Improvements in Cigarette Papers and Cigarettes.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Mar., 1886.
Complete Left, 17th Dec., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 15th Feb., 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cigarette Papers and Cigarettes.
I, ADOLPHUS CROSBIE, of Westgate, Penn Fields, Wolverhampton in the County
of Stafford, chemical merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
The object of this invention is to avoid the inconvenience of getting particles of
tobacco into the mouth, which is experienced when smoking cigarettes left open at the
back end as in the usual method of construction.
The cigarette papers made according to this invention are cut with a tongue
projecting at one end, and in making up a cigarette with one of these papers the
tongue is turned over one end of the roll of tobacco lying upon the paper previously
to the paper being permanently rolled up around the tobacco. The end of the cigarette.
at which the tongue occurs is placed into the mouth in smoking. The part of the
tongue which crosses the back end of the cigarette is, preferably, approximately of a
width corresponding to the diameter of the cigarette, or somewhat less, and the
remaining length of the tongue, that is the part which is rolled up within the cigarette,
may for convenience taper somewhat narrower towards its unconnected end. The
part of the tongue passing across the back end of the cigarette prevents the particles
of tobacco from getting into the mouth, and at the same time allows ample draught at
its sides or edges for the free passage of smoke; and the part of the tongue rolled up
within the cigarette securely keeps the part passing across the back in position.
The tongue may be gummed or otherwise fastened at one end to the main paper
instead of being cut out therewith; or the tongue may be loose from the paper, if
desired, and the two ends be rolled within the cigarette so as to leave the middle
passing across the back end of the tobacco.
The tongue and corresponding end of the main paper may be specially prepared in
any known manner to render them non-adhesive; and when the tongue is to be made
separately from the main paper, it may be of paper or of any suitable material such,
for instance, as flat straw..
STEPHEN WATKINS,
Wolverhampton,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Cigarette Papers and Cigarettes.
I, ADOLPHUS CROSBIE of "Westgate " Pennfields, Wolverhampton, in the County
of Stafford, Chemical Merchant do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN CIGARETTE PAPERS AND CIGARETTES and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
The object of my invention is to avoid the inconvenience of getting particles of
tobacco into the mouth, which is experienced when smoking cigarettes left open at the
back end as in the usual method of construction.
The Cigarette papers made according to my invention are cut or shaped with a
tongue projecting at one end as shewn in fig. 1, and in making up a cigarette with
one of these papers the tongue is turned over one end of the roll of tobacco lying upon
the paper previously to the paper being permanently rolled up around the tobacco.
The end of the cigarette at which the tongue occurs is placed into the mouth in
smoking.
The part of the tongue which crosses the back end of the cigarette is, preferably, of
a width corresponding to the diameter of the cigarette, or somewhat less, and the
remaining length of the tongue, that is the part which is rolled up within the cigarette,
may for convenience taper somewhat narrower towards its unconnected end.
The part of the tongue passing across the back end of the cigarette prevents the
particles of tobacco from getting into the mouth, and at the same time allows ample
draught at its sides or edges for the free passage of smoke; and the part of the
tongue rolled up within the cigarette securely keeps the part passing across the back
in position.
The tongue may be gummed or otherwise fastened at one end to the main paper,
instead of being cut out in one piece therewith; or the tongue may be loose from the
main paper, if desired, and the two ends be rolled within the cigarette so as to leave
the middle part of the tongue passing across the back end of the tobacco.
The tongue and corresponding end of the main paper may be specially prepared in
any known manner to render them non-adhesive; and when the tongue is made
separately from the main paper it may be of paper or of any suitable material, such,
for instance, as flat straw.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is
1. The addition of a tongue-piece to the ordinary rectangular cigarette paper, to be
cut out therewith, substantially as and for the purpose specified.
2. The addition of a tongue-piece to the ordinary rectangular cigarette paper, to
be gummed or otherwise affixed, at one end, thereto, substantially as and for the
purpose specified.
3. The use of a separate tongue-piece, or strip, of paper, straw, or other material
both ends of which would be rolled up in, or gummed or otherwise affixed to, the main
cigarette paper.