US1215051A - Cigar-band. - Google Patents

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G. J. NAGEL.

CIGAR BAND.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 15. i916.

1,215,51. Patented Feb. 6,1917.

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CIGAR-BAND.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 6, 1191170 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, GUSTAV JOI-IANNES NAGEL, a citizen of the United States, and residing in New York, county and State of New Yorr, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cigar-Bands, of which the following is a SPEClIICEItlOIl.

This invention relates to the manufacture of cigar bands and has for its objects the production of a simple, economical, yet effective band which eliminates the necessity for the employment of an adhesive to unite the free ends of such band, whereby injury to the health of the smoker and to the cigar itself is minimized.

It is well known that the function of a cigar band is for the purpose of identifying the manufacturer of a particular cigar, as well as for designating the different brands of a single manufacturer. Sists of an annulus of ornamental paper having tapering ends, one of which is adapted to overlap the other and be secured thereto by the adhesive action of a small amount of a mucilaginous substance placed upon the inner surface of one of the overlapping ends. Not only is the use. of such adhesive an objection in the trade because of the unsanitary nature of applying the same, the usual method of uniting the ends consisting in moistening such adhesive with the lips of the operative who in many cases, because of the confined nature of the work may be subjeet to contracting pulmonary or serious blood diseases, but the adhesive is especially objectionable because of the fact that when the two ends are carelessly lapped and not brought into exact register, the adhesive on the lower surface of the overlapping end, wrapper of the cigar itself. As a result, when it is desired to remove such wrapper or band from the cigar, and this is almost invariably done immediately the user commences to smoke the same, the small portion or area of the outer wrapper which is thus united by the adhesive to the cigar band, is torn off and thus the drawing qualities of the cigar are materially interfered with. As a consequence of such a break in the wrapper, in many cases the cigar is so mutilated that to a connoisseur the same is rendered substantially worthless.

My invention is fully set forth and de scribed in the accompanying specification It usually conand drawings forming which Figure l is a perspective view of the same isolated from the wrapper but showing the same in a closed position;

Fig. 2 is a similar perspective view showing the method of applying the same to the cigar;

Fig. 3 is a developed view of my improved band, and

Fig. l is a perspective view of a cigar with the band applied thereto.

Referring to the drawings and the construction shown therein, the reference numeral l designates the usual shield carrying portion of a cigar band, the same hava part thereof in mg integral reduced arms 2, 2; the arm 2 as shown is flared or bulging at its end a and the arm 2 is provided at its outer end with two integral flaps 3, 3 preferably triangular in configuration, as shown. These flaps are formed by folding the end 2 along the converging creases b and c. The flap 3, as shown, is preferably shorter than the tab 3 and when it is desired to apply the said band toa cigar, it is merely necessary to fold the flap 3 around the end 2 at a point sufficiently distant from the terminal margin thereof to permit of said margin of the end 2 projecting beyond the inner oblique edge of the flap 3 as shown in Figs. 1 and 4. The band, in the form of an annulus, is then held in the position shown in Fig. 2 and the butt or tucked end of the cigar is brought in contact with the flap 3, forcing the same to overlap the flap 3 and thus effectively locking the enlarged or flared end 2' of the hand between these two overlapping flaps. Owing to the fact that these flaps as stated are formed by creasing the enlarged end 2 along the oblique lines 0 and (Z, it is obvious that any attempt to remove this band or any pressure exerted by the cigar, when a band is forced upon a cigar slightly larger than the normal cause the two arms 2, 2 of the band to be tightly wedged together and effectively held against displacement with respect to each other.

My invention in practice is easy to apply to cigars and as stated it avoids the objection as to the unsanitary nature of the application of other bands and it is also a much more economical band from the standpoint of the amount of paper required, since diameter of the band, will 3 owing to the overlapping portions required on ordinary bands, there is at least a quarter of an inch more required in this short length of band than in my proposed band. Furthermore, the prime objection of the adhesive adhering to the tobacco leaf itself and thus either affecting the taste or actually tearing a portion of the same and preventing the suction or drawing of smoke through the cigar, is entirely avoided.

For convenience in removing the band from a cigar carrying the same, I may pro- 'vide a small projecting tab integral with the end a and projecting centrally from its outermost margin, or the large flap 3 is made slightly wider and sufliciently longer to project beyond the lateral edge of the band when in final position on a cigar. Then it is merely necessary to pick up said tab or to insert the finger under said projecting, elongated flap in order to displace the end a from between the flaps, and thereby the band can be readily removed with out tearing the wrapper of the cigar.

As is apparent from the foregoing, the operative merely needs to fold the small flap 3 across the end 2 and pinch the said flap so as to retain the end 2 while inserting the cigar. \Vhen the butt end of the cigar, as it is inserted into the folded band, engages the obstructing flap 3 as shown in Fig. 2, said flap will be forced inwardly and across the flap 3 thereby effectively locking the flared end a between the said flaps. It is preferable of course to'apply the bands to the cigars when green and to have the band sufiiciently small to snugly engage and slightly compress the cigar when in Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Washington, D. 0.

position thereon in the same manner that the bands are tightly applied to cigars under the present mode wherein the ends are secured together with an adhesive carried by one of them. 7

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. An elongated strip of material adapted to be folded into an annular band and hav ing two oppositely disposed integral lateral flaps adjacent one end of said band, one of said flaps being of sufficient length to overlap at least a portion of the other and to securely embrace the other end of said band, when said flaps are folded and the said end is inserted therebetween.

2. An elongated strip of material adapted to be folded into an annular band and hav-- ing two oppositely disposed integral lateral flaps adjacent one end of said band, said flaps being adapted to fold about axes outwardly converging with respect to each other and the opposite end of said band being of greater width than the width between the said outer terminals of said axes, one of said flaps being of sufficient length to overlap at least a portion of the other and to securely embrace the other end of said band when said flaps are folded and the said end is inserted therebetween.

Signed at New York, county and State of New York.

HANS NAGEL.

Witnesses:

W. J. HADLEY, V JOSEPH P. BURNS.

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