IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO CIGARS. CHEEROOTS, CIGARETTES, PIPES, AND OTHER SMOKING TUBES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Morris Hammerstein, of Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO CIGARS.
CHEEROOTS, CIGARETTES, PIPES, AND OTHER SMOKING TUBES."-A communica-
Sealed the 28th February 1868, and dated the 30th August 1867.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Morris Hammerstein at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
30th August 1867.
I, MORRIS HAMMERSTEIN, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE
TO CIGARS, CHEEROOTS, CIGARETTES, PIPES, AND OTHER SMOKING TUBES" (to be as
follows) (that is to say):-
The object of this Invention is to prevent the injurious effects arising from
the use of tobacco, as every kind of tobacco and all kinds of paper contain
more or less poisonous matter which smokers of cigarettes and cigars holding
them bare in the mouth, or, in other words, in the case of cigarettes having the
lips in contact with the external paper casing thereof, and in the case of cigars,
the tobacco being in immediate contact with the lips, causes the saliva to
extract from the tobacco a juice which is injurious to the smoker.
Now this Invention is intended to obviate as faras possible this objection.
To apply this Invention to, say, a cigarette a film of cork of say, from
half an inch to three-quarters of an inch wide is taken, on one side of which
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page_text: is applied any suitable waterproof composition of gum, glue, or other adhesive
material or materials, which is then rolled round the end of the cigarette that
is to be placed between the lips, thus forming a cylindrical belt encompassing
the inner end of the cigarette. In the case of a cigar the film of cork is
applied in a similar manner to that described above in relation to the cigarette,
but the mouth protecting piece will partake of the form of a truncated cone.
Cylindrical or other tubular form of mouth piece may be constructed from
the film of cork for surrounding pipes, cigar holders, and may be permanently
attached to the ends of the smoking tube, or the cylindrical or other shaped
smokers' mouth protectors may be formed on cores, and after which they can
be slipped on to the ends of a common pipe or other smoking tube, thus
protecting the mouth and teeth of the smoker.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed.
by the said Morris Hammerstein in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
29th February 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MORRIS
HAMMERSTEIN, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did for Herself, Her heirs, and successors, give and grant unto me
the said Morris Hammerstein, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Morris Hammerstein, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO CIGARS, CHEROOTE, CIGARETTES,
PIPES, AND OTHER SMOKING TUBES," a communication to me from abroad,
by Moritz Star, of Leipsig, in Saxony, upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Morris Hammerstein, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Morris Hammerstein, do herely declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement. (that. is to say) :-
:-
The object of this Invention is to prevent the injurious effects arising from
the use of tobacco, as every kind of tobacco and all kinds of paper contain
more or less poisonous matter which smokers of cigarettes and cigars holding
them bare in their mouths, or, in other words, in the case of cigarettes having
the lips in contact with the external paper casing thereof, and in the case of
cigars, the tobacco being in immediate contact with the lips, causes the saliva
to extract from the tobacco a juice which is injurious to the smoker.
Now this Invention is intended to obviate as far as possible this objection.
To apply this Invention to, say, a cigarette, a thin film of cork of, say, from
half an inch to three-quarters of an inch wide, on one side of which is applied
any suitable waterproof composition of gum, glue, or other adhesive material,
or materials, which is then rolled round the end of the cigarette that is to be
placed between the lips, thus forming a cylindrical belt encompassing the
inner end of the cigarette. In the case of a cigar the film of cork is applied
in a similar manner to that herein-before described in relation to the cigarette,
but the mouth protecting piece will partake of the form of a truncated cone.
Cylindrical or other tubular form of mouth piece may be constructed from the
film of cork for surrounding pipes, cigar holders, and may be permanently
attached to the ends of the smoking tubes, or the cylindrical or other shaped
smokers' mouth protectors may be formed on cores, and after which they can
be slipped on to the ends of a common pipe or other smoking tube, thus
protecting the mouth and teeth of the smoker.
Amongst other advantages of this Invention are that the lips or tongue of
the smoker are prevented from coming into immediate contact with the tobacco
or shank of the pipe or other smoking tube; it also prevents the ends of cigars,
cheroots, or cigarettes to which the Invention is applied becoming fagged or
disentegrated and over moistened at the ends applied to the lips, and
prevents the smokers' fingers being stained from the moisture of the tobacco.
Figure 1 of the annexed Drawings is a side elevation of a cigar with
the improved cork mouth piece applied thereto, and Figure 2 is an end view
of the same.
A, body of the cigar; B, the protecting film of cork, forming the mouth
piece.
Figures 3 and 4 are side and end views of a cheroot; C, body of cheroot;
D, the surrounding film of cork forming the mouth piece.

page_text: Figures 5 and 6 are side and end views of a cigarette. E, external tube
of paper, which contains the tobacco; F, the cylindrical mouth piece of a
thin film of cork.
Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of this Invention,
and how I believe the same may be best carried into practical effect, I wish it
to be understood that I do not confine myself to the relative proportions or
dimensions as shewn in the Drawings, as the same may be considerably varied
without departing from the Invention; but what I claim is, the construction,
use, and application of mouth pieces when applied to cigars, cheroots, or
cigarettes, substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein-before
described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Morris Hammerstein, have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my seal, this Twenty-eighth day February,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.
Witness,
WM. WALKER,
of 44, Castle Street,
Liverpool..
MORRIS (L.s.) HAMMERSTEIN.