Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Dec., 1886
Complete Left, 7th Oct., 1887
Complete Accepted, 15th Nov., 1887
RESERV
ODISSEUS MELACHRINO of 30 Buxton Street Mile End, New Town in the County of
Middlesex, Tobacco Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is the preparation of paper to be employed in the
manufacture of Cigarettes, in a manner which will give such papers a taste similar to
the tobacco which they enclose, and will also cause the Cigarette paper or tube
as it is consumed to form a tinder which will burn clean away as the tobacco is
consumed.
In carrying out my invention I prefer to impregnate the paper with a solution of
tobacco juice or with a diluted solution of a stain employed for staining wood com-
posed of a diluted solution of permanganate of potash & saltpetre or prussiates of
potash and soda the properties of which will cause the paper so treated to burn clean
away with the tobacco consumed.
The whole or a portion only of the paper tube may be so treated as I prefer the
portion of the tube entering the mouth to be free from stain.
THOMAS WRIGLEY,
36, High Holborn, W.C.,
Agent to the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Treatment and Preparation of Cigarette
Tubes or Papers. --
I, ODISSEUS MELACHRINO of No. 10 Pall Mall, in the county of Middlesex, late
of No. 30 Buxton Street, Mile End, New Town in same county, Tobacco
Merchant 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 :-
The object of this invention is the preparation of paper to be employed in
the manufacture of cigarettes, in a manner which will give such papers a taste
similar to the tobacco which they enclose, and will also cause the cigarette papers or
tube, as it is consumed, to form a tinder, which will burn clean away, as the tobacco
is consumed.
In carrying out my invention in practice, I prefer to impregnate the paper with a
solution of tobacco juice, or I may use a diluted solution of any suitable stain
employed for staining wood, combined with a solution of permanganate of potash and
saltpetre, or prussiate of potash and soda, or other suitable salts of potash. I find
among others that pearl ashes or the stains known as satin wood and oak are suitable
for the purpose of my invention, according to the depth of tint desired to be given
to the paper. The paper to be treated is dipped in the solution, after which, when
dry and used as a cigarette paper, it will when lit burn clean away as the tobacco is
consumed. The whole or a portion only of the paper or tube may be so heated, as I
prefer the portion of the tube entering the mouth to be free from stain, and the way
in which I prefer to accomplish this in practice is to place a number of cigarette
papers together and grip the portion which is not to be stained firmly in a vice or
other apparatus, thin metal plates being interposed at intervals among the papers,
which are then dipped in the required solution and dried, when the parts held in the
vice will be found to be unaffected by the said solution.
If the papers are desired to be entirely white, neither tobacco juice or other stain is
employed, but only the solution of salts as previously described in order to cause the
paper to burn in the required manner.
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 preparation of paper, to be employed in the manufacture of cigarettes, in a
manner which will cause the cigarette paper or tube as it is consumed to form a
tinder, which will burn away as the tobacco is consumed, substantially as herein set
forth.
2-The preparation of paper, to be employed in the manufacture of cigarettes, in a
manner which will give such papers a taste similar to the tobacco which they
enclose, and will also cause the cigarette paper or tube as it is consumed to

page_text: form a tinder, which will burn away as the tobacco is consumed, substantially as
herein set forth.
3-The preparation of paper to be employed in the manufacture of cigarettes,
in a manner which will give such papers a tint of any desired shade, and will also
cause the cigarette paper or tube as it is consumed to form a tinder, which will
burn away as the tobacco is consumed, substantially as herein set forth.
4-The preparation of paper, to be employed in the manufacture of cigarettes, in
the manner and for the purposes as set forth in either of the preceding claims, but
leaving that portion of the paper or tube which enters the mouth free from stain or
other solution, substantially as herein set forth.
THOS. WRIGLEY & Co.,
36, High Holborn, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.