(No Model.) I, GINTER, CIGARETTE. . . No. 251,340. Patented Dec. 20, 188l.

WITNESSES INVENTOR

ATTORNEY

N. PETERS. Photo-lithographer, Washington. D. C. PATENT OFFICE.

LEWIS GINTER, OF RICHMOND, . CGARETTE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 251,340, dated December 20, 1881. Application filed June 30, 1881. (No model.) - To all whom it may concern: tact, and they interlock with each other in Be it known that I, LEWISGINTER, a citizen such close contact that the danger or liability 55 of the United States, residing at Richmond, in to be sucked into the mouth of the user is ob the county of Henrico and State of Virginia, viated. They pack closely together, and the 5 have invented certain new and useful Improve wrapper of the package hugs the ends tightly, ments in Cigarettes; and I do hereby declare leaving no spaces or interstices between them, the following to be a full, clear, and exact de or them and the package-wrapper. The form scription of the invention, such as will enable of the end corresponds more nearly with the others skilled in the art to which it appertains normal and natural plane of the lips, and the O to make and use the same, reference being had lip-compression prevents even the small par to the accompanying drawings, and to the let ticles of at the mouth end of the cigar ters or figures of reference marked thereon, ette from being displaced in use. The package which form a part of this specification. often or more is received snugly in the vest My invention relates to cigarettes; and the pocket, and the flat form allows it to hug the novelty consists in the construction, form, and form of the person carrying it, and the pro adaptation of the same for convenient use and truding ends do not become daimaged by the handling, as will be fully described hereinaf. friction of the coat. Added to all these ad ter, and specifically pointed out in the claim. vantages which accrue to a flat cigarette over The object of the invention is to produce a a round one is the ease with which the first cigarette which will, because of its treatment one, or in fact any Subsequent one, may be and form, be convenient in use between the taken from the package without injury, while lips, more conveniently carried in packages, in round packages it is impossible to grasp retain the strength and aroma or flavor, and both sides of a cigarette with the thumb and 75 be more closely packed for transportation. finger at the same time, and the pressed cigar 25 In the use of cigarettes great inconvenience ette is not so quickly consumed. and discomfort have arisen from the fact that In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is s particles of tobacco from the central portions a perspective view of one of my cigarettes, and are drawn into the mouth by the suction em Fig. 2 a package thereof. ployed in smoking, and this fault accrues more Referring to the drawings, A represents a markedly when fine tobacco is used. It is also single cigarette, and B a package of the same. an established fact that round cigarettes, The cigarette is pressed after the wrapper has packed in paper parcels, themselves round, been placed around the tobacco, and is in an lose the valuable flavor of the tobacco and its approximately round form. After pressing it strength, due to the interstices between the assumes a flattened rectangular form with ap. 35 cigarettes themselves and between the cigar proximately abrupt or slightly rounded cor ettes and the package-wrapper, and round ners or edges. cigarettes cannot be packed without more or I am well aware that cigarettes have been less of space, being thus detrimental. formed square and round, and these forms I 90 To avoid these difficulties, and to form a do not seek to cover in the application; but 40 package which may conveniently be carried in What I claim as new is the waistcoat-pocket without tearing, break As a new article of manufacture, the cigar ing, or Wearing the cigarettes, because of the ette herein described, having plain flat sides friction of the outer coat, I form a cigarette and rounded edges, formed by pressing from 95 and press the same into a flat or rectangular the round cigarette, and having the particles 45 shape, and in this form they may be packed of tobacco interlocked and firmly compressed, or placed inflat parcels, ten or more in a par. substantially as set forth. Cel. By this construction I am enabled to use In testimony whereof I affix my signature OO the finer particles of the best brands of tobac in presence of two witnesses. co, which would otherwise be wasted or be. so come less valuable, and which could not be LEWIS GINTER, used in cigarettes if round in form. The sides, Witnesses : approaching each other because of the press GEO. L. BIDGOOD, ure, force the particles into more intimate con E. VICTOR: WILLIAMS,