An Improved Mouthpiece for Cigarettes and Cigars.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 21st June, 1893-Accepted, 29th July. 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Mouthpiece for Cigarettes and Cigars.
We PINCUS BACKER and ROBERT HILLIARD both of 232 Walworth Road
London Gentlemen do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to an improved mouthpiece for cigarettes, cigars &c. and
has for its object to provide a cool and clean smoke, and to permit the whole of the
cigarette or cigar being smoked to its end, thus preventing the waste of tobacco
usually accompanying the smoking of ordinary cigarettes or cigars.
Our improved mouthpiece consists of a short stem of wood, cork, paper-pulp,
clay, or other suitable material preferably of the same diameter as that of the
cigarette, in which it is held by the paper or other covering of the cigarette,
lapping around and extending along the length of the said stem, to which it is
pasted or otherwise secured.
We construct our improved mouthpiece with a spiral groove cut in its outer
circumference, and in each end of the stem is a hole or passage leading into the
spiral groove, thus forming a continuous passage for the smoke from end to end of
the stein around the spiral groove.
In order to secure the mouth-piece more firmly to the cigarette we surround it
with a layer of thicker paper or card secured to and wrapped around the paper to
which it is attached.
By means of my invention. the smoke is caused to travel a prolonged distance
around the spiral groove before entering the mouth of the smoker, thus permitting
the smoke to cool; it also enables the cigarette or cigar to which it is applied to be
smoked to its end without burning the mouth of the smoker, thus using all the
tobacco and preventing waste.
Dated this 15th day of March 1893.
F. G. CASSELL,
Of Cassell & Co.,
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W.,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Mouthpiece for Cigarettes and Cigars.
We PINCUS BACKER, and ROBERT HILLIARD both of 232 Walworth Road
London Gentlemen 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
aud by the following statement :-
This invention relates to an improved mouthpiece for cigars and cigarettes and
has for its object to provide a cool and clean smoke and to permit the whole of the
cigar or cigarettes being smoked to its end, thus preventing the waste of tobacco
usually accompanying the smoking of ordinary cigars or cigarettes.
Our improved mouthpiece consists of a short stem of wood, cork, paper-pulp,
clay, or other suitable material preferably of the same diameter as that of the
cigarette and has a wrapper of paper or thin card fastened around the same, the
said stem is inserted in one end of the cigarette, in which it is held by the paper or
other covering of the cigarette, lapping around and extending along the length of
the said stem to which it is pasted or otherwise secured.
We construct our improved mouthpiece with a spiral grove cut in its outer
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page_text: circumference, thus forming a continuous passage the smoke passing from end to
end of the stem around the spiral grove, this stem or mouthpiece may be further
provided with a hole or passage leading into the spiral grove.
By means of our invention the smoke is caused to travel a prolonged distance
around the spiral grove before entering the mouth of the smoker thus permitting
the smoke to cool, it also enables the cigar or cigarette to which it is applied to be
smoked to its end without burning the mouth of the smoker, thus using all the
tobacco and preventing waste,
When applying our invention to cigars, the mouthpiece is placed in one end of
the same and the tobacco wrapped around it the whole being enclosed within an
outer covering of tobacco leaf instead of paper as in a cigarette.
In the accompanying drawings in which like letters of reference indicate
corresponding parts
Fig. 1. 2. am 3 are side views of three stems each of slightly different con-
struction with the outer cover in section.
Figs 4.5, and 6 are end views of Figs. 1. 2 aml 3. respectively.
Fig. 7. is a central section of a cigarette provided with our improved
mouthpiece.
Our improved device consists of a short stem a of wood, clay, or other suitable
material provided upon its outer periphery with a spiral grove the said mouth-
piece being covered with a strip of paper gumined or suitably fixed around the
same thereby converting the grove into an air-tight spiral passage, with an
opening at either end. These openings consist as shown in Figs. 1 and 4. of short
holes centrally bored in either end of the stem a, second holes formed a
right angles to the first serve to set them with the spiral channel or passage.
The arrangement shown in Figs. 2 and 5 consist of a short stem provided with a
spiral passage as in Fig. 1 the smoke in this case entering at the end as shown by
the arrow at a Fig. 5. In the arrangement shown in Figs. 3 and 6 the stem is
provided with a spiral grove the smoke entering and leaving the same by means of
Slots d d cut in the ends of the tems a.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
The improved mouthpiece consisting of a short plug of wood, or other suitable
material provided with a spiral passage cut or formed upon its outer periphery
surrounded with a strip of paper suitably fixed and furnished with openings at
either end substantially as herein described and shown in the accompanying
drawings.
The improvel mouthpiece for cigars and cigarettes arranged and constructed as
above described and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 20th day of June 1893.
F. G. CASSELL,
Of Cassell & Co.,
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London,
Agent for the Applicants.