An Improvement in Cigarettes...
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Oct., 1890.
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Nov., 1890-Accepted, 3rd Jan., 1891.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Cigarettes...
I, ARTHUR ROGER CARTER of 4, Arthur Street, New Oxford Street, London, W.C.'
Tobacco Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be asi
follows
My invention relates to an improvement in cigarettes, and has for its object to
avoid all liability of the paper adhering to the lips of the smoker, which it is very apt to.
do when a holder is dispensed with and when, as is commonly the case, the cigarette
is unprovided with any protection for the lips.
I am aware that it was long ago proposed to overcome this objection by coating
the extreme end of the cigarette with paraffin and that, more recently, cigarettes have
been tipped with cork and, the more expensive kinds, even with thin gold with the
same end in view, but there are manifest objections to all these methods of protection
which it is unnecessary here to specifically refer to and which I seek to get rid of.
According to my invention, I employ maize grass or the leaf of the maize plant as
a protective covering, which extends say half an inch from the end of the cigarette.
This grass has comparatively little substance so that it is very pliable and can be made
to adhere closely to the cigarette paper so as to afford an efficient protector without
marring the appearance of the article in the slightest degree; at the same time, being
of vegetable origin, this protective covering is quite innoxious so that if a piece of
it were accidentally swallowed no harm would result to the smoker who would as a
matter of fact suffer no inconvenience which is not the case with the other protectors
above referred to.
Dated this 21st day of October 1890
A. R. CARTER.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Cigarettes.
I, ARTHUR ROGER CARTER of 4, Arthur Street, New Oxford Street, London, W.C.
Tobacco Manufacturer, 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 :-
My invention relates to an improvement in cigarettes, and has for its object to
prevent the paper adhering to the lips of the smoker, which it is very apt to do
(unless a cigarette holder is used) when, as is commonly the case, the cigarette is
unprovided with a mouth-piece.
I am aware that various materials have been used for the same purpose, but there
are manifest objections to all of them which it is unnecessary here to specifically refer
to, and which I am enabled to avoid by the use of maize grass or the leaf of the maize
plant as a protective covering or mouth-piece.
This grass or leaf is very thin, tough, and pliable, so that it can be made to adhere
closely to the cigarette paper to which it is not so dissimilar in color. as to mar the
appearance of the article. It does not adhere to the lips, is not readily disintegrated
by moisture, and, being tough, fragments cannot easily be bitten off; at the same
time, should a fragment be accidentally swallowed no inconvenience whatever would
result as it is easily digestible which is not the case with some of the other materials
that have been used for the same purpose.

page_text: The grass or leaf in the dried state is cut into strips or pieces of the proper shape,
coated with starch or other adhesive material, and wrapped round the end of the
manufactured cigarette along which it would extend about half an inch, more or less,
care being taken that the grain or fibre of the grass or leaf should run longitudinally
of the cigarette as it is more pliable in the direction across the grain and therefore
more easily made to adhere to the cigarette wrapper.
The grass or leaf may be similarly applied to cigarette papers or wrappers before
being rolled up into the form of cigarettes, whether this is to be done by machinery
or by hand.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is ;
As an improvement in cigarettes, the application, to the cigarette paper or wrapper,
of an external mouth-piece consisting of dried grass or leaf of the maize plant, as
specified.
Dated this 22nd day of November 1890.
A. R. CARTER.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancory Lane, Patent Agents.