Improvements in Cigar Rests and Ash Trays.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left. 27th Oct., 1891-Accepted, 28th Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cigar Rests and Ash Trays.
I, FREDERICK DAVIS of Miller Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Clerk do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of an arrangement for holding cigars and the like articles
so as to prevent them coming into contact with the ash or dust that becomes
detached from them when in use. For this purpose I use two or more pieces of
metal or other substance made in a convenient and suitable shape and pass from the
aforesaid pieces at a convenient height a piece of metal or other substance per=
forated hollowed and shaped to hold a cigar and secure the aforesaid pieces
together which being placed upon or attached to a tray the whole forms a rest upon
which a cigar may be placed with the result that the ash or dust as it becomes
detached falls through the open places into the tray and prevents any part of it
again coming into contact with the cigar.
Dated this 27th day of Lo 1901
FREDERICK DAVIS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cigar Rests and Ash Trays.
FREDERICK DAVIS of 39 Yates Street Aston Manor (late of Miller Street
Birmingham) in the County of Warwick Clerk 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:-
This invention relates to an arrangement for holding cigars and the like articles,
so as to prevent them coming in contact with the ash or dust that has become
detached or fallen therefrom into the tray.
For this purpose I use two or more pieces of metal or other substance, made in a
convenient and suitable shape, and pass from (or connect between) the aforesaid
pieces, a piece of metal or other substance, perforated and hollowed or shaped so as
to hold a cigar. These parts being secured together may be placed upon or
attached to a tray, which thus forms as a whole, a rest upon which a cigar may be
placed, with the result that as the dust or ash becomes detached from the cigar, it
falls through the open places or perforations into the tray and prevents any part of
it coming again into contact with the cigar.
In order to more particularly explain this my invention I have hereunto appended
an illustrative drawing having numbers of reference.
1, is the tray which in itself is similar to those in ordinary use. 2, 2, are two end
uprights or pillars, of any desirable design, in the present instance, representing
two cricket bats. At the upper end of these pillars 2, 2, is connected the cross
piece or receiver 3, which is perforated, and also made of a hollow form for the
more convenient resting of the end of the cigar therein. This piece 3, may be of
perforated metal, or made of open wire work.
Generally the pieces 2, 2, and 3, are rigidly connected to each other and also
these again to the tray 1, by rivetting, soldering or otherwise, but if desired the
parts 2, 2, and 3, may be connected together (or formed out of the same piece) and
be free from the tray, that is, it may simply be placed in the said tray when in use.
Again. Although I have shown and described it as being made of metal, still I
may make it of glass or china &c., either as a whole or in parts.
Its purpose will now be readily understood:-The upper parts 4, 4, or their
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page_text: equivalents, of the pillars 2, 2, are so made, that upon resting the cigar 5, thereon
its rear end shall be raised somewhat, but not necessarily so. Upon resting the
cigar as shown, the ash falling therefrom necessarily passes through the perforations
into the bottom tray 1, and so from time to time the perforated parts 3, always
presents a clean surface whereon to rest the cigar.
Instead of carrying the receiver 3, by means of two supports 2, 2, 1 may only
use one of such or similar supports.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is:
1. The combination with the tray 1, of a perforated receiver 3, carried upon
suitable supports substantially as described and illustrated and for the purposes
specified.
2. The combination with the supports 2, 2, of the perforated receiver 3, with or
without the tray 1, substantially as described.
Dated this 26th day of October 1891.
FREDERICK DAVIS.