US3067753A - Cigar head reinforcement - Google Patents

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US3067753A
US3067753A US749210A US74921058A US3067753A US 3067753 A US3067753 A US 3067753A US 749210 A US749210 A US 749210A US 74921058 A US74921058 A US 74921058A US 3067753 A US3067753 A US 3067753A
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Kaufmann Theodore
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Priority to CH7592259A priority patent/CH381142A/de
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24D—CIGARS; CIGARETTES; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; MOUTHPIECES FOR CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES
    • A24D1/00—Cigars; Cigarettes
    • A24D1/006—Cigars; Cigarettes with reinforced extremities

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  • This invention relates to a cigar having an improved reinforced head and the method of manufacturing the.
  • cigars manufactured according to modern techniques are composed of short or long cut ller tobacco, rolled in an inner binder to form a bunch which in turn is rolled in an external Wrapper to form the finished cigar. While both the binder and wrapper have long been cut directly from leaf tobacco, the newer practice is to use as the binder tobacco in sheet form prepared from nely divided tobacco and an adhesive or film-forming agent.
  • a long standing problem of cigar manufacturers is the frequent disintegration of the head of the cigar while it is being smoked due to the damage caused to the wrapper and binder as a result of excessive chewing and other manipulation of the cigar head in the smokers mouth.
  • the taste, feel and sight of a disintegrated or partially disintegrated head of a cigar lead to an unfavorable attitude by many people toward cigar smoking. Thus, this problem reduces cigar sales.
  • a disadvantage in the use of a mouthpiece from the manufacturers point of view is connected with the fact that the cigar bunch is prepared -by helically rolling a binder around a certain amount of filler tobacco and the existing complex machines for making cigars cannot 'be operated to include a mouthpiece within the bunch. It would also be dilicult to change the current mass production technique of rolling a wrapper around the bunch to come out with a cigar in which the bunch and mouthpiece are separately enclosed within the wrapper.
  • Another common proposal for preventing the disintegration of the head of a cigar while it is being smoked is to wrap or coat the outside of the cigar head with protective material, eg., cellulose nitrate or acetate, regenerated cellulose, paper, cork, etc. While such an external shield may be effective in preventing disintegration of the cigar head in a smokers mouth, the feel and taste (including lack of taste) of a material other than tobacco are offensive to many cigar smokers. Moreover, the application of a protective material to the head of a cigar is a difficult thing to accomplish and cannot be readily adapted to the present commercial technique of mass production of cigars.
  • protective material eg., cellulose nitrate or acetate, regenerated cellulose, paper, cork, etc.
  • the wrapper is rolled on the bunch from above by means of a wrapper transfer arm which has a complicated motion and accomplishes the step of rolling the broad portion of the wrapper on the body of the bunch by means of one type of helix and the ag portion of the wrapper on the head of the bunch with a tighter helix, ire., a helix having a smaller and decreasing pitch. Since the external protective material cannot be applied with the wrapper in the existing cigar-making machines, it would be necessary to apply the protective material by a separate procedure which would obviously increase the cost of cigar manufacture.
  • a further object is to provide a cigar having a reinforced head which is filled with filler tobacco and has a tobacco wrapper on its outside as in conventional cigars, so that no aromatic components of the smoke are filtered out and the mouth of the smoker comes in contact with tobacco rather than any foreign material.
  • the larger dimension of the insert strip is at least 0.5 inch longer than the circumference of the bunch so that the ends of the strip overlap one another at least 0.5 inch.
  • the insert strip is simultaneously wound spirally (not helically) at the head end of the resultant bunch. Since the reinforcing strip is longer than the circumference of the bunch and this strip is rolled around theiller tobacco while the major portion of one face of the strip is in contact with a face of the binder, at least a minor portion of the other face of the strip is in contact with the other face of the binder. In other words, one end of the insert strip is interleaved with the rolled up binder and, therefore, the strip is held in place in the bunch by the binder.
  • the insert strip of the finished cigar will be inside the wrapper so that the cigar has the usual appearance and only tobacco comes into contact with a smokers mouth.
  • -th-e path of the smoke from the lighted tuck end, through the cigar to the smokers mouth is substantially the same as in a conventional cigar so that while the head of the cigar is strengthened considerably against disintegration, there is still no filtering out of any of the aromatic components of the smoke.
  • the reinforced head of a cigar manufactured according to this invention is strong and secure.
  • a dab of innocuous adhesive on the face of the strip which is to be contiguous with the binder and at the end of the strip which will be the inner end of the spiralled strip in the bunch. This is done not for the purpose of keeping the insert strip in place in the finished cigar or even in the bunch but to ensure that the end of the strip which is rolled up rst will follow the binder during the rolling operation.
  • la dab of paste is also 'applied to the upper face and at the opposite end of the strip to hold down the outer end of the spiralled strip in the bunch.
  • the reinforcement of a cigar head according to this invention may be carried out much more easily than other methods of reinforcement. This can be best appreciated when the conventional means of mass producing cigars is considered.
