Improvements in or connected with Cigarettes or Cigars.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Jan., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 7th Oct., 1890-Accepted, 29th Nov., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Cigarettes or Cigars.
I, WILLIAM FREDERICK NORMAN Schoolmaster Grammar School Mottram-in-
Longdendale, Cheshire do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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In smoking cigarettes the forefinger & thumb of the smoker are apt to become
discolored by being brought in contact with the moistened tobacco.
My invention is for the purpose of preventing this discolorment and also to afford
a means by which a cigarette or cigar may be held when being smoked.
For this purpose I provide a narrow strip of paper or other suitable material
wholly or partially gummed on one side the length of which is greater than the
circumference of the cigarette, and wrap this strip round the cigarette at a convenient
distance from the mouth end thereof. This strip is wrapped around in such a manner
that being longer than the circumference of the cigarette two ends or margins are left
and these ends or margins when stuck together stand out and afford a ready and con-
venient means by which a cigarette may be held by the smoker. I do not confine myself
to this method of fastening as it is not necessary that the strip of paper or other suitable
material should encircle the cigarette or cigar. The small portion which is pinched
between finger and thumb as a convenient means to hold the cigarette or cigar
may be simply stuck on with strong gum without the band such as described above
or it may be fastened with a pin running into the cigarette or cigar & thus
holding it.
Date Lou
.
1000
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Cigarettes or Cigars.
I, WILLIAM FREDERICK NORMAN of Mottram-in-Longdendale near Manchester 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:
In smoking cigarettes or cigars the forefinger and thumb of the smoker are apt
to become discoloured by being brought into contact with the moistened tobacco.
Now the object of my invention is to obviate this discolorment and also to
afford a convenient means of holding a cigarette or cigar whilst being smoked.
On the annexed sheet of drawings Figs. 1 and 2 are side and end views
respectively of a cigarette with my improved holder shewn applied thereto and.
Figs. 3-and 4 are similar views illustrating a modification thereof.
In all the views A represents the cigarette and B my improved holder.
In performing my invention I employ a narrow strip of paper or other suitable
material B of sufficient length to encircle the cigarette and to leave the two
extremities to be gummed together face to face and so to form a handle (at a
suitable distance from the smoking end thereof) for holding the said cigarette
whilst being smoked.
Instead however of wrapping the strip completely around the cigarette or cigar
it may extend only partially around and be gummed or otherwise secured as
illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4.
It will be obvious that a strip of thin sheet metal or length of wire with its
ends twisted together or a strip of thin sheet cork with its ends gummed together
might be used with like effect,

page_text: I wish it to be understood that in some cases the holder might be gummed or fixed
to the cigarette or cigar or it may be arranged with a loop to slide along the
length thereof and thus be adjusted in position. This invention affords facilities
for supplying the paper or other strip with its ends already gummed so as to be
applied by the smoker himself.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The manufacture and employment of a narrow strip of paper or other suitable
material wholly or partially surrounding a cigarette or cigar with the overlapping
ends secured together to form a handle substantially as and for the purposes
herein before described and illustrated on the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 1st day of October 1800
WILLIAM FREDERICK NORMAN.
WILLIAM FREDERICK NORMAN.