An Improvement in Cigar and Cigarette Tubes, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Cigar and Cigarette Tubes, and the like.
I, GEORGE MARTIN KIPP, 41 Kingsland Road London, N., in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of a Cylindrical protecting shield of wire gauze, per-
forated metal porcelain glass or the like, which is attached by means of a suitable
connecting joint to an ordinary Cigar or Cigarette tube, the said shield being
rather larger and longer than a Cigar or Cigarette and is closed at the end.
When a Cigar or Cigarette has been fixed in the tube in the ordinary way and
lit, the protecting tube is slipped over it, and fixed by means of the connecting
joint, the cigar or cigarette may then be smoked in comfort even in stormy
weather without fear of its going out, the ash is prevented from dropping, no
sparks can be blown about, and the tube and its contents may be laid down
without risk of burning or scorching anything.
I claim as my invention the cylindrical protecting shield as described above.
14th October 1896.
An Improvement in Cigar and Cigarette Tubes, and the like.
I, GEORGE MARTIN KIPP, Picture Frame Manufacturer of 50 Hanover Road,
Broad Lane, South Tottenham, in the County of Middlesex, (late of 41 Kingsland
Road London), 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:-
My invention consists of a protecting shield of coiled, woven, or plaited wire,
wire gauze, perforated metal, porcelain, glass or the like, the said shield being
tubular, and closed at one end, the open end being made slightly conical, so as
to fix firmly on to the end of the Cigar or Cigarette tube or holder, the shield
being sufficiently large to slip easily over the Cigar or Cigarette and leave a
sufficient air space, between the shield and the Cigar or Cigarette, as shown in the
illustrations.
The advantages arising from the use of my invention, are, the Cigar or Cigarette
may be smoked in comfort in either wind or rain, no sparks are blown about and
the ash is prevented from falling on the clothes of the smoker.
These shields may be made either cylindrical, square or oval, and the per-

page_text: forations in the metal, porcelain, glass, etc., and the interstices in the wire gauze,
woven wire or plaited ditto, must be sufficient in number and size to allow a free
draught, but must not be large enough to allow the ash to fall through.
The illustrations show:-
Fig. 1. A is the shield.
B is the tube or holder.
Fig. 2. Show the shield in use.
A is the shield
B is the tube or holder
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C is the Cigar or Cigarette in position for smoking, with the air space 1
between them and the shield.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
The shield itself, whether made from coiled, woven, or plaited wire, wire 1
gauze, perforated metal, porcelain glass, or the like and the method of attaching
same to the tube or holder.
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