  • the binder in preparing the bunch, the binder is placed horizontally on the rolling apron and is held flush against the apron by a partial vacuum applied through small openings or perforations in the apron from a chamber beneath it.
  • the binder is cut in a shape adapted to be formed into a tubular element by a relatively sirnple rolling action executed by the rolling apron.
  • the insert strip be placed on the rolling apron below the binder with its larger dimension substantially parallel to the direction of roll and near the head end of the binder so that when the filler tobacco is dispensed and the bunch rolled the insert strip will be integrally rolled with the binder.
  • an applicator mechanism which cuts an insert strip of the desired size from a roll of the reinforcing sheet and places it in the desired position on the rolling apron relative to the binder before the bunch is rolled. This is considerably simpler than manufacturing cigars with separate mouthpieces which involves an entirely distinct operation, or applying reinforcing strip either with or after the rolling of the wrapper.
  • the insert strip may be cut from any of various types of reinforcing sheets suitable for the desired purpose, e.g., tobacco sheets, paper, cork, regenerated cellulose, plastic films, etc. While the insert strip is lof a width that it rarely covers more than 1.5 inches of cigar length at its head, ⁇ smokers occasionally smoke cigars down to very short stumps with the result that the burning zone of the cigar reaches the insert strip. For this reason, it is preferred to use a strip of a strong tobacco sheet which on burning will not yield an obnoxious smoke odor and taste. Such a tobacco sheet may be made in accordance with the teachings of U.S. Patent 2,797,689, granted Iuly 2, 1957 to W. G. Frankenburg.
  • the reinforced head of this invention may be applied to any type of cigar which has the three basic parts type of cigar which has the three basic parts of filler, binder and wrapper.
  • the binder is cut from a tobacco sheet prepared from finely divided tobacco and a water-soluble adhesive, e.g., methyl cellulose as disclosed in U.S. Patent 2,592,553, granted April 15, 1952 to W. G. Frankenburg and P. W. Garbo.
  • the selection of the reinforcing sheet is based on such factors as thickness, flexibility and strength both when dry and when moistened by chewing in the smokers mouth.
  • Suitable reinforcing sheets are generally not more than 0.005 inch, preferably not more than 0.003 inch, in thickness; the flexibility of such sheets should be sufficient to permit the insert strip to be readily spiralled 4at the head end of the bunch without causing objectionable bulging or distortion of that end of the bunch.
  • the insert strip should have enough flexibility that a smoker who ⁇ chews the head of a cigar while smoking will not notice any unusual hardness in the reinforced head.
  • FIGURE 1 which shows the positions of the binder and insert strip on the rolling apron with the insert strip placed under the binder
  • FIGURE 2 which illustrates, in a side view partly in section, -a cigar constructed according to the invention, and.
  • FIGURE 3 is a sectional View taken lalong the line 3 3 of FIGURE 2.
  • FIGURE 1 shows the portion of rolling apron 10 of a cigar-making machine which has a multiplicity of perforations 11 for holding down in a smooth condition binder 12 laid thereon.
  • the insert strip 13 is deposited on apron 10 before binder 12.
  • Strip 13 may be cut from a roll of a reinforcing sheet and placed on apron 10 by a dispensing mechanism o-f the type shown in pending U.S. application Serial No. 303,210, while binder 121 may be cut from a roll of a tobacco sheet and laid on apron 10 over strip 13 by a dispensing mechanism of the type shown in Belgian Patent 547,564.
  • the direction of rolling followed by apron 10 in executing the rolling of the cigar bunch is indicated by arrow 14.
  • strip 13 is essentially parallel to the direction of rolling. After a charge of filler tobacco has been rolled up in binder 12 to form the bunch, the bunch goes to a crirnper which shapes the ends of the bunch and cuts off the marginal portions of binder 12 at the bunch ends. Dotted lines 15 and 16 indicate the lines along which the marginal portions of binder 12 are cut oi yat the crimper. It will be noted that strip 13 is generally positioned on apron 10 ⁇ so that edge 17 thereof is ya small fraction of an inch, say 1/16 to Ms inch, away from crimper cutting line 15 of binder 12.
  • FIGURES 2 and 3 schematically show a cigar made as just described with reference to FIGURE 1.
  • Filler tobacco 30 is enclosed in helically rolled binder 12 to form a bunch with a narrow strip 13 of a reinforcing sheet spirally wound in the head end only of the bunch and exteriorly encircling binder 12 to provide a protective cover therefor.
  • the bunch including strip 13 is entirely enclosed by wrapper 31 which is separately and helically rolled on the bunch.
  • the ends of the spiralled insert strip should be overlapped at least 0.5 inch but there is little or no justification for using such a length of strip that when spiralled in the bunch there will be two or more full layers of the reinforcing sheet in the cigar head.
  • a reinforced head in said cigar comprising a substantially rectangular narrow strip of a leXible reinforcing sheet having the greater part of one face thereof in Contact with the outer face of said binder and the smaller part of the other face thereof in contact with the inner face of said binder, said strip being spirally wound in the head end only of said bunch so that the ends of said strip overlap and the complete spiral with less than two full layers of said strip is an integral part of said head end of said bunch on which said wrapper is separately and helically rolled, said strip exteriorly encircling said binder to provide a protective cover for said binder but being entirely enclosed by said Wrapper, and dabs of adhesive only on said ends of said strip holding one of said ends attached to said binder and sealing the

