An Improved Mouth-piece or Holder for Cigars and Cigarettes.
Year: 1892

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Mouth-piece or Holder for Cigars and Cigarettes.
I, JOHANNES ANDERSSEN, of 72, Maridalsvei, Christiania, in the Kingdom of
Norway, Office-messenger, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved month-piece or holder for cigars and
cigarettes, by means of which the end of a cigar need not be cut off when required
for smoking and it can be smoked quite out without any part being wasted whereby
great economy is effected. By a special arrangement the nicotine is prevented
from entering the mouth and the mouth-piece or holder will never become foul.
The improved mouth-piece can be used for smoking both cigars and cigarettes no
special arrangement being necessary for either, and the construction allows of the
mouth-piece, when holding a lighted cigar, being placed upon a table or elsewhere
without anything being liable to be burned. The cigar or cigarette may be placed
in any position whatever upon the mouth-piece, either at right angles, obliquely or
with the lighted end towards the smoker. From this it will be seen that the
improved mouth-piece possesses great advantages over those now in use.
In order to enable the invention to be fully understood I will describe the same
by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the improved mouth piece:
Figure 2 is a perspective view of the same shewing the cigar in position :
Figure 3 a part sectional elevation of a modified form of holder.
a is the end or mouth piece which is screwed to a stem which can either be in
one piece with the nicotine receptacle c or may consist of two parts, as shewn in
the drawing according to the material which is employed, as meerschaum, amber,
horn, mazard, etc.; c is a ball which serves to receive the oil of the tobacco when it
is screwed on the lower end of the mouth-piece or holder. d is a small conical
spike of metal or the like, placed in the mouth piece or holder a little above the
oil receptacle, and provided with small holes in the top and on the sides. The
cigar or the cigarette f' is placed on this spike, as shewn in the drawing; the end
of the cigar must not be cut off, while the one open end of the cigarette does not
diminish the draught; the cigar or cigarette may be lighted at both ends but in
this case the holder with the lighted cigar for cigarette cannot be placed in the
position shewn in Figure 2. When the cigar or the cigarette is smoked down to
the spike d, it is moved a little to the side or to the end (Figure 1ƒ³). To avoid
the burning of the mouth piece the spike d is provided with a small flange e.
In the modification shewn in Figure 3 the bottom of the oil receptacle has a
screw-threaded opening in which a plug g fits; the plug g is formed with a screw-
threaded opening adapted to be screwed onto the spike d, which in this case is also
screw-threaded. By unscrewing the plug y from the receptacle c and. placing it
upon the spike & the cigar f' may be smoked in the manner shewn in Figure 3, the
plug g serving to receive the nicotine.
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. In a mouth-piece or holder for cigars the arrangement of a tube a, b which
ends in a receptacle c screwed thereto and which serves as au oil receptacle; on the
part 6 the arrangement of a hollow spike d furnished with holes and flange e the
said spike serving to receive the cigar or the cigarette, intended for smoking,
substantially as and for the purpose herein before described.

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2. In a mouth piece or holder for cigars of the kind referred to in Claim
arrangement of a plug y adapted to be screwed into the receptacle c or onto the
spike d which is provided with screw-threads whereby the plug g serves as an oil
receptacle while the cigar, with the end cut off, is placed in the receptacle c,
substantially as set forth and for the purpose described.
3. The improved cigar or cigarette mouth pieces or holders hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 22nd day of October 1899
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.