US1005981A

US1005981A - Cigarette.

Info

Publication number: US1005981A
Application number: US59927710A
Authority: US
Inventors: James W Keenan
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1910-12-27
Filing date: 1910-12-27
Publication date: 1911-10-17
Anticipated expiration: 1928-10-17

Description

J. W. KEENAN.

I CIGARETTE. 7 APPLICATION TILED D30. 27. 1910.

1,005,981, Patented 001;. 17, 1911.

gm 2% W JAMES W. KEENAN, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

CIGARETTE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 1'7, 1911.

Application filed December 27, 1910. Serial No. 599,277.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES W. KEENAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Cigarettes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to make a paper wrapped cigarette having a mouth piece, more cheaply than such cigarettes have heretofore been made.

The invention consists of a cigarette having a paper wrapper which at one end is folded outward and backward upon itself to double the thickness of said wrapper at and near said end and furnish a protective mouth piece.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a plan view of the paper wrapper for a cigarette. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the said wrapper with one end folded back upon itself to render the paper double thick at and near said end. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of a complete cigarette embodying the invention.

In constructing cigarettes embodying the invention, like that shown in Fig. 8, the ordinary very thin rice paper, or other suitable thin paper may be used. Prior to rolling it about the tobacco one end a of said paper wrapper A is folded back upon itself along the line a a in Fig. 1. The wrapper shown in Fig. 2 is rolled about the tobacco B. The turned over end is left outside, where it serves in a very satisfactory degree the same purpose for which slips of paper, cork and the like are generally pasted around cigarettes near one end thereof,z'. 6. it serves as a protective mouth piece. The

paper at the mouth piece is doubled in thicknesses by being turned over as stated. If when the protective fold becomes wet it is torn by the lips or teeth of the smoker, this does not materially injure the cigarette or render it difficult or uncomfortable to smoke. The inner or main part of the wrapper has remained intact, and the cigarette is substantially what it would be if the mouth piece fold had never been there. a

I am aware that protective mouth pieces made of cork, paper, straw, etc., have been pasted around one end of a cigarette wrapper; and I do not claim such constructions as my invention. The primary objection to these old constructions from the manufacturers view point is that the putting on of these mouth pieces is a very considerable part of the cost of making the cigarette. The construction herein shown and described is very much cheaper. Moreover, manylike the feel of the rice paper in their mouths, and will not smoke those having the applied mouth pieces heretofore used. The cigarette herein described will not be objectionable to such smokers, for while it has a protective,

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.