A NEW OR IMPROVED HOLDER OR TUBE FOR SMOKING CIGARS AND CIGARETTES
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Adolphe Oppenheimer, of the Firm of David Oppenheimer
and Company, of Watling Street, in the City of London, Merchants, for the
Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED HOLDER OR TUBE FOR SMOKING CIGARS
AND CIGARETTES." A communication from abroad by the Firm of Jeantet-
David, of Saint-Claude, Jura, France.
ealed the 27th August 1878, and dated the 2nd March 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Adolphe Oppenheimer at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd March 1878.
ADOLPHE OPPENHEIMER, of the Firm of David Oppenheimer and Company, of
Watling Street, in the City of London, Merchants. "A NEW OR IMPROVED HOLDER
OR TUBE FOR SMOKING CIGARS AND CIGARETTES." A communication from abroad
by the Firm of Jeantet-David, of Saint-Claude, Jura, France.
This Invention has for object the construction of a holder or tube to fit any size
cigar or cigarette, and it consists of two portions, viz., a body or barrel and a
mouth-piece or stein. The body or barrel of the holder or tube is of larger
diameter at one extremity than at the other, in order to receive a cigar of any size,
and the mouth-piece or stem, which has a slightly tapering or conical hollow
projection, forming a holder or tube for cigarettes, fits into either end of the
barrel.
When a large cigar is to be smoked it is placed in the extremity of the holder or
tube having the larger diameter, and the conical projection of the mouth-piece is
then inserted in the extremity of the barrel having the smaller diameter; and when
a small cigar is to be smoked, the said conical projection of the mouth-piece is
placed in the extremity of the holder having the larger diameter, and the cigar in
the smaller.
When a cigarette is to be smoked, it is placed in the hollow conical portion of the
mouth-piece or stem, and the mouth-piece or stem is then used detached from the
body or barrel.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Adolphe Oppenheimer in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 28th
August 1878.
ADOLPHE OPPENHEIMER, of the Firm of David Oppenheimer and Company, of
Watling Street, in the City of London, Merchants. "A NEW OR IMPROVED HOLDER
OR TUBE FOR SMOKING CIGARS AND CIGARETTES," A communicaion from abroad
by the Firm of Jeantet-David, of Saint-Claude, Jura, France.
This Invention has for object the construction of a holder or tube to fit any size
cigar or cigarette, the said holder or tube consisting of two portions, viz., a body or
barrel and a mouth-piece or stem.'
The annexed Drawings show a holder or tube constructed according to the
Invention. A is the body or barrel portion; and B, the mouth-piece or stem. In
the holder or tube, shewn complete in elevation, Figure 1, the extremity a of the body
or barrel A is of larger diameter than its other or opposite extremity a*. The mouth-
piece or stem B is so formed as to fit into either extremity of the body or barrel.
In Figures 1 and 2 it is shewn as fitted into the extremity a* having the smaller
diameter, and in Figure 3 it is shewn as fitted into the extremity a, the diameter
of which is larger than that shewn at a*, as aforesaid.
The mouth-piece is furnished at its inner extremity with a slightly conical or
tapering hollow projection b, for the purpose herein-after mentioned, and also with a
shoulder c to prevent it entering too far into the extremity having the larger
diameter.
Figure 4 shows the barrel or body in longitudinal section and detached from the
mouth-piece in order to shew clearly its construction.
It will be seen that the extremities a, a*, are slightly tapered outwards in order
that the tapered projection 6 of the mouth-piece should make an air-tight joint
when fitted into either extremity.
When a cigar of large size is to be smoked through the tube or holder, the end of
such cigar is placed in the extremity a of the barrel or body A. having the larger
diameter, and the conical or tapered projection of the mouth-piece B is placed in
the opposite extremity a* of the barrel having the smaller diameter; but when
the holder is to be used for a small size cigar, the mouth-piece is placed in the
extremity a of the barrel having the larger diameter, and the cigar in the extremity
of the barrel having the smaller diameter.
The mouth-piece shewn in detached view in elevation, Figure 5, can be used
detached from its barrel or body as a tube or holder for cigarettes, the projection b
being for this purpose made hollow in order to receive the cigarette.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention and in what manner
the same may be performed, I declare that I claim,―
First. The new or improved holder or tube, described with reference to Figures
1, 2, 3, and 4 of the Drawings, as and for the purpose set forth.
Second. The cigarette holder, described with reference to Figure 5 of the
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Adolphe Oppenheimer, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of August, in the year One thou-
cond night hundend and comandes