Improvements in Cigarette Wrappers or Papers.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 24th May, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Feb., 1891-Accepted, 18th Apr., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cigarette Wrappers or Papers.
I, FRANÇOIS OGEZ, of Limoges, Department of the Haute Vienne, in the French
Republic, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
My invention relates to improvements in cigarette wrappers or papers, the object
of same being to produce a wrapper which may be rolled and fastened with great
ease, and which will have but a small gummed surface on same.
To this end I cut
or shape the paper with rounded corners on one of its long sides and about
midway of same form a lip which is covered with gum or the like, this gummed lip
being sufficient to hold the wrapper when the cigarette is rolled.
I propose to give the wrapper above described the name of "Papier riche a
l'Eucalyptus d'Australie."
Dated the 24th day of May 1890
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
Associate Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cigarette Wrappers or Papers.
I, FRANÇOIS OGEZ, of Limoges, Department of the Haute Vienne, in the French
Republic, 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 improvements in cigarette wrappers or papers, the object
of same being to produce a wrapper which may be rolled and fastened with great
ease, and which will have but a small gummed surface on same. To this end I cut
or shape the paper with rounded corners on one of its long sides and about midway
of same form a lip which is covered with gum or the like, this gummed lip being
sufficient to hold the wrapper when the cigarette is rolled.
I propose to give the wrapper above described the name of "Papier riche à
l'Eucalyptus d'Australie."
Figure 1. of the accompanying drawing represents a wrapper or sheet of cigarette
paper unfolded.
Figure 2. represents a cigarette made with this wrapper.
The corners A. A. are rounded while the corners C. C. are square; from the
centre of the side between the corners A. A. there is a protruding lip B. raised just
enough to reach over the edge of the side C. C. when rolled. The lip B. is slightly
gummed with mucilage and when moistened adheres to the side C. C.
In Fig. 2., which represents the cigarette rolled, the line D. B. is curved reaching
over the sides E. E.; the lip B. when moistened adheres to the side E. E., forming
a solid and compact roll.
The striking features of my design consist in obviating the gumming of one
entire side of the wrapper, so preventing the distasteful and injurious effects of
inhaling a quantity of burning mucilage, and also affording an ever ready wrapper
that can be rolled and fastened with greater ease; the slight dab of mucilage being
in the very centre of the cigarette is hardly ever consumed.

page_text: 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
An improved cigarette wrapper or paper cut with two rounded corners as in A. A.
and a protruding lip as in B. (Fig. 1) which when gummed and the cigarette rolled
will adhere to the side E. E., as shewn in Fig. 2, substantially as set forth and shewn
in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this Twenty-third day of February 1891.
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
Associate Agent.