A COMBINED TOBACCO POUCH AND. CIGARETTE FORMER
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Denton Abel, of No. 20, Southampton
Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Patent
Agent, for the Invention of "A COMBINED TOBACCO POUCH AND.
CIGARETTE FORMER."-A communication from abroad by Felix
Mazet, of Marseilles, in the Empire of France.
Sealed the 23rd April 1869, and dated the 21st November 1868..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Denton Abel at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the.
21st November 1868.
I, CHARLES DENTON ABEL, of No. 20, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "A COMBINED TOBACCO,
POUCH AND CIGARETTE FORMER," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in combining with a tobacco pouch an
apparatus for making cigarettes. For this purpose the hinged framing
forming the opening of the pouch is made with recesses for receiving
the cigarette former; this consists of three rollers, the spindles of two

page_text: of which are carried by the sides of one part of the framing to the
pouch, one somewhat above the other, while the third is carried at the
same height as the said upper roller by a separate framing turning.on
the spindle of the lower roller. Round these rollers passes an endless
band of a width equal to the length of the cigarettes to be made, to
which band on each side of the lower roller is attached a tape or ribbon
in such manner that by pulling the one or the other of the tapes the
band is made to travel in one direction or the other over the rollers.
For making cigarettes the framing carrying the third roller is moved
away from the second upper roller; the paper with the requisite tobacco
is placed on the band between them, and the moveable roller is then
closed up again, spring catches being made to hold the framing carrying
it in the closed up position; the one end of the tape is then pulled,
causing the band to travel over the rollers in such manner as to roll up
the paper round the tobacco, thus forming the cigarette. The spring
catches holding the moveable roller are released by studs outside the
framing of the bag, and the roller is opened out so as to remove the
formed cigarette.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Denton Abel in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 15th May 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
DENTON ABEL, of No. 20, Southampton Buildings, Chancery, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Charles Denton Abel, Her
special licence that I, the said Charles Denton Abel, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Denton
Abel, 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.

page_text: and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A
COMBINED TOBACCO POUCH AND CIGARETTE FORMEB," a communication to me
from abroad by Felix Mazet, of Marseilles, in the Empire of France,
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Denton
Abel, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Denton Abel, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say:-
This Invention consists in the combination in one and the same
object of two things, which are indispensable to smokers of cigarettes,
namely, the tobacco pouch and the apparatus for forming the cigarettes.
The accompanying Drawing shews such combined apparatus, in
which it will be seen that the addition of the cigarette former does not
sensibly increase the volume of the tobacco pouch.
Figure 1 shows a plan of the open pouch combined with the cigarette
former; Figure 2 shows a vertical section of the same with some tobacco
on the cigarette former about to be formed into a cigarette; Figure 3
shows the same section with the cigarette former closed up in the act of
making the cigarette; Figure 4 shows a side view of the apparatus; and
Figures 5 and 6 show plans of the same respectively with the pouch
opened and with it closed.
The framing a, b, of the pouch is formed of such a depth at the top as
to contain the cigarette former, the frame of which is formed by the
part a of the pouch frame, to which is hinged at s the part c. This
frame carries the three rollers k, p, and q, of which h and p are of equal
diameter, while q is rather larger. An endless ribbon d of a width cor-
responding to the length of the cigarettes to be made passes over the
three rollers in the manner shown, operating in a similar manner to
the cigarette formers now in use; a small ribbon f, f¹, is attached to
the ribbon d at the point e, and serves to make the same travel in one

page_text: direction or the other over the rollers by drawing either at the end f
or at f. n, n, are spring catches, which hold the part c when closed
up; r, r, are two studs by pressing which inwards the catches n, n, are
released. For making a cigarette the end f' of the small ribbon is drawn
out so as to draw the end f in, and a piece of paper v with tobacco is
placed on the ribbon d, as shown at Figure 2, after which the frame c
is closed and the end f of the small ribbon is drawn out, as shown at
Figure 3, thereby rolling up the tobacco in the paper to form the
cigarette by the motion imparted to the ribbon d over the rollers. The
catches n, n, serve at the same time to hold the pouch closed, being bent
for this purpose, as shown in Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4. In Figure 5 a
separate catch I catching into a notch J in the other part of the frame
is provided for closing the pouch; and at Figure 6 another form of
catch O is shown catching on to the hook x on the other part of the
frame.
Having thus described the nature of this Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent, what I claim is,
First. The combination in one and the same article of a tobacco pouch
and a cigarette former.
Second. The peculiar arrangement of the cigarette former wherein the
three rollers over which the endless ribbon passes are carried partly
by the framing of the pouch and partly by a separate frame hinged
thereto.
Third. Actuating the endless ribbon by means of the two ends of a
second ribbon attached thereto.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Denton Abel, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.