IMPROVEMENTS IN TOBACCO-PIPES, CIGAR AND CIGARETTE HOLDERS
Year: 1884

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I, HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert and Company, Patent Agents,
of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of said Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN TOBACCO-PIPES, CIGAR AND
CIGARETTE HOLDERS, 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 cigarholders, pipes and analogous articles provided with
a hygiènic and antihypnotic tube.
The improved cigarholder or pipe may have the same shape and dimensions as
ordinary cigarholders or pipes and may be made of wood, meerschaum, amber or
any other suitable material generally employed for this purpose.
In further describing this Invention reference will be made to.the annexed
Drawings of which Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section of a cigarholder provided with
the hygienic and antihypnotic tube.
Fig. 2 shows in detail the different parts of the cigarholder illustrated by Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of a cigarette holder provided with the same
appliance.
Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of a cigar holder provided with a hygienic tube
having a more conical shape, while Fig. 5 shows in detail the different parts of
which the same is composed.
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Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section of a pipe provided with the hygienic tube.
The cigarholder illustrated by Fig. is composed of two main parts a and b
fitting into each other; they are perforated lengthwise and form a cylindrical
chamber c having a diameter of 8 to 10 millimetres and a length of 12 to 20
millimetres, according to the size of the cigar-or cigarette holder.
The cigarholder contains the hygienic antihypnotic tube d fitting accurately into
the cavity c.
The hygienic and antihypnotic tube & has for its object to counteract the effects
of the narcotic, partly by absorbing nicotine on its way to the mouth of the
smoker, and partly by saturating the inhaled smoke with the active constituents of
antidotes contained in the tube d.
The tube & may be made of paper or thin cardboard and filled with carded
cotton or other porous material saturated with astringent substances which are an
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page_text: antidote to nicotine, such as green coffee (which has not been roasted), tea, tanin,
oakbark, alumn and peruvian bark.
The tobacco smoke in passing through the tube d looses its acridness and reaches
the mouth of the smoker in a fresh and scented state without loosing any of its
aroma,
The tube & and its contents gradually become impregnated with tobacco juice
containing nicotine, and absorb the same; the tube may serve for 4 to 6 cigars
after which it should be removed and replaced by another.
The tube d may not only contain antidotes for the nicotine, but it may also
contain medicaments designed to combat certain diseases of the mouth, throat,
larynx or lungs.
The contents of the tube may also be scented and advantageously replace the
narghile of the orientals.
The hygienic tube may be made long and conical (as shown by e Figs. 4 and 5)
and so as to fit accurately into the end of forming the mouth piece of the cigar
holder, which arrangement has for its object to prevent the deposition of black
fatty substances, containing nicotine, along the interior walls of the cigar holder,
or tube of the pipe, which substances are apt to infect the smoker. By exchanging
the tube e the injurious constituents of the tobacco deposited in the same are
removed.
Substances which may be reduced to powder such as tanin, peruvian bark,
camphor, alumn and their analogues may be applied in their natural state, between
two light plugs of carded cotton. If desirable the conical tube s may be filled
with cotton free from any antidote, which arrangement is nevertheless of a nature
to prevent the dangers caused by the abuse of tobacco.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
In tobacco pipes, cigar and cigarette holders, a tube forming part of the smoke-
passage and containing cotton or other porous material which may or may not
be impregnated or combined with astringent, medicinal or aromatic substances,
substantially as described.
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