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NL114073D NL114073C (enrdf_load_stackoverflow) 1958-07-17
US749210A US3067753A (en) 1958-07-17 1958-07-17 Cigar head reinforcement
GB23477/59A GB928956A (en) 1958-07-17 1959-07-08 Cigar head reinforcement
DEG27502A DE1178342B (de) 1958-07-17 1959-07-14 Zigarre mit Umblatt und Deckblatt und verstaerktem Mundende
CH7592259A CH381142A (de) 1958-07-17 1959-07-17 Verfahren zur Herstellung von Zigarren und nach dem Verfahren hergestellte Zigarre
FR800412A FR1230318A (fr) 1958-07-17 1959-07-17 Cigare et procédé de fabrication
NL241340A NL241340A (enrdf_load_stackoverflow) 1958-07-17 1959-08-16
US218891A US3252465A (en) 1958-07-17 1962-08-23 Method of manufacturing cigars with reinforced heads

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US3653390A (en) * 1970-03-17 1972-04-04 William G Louden Cigar structure
GB2362084A (en) * 2000-01-05 2001-11-14 Sebastian Smith Cigarette paper(mouth end) support system

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US3653390A (en) * 1970-03-17 1972-04-04 William G Louden Cigar structure
GB2362084A (en) * 2000-01-05 2001-11-14 Sebastian Smith Cigarette paper(mouth end) support system

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