A CIGAR AND CIGARETTE HOLDER AND MOUTH-PIECE APPLICABLE FOR COMBINATION WITH CUTTING SHEARS PRICKER AND TOBACCO STOPPER
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I, ROBERT BARLOW of Norfolk House Albion Road, Dalston in the County of
Middlesex Surgeon do hereby declare the nature of my invention for A CIGAR
AND CIGARETTE HOLDER AND MOUTH-PIECE APPLICABLE FOR COMBINATION WITH
CUTTING SHEARS PRICKER AND TOBACCO STOPPER, to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is the construction of a self-adjusting cigar and
cigarette holder which may also, if desired, contain a pair of cutting shears and a
pricker or tobacco stopper.
I carry out my invention by bending and twisting a piece of hard wire into
a stem having a pair of S spring jaws at one end and an elongated loop handle at
the other. If the lower bends of the springs be pressed inwards the upper bends
will open outwards and will admit a cigar or cigarette which may then be con-
veniently held by the looped handle and may be smoked without the fingers or
gloves of the smoker becoming stained. I sometimes attach cutting blades to the
lower bends of the springs whereby the point of a cigar may be cut off by the
same action that opens the holder. I also sometimes attach a pricker or tobacco
stopper by means of a hinge to the handle, so as to close within the same or be
opened for use at pleasure.
Alternatively I construct the handle, springs and stem of a ribbon of hard spring
metal or I make the springs and handle separately and fix them to a stem of
ivory or other suitable material. When the apparatus is required to go into small
compass, as, for example, for attachment to a watch chain, I fix the springs and
handle to the stem by means of hinges or joints for the purpose of being readily
folded.
In cases where it is desirable that the springs shall not cross I place a projecting
stud on the inner surface and lower part of each jaw. These studs therefore cross
each other and by being pressed in opposite directions cause the jaws to open.
Or I may make one jaw fixed and provide the other with a stud or return bend by
pressing which the holder will open.
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I also in some cases lengthen the upper bends in a direction at right angles to
the line of pressure and I shape or curve these projections so that they form a
tubular support or mouthpiece for the cigar or cigarette when closed.
mouthpiece may be made of celluloid or any suitable material.
This
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Í, ROBERT BARLOW, of Norfolk House, Dalston in the County of Middlesex,
Surgeon, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for A CIGAR AND
CIGARETTE HOLDER AND MOUTHPIECE APPLICABLE. FOR. COMBINATION WITH
CUTTING SHEARS PRICKER AND TOBACCO STOPPER and in what manner. the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:―
The object of my invention is the construction of a self-adjusting cigar and
cigarette-holder which may also if desired contain a pair of cutting-shears and
a pricker or tobacco stopper.
I carry out my invention by bending and twisting a piece of hard wire into
a stem having a pair of S spring jaws at one end and an elongated loop handle at
the other. If the lower bends of the springs be pressed inwards the upper bends
will open outward, and will admit a cigar or cigarette which may then be con-
veniently held by the looped handle and may be smoked without the fingers or
gloves of the smoker becoming stained. I sometimes attach cutting blades to the
lower bends of the springs whereby the point of a cigar may be cut off by the
same action that opens the holder. I sometimes attach a pricker or tobacco
stopper by means of a hinge to the handle so as to close within the same or be
opened for use at pleasure.
Alternatively I construct the handle springs and stem of a ribbon of hard spring
metal or I make the springs and handle separately and fix them to a stem of
ivory or other suitable material. When the apparatus is required to go into small
compass, as, for example, for attachment to a watch chain I fix the springs and
handle to the stem by means of hinges or joints for the purpose of being readily
folded.
In cases where it is desirable that the springs should not cross I place, a projecting
stud on the inner surface and lower part of each jaw. These studs therefore cross
each other, and by being pressed in opposite directions cause the jaws to open.
Or I may make one jaw fixed and provide the other with a stud or return bend,
by pressing which, the holder will open. I also in some cases lengthen the upper
bends at right angles to the-line of pressure and I shape or curve these projections
so that they form a tubular support or mouthpiece for the cigar or cigarette
when closed. This mouthpiece may be made of celluloid or any other suitable
material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that. what
I elaim is
1. The construction of a cigar-holder with or without combinations, substantially
as specified shown and described.

page_text: 2. The construction of a cigarette holder substantially as specified shewn and
described.
3. The construction of a longitudinally-divided mouth-piece of a cigar or
cigarette-holder substantially as specified shewn and described. .
ROBERT BARLOW.