US232873A

US232873A - Cigarette

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Publication number: US232873A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1880-10-05
Anticipated expiration: 1897-10-05

Description

(No Model.)

' B. BARON.

Cigarette.

No. 232,873. Patented Oct. 5,1880.

' In/ve rvZEr N. PETERS, PHOTO-LITNOGRAPHER, WASHNGTON, D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT @rrrca.

BERNHARD BARON, or BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

CIGARETTE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 232,873, dated October 5,1880.

Application filed J nne 9. 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERNHARD BARON, a citizenjof the United States, residing in the city of Baltimore, county of Baltimore, and State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cigarettes, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement consists in making a mouth-piece entirely of tobacco, both filler and binder, and in the combination of said mouth-piece with an ordinary tubular filled cigarette, as hereinafter described and claimed; andthe object of my invention is to provide a mouth-piece for an ordinary paper-covered cigarette that can be entirely smoked up, and which will not impart any foreign flavor to the cigarette; and the further object of my invention is to providea mouth-piece that will not be liable to fracture from the moisture of the lips.

Figure 1 represents a cigarette constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is the same in detail.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts on each figure.

A representsfithe exterior paper tubular envelope of an ordinary cigarette. B is the filling, which in my invention extends only partially upward within the wrapper, preferably as far as the point to, leaving an unfilled tubular extension of the cigarette wrapper from a a to a a.

(J is a roll consisting of tobacco, both filler and wrapper, being practically a section of an ordinary tobacco cigarette, preferably about one-fourth the length of an ordinary finished article.

D is a narrow band or re-enforcin g strip, for use as hereinafter set forth.

Having prepared the filling in the usual way, I manufacture an ordinary paper filled cigarette, the difference being' that the wrapper Ais filled only from the point I) up to the point a, leavinggan unfilled extension, A, of the main tube A from a to a. I next prepare a roll of tobacco, both filling and wrapper, and then cut it into convenient lengths, preferably about one-fourth as long as an ordinary cigarette, making the end (1. One

end of this tobacco end piece is then inserted within the unfilled extension A of the tube A, leaving a tobacco month end, 0, free and uncovered.

In order to keep the two parts from separating I connect them by means of a re-enforce strip or band, D, or any other suitable device.

I am aware that cigarettes have had a tobacco-band pasted at their extreme end, outside of the paper wrapper, as shown in patent No. 198,977, issued to Redlich and Schnitzer, assignees of Jacob Gordon, and that mouth-pieces for cigarettes have been made of corn-husks, banana-leaf, or other like substance that has a roughened or irregular surface, loosely rolled together without any exterior hinder or wrapper, as shown in the patent issued to G. E. Bovee, dated June 25, 1878; also, that rough stalks have been bundled together and covered with paper, and then cut into short lengths for use as mouthpieces, as shown in the patent issued to M. F. Danziger, dated 21st March, 1865; and I lay no claim to any of these devices, as none of them are the same as or accomplish the purpose or perform the functions of my improved month-piece. Being composed entirely of tobacco, it conveys no foreign flavor while the cigarette is being smoked, and by its construction, having binder and filler composed of overlying leaves of tobacco, has no tendency to separate or split apart, as do all mouth-pieces made of fibers or leaves without binders.

My device is furthermore an improvement on those that draw the smoke through channels or ducts which impinge a stream or streams of smoke direct onto the tongue, pro ducing therebythat biting or burning effect which all attempts made have not been able to overcome prior to my invention, for by the use of my device it is obvious that every particle of smoke is transmitted and filtered through condensed layers of a tobacco-filler having a tobacco-binder, and this desirable 5 result is attained without any liability of fracture by moisture of the lips or risk of unwrapping.

I thus secure all the benefits of a cigarette its tobacco-binder, the parts being fitted tocomposed entirely of tobacco at a much regether as and for the purpose set forth, subzo duced cost. stantially as described.

Having now fully described my invention 5 What I c1aimis BERN HARD BARON. The cigarette herein described, consisting Witnesses: of a tobacco-filler, the paper wrapper A, and S. H. JAcoBsoN, the condensed tobacco month-piece 0, having A. S. TAYLOR.