NEW OR IMPROVED COMBINED PIPE, AND CIGAR, AND CIGARETTE HOLDER
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Griffith Brewer, of 33, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "NEW OR IMPROVED COMBINED
PIPE, AND CIGAR, AND CIGARETTE HOLDER." A communication from abroad
by Messieurs Bénas and Company, of Paris, France.
Sealed the 10th June 1879, and dated the 6th March 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Griffith Brewer at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 6th March 1879.
EDWARD GRIFFITH BREWER, of 33, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex.
"NEW OR IMPROVED COMBINED PIPE, AND CIGAR, AND CIGARETTE HOLDER."
(A communication from abroad by Messieurs Bénas and Company, of Paris,
France.)
The object of this Invention is to provide combined pipes and cigars or cigarette
holders in one and the same apparatus, capable of being used for either purpose at
pleasure.
This apparatus presents in fact the advantage of affording to the eye all the
appearance of an ordinary cigar or cigarette holder, and it also enables the pipe to
be smoked in all places where it is rather the custom or fashion to smoke cigars or
cigarettes.
The Invention is essentially composed of a cylindrical furnace or receiver which
is free to slide on a tube having externally the diameter of the said furnace or
receiver, and terminated at the opposite end by a mouthpiece of amber or of any
other suitable material which is intended to be placed in the mouth; the tube in
connection with the mouthpiece is provided on that side where it enters into the
cylindrical furnace or receiver with a plug made of cork or other suitable substance,
perforated at about the centre and forming a piston to resist more or less the tobacco
placed in the pipe, and to form a tight joint between the two tubes.
When the apparatus is used as a pipe it is entirely pulled out and the furnace is
charged with tobacco in the ordinary way; then in proportion as the smoking
progresses the zone of combustion is kept in the forward part of the apparatus by
pushing the tube into the furnace, the perforated plug thereby operating as a piston
to bring the tobacco towards the free end of the furnace,

page_text: When the apparatus is used as a cigar holder it is not entirely pulled out, and the
cigar is held in the end of the furnace or receiver, but when used as a cigarette
holder the furnace or receiver is entirely brought back as well as the perforated
plug, and it is in the extremity of the tube that the cigarette is held.
It will be understood that the mouthpiece tube may be made movable in the
interior of the tube; it will under these circumstances be advisable to apply a
perforated plug, similar to that before described, to the mouthpiece tube, and if
desired the number of the tubes may be increased.
This new description of pipe, and cigar, and cigarette holder combined may be
made of any suitable material or materials, according to tastes, such as of meerschaum, 1
amber, wood of all kinds, porcelain, clay, and the like, and they may be decorated
as fancy and taste may dictate. When the parts are not extended the space occupied
is small, and consequently the cases are small and take up very little room in the
pocket.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Edward Griffith Brewer in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
6th September 1879.
EDWARD GRIFFITH BREWER, of 33, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex.
"NEW OR IMPROVED COMBINED PIPE, AND CIGAR, AND CIGARETTE HOLDERS."
(A. communication from abroad by Messieurs Bénas and Company, of Paris,
France.)
The object of this Invention is to provide combined pipes, cigar, or cigarette
holders in one and the same apparatus capable of being used for either purpose at
pleasure.
This apparatus presents in fact the advantage of affording to the eye all the
appearance of an ordinary cigar or cigarette holder, and it also enables the pipe to
be smoked in all places where it is rather the custom or fashion to smoke cigars or
cigarettes.
The Invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying Sheet
of Drawings. Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section, and Figure 2 is an eleva-
tion of the holder as applied to a pipe; Figure 3 is an elevation, partly in section,
shewing the Invention applied as a cigar holder; and Figure 4 is a vertical section
shewing the Invention applied as a cigarette holder.
Similar letters refer to like parts in all the Figures.
As can be seen by the accompanying Drawing, which represents a specimen of
the apparatus, the Invention is essentially_composed of a cylindrical furnace or
receiver A, which is free to slide on a tube B, having externally the diameter of the
said furnace or receiver A, and terminated at the opposite end by a mouthpiece C
of amber or of any other suitable material which is intended to be placed in the
mouth, the tube B in connection with the mouthpiece C is provided on that side
where it enters into the cylindrical furnace or receiver A with a plug D made of
cork or other suitable substance, perforated at about the centre and forming a piston
to resist more or less the tobacco placed in the pipe and to form a tight joint between
the two tubes A and B.
When the apparatus is used as a pipe, Figures 1 and 2, it is entirely pulled out
and the furnace A is charged with tobacco, then in proportion as the smoking
progresses the zone of combustion is kept in the forward part of the apparatus by
pushing the tube B into the furnace A, the perforated plug D thereby operating as
a piston to bring the tobacco towards the free end of the furnace.
When the apparatus is used as a cigar holder, Figure 3, it is not entirely
pulled out and the cigar is held in the end of the furnace or receiver A, but
when used as a cigarette holder the furnace or receiver A is entirely brought back
as well as the perforated plug D, and it is in the extremity of the tube B that
the cigarette is held, as shewn at Figure 4.
It will be understood that the mouthpiece tube C may be made movable in the
interior of the tube B, it will under these circumstances be advisable to apply a
perforated plug similar to that before described to the mouth piece tube C, and
if desired the number of the tubes may be increased.
This new description of pipe and cigar holder combined may be made of any
suitable material or materials according to tastes, such as of meerschaum, amber,
wood of all kinds, porcelain, clays, and the like, and they may be decorated as
fancy and taste may dictate. When the parts are not extended the space occupied
is small, and consequently the cases are or may be small and take up very little
room in the pocket.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as the aforesaid new or improved
combined pipe and cigar and cigarette holder,-
The employment for such purposes of several tubes capable of sliding or fitting

page_text: exactly the one into the other and of suitable sizes for the purposes to which
they are applied, so that the external tube while serving to form a tobacco holder
or pipe, is capable of being utilized to hold a cigar, and the internal tube be
utilized as a cigarette holder, all substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Griffith Brewer, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy nine.
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