IMPROVEMENTS IN CIGAR-HOLDERS, CIGARETTE-HOLDERS, AND PIPES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edmund Edwards at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th November 1883. Communicated
to him from abroad by Frédéric Bailac, of Toulouse, in the Republic of France.
EDMUND EDWARDS, of the firm of Edwards and Co :-, Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 35, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex "IMPROVEMENTS IN CIGAR-HOLDERS, CIGARETTE-HOLDERS, AND PIPES
[a communication to him from abroad by Frédéric Bailac, of Toulouse, in the
Republic of France]
"
This invention relates to pipes as ordinarily used for smoking tobacco, and tubes
or holders for cigars or cigarettes, and it has for its object a novel method of
constructing and using such pipes and cigar or cigarette holders so that they are
less injurious to health than is ordinarily the case, and they may also be used for
remedial purposes.
Pipes and cigar or cigarette holders made according to this invention have the
same external shape and size as those ordinarily used, and may be made of wood,
meerschaum, amber, or other suitable material.
They are made in two parts the end of one part being fitted into the corresponding
end of the other, and a fine longitudinal passage being made through them from
end to end, one end having a suitable cavity to receive a cigar, cigarette, or tobacco,
and the other end being provided with a mouthpiece in the usual way.
At the place where the two parts meet and are united is formed a cylindrical
cavity, the size of which may be varied according to the size of the cigar holder
or pipe, and into this cavity is fitted a cylinder made of paper or thin card filled
with cotton wool saturated with astringent substances acting as antidotes to the
injurious qualities of nicotine, such as green or unroasted coffee, tea, tannin, bark,
alum, or quinine. The object of the paper cylinder filled with saturated cotton
wool is to prevent the narcotic effect of the tobacco by preventing the nicotine
from reaching the smoker's mouth and by impregnating the inhaled smoke with
the active principles of the materials which are used as antidotes. The tobacco
smoke as it passes through the cylinder loses its burning taste and reaches the
smoker's mouth fresh and perfumed but without having lost any of its aroma.
The paper cylinder, which should exactly fit the cavity absorbs and becomes
saturated with the juice and nicotine of the tobacco, and after having been used

page_text: sufficiently long is changed for a fresh one. It may contain not only antidotes for
nicotine as described, but also substances prescribed as therapeutic remedies for
diseases of the mouth, throat, larynx, lungs, or other parts. Or it may be perfumed
and used as a substitute for the well-known Eastern narghilly.
The invention may be applied not only to cigar-holders but to cigarette-holders
and pipes, the inconveniences in using which are overcome without in any way
diminishing their utility.
By the use of this invention irritations or diseases of the throat, tongue, larynx,
or mouth, smokers' cancer, constriction of the chest, congestion of the brain, and
other evils arising from the inordinate use of tobacco, are prevented.
Instead of being cylindrical as described the paper tube may be made conical
and sufficiently long to fill completely a corresponding conical hole reaching nearly
to the mouthpiece of the cigar-holder or pipe, so as to prevent the thick tobacco
juice or oil containing nicotine which the smoke deposits in the passage of the stem
and mouthpiece, from forming and injuriously affecting the smoker.
By removing and changing the conical tube when necessary the offensive deposits
from the tobacco are taken away.
Substances in powder, such as tannin, quinine, camphor (in case of epidemic
infectious diseases,) alum, or others of analogous kind may be employed in their
natural state by placing them in the tube between two plugs of cotton wool.
Or, the conical tube simply filled with cotton wool may be used without any
other ingredients, the passage in the stem then remaining clean for a longer time
and lessening the injury from the nicotine.