IMPROVEMENTS IN GUN TODATE AND PREDADAMOT OF TORAC"
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Cope, of Liverpool, in the County of Lan-
caster, Tobacco Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
GUN TODATE AND PREDADAMOT OF TORAC"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Cope at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 23rd May
1860.
I, THOMAS COPE, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Tobacco Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE TREATMENT AND PREPARATION OF TOBACCO," to be as follows:-
I press shag or other cut tobaccos after manufacture between dies or
presses, of any suitable construction, in order to make or press it into hard
cakes, whereby the flavor is retained and the quality preserved for a greater
length of time than by the ordinary process. I then pack the tobacco in
paper or other suitable cover that has been previously treated with saccharine
matter.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Cope in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
22nd November 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
COPE, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Tobacco Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Thomas Cope, Her special licence that I, the said Thomas Cope,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Thomas Cope, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE TREATMENT AND PREPARATION OF TOBACCO," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Cope, my executors or adminis-
trators, 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 calender
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Cope, 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 (that is to say) :-
:-
I press shag tobacco after it is manufactured and also shag smalls, or both
of them mixed, by means of dies and sinkers into small cakes of from one to
sixteen ounces each in weight, whereby the air is excluded from the tobacco,
and its flavor and keeping properties much improved. I also press with dies
and sinkers shag tobacco, shag smalls, cigar returns, or other scraps or frag-
ments of tobacco into small oblong or other shaped blocks of from one up
to sixteen ounces each in weight, which I afterwards cover with tobacco
leaves and then press them again so as to form a kind of cavendish tobacco.
Ifaving thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be distinctly under-

page_text: stood that I claim as my Invention, and which, to the best of my knowledge
and belief has not been hitherto used within the realm, the pressing of the
various kinds of tobacco into small cakes or blocks of from one to sixteen
ounces each in weight, and wrapping the same with tobacco leaves or other
suitable covers, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Cope, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the within-
named Thomas Cope, in the presence of
E. J. HUGHES,
Patent Agent, Manchester.
THOMAS COPE. (L.S.)