US1289975A - Cigarette-wraper. - Google Patents

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F. B. WADDELL.

CIGARETTE WRAPPER.

APPLICATION man JUNE 1. 19:8.

Patented Doc. 31, 1918.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCES B.- WADDELL,

' a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York'and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cigarette-Wrappers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the manual making of cigarettes and to special paper wrap: pers to be employed for this purpose.

One of the diiiiculties in maln'ng ones own cigarettes is that the tobacco usually spills from the ends of the paper during the process of rolling, resulting in a thin, tapering end which can not be held conveniently by the lips. Moreover, if an extra (uantity of tobacco is placed at the end inten ed for the mouth, the tobacco which can not be tightly packed comes out in the mouth and causes annoyance.

The principal objects of the invention are I to enable the smoker who prefers to roll his own cigarettes to make them with at least one end, the end to be inserted in the mouth,

of the substantial thickness and shape of the hand so as to body of the cigarette, and in this respect equal to the machin -made article.

A further object is to enable the consumer to make a cigarette with a filled-up end from which the tobacco can not come out into the mouth.

A further object is to provide a cigarette paper or wrapper so constructed that'a cigarette may be rapidly and easily rolled by form a well-filled tobaccoti ht end. he inventioncon'sists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts of a cigarette wrapper and cigarette hereinafter described and claimed, companying drawings,

Figure 1 is'a view, showing a single sh of cigarette paper made -in accordance with the invention, the parts being in position in which drawings: eet

- before placing tobacco upon the paper;

Fig. 2.is a perspective view show ng the parts in the position to begin rolling the c' arette with the tobacco in place;

i 3 is a similar view showing the completeiy rolled and finished cigarette; and

Fig. 4: is a similar view showing a pack of sheets with the parts in position they occu y in a book or-folder.

ferring .to the drawings, .10 represents the body portion of a cigarette sheet pref- Speolfleation of Letters Patent.

and shown in the ac-.

Patented Dec. 31, 1918.

application filed June 1, 1918. Serial No. 287,766.

erably of paper as ordinarily used. At one end of the sheet, preferably near one of the lateral edges 11, I provide a closure tongue 12 extending in the direction of the length of the sheet and of such size and proportions as to, constitute anend closure of the cigarette when rolled. This closure tongue is the body portion. That is, the tongue being attached at the end-15of the'body portion,

when the tongue is bent up and the holding strip is bent down along the body portion it will extend into end 160i said body portion.

The body portion, closure tongue, and the holding strip are all formed of the same sheet and are integral as shown in the drawlngs just before inserting the tobacco, it ben s along the dotted line 17 shown in Fig. -1.

The use of the cigarette wrapper is as follows a The user holds the paper in his fingers as with the ordinary paper, the tongue being bent upwardly alon the line 17 at right angles' to the plane 0 the paper and the tobacco is then placed on the paper and distributed' along tongue is then bent down upon the tobacco and its end 18 extends into proximity to the opposite end 16 of the paper where it is held by the fingers for the pu the tobacco in place and a so holding the closure in the proper position. The parts the closure tongue 12. The. cigarette is then" rolled and finished in the usual manner, the outer turn of the paper overlying the tongue proximity to the opposite When the'closure tongue is bent u position,the strip will its length. The holding ose of holding and holding the parts securely in the desired relation. Owing to the thinness of the material, the base of the tongue where it joins the body portion readily accommodates itself to the bend of the upper portion when rolled, and a neat-appearlng cigarette with a full and substantial mouth end is the re sult, and it will be observed that the tobacco will be prevented from coming out into the mouth of the user.

As above stated, the tongue and holding strip are integral with the body portion, and for the purpose of stacking the sheets the tongues are bent down upon the paper as shown in Fig. 4, so that a number of the sheets will be packed and occupy very little space.

I claim v 1. A wrapper for hand-made cigarettes consisting of a body portion having at one enda closure ton e for that end of the cigarette, and a ho] ing strip extending from said-tongue into proximity to the other end of said body portion 2. A wrapper for hand-made cigarettes consisting of a body portion having at one end a perforated closure tongue with a holding strip formed integral with the body portion, the end of said strip reaching 1nto proximity to the other end of said bodyportion to be held by the fingers at that end.

3. A cigarette comprising a wrapper having a closure tongue extending across one end of thecigarette and integral with the wrapper and having a holding strip extending inside-the wrapper from said tongue into proximity to the other end. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

FRANCES B; 'WADDELL.

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