US1989214A - Cigarette tip - Google Patents

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Jan. 29; 1935.

W/ TNESSES J. J. SEELMAN CIGARETTE TIP Filed Aug 10,- 1951 L i A A TTOE NE, Y

Patented Jan. 29, 1935 UNIT D-"sures PATENT OFFICE 1 1,989,214 CIGARETTE TIP John J. Seehnan, Milwaukee,'Wis. Application August 10, 1931, Serial No.'556,188

3 Claims. (o1. 206- 18)., T

This invention. relates to detached cigarette tips which may be furnished with a package of cigarettes in convenient form for individual removal and attachment to each cigarette as it is withdrawn from the package.

A purpose of the invention is to provide sanitary cigarette tips of paper, or other material, that may be folded flat to accompany the package of cigarettes without appreciably increasingthe bulk thereof.

An object of the invention is to so shape the detached folded cigarette tip as to facilitate the insertion of the cigarette therein, while assuring a close tight fit when applied to the cigarette.

Another object is to provide such a tip with tabs or flaps which may be folded inwardly to prevent the tobacco coming into contact with the mouth.

With the above and other objects in View, the invention consists of the detached cigarette tip as herein claimed and all equivalents.

Referring to the accompanying drawing in which like characters of reference indicate the same parts in different views,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of an open folder containing cigarette tips embodying this invention;

Fig. 2 is a view of one of the cigarette tips showing the manner of inserting the cigarette therein;

Fig. 3 is a View showing the next step of straightening the cigarette from its inclined entering position to its axial position ready to have the tabs or flaps folded inwardly;

Fig. 4 is a view showing the tip after such flaps have been turned in and after the cigarette has been further inserted into the tip against the flaps;

Fig. 5 is a view like Fig. 3 with the parts at a quarter of a turn from the position therein and showing one flap inserted and the other flap extended;

Fig. 6 is an end view of the cigarette tip with the flaps turned in;

Fig. 7 is a view showing the folder inserted between the outer and inner wrapper of the cigarette package, and

Fig. 8 is a view of a blank suitable for producing a cigarette tip.

In this drawing, 10 indicates a folder of cardboard or the like which may be folded upon itself and containing a series of flattened or folded paper tubes forming detached cigarette tips 11 arranged in overlapping relation and each secure- 1y but detachably mounted on the folder in such a m that h p can be separately removed without disturbing the others, as by a thin line of paste. The folder preferably has a paper tube cigarette tip for each cigarette in the package and is supplied with the package of cigarettes, being 5 preferably contained between the inner and outer wrapper thereof, as shown in Fig. 7. As each cigarette is withdrawn from the package, a folded paper tip is also removed from the folder. By pressing with the fingers at the lines along which 10 the tube is folded, it may be extended to the tubular shape, as shown in Fig. 2, whereupon the end of the cigarette may be inserted in the tip, the end of the latter being cut at an acute angle to the axis to afford an opening of a size larger 15 than the end of a cigarette, thereby facilitating the entry of a cigarette therein. Preferably, this angle cut of the tip is in the shape of a compound curve as shown affording a pair of rounded lips 12 against which the end of the cigarette is placed to guide it into the tip, but in any event the lines of fold of the paper tip are in the plane of symmetry of the tube, so that one line of fold passes directly through the apex of the angle cut to be centered between the rounded lips 12, thus stiffening the projection against which the cigarette bears as it is entered within the tube. When the end of the cigarette is within the tip, it is straightened into axial alignment with the tip and. further inserted as shown in Fig. 3, the size of 0 the paper tube forming the tip being such as to form a close fit with the cigarette. At the other end of the tube forming the paper tip there is a pair of projecting tabs or flaps formed by cutting the paper blank to shape as shown in Fig. 8. These tabs or flaps may be of various forms, but preferably they are of dovetail shape as shown, with their corners clipped, thereby affording a line of junction with the tube proper shorter than the width of the tab, thus facilitating the folding of the tab inwardly as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, while at the same time giving a greater efficiency for the tab as a means for preventing the tobacco of the cigarette from contacting with the lips or tongue. The shoulders of the tab formed by cutting away the corners thereof form spurs 14 for engaging the inside of the tube when the flap is turned inwardly, thus retaining the flaps in their inturned position as seen in Fig. 6.

The line of junction between the flaps and tubular main portion of the paper tip may have a line of perforations 15 to facilitate the folding of the flaps.

The cigarette tips of this invention may be furnished with the packages of cigarettes without appreciably increasing the size of the package and are readily accessible for use, one being detached from the folder for each cigarette as it is withdrawn from the package and readily and quickly applied by merely inserting the end of the cigarette therein and then turning the flaps. When so used, the tips constitute a sanitary protection preventing the tobacco coming in contact with the lips and tongue, and serve to maintain the shape of the cigarette where it is held between the lips. Preferably, the tips are covered with or impregnated with a moisture proof substance, or the tips may be made of such material.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. An article of manufacture comprising a folder or card adapted to be inserted between the inner and outer wrappings of a cigarette package and having cigarette tips comprising paper tubes flattened and secured to said folder or. card and individually separable therefrom with their ends cut obliquely to facilitate the reception of the cigarette end therein and their other ends cut to form projecting tabs foldable into the tube to protect the tongue and lips of the smoker from contact with the tobacco.

2. An article of manufacture, a cigarette package having inner and outer wrappings, and a nat container of paper tips for use with the cigarettes of the package fitting between said wrappings, comprising a card, and paper tubes folded flat and secured to said card in overlapping relation, each securely but detachably mounted on the card by a thin line of paste so that it may be separately removed without disturbing the others.

' 3. An article of manufacture, a flat package of cigarette tips adapted to lie between the inner and outer wrappings of a cigarette package, comprising a card; and paper tubes forming cigarette tips folded flat and secured to said card in a row, each being detachably mounted on the card by a thin line of paste and overlapping the others next thereto in the row so as removal without disturbing the others.

JOHN J. SEELMAN.

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