CERTAIN IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MODE OF FILLING OR CHARGING PIPES FOR SMOKING TOBACCO, AND THE APPARATUS OR BOX FOR CONTAINING SUCH PIPE, PRIMING, OR CHARGES, AND LIGHTS IN COMBINATION THEREWITH
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Saling Schiff, trading as Schiff, Brothers, of
No. 16, Great Alie Street, Goodman's Fields, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Cigar Manufacturer, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MODE OF FILLING OR CHARGING PIPES FOR SMOKING TOBACCO,
AND THE APPARATUS OR BOX FOR CONTAINING SUCH PIPE, PRIMING, OR CHARGES,
AND LIGHTS IN COMBINATION THEREWITH."
Sealed the 25th February 1870, and dated the 1st September 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Saling Schiff at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 1st September 1869.
I, SALING SCHIFF, trading as Schiff, Brothers, of No. 16, Great Alie
Street, Goodman's Fields, in the County of Middlesex, Cigar Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF FILLING OR CHARGING PIPES FOR SMOKING TOBACCO,
AND THE APPARATUS OR BOX FOR CONTAINING SUCH PIPE, PRIMING, OR
CHARGES,
AND LIGHTS IN COMBINATION THEREWITH," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in a new mode or method of forming or
manufacturing charges to fill the ordinary pipes for smoking tobacco,
[Price 8d.]

page_text: such charges or primings being composed of pure tobacco to avoid
adulteration and the trouble and waste which is ordinarily taken for filling
and charging the pipe. These charges are made in a similar manner as
an ordinary cigar, but of the size suited exactly to the bowls of pipes
in which they are intended to be used, and are placed in a box composed
of paper, pasteboard, or other light and cheap material with
partments to contain pipe charges or primings of tobacco (manufactured
for the purpose) and lights. This combination offers to the public the
advantage of a pure pipe of tobacco without adulteration at a cheap
price, causing no injury to health, and on account of its purity pre-
venting expectoration, a great advantage over the ordinary pipe tobaccos
now in use, and this in a cheap, convenient, and portable form.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Saling Schiff in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 26th February 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SALING
SCHIFF, trading as Schiff, Brothers, of No. 10, Great Alie Street,
Goodman's Fields, in the County of Middlesex, Cigar Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Saling Schiff, Her special licence that I,
the said Saling Schiff, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Saling Schiff, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MODE OF FILLING
OR CHARGING PIPES FOR SMOKING TOBACCO, AND THE APPARATUS OR Box FOR
CONTAINING SUCH PIPE, PRIMING, OR CHARGES, AND LIGHTS IN COMBINATION
THEREWITH," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Saling
Schiff, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under

page_text: 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 calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Saling Schiff, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
My Invention consists of the following, reference being made to
accompanying Drawings.
I take various kinds of the choicest tobacco leaf and cut the same
in the usual manner in which tobacco is cut for pipe smoking, I then
re-dry the tobacco, leaving only from 5 to 10 per cent. moisture. I
enclose this in what is commonly called a bunch wrapper, which I cover
with a fine thin leaf, the whole forming the shape required to fit into
the bowl of a pipe, being gradually tapered at the ends. I then place
the article so manufactured in a box or cutting machine containing
long round tubes, as shewn at a, a, on Drawing hereunto annexed,
Fig. 1. The lid of the box or machine has attached to it kuives b
falling into grooves of the tubes and a strap changing down for the
foot to enter, and by treading to produce such pressure as will cut the
manufactured article in quantities of 100 to 1000 according to size
of box in the aforesaid conical shape. I now pack the manufactured
article in assorted colours of mild or full flavor into boxes of 6, 12, 24, 48,
or of any quantity required with or without pipe and matches, see
Fig. Nos. 2, 3, 4, and 5, which of course will be varied according to
taste and fancy. I call this article so manufactured the premier pipe
cigar. I further take the same materials as described above with
this distinction, that instead of using what above is called bunch
wrapper I substitute cigarette tobacco paper made into screws, see
Fig. 6. I then cover with a fine tobacco leaf, put the articles in the
cutting box or machine before described, and this forms what I call the
manufactured premier pipe cigarette.
Having now described my Invention, and the manner in which the
same is to be carried int effect, that which I claim and desire to be
secured to me by Letters Patent is,―
First. The novelty of combining tobacco leaf with cut tobacco and

page_text: the shaping into forms for fitting the bowls of pipes, thus ensuring a
shape and solid form of tobacco, which burns evenly and prevents the
mouth being filled with particles of tobacco, and producing a clean dry
smoke to the end without fouling the pipe, obviating the necessity of
cleaning the pipe while aud after smoking, and coloring the pipes
gradually and regularly.
Second. The combination or putting the above manufactured articles
into packets wrapped in tinfoil, paper, or other material, also placing
them in boxes with compartments for pipe and matches called the
smoker's companion, multum in parvo, in square, oval, and other shapes
made of different materials, such as paper, papier maché, leather, and
other substances as described in the foregoing Specification, and as shewn
on accompanying Drawings, or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Saling Schiff, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
SALING SCHIFF.
(L.S.)