An Improved Holder or Combined Holder and Mouthpiece for Cigarettes.
Year: 1891

page_text: The decision of the Comptroller-General, of the 28th day of February 1893,
allowed, under Section 18 of the Patents, &c. Act, 1883, an Amendment
of this Specification.
Date of Application, 21st Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 24th May, 1892-Accepted, 25th June, 1892
An Improved Holder or Combined Holder and Mouthpiece for
Cigarettes.
ALEXANDER ZICALIOTTI of 53 and 55 Cable Street in the City and County
of Liverpool, Cigarette and Tobacco Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
My invention relates to a certain improved holder for cigarettes with which may
be combined a mouthpiece and has for its object to provide an efficient appliance
for either or both purposes which shall be capable of such cheap production that
one or several may be included in a box or packet of cigarettes without increasing
the sale price.
According to my invention of a holder only; I provide a strip of stiff paper,
card, thin sheet metal, wood, or of any suitable substance or combined substances
easily bendable and advantageously slightly resilient and of convenient length and
width which may be parallel sided, but which by preference is made broader about
its middle, and may be rounded off at both ends for greater utility and neatness
and convenience.
The central part is bent on a mandril or otherwise to the circular or elliptical
form of cross section of the cigarette, around which it is placed and held with the
proper amount of grip by the two projecting ends which form the holder for finger
and thumb.
According to my invention of a combined holder and mouthpiece; to one side of
a holder constructed as above about its centre-(i.e. clear of the hand ends)-[
adapt an elongation or extension of the central part of sufficient length and depth to
cover the mouth end of the cigarette when bent and placed in position upon same.
In this case the material used may all be the same, or I may combine with a
metallic, or other holder a mouthpiece of paper, card, wood, cork, or other suitable
substance, and I may treat it with the usual composition for rendering it tasteless,
and prevent it sticking to the lips.
Either appliance can be slidden upon the cigarette and held in any desired
position.
It will be obvious that such an appliance can be readily stamped or formed out
of the sheet material at a very trifling cost.
Delhi 1
Desen _ 1001
J. C. CHAPMAN, C.P.A.,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION (AMENDED).
An Improved Holder-or Combined Holder and Mouthpiece for
Cigarettes.
1 ALEXANDER ZICALIOTTI of 53 and 54 Cable Street in the City and County
of Liverpool, Cigarette and Tobacco 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 relates to a certain improved combined holder and mouthpiece for
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cigarettes, with which may be combined a month piece and has for its object to
provide an efficient appliance for either or both the purposes which shall be capable
of such cheap production that one or several may be included in a box or packet of
cigarettes without increasing the sale price.
I will describe my invention in reference to the accompanying drawings in
which a b is the holder, a combined holder and mouthpiece, and c a cigarette.
According to my invention of a holder only I provide a strip blank of stiff
paper, card, thin sheet metal, wood, or of any suitable substance, or combined
substances easily bendable and advantageously slightly resilient and of convenient
length and width which may be parallel-sided-ns of the form shown in Figure + 7,
but which by preference is made broader about its middle, and may be rounded off
at both projecting ends a for greater utility, neatness, and convenience as illustrated
in Figure 8.
The central part is bent on a mandril, or otherwise to the circular or elliptical
form of cross section of the cigarette, as in Figure 39, around which it is placed
wholly or partly, as in Figures 46.and 10: it is then held with the proper amount
of grip by the two projecting ends a. a. which form the holder for finger and thumb
as illustrated in Figure 5.
It will be-obvious that the holder a may be applied in the same way to au
ordinary separate cigarette month piece / as illustrated in Figure 6, instead of to the
eigarette itself, us-described.
According to my invention of a combined holder a und mouthpiece-b-to-one side
of-n-holder-a-constructed as above-about its-centre (i.c. clear of the hand ends a-a)
I adapt-an make the elongation or extension of the central part, of sufficient length
and depth to cover the mouth end of the cigarette. This material or blank may be
formed or stamped as in Figure 7 or 8, and is bent as in Figure 9, and placed in
position upon the cigarette as illustrated in Figures 6 and 10.
In this ease The material used may all be the same, or I may combine with a
the metallic or other holding parts a, a mouthpiece b of paper, card, wood, cork,
or other suitable substance which may be bent into a coned form to limit the distance of
insertion of the cigarette, and to reduce the area of the mouth end as shown in Figure 6;
and I may treat the latter with the usual composition for rendering it tasteless, and
prevent it sticking to the lips.
Either appliance can be slidden upon the cigarette or usual mouthpiece and held
in-any-desired position.
It will be obvious that such appliances can be readily stamped or formed out of
the sheet material at a very trifling cost.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The improved holder for eigurettes-constructed and adapted for use
substantially as described and illustrated in Figures 1 to 6.
2. The improved combined holder and mouthpiece for cigarettes constructed and
adapted for use substantially as described and illustrated in Figures 76 to 10.
Dated this 23rd 12th day of May December 1892.
For the Applicant