Improvements in Cigar Ash Trays or Holders.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1898-Accepted, 30th Apr., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cigar Ash Trays or Holders.
I, AUGUST STEINMEISTER, of Bünde, Westphalia, in the Empire of Germany,
Manufacturer, 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:-
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This invention has for its object an ash tray which serves for preventing a cigar
laid therein from burning one-sidedly or crookedly or going out.
In the ash trays
hitherto employed a cigar lay with its burning end on the bottom of the tray by
which means it either burnt one-sidedly or went out, which as any smoker knows is
very deleterious to the flavour of the cigar.
These drawbacks are removed by the present invention by the arrangement in an
ordinary ash tray of a device suitable for the object desired or by the whole ash tray
being so constructed as to meet this object.
The invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings,
in which,
Figures 1, 2 and 3 are sectional elevation, plan and end view respectively of one
form of the device; and
Figures 4, 5 and 6 sectional elevation, plan and cross section respectively of
another form of the device.
The support for the burning cigars is preferably caused to rise at such an angle
from the inside to the outside that the points of the cigars lie higher than the burn-
ing part in order that the moisture developed during smoking may not be drawn into
the end and may thus not produce a disagreeable biting taste.
This may be obtained in any suitable manner, for instance by means of a clamp b
(Figures 1, 2 and 3) which may be formed in one piece with the holder a and which
is mounted on the edge of the ash tray d. Another method of fastening consists in
a rectangular pin being mounted on the support, which pin is inserted in a hole
formed in the edge of the ash tray.
A second method of attaining the desired object consists in arranging the edge of
the ash tray itself to receive the cigars, the tray being formed of sufficient width for
the purpose (Figures 4, 5 and 6). The edge is roughened so that the cigars cannot
slip about or is provided with channels or grooves c in which the cigars may be laid.
By means of all these forms of construction the result is attained that the burning
ends of the cigars lie freely in the air, that is to say do not come in contact with the
cold walls of the ash tray, whereby precisely the above mentioned drawbacks are
avoided.
One or two forms of construction are shown in the drawings, as already herein-
before mentioned. The forms of the ash trays may however be varied in many ways.
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
claim is:-
1. An ash tray characterised by a support (a) being arranged over the actual ash

page_text: container and attached to the same or mounted on the same in any suitable way, in
which support the cigar may be laid in such a way that its burning end always has
an unimpeded air supply substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
2. An ash tray such as described characterised by the support (a) being removably
attached to the ash tray (id), substantially as described with reference to Figure 1 of
the accompanying drawings.
3. An ash tray such as described characterised by the support (a) being formed in
one piece with the ash tray (d) substantially as described with reference to Figure 5
of the accompanying drawings.
4. An ash tray such as described characterised by the support being arranged so
as to rise from the interior of the ash tray to the outside so that a cigar laid thereon
has the burning end lower than the other end and thus the pungent juice developed
during smoking cannot collect at the end, substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 31st day of Tenue 1800
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.