OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR HOLDING AND SMOKING CIGARS AND CIGARETS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Tolhausen, C. E. and Patent Agent, of
17, Faubourg Montmartre, Paris, in the Empire of France, for the
Invention of "NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR HOLDING AND SMOKING
CIGARS AND CIGARETS."-A communication from Joseph Charles Toussaint,
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Frederick Tolhausen at
the Office of the Commissioners of. Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 27th March 1862, pursuant to the 9th Section of
the Patent Law Amendment Act 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
TOLHAUSEN, C. E. and Patent Agent, of 17, Faubourg Montmartre, Paris, in
the Empire of France, send greeting..
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "NEW OR IMPROVED
CIGAR TUBES OR APPARATUS FOR HOLDING AND. SMOKING CIGARS AND CIGARETS," and
have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have made solemn
declaration that it is a communication from Joseph Charles Toussaint, a
person residing at No. 17, Faubourg Monmartre, aforesaid.
NOW KNOW. YE, that I; the said Frederick Tolhausen, do hereby declare
that the following Complete Specification under my hand and seal, fully.

page_text: describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed in and by the following statement and accompany-
ing Drawings, that is to say :-
My new or improved cigar holder or cigar tube is shewn on the annexed
Sheet of Drawings; Fig. 1 representing the cigar holder complete; Fig. 2,
the same taken to pieces, i.e. the upper or outer ferrel being removed;
Fig. 3, front view of the upper ferrel; Fig. 4, back view of the same; Fig. 5,
side view of the same; Fig. 6, front view of the inner ferrel with springs
raised; Fig. 7, back view of the same; Fig. 8, front view of the same with
springs depressed; Fig. 9, back view of the same with springs depressed;
Fig. 10, side view of inner ferrel with its springs attached; Fig. 11, side view
of same without springs; Fig. 12, developement of the inner surface of the
inner ferrel; Fig. 13, the same of the outer ferrel; Fig. 14, one of the
springs of the inner ferrel without the screw for fixing said spring; Fig. 15,
the same with said screw; Fig. 16, 1 rivet point, 2 and 3 screws for spring,
4 and 5 stop pins.
This cigar holder or cigar tube has the same mouth or body part as the
ordinary ones, but the burning end which is to receive and hold the cigar or
cigaret is made of two metallic ferrels, which fit one on the other; the inner
ferrel is fixed by means of four pins a, Fig. 12, on the conical part B of the
main body of the cigar holder. The upper ferrel is shipped on the former, so
as to cover it entirely, and be free to revolve on it backwards and forwards
through somewhat less than a quarter of a revolution. The quantity of
revolution is regulated by means of the stop pin a, Fig. 4, which works in the
segmental. recess 6, Fig. 7, by which the motion is limited. On its outer
circumference the inner ferrel carries four steel springs (Fig. 14), said springs
being fixed at equal distances in the groove c (Fig. 11) by means of screws
with flat heads d, Fig. 15; said springs carry each at their opposite or free
end a rivet e, Fig. 15, which is also shewn.at 1, Fig. 16. The pointed or
needle ends of said rivets enter into suitable holes in the inner ferrel, through
which they can be made to protrude at will; as shewn at Fig. 8, and described
herein-after, and-thus prick and. retain the cigar or cigaret, at equal distances;
this is effected by 'depressing the free ends of the springs, viz.,, by, turning the
upper ferrel (see Fig. 13) to the right, by which operation the four rivet
heads 1, Fig. 16; are forced out of the four. recesses f, Fig. 13, in the outer or
upper ferrel, and the springs are thus depressed. In order to make use of
this cigar tube proceed as follows:-Give about one-fourth of a turn to the
upper barrel A, Fig. 1, in the right-hand direction; the cigar or cigaret having
previously been put in will thus be stuck into by the four rivet points, so that

page_text: it will be found impossible under any ordinary effort to remove or lose the
cigar from the tube. When it is desired to remove it, turn the ferrel A to
the left, thus causing the rivet heads to re-enter their recesses f, Fig. 13, and
the rivet points to recede. The groove h, Fig. 13, is for receiving the points
of the four screws g, Fig. 12, by which the upper ferrel is kept in its place on
the inner ferrel. I would here observe that the rivet points should be
tempered blue, and the rubbing surfaces of the two ferrels should be well
polished, so as to facilitate rotation and dispense with the necessity of oiling or
lubricating.
I would thus briefly allude to the advantageous results obtained by these
improvements in cigar holders; the cigar is firmly kept in its assigned place,
thus preventing tumbling out and change of angular position; the metallic
ferrels act as a preservative for the meerschaum or other material against the
heat of the incandescent cigar, and every part of the apparatus being contained
inside the same is not liable to get out of order.
I claim the method of providing the burning end of cigar holders or cigar
tubes with a metallic ferrel or ferrels containing one or several moveable points
or pointed studs e, Fig. 15, and 1, Fig. 16, that are operated in the way set
forth, or by any other equivalent means for the purposes herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Tolhausen, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
F. TULHAUSEN. (LS.)