Improved Cigarette-and Cigar Holder.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Aug,, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 10th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 28th Nov., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Cigarette-and Cigar Holder.
I, ROBERT SPENCE HORNE, of. 63 Blenheim Crescont, Ladbroke Grove,
Notting Hill, in the County of London, Cabinet Salesman, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Heretofore cigarette and cigar bolders have been so constructed that difficulty
has generally been experienced in securing a cigar or cigarette firmly therein.
With the object of overcoming this objection I arrange the mouth-piece of a
holder to slide in the latter telescopically, and to the inuer end of said mouth-piece
Isecure a spring clip of such form that when the mouth-piece is forced into the
holder the jaws of said clip are caused to open sufficiently to permit of the end of
a cigarette or cigar being placed between them.
A coil or other spring in the holder acts upon the mouth-piece and tends to
prees this outwards, so that after the mouth-piece has been forced inwards and the
cigarette or cigar placed between the jaws.of the spring clip and the mouth-piece
then released, the spring will force the latter, outwards and so cause the spring olip
to grip the end of the cigarette or cigar.
Josh dow of August 1806
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
Improved Oigarette and Oigar Holder.
I, ROBERT SPENCE HORNE, of 63 Blenheim Crescent, Ladbroke Grove,
Notting Hill, in the County of London, Cabinet Salesman, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Heretofore cigarette and cigar holders have been so constructed that difficulty
has generally been experienced in securing a cigarette or cigar firmly therein.
With the object of overcoming this objection 1 arrauge the mouth-piece of a
holder to slide in the latter telescopically, and to the inner end of said mouth-piece
I secure a spring clip of such form that when the mouth-piece is forced into the
holder the jaws of said clip are caused to open sufficiently to permit of the end of
a cigarette or cigar being placed between them.
A coil or other spring in the holder acts upon the mouth-piece and tends to press
this outwards, so that after the mouth-piece has been forcod inwards and the
cigarette or cigar placed between the jaws of the spring clip and the mouth-piece
then released, the spring will force the latter outwards and so cause the spring clip
to grip the end of the cigarette or cigar.
A holder so constructed is illustrated by the accompanying drawings, and by
the aid of these I will more particularly describe my invention.

page_text: Of these drawings, Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section of a holder with the parts in
their normal position, and Fig. 2 is a similar view of a holder with the parts
arranged to receive or discharge the end of a cigarette or cigar.
As shown the mouth-piece a is arranged to slide in the end of the holder b, the
two parts being normally held in the position shown in Fig. 1 by a coil spring o the
opposite ende of which press respectively against the inner end of the mouth-piece a
and a flange, projection, or enlargement.d in the interior of the holder b.
Projecting from, and forming a continuation of the mouth-piece a is a tube e
carrying on its free open end a clip formed of a number of spring arms 9g projecting
from a circular base-piece g'.
These arms open ont when the mouth-piece a is forced into the holder 6 as shown
in Fig. 2, so permitting of the end of a cigarette or cigar being placed within or
removed from the clip, but they close again immediately the parts are released and
allowed to assume their normal position as shown in Fig. 1.
The particular shape or construction of the clip, as well as that of the other
parts, may, as will be understood, be modified without departing fruin the principal
features of my invention, and I do not therefore limit myself to the particular
construction shown, but,
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A cigarette or cigar holder fitted with a clip capable of being so oporated as to
cause it to secure and hold or to discharge the end of a cigarette or cigar,
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Doted thin Ooh dao of Antalion 1000
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, Mitro Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.