IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARETTES PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joe Clarkson of Apperley Bridge, in the County of York
for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARETTES
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joe Clarkson at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th November 1882.
JOE CLARKSON of Apperley Bridge in the County of York,
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARETTES 37
"IMPROVEMENTS
My invention has for object to render cigarettes more pleasant and cool to the
lips and mouth of the smoker than is the case with cigarettes as ordinarily made.
For this purpose I provide for the entry of a current or currents of cold air to mix
with the heated smoke as it passes through the mouth piece of the cigarette so
that the mouth of the smoker may not become heated and parched as is the case
when heated smoke alone enters the mouth.
In carrying out my invention I provide in the cover of the cigarette a minute
orifice or orifices so arranged that when the cigarette is inserted between the lips
of the smoker the orifice or orifices shall be outside the lips so that air may enter
thereby and become mixed with the hot smoke on its passage to the mouth.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Joe Clarkson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th May
1883.
JOE CLARKSON of Apperley Bridge, in the County of York
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARETTES"
"IMPROVEMENTS
My invention has for object to render cigarettes more pleasant and cool to the
lips and mouth of the smoker than is the case with cigarettes as ordinarily made.
For this purpose I provide for the entry into the body of the cigarette, of a
current or currents of cold air to mix with the heated smoke as it passes through
the month-piece of the cigarette in order that the mouth of the smoker may not
become heated and parched as is the case when heated smoke alone enters the
mouth.
In carrying out my invention I provide in the cover of the cigarette a minute
orifice or orifices so arranged that when the cigarette is inserted between the lips
of the smoker, the orifice or orifices shall be outside the lips so that air may enter
thereby and become mixed with the hot smoke in its passage to the mouth.
In the accompanying drawings, which are to an enlarged scale, Fig. 1. is the
cover of suitable material, such as cigarette paper of any of the well known kinds,
in which the loose tobacco represented by Fig. 2. is wrapped-a, a, are perforations,
of which I have shewn six.-The number, size, and arrangement of the perforations
may be varied, care being taken however not to perforate the material to such an
extent as to prevent the drawing of the smoke through the enclosed tobacco from
the ignited end of the cigarette to the mouth.-Fig. 3. shews the complete cigarette
in external view ready for use, the part from b, to b, being for insertion into the
mouth, leaving the perforations a, a, exposed to the air outside the lips of the
smoker, and free to admit cold air as above referred to, c, is the end for lighting.
When desired, leaf tobacco may be wrapped over a cover such as above described
and be correspondingly perforated.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention and the manner of
carrying the same into practical effect, I would have it understood that what I
consider to be novel and original and therefore claim as secured to me by the
Letters Patent herein before first in part recited is
Providing for the entry into the body of a cigarette, of a current or currents of
cold air to mix with the heated tobacco smoke during its passage through the
cigarette to the smoker's mouth, such air being admitted by a minute orifice or
orifices so situated in the cover of the cigarette, that when one end of the latter is
in the smoker's mouth, such orifice or orifices will be near but outside of his lips
substantially as described and shewn.
In Witness whereof, I, the said Joc Clarkson, have hereunto set my hand and
seal this ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and eighty three
Witness
THO E. CRAVEN, C.E. Fell. Inst. P. A.
24 Victoria Chambers
Leeds.
JOE CLARKSON (LS.)