Imagine lighting a cigar as if you were striking a match

[El Presidente]

 

Patented 1900 

 

This paste is applied to r the cigar-leaves, as previously described, and

when dry is in condition for use, showing the same color as the cigar and no great protuberance. For the igniting-surface I take .bisulphide of mercury, charcoal, and pentasulphide of antimony, which is also mixed with gelatine and is applied to any suitable and convenient surface. It may be placed upon a cigar-case, or it may be spread upon a card or other surface convenient for the purpose, and when the cigar, prepared as previously described, is to be ignited it is only necessary to'rub the end of the cigar upon this prepared'surface and it will be thoroughly ignited.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters

 

 

Description

Patented Aug. 54; I900,

' HEIMANN.

SELF LIGHTING (HEAR.

(Application filed Mar. 6, 1900.)

(No Model.)

NITED- T T PATENT OFFICE.

BEN/NO HEIMANN, or SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR or ONE- HALF T0 ISAAC DANNENBAUM, or SAME PLACE.

ELF-LIGHT NQCICAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Iatent No. 655,864, dated August 14, 1900. Y Application filed March 6, 1900. Serial No. 7,461. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENNO HEIMANN, a citi- -z'en of Germany, residing in the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented an Improvement in Self-Lighting Cigars; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same. I

My invention relates .to a cigar carrying upon itself a means for its ignition without the use of matches.

It consists of a speciallyprepared compound mixed into a. paste and incorporated with the ends of the rolled leaves of the cigar, so as to form an essential part of the structure.

Figure 1 illustrates a cigar, partially broken away, embodying my invention. Fig. 2 illustrates a portion of a tobacco-leaf with the compound applied to it.

Various devices have been employed for lighting cigars-such as a match or pin inserted and protruding from the end of a cigartip with a composition and provided with a fulminate, or charcoal, or other material made adherent on the outer end by some adhesive material. The difiiculty with these devices is that in the case of inserted foreign substances the lighting of the cigar injures its'delicate flavor by reason of the wood ,or other foreign substance which is inserted. j

In the application of pastes adherent to the end of the cigar the scratching or rubbing of v the cigar is very apt to cause the material to become detached and fly oif without performing the required service. In my invention I form a paste of materials, hereinafter described, of sufficient thinness and viscosity so that it may be made to extend a short distance into the interstices between the rolled ends of the leaves formingthe cigar, and a sufiicient portion of the materialappears upon the ends of the leaves, so that when it is rubbed upon a proper surface this material will be ignited. By reason of its extending a short. distance into the end of the cigar the ignition the leaves with it before the said leaves are rolled up, the object being to thoroughly satmate the ends of the leaves with the stance. I

In carrying out my invention I employ a sub compound consisting of chlorate of potash,

lampblack, pentasulphide of antimony, and charcoal, the'whole mixed with a proportion of gelatine sufficient to form itintoa comparatively-thin paste.

6o This paste is applied to r the cigar-leaves, as previously described, and

when dry is in condition for use, showing the same color as the cigar and no great protuberance. For the igniting-surface I take .bisulphide of mercury, charcoal, and pentasulphide of antimony, which is also mixed with gelatine and is applied to any suitable and convenient surface. It may be placed upon a cigar-case, or it may be spread upon a card or other surface convenient for the purpose, and when the cigar, prepared as previously described, is to be ignited it is only necessary to'rub the end of the cigar upon this prepared'surface and it will be thoroughly ignited.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters

[BoliDan]

This was a complex post Rob. I can't follow in my current state. We need an interpretation before you post technical stuff... we are simple. 

 

Also love you all, even if I put you in a  economic correctness scenerio. I just want you to know that your poli

Economics != Political view is not necessarily the same as the economic view. 

 

 

 

 

[Fuzz]

Yes, I do enjoy having the end of my cigar coated in chemicals, just so I don't need to carry a lighter. I'm sure the smell of the burning chemicals will have no impact on the flavour of my cigar, nor will the mercury impact my health.

[El Presidente]

37 minutes ago, Fuzz said:

Yes, I do enjoy having the end of my cigar coated in chemicals, just so I don't need to carry a lighter. I'm sure the smell of the burning chemicals will have no impact on the flavour of my cigar, nor will the mercury impact my health.

......Fuzz......you need to be open minded. 

Can you imagine how much this would help people like Ken? 

[JohnS]

30 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

......Fuzz......you need to be open minded. 

Can you imagine how much this would help people like Ken? 

Yes, agreed. We need to think of Ken!

[La_Tigre]

And to think this didn’t take off somewhere in the 1900-2000 years…

[cgoodrich]

Ahh, something to replace the flavor of lighter fluid from my Zippo. 😂

[canadianbeaver]

Gotta match? Yer face and my

🥰

 

xoxo

CB

[BoliDan]

18 hours ago, BoliDan said:

This was a complex post Rob. I can't follow in my current state. We need an interpretation before you post technical stuff... we are simple. 

 

Also love you all, even if I put you in a  economic correctness scenerio. I just want you to know that your poli

Economics != Political view is not necessarily the same as the economic view. 

 

 

 

 

God, I was in rare form last night, I don't remember posting this... Or reading it.

[Chas.Alpha]

11 hours ago, BoliDan said:

God, I was in rare form last night, I don't remember posting this... Or reading it.

Hell, that’s me EVERY NIGHT!!! 😀

 

Here’s how I see this invention panning out: The house cat rubs against my cigar cabinet. 1 cigar ignites. 5 years of 24/24 goes up in smoke. 😳

[LordAnubis]

I am glad this never caught on. How then would @Ken Gargett violate the cigar with his lighting assault?

[Ken Gargett]

1 minute ago, LordAnubis said:

I am glad this never caught on. How then would @Ken Gargett violate the cigar with his lighting assault?

nice mus. very unfair attacking my lighting when you know i have had to dumb it down so rob can keep up. 

[BoliDan]

6 hours ago, Chas.Alpha said:

Hell, that’s me EVERY NIGHT!!! 😀

My wife asked why there were lawn chairs placed in strange spots this morning, I just said, "huh, that's weird." I looked at the security cam and caught myself covering all the sprinkler heads so I could sit in the back yard at 1am... Zero recollection of this. I told her the camera didn't catch anything and deleted the evidence... 🤣

[BrightonCorgi]

If a cigar tube could light up when the cigar is pulled out would help mitigate chemical on the cigar.