A New or Improved Combination Tobacco-pipe and Cigar or Cigarette Holder.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Oct., 1890-Accepted. 13th Dec., 1890
A New or Improved Combination Tobacco-pipe and Cigar or
Cigarette Holder.
I, GUSTAV PICKHARDT, of Bonn, near the Rhein, 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:
My invention consists of a new or improved combination tobacco pipe and cigar or
cigaretto holder and has for its object à method of construction whereby the same
article may be used either as a pipe for smoking any kind of cut tobacco, or as a
holder for cigars or cigarettes, and to guard against the imbibition of nicotine during
the process of smoking.
In order that my invention may be fully understood I have appended the accom-
panying sheet of drawings, and have adopted the use of similar letters as reference
to indicate corresponding parts throughout. Fig. 1 is an external side view of my
invention with the mouth-piece tube depressed or pushed in for using the article or
apparatus as a cigar or cigarette holder. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the mouth-
piece drawn out or extended that the apparatus may be used as a pipe for smoking
cut tobacco. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of Figs. 1 and 2 shewing the internal
construction thereof. Fig. 4 is also a section. of the preceding figures shewing an
alternative method of construction, while Figs. 5 and 6 are end views of Figs. 1, 2
and 3.
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In carrying my invention into effect I construct a tube A of glass, bone, ivory
metal or any suitable material or substance, one end of which a is formed slightly
bell shaped to accomodate it for the reception and retention of cigars or cigarettes,
the opposite end 6 being plugged with india rubber, or other resilient substance c and
furnished with a partition d fixed within the tube A, so that when the cap e is screwed
upon or within the end of A, the substance c may be compressed between d and e,
so as to expand its area transversely. A suitable hole formed in the centre of e, c, d
permits the passage of a sliding tube shaped at one end g to form a mouth-
piece, and upon the opposite end within A. carries a plunger h which may be shaped
either as at Fig. 3 or spherical as at Fig. 4 and fitting close within and against the
tube A. Or I may in certain cases dispense with the partition d and the cape and
plug the end of A with india rubber, vulcanite, gutta percha or any other suitablo
substance c as at Fig. 4, the tube f which may be of glass or any suitable substance
or material passing therethrough in the same manner as in the case described and
shewn by Fig. 3. A longitudinal hole is formed throughout the length of f for the
passage of the smoke when the apparatus is in use.
When it is intended that the said invention shall be used as a cigar or cigarette
holder is depressed or pushed into A as at Fig. 1, the plunger h would then be a
sufficient distance from a to permit the insertion and retention of the cigar or cigarette,
and when needed for the smoking of cut or loose tobacco the tube / may be with-
drawn if desired to any degree of its traverse, and tobacco inserted within A at a.
The tube f may if desired be depressed or pushed farther into A during the consump-
tion of the tobacco so that the lighted end of the tobacco may be kept at the orifice a
and the ash removed therefrom as made.
The apparatus according to my invention being as nearly as possible in an horizontal
position during the process of smoking, the nicotine generated is prevented from passing
along the tube, from the fact that the passage through f being contral within the
diameter of the nicotine could not at any time reach a sufficient height within A
to overflow the passage through f to the mouth of the smoker, and by reason of the
close contact between h and A it cannot accumulate between h and c and the apparatus
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page_text: is thereby kept clean and cool, and when not in use the tube f may be pushed
within A and the whole carried in a vest or similar sized pocket.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is.
In a new or improved tobacco pipe and cigar or cigarette holder, the construction
and use of a tube A with or without a cap e, in combination with a plug c of any
suitable substance, a flat or spherical plunger h and tube f, substantially as and for
the purposes herein described and shewn by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of Octobon 1800
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
.4, Moorfields, Fore Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.