IMPROVEMENTS IN HOLDERS FOR CIGARS AND CIGARETTES AND FOR ANALOGOUS PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Henry Johnson of 47 Lincolns Inn Fields in the
County of Middlesex Gentleman for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
HOLDERS FOR CIGARS AND CIGARETTES AND FOR ANALOGOUS PURPOSES
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communicated to him from William Bancroft Espeut, a person resident at
Jamaica, West Indies.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Henry Johnson at the
: Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th August 1883.
JOHN HENRY JOHNSON of 47 Lincolns Inn Fields in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, "IMPROVEMENTS IN HOLDERS FOR CIGARS AND CIGARETTES AND FOR
ANALOGOUS PURPOSES," a coinmunication to me from William Bancroft Espeut,
a person resident at Jamaica, West Indies.
The said Invention has for its chief object to manufacture readily and cheaply
a holder for cigais or cigarettes or for analogous purposes such for example as for
use as tongs for holding sugar or the like, the holders being so made that they
retain the article by their own action.
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In making a holder according to this Invention thin sheet Steel known as pen
Steel" is taken and blanks are cut therefrom consisting of head or holding pieces
and shanks and a connecting piece to be held by the hand. The head or bolding
pieces have a curved or semi-circular form given to them and the shanks and heads
are turned out of the plane of the connecting piece so that they can be passed
across each other in such a manner that the springing action of the steel tends to
close the head or holding pieces upon each other and causes them to grasp and
retain any article placed between them, the said shanks forming the springs giving
this action, whereby, on pressure being exerted upon the said shanks, the head or
holding pieces can be forced apart to allow of the insertion or liberation of the
article held or to be held between them.

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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said John Henry Johnson in the Patent Office on the 15th February
1884.
JOHN HENRY JOHNSON of 47 Lincolns Inn Fields in the County of Middlesex
Gentleman "IMPROVEMENTS IN HOLDERS FOR CIGARS AND CIGARETTES AND FOR
ANALOGOUS PURPOSES a communication to me from William Bancroft Espeut
a person resident at Jamaica, West Indies.
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My said Invention has for its chief object to manufacture readily and cheaply
from what is known as pen steel holders for Cigars or Cigarettes or for analogous
purposes such as for example for use as tongs for holding sugar or the like the
holders being so made that they retain the article by their own action
And in order that the said Invention may be fully understood I shall now
proceed more particularly to describe the same and for that purpose shall refer to
the several figures on the annexed sheet of drawings the same Letters of reference
indicating corresponding parts in all the figures
In making a holder according to this Invention thin sheet Steel known as "Pen
Steel" is taken and blanks as shewn at Figure 1 are cut therefrom consisting of
heads or holding pieces a a and shanks b b and a connecting piece c to be held by
the hand-The heads or holding pieces a a have a curved or semicircular form
given to them and the said beads a a and shanks b b are turned out of the plane
of the connecting piece c so that they can he passed across each other (as shewn in
Figures 2 and 3 which are views of the holder at right angles to each other) in
such a manner that the springing action of the steel when tempered tends to close
the leads or holding pieces a a upon one another and causes them to grasp and
retain any article placed between them the shanks bb forming the springs giving
this action whereby on pressure being exerted upon the said shanks the head or
holding pieces can be forced apart as shewn in figure 4 to allow of the insertion or
liberation of the article held or to be held between them. Figure 5 is a view of
the holder shewing a Cigarette & held between the heads or holding pieces a a.
It will be evident that the holders constructed of "Pen steel" according to this
Invention may be employed as holders for any articles to which they are or may
be applicable; for example they may be used as tongs for loaf sugar or the like
their normal position being the position for holding the article.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of the said
Invention and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into
effect I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to be novel and original and
therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by tho hereinbefore in part recited
Letters Patent is :-
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A holder for holding Cigarettes Cigars or for analogous purposes the said holder
being made from Pen Steel" substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated by the accompanying drawings
In witness whereof I the suid John Henry Johnson have to this my
specification set my hand and seal this fifteenth day of February One thousand
eight hundred and eighty four.