusher composed of a stem I and head J only is pushed into and
through the closed half tubes A to force the Tobacco into the paper H, the paper
being gently held by the thumb and forefinger during the operation, as indicated at
Figure 4.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
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The hinged tube A; tube D, with scoop like end G, and the pusher I, all acting,
as and for the purpose of making. Cigarettes, as set forth.
The 28th day of December 1889.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the said Thomas Henry. Agard Evans.