TAR INHALING CIGAR, ALSO APPLICABLE FOR INHALING OTHER SUBSTANCES."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Albert Rousseaux, of Brussels, in the Kingdom of
.
Belgium, Merchant, for an Invention of "TAR INHALING CIGAR, ALSO
APPLICABLE FOR INHALING OTHER SUBSTANCES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Albert Rousseaux at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st November 1880.
ALBERT ROUSSEAUX, of Brussels, in the Kingdom of Belgium, Merchant. "TAR
INHALING CIGAR, ALSO APPLICABLE FOR INHALING OTHER SUBSTANCES."
This cigar inhaler, which I call cigar balsamic, enables the smoker to inhale air
which, in passing by a tube or conductor to which tar or other medicaments are
applied, is impregnated with their properties to be thus conveyed into the chest
and bronchial tubes.
The cigar is composed of a cigar holder or mouth piece such as is used to place
in the mouth, and in which is fixed a tube covered outwardly with the tar or other
medicaments.
This tube is covered or protected by the outer portion of the cigar or envelope of
the cigar, which adapts itself against the end of the mouthpiece.
The envelope is pierced with aspirating holes, which may be made in any part
of this envelope. The holes are to admit the exterior air drawn in at each
inhalation, which, passing over the layer of tar or other medicament, is impregnated
with their properties, and thence conveyed by the pipe or tube into the mouth of
the person using the cigar.
For the better holding of the tar or other medicament upon the tube, this is
wrapped with a light layer of cotton or other such analagous material.
The cigar inhaler can exactly copy the form of the ordinary cigar, the outer
envelope being even covered with a leaf of tobacco and the end made to imitate
the ash or ignited, and it may be made of wood, horn, bone, ivory, metal,
meerschaum, or other suitable material.

page_text: The charging and maintainence of the cigar is simple and not costly, the
interior tube being covered from time to time with the tar or medicaments
wished.
The apparatus, therefore, has this form, a mouthpiece carrying a tube of about
an eighth or one sixteenth of an inch diameter, part of the end of the mouth piece 5
away from the mouth being shouldered, and upon this is placed the outward
envelope thus held firmly enveloping the tube but not touching it, the apertures
in this outward envelope, therefore, allow the air to enter, pass along over the tar
or other charge, and enter the end of the tube to be drawn into the mouth.
The cigar inhaler can, if required, be made by suppressing the interior tube and 1
filling the envelope with pieces of wood or other suitable substances impregnated
with the tar or other medicaments and covered as before, the holes in the outer
envelope being retained for the passage of the air.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Albert Rousseaux in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th
February 1881.
ALBERT ROUSSEAUX, of Brussels, in the Kingdom of Belgium, Merchant.
INHALING CIGAR, ALSO APPLICABLE FOR INHALING OTHER SUBSTANCES."
"TAR-
The cigar inhaler, which I call cigar balsamic, and which is the object of the
present application for a Patent, allows the inspiration of air passing by a tube,
which, covered with tar medicaments or other substances, is impregnated with
their properties to be carried into the bronchial tubes of the chest.
The cigar is composed of a cigar holder, which is placed in the mouth, and in
this is mounted a tube covered outwardly with tar medicaments, etc. The tubo
is recovered by the outward case or envelope of a cigar which adapts itself exactly
against the cigar holder.
The envelope is pierced with aspirating holes, which may be made at any desired
part of the envelope. These holes are intended to allow the air to enter, and which
is drawn in by the aspiration. This air passing over the layer of tar, etc., is
impregnated by the properties of it, and enter by the inside of the tube to be
carried directly into the mouth of the person using the cigar.
To better fix or hold the tar or other medicaments on the interior tube I wrap
this with a light layer of cotton or cotton wool, but I do not limit myself to these
substances.
The cigar inhaler has the form of an ordinary cigar; it may be made in wood,
horn, bone, ivory, metal, amber, meerschaum, etc., to better imitate the real cigar,
or it may be covered by a real leaf of tobacco, or an imitation of a similar leaf, of
which the extremity may receive an ash colouring. The maintenance of the cigar
is simple and cheap; it is only necessary to cover from time to time the interior
tube with a new charge of tar or other medicaments, etc., when required.
In the Drawings annexed, A. represents the upper part of the cigar holder, and D
the front part or envelope; B is the inside tube mounted on the cigar holder A,
and on which is fixed the tar or other medicaments, etc.; C is the conducting
aspirator; E is a border made at the end of the tube B, and intended to prevent
the tar spreading; F, F, are the aspirating holes by which the exterior air
penetrates.
Ono of the parts of my Invention being the drawing in of external air, which
continually renews itself to mix with the tar, etc., and enriches itself with their
properties, etc., the same result could be obtained by the cigar described above by
forming the body or wrapped portion of the interior of the cigar in any substance
suitable. Thus, I might suppress the interior tube and replace it by small fragments
of wood or other materials, the body being impregnated with tar or other
medicaments, and re-covered with a tobacco leaf or imitation of it; but it should
be understood, in case I suppress the interior tube, I, nevertheless, maintain the
aspirating holes or other openings made either on the surface or through the cigar,
and permitting the air to enter and pass constantly through the interior parts of
the cigar.
It follows also from this that I do not limit myself to the exclusive form of the
cigar, my Invention being capable of application equally to cigarettes, pipes, narghills,
sucking bottles, etc.
Having now described and particularly set forth the nature of the said Invention,
and the manner of carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that
what I claim is,-
The combination of an apparatus in the form of a cigar, for inhaling the
principals or vapours of tar or other medicaments, etc., the tube of which is

page_text: supplied with air impregnated during its passage through the cigar, to be supplied
or taken by the bronchial tubes, chest, etc., substantially as described and illustrated
by the annexed Drawings.
Second. The application of this inhaling system by means of an imitation of a
cigar, of which the body may be made in fragments of wood or other substance
impregnated with tar medicaments, etc., the cigar fitted with holes conveniently
placed for the aspiration of air thus saturated, substantially for the purposes
indicated.
Third. The application of this inhaling system to cigarettes, pipes, narghills,
biberons, etc.
In witness whereof, I, the said Albert Rousseaux, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand.eight hundred and eighty one.
placed for the aspiration of air thus saturated, substantiany for
indicated.
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Third. The application of this inhaling system to cigarettes, pipes, narghills,
biberons, etc.
In witness whereof, I, the said Albert Rousseaux, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand.eight hundred and eighty one.