AN IMPROVED ADHERENT CIGAR HOLDER
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edouard Jacob van de Velde, of Boulevard
Saint Denis, No. 1, at Paris, Merchant, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED ADHERENT CIGAR HOLDER."
Sealed the 16th June 1876, and dated the 20th December 1875.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edouard Jacob
van de Velde at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 20th December 1875.
I, EDOUARD JACOB VAN DE VELDE, of Boulevard Saint Denis, No. 1,
at Paris, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED ADHERENT CIGAR HOLDER," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for object the combination with and on the end of
the cigar at the end that is put into the mouth of a cap or partial cover
plain, or crimped, or fluted, and about one quarter or one-third the
length of the cigar. This cap is pierced or perforated at its summit
where it covers the end of the cigar which is previously cut, it thus
constituting a sort of cigar holder or mouth-piece.

page_text: By preference the material employed in the manufacture of this cigar
holder or mouth-piece is aromatized india-rubber, which material is
impermeable, yielding inodorous and without unpleasant taste, the cap
formed of it preventing the end of the cigar from unrolling and enabling
it to be held in the mouth without the continued effort to retain it with
the teeth, which produces the unpleasant moistness and soft swollen
appearance of cigars when partially smoked. By the use of these
mouth-pieces the inconvenience of carrying the ordinary cigar holder is
obviated, and at the same time the disagreeable odour of the nicotine
communicated to the clothing of the smoker carrying such holder is
done away with. `
filed by the said Edouard Jacob von de Velde in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 20th June 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDOUARD
JACOB VAN DE VELDE, of Boulevard Saint Denis, No. 1, at Paris,
Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Edouard Jacob van de Velde,
Her special licence that I, the said Edouard Jacob van de Velde, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Edouard Jacob van de Velde, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no.others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED ADHERENT CIGAR
HOLDER," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edouard
Jacob van de Velde, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,

page_text: and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edouard Jacob van de Velde, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say :-
This Invention has for object the combination with and on the end of
the cigar at the end that is put into the mouth of a cap or partial cover,
plain, or crimped, or fluted, and about one-quarter or one-third the
length of the cigar. This cap is pierced, perforated, or cut at its
summit, where it envelopes or embraces the end of the cigar which is
previously "cut," it thus constituting a sort of cigar holder.or mouth-
piece which I call an adherent cigar holder, as it will generally be
applied so as to remain on the cigar and be sold with it.
By preference the material employed in the manufacture of this
cigar holder or mouth-piece is aromatized india-rubber, which material
is impermeable, yielding, inodorous, and without unpleasant taste, the
cap formed of it preventing the end of the cigar from unrolling and
enabling it to be held in the mouth without the continued effort to
retain it with the teeth which produces the unpleasant moistness and
'soft swollen appearance of cigars when partially smoked; but any
material that fulfils the conditions of being supple, impermeable,
insoluble, and without scent and flavor is applicable to the manufacture
of these holders or mouth-pieces. By the use of these mouth-pieces the
inconvenience of carrying the ordinary cigar holder is obviated, and at
the same time the disagreeable odour of the nicotine communicated to
the clothing of the smoker carrying such holders is done away with and
but a small per centage is added to the cost of the cigars.
In the Drawings is represented a cigar provided with the improved
adherent cigar holder, Fig. 1 being a side view of the cigar a with
holder b attached; Fig. 2, a top view of cigar shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3
represents a side view of the cigar with the holder 6 in section; Fig. 4,
a transverse section of the cigar and holder on line c, c, of Fig. 3 ;,

page_text: Figs. 5 and 6 are respectively a side view and section of the cigar
holder detached; and Fig. 7 shows a cigar holder with open end
instead of being simply pierced.
It will be seen that the characteristics of this Invention is the com-
bination with a cigar on the end that is placed in the mouth of a cap
or envelope of yielding, impermeable, and insoluble material, said cap
or envelope being pierced, cut, or open at the end, and serving to fulfil
the important office of an ordinary cigar holder without its incon-
veniences.
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Having now described the nature and particulars of my said Inven-
tion, I claim the improved adherent cigar holder, substantially as set
forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edouard Jacob van de Velde, have