IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MAXTRACT OR DARED POD CIGNA POR OTHER PURPOSES " PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTER SPATENT to James Frederick Lackerstcen, of 48A, Moorgate
Strect, in the City of London, Civil Engineer, and John Coley
Bromfield, also of 48A, Moorgate Street, in the City of London,
Insurance Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MAXTRACT OR DARED POD CIGNA POR OTHER PURPOSES
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Frederick
Lackersteen and John Coley Bromfield at the Office of the Com-
missioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 15th April 1871.
JAMES FREDERICK LACKERSTEEN, of 48A, Moorgate Street, in the
City of London, Civil Engineer, and JoHN COLEY BROMFIELD, also of
48A, Moorgate Street, in the City of London, Insurance Agent, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE

page_text: MANUFACTURE OF PAPER FOR CIGARETTES OR FOR OTHER PURPOSES," to be as
follows:-
This improvement consists in the treatment of tobacco leaf or fibres
obtained from the stems or from other portions of the tobacco plant,
either separately or together, or in combination with other suitable
substances, such as linen, cotton, or other fibres now commonly used for
the manufacture of paper in the proportion of three parts of tobacco
fibre to one part of other vegetable fibre for the manufacture of pulp to
be converted into paper for cigarettes.
We do not confine ourselves to the exact proportion in the mixture,
as the mixture will vary according to the nature and quality of different
kinds of tobacco or of other fibres employed. This paper is to be used
instead of the ordinary cigarette paper now commonly manufactured
from pulp of cotton, or linen, or other vegetable fibres, and which greatly
interferes with the truc flavour of the tobacco from the unpleasant tasto 1
and odour emitted during its combustion.
The mode to be adopted in the manufacture of tobacco paper from
pulp now proposed to be employed is similar to that ordinarily adopted
in the manufacture of common cigarette paper or paper of similar
description so extensively used.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Frederick Lackersteen and John Colcy
Bromfield in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th October
1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, JAMES
FREDERICK LACKERSTEEN, of 484, Moorgate Strect, in the City of
London, Civil Engineer, and JOHN COLEY BROMFIELD, also of 18A,
Moorgate Street, in the City of London, Insurance Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing dato the Fifteenth day of April, in the year of 3
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said James Frederick Lackersteen and John

page_text: Coley Bromfield, Her special licence that we, the said James Frederick
Lackersteen and John Coley Bromfield, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said James Frederick Lackersteen
and John Coley Bromfield, our 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 IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER FOR
CIGARETTES OR FOR OTHER PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said James Frederick Lackersteen and John Coley Brom-
field, their executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our or one of our 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said James Frederick Lackersteen and
John Coley Bromfield, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
1
This improvement consists in the treatment of tobacco leaf or fibres
obtained from the stems or from other portions of the tobacco plant,
either separately or together, or in combination with other suitable sub-
stances, such as linen, cotton, or other fibres now commonly used for the
manufacture of paper in the proportion of three parts of tobacco fibre
to one part of other vegetable fibre for the manufacture of pulp to be
converted into paper for cigarettes.
;
We do not confine ourselves to this exact proportion in the mixture,
as the mixture will vary according to the nature and quality of different
kinds of tobacco, or of other fibres employed. This paper is to be used
instead of the cigarette paper now commonly manufactured from pulp of
cotton, or linen, or other vegetable fibres, and which greatly interferes
with the true flavour of the tobacco from the unpleasant taste and adour
omitted during its combustion.
The mode to be adopted in the manufacture of tobacco paper from
|pulp now proposed to be employed is similar to that ordinarily adopted

page_text: in the manufacture of common cigarette paper or paper of similar
description so extensively used.
In witness whereof, I, James Frederick Lackersteen, on behalf of
self and John Coley Bromfield, havo hercunto set my hand and
scal, the 14th day of October, in the year of our Lord One 5
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
JAMES F. LACKERSTEEN.
(L.B.)
For self and John Coley Bromfield.