An Improvement in Cigar and Cigarette Holders.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd June, 1899-Accepted, 15th July, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION,
An Improvement in Cigar and Cigarette Holders.
I, RICHARD HARTE, of 59 Gray's Inn Road, London, W.C., Gentleman, 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:-
My invention relates to an improvement in cigar and cigarette holders and has
for its object to enable the stump or unconsumed end of the cigar or cigarette
to be ejected when desired, without liability of burning the fingers or of staining
them with tobacco juice.
The invention consists in making the part of the holder which forms the seat
wherein the cigar or cigarette is held, in the form of a tubular extension adapted
to slide telescopically, either with a rectilinear or screwing motion, upon the
body portion of the holder beyond which the said tubular extension protrudes
when the cigar or cigarette is held therein so that by retracting the said tube
upon the body portion with which the end of the cigar or cigarette is thus
brought in contact, the unconsumed end of the cigar or cigarette will be neces-
sarily ejected from its seat.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this
specification wherein Figure 1 represents a longitudinal section and Figure 2 a
longitudinal external view of a holder having a sliding telescopic extension tube
to hold the cigar or cigarette. Figure 3 represents a longitudinal section of a
similar holder in which the protrusion and retraction of the telescopic extension
is effected by a screwing motion. The same letters of reference denote like parts
in all the figures.
A is the body portion of the holder provided with the usual mouthpiece B of
amber, ebonite, or other suitable material. The body portion A may be con-
veniently made of briar or other wood or of other suitable material and it is
bored of uniform diameter throughout and formed with a cylindrical piston-like
head upon which fits a cylindrical tubular extension C whose inner end c of
contracted internal diameter also fits and works upon a part a¹ of reduced
external diameter of the body portion A, the extent of motion being limited by
the shoulders dd. The outer end of the extension tube is preferably made of
slightly flaring or trumpet form to enable the end of the cigarette to be more
readily introduced into its seat and to be retained therein more securely, the
length of the tube relatively to the body part A being such that it may be
protruded a sufficient distance beyond the head a (as shewn in Figure 2) to enable
it to receive and hold the cigarette or cigar as indicated in dotted lines, and the
length of the part a¹ of reduced diameter being such as to allow of the tube C
being retracted sufficiently to cause the stump of the cigar or cigarette to be
ejected therefrom as indicated in Figure 1, by the pressure of the head a of the
body portion against its end. In order to ensure a sufficiently air-tight fit and
sufficient friction between the head a and the tube C the head a may have a
packing of cotton or other material a² applied upon its grooved circumference.
The metallic tube C may have the contraction of its inner end c effected by

page_text: inwardly flanging or burring it, as shewn in Figure 1, or by soldering into it
a short liner tube. The body portion A and mouthpiece B, if made separately,
may be united by the usual screw joint and the shoulder d¹ may be formed by
a short ferrule or ring driven on to the body portion. But the mouthpiece and
body portion might be made in one, in which case the flange or burr at c might
be formed by spinning over the inner end of the tube after it is applied upon
the part A, or the shoulder d may be formed by a ferrule driven or screwed on
the head a after the tube C is in position.
The tube C may either be moved along the part a¹ by a simple sliding or
turning motion, or by a screwing motion in which case the contracted part c of
the tube C would be screw-threaded as in Figure 3 and screw upon a thread
formed on the part a'. The threaded part al may, or may not, be concealed by
an outer tubular sleeve E fixed to the ferrule or to the mouthpiece B.
111.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
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1. A holder for cigarettes or cigars, formed of a mouthpiece and body portion
in combination with an extension tube fitted to work upon the body portion to
a limited extent and 'to be protruded beyond the end thereof so as to form the
seat to hold the cigar or cigarette and to be retracted so as to cause the cigar
or cigarette to be ejected therefrom by contact with the end of the body portion
substantially as specified.
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2. A holder for cigarettes or cigars, formed of a mouthpiece and body portion
having a piston'like head and a part of reduced external diameter terminated by
shoulders in combination with an extension tube fitted to work upon the piston-
like head of the body portion and having its inner end of reduced internal
diameter and fitted to work upon the reduced part of the body portion, the said
extension being adapted to be protruded beyond the body portion or to be
retracted thereon substantially as and for the purposes specified.
3. A holder for cigarettes or cigars, formed of a mouthpiece and body portion
having a piston-like head and a part of reduced external diameter terminated by
shoulders in combination with an extension tube fitted to work upon the piston-
like head of the body portion and having its inner end of reduced internal
diameter and fitted to slide telescopically upon the reduced part of the body 'por-
tion, the said extension being adapted to be caused by such sliding motion to
protrude beyond or to be retracted upon the body portion substantially as and for
the purposes specified.
4. A holder for cigarettes or cigars, formed of a mouthpiece and body portion
baving a piston-like head and a screw-threaded part of reduced diameter in com-
bination with an extension tube fitted to work upon the piston-like head and
having its inner end internally screw-threaded and adapted to screw upon the
screw-threaded part of the body portion, the said extension being adapted to be
caused by such screwing motion to protrude beyond or to be retracted upon the
body portion substantially as and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 2nd day of June 1899.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
Chartered Patent Agents, 53, Chancery Lane, London.