An improved Cigar and Cigarette noor, Applica Tobacco Pipes.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Sept., 1886.
Complete Left, 16th June, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 9th Aug., 1887.
An improved Cigar and Cigarette noor, Applica
Tobacco Pipes.
U
I HERBERT ARTHUR COUCHMAN of 17 Devonshire Street in the City of London
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide a cigar and cigarette holder by the use of
which the entirety of the cigar or cigarette can be smoked and the end thereof will
not be wasted while at the same time any nicotine or other noxious products of the
tobacco that may enter this holder will be retained therein and can afterwards be
discharged and the smoke will be cooled. This holder is also applicable with tobacco
pipes to carry out these objects or some of them.
To carry out this object I form a tube of the desired material and of any
required size and shape on one end of which is a suitable mouthpiece and inside the
tube are a series of baffle plates formed in any desired order. The cigar or cigarette
may be placed in the other end of the tube in the usual manner but I preferably
form on the end of the tube a number of teeth or spikes which may be barbed or
hooked and these teeth or spikes are stuck into the end of the cigar or cigarette.
For cigarettes the tube is made of such a diameter preferably as that the teeth or
spikes shall enter the tobacco and that the paper can be drawn over the end of the
tube being held in that position by a band or clip fitted on the tube which band or
clip can be retired to allow the paper to be removed when the cigarette is smoked 'out
or otherwise.
The entirety of the cigar or cigarette can thus be smoked in and by this holder.
The tube can be covered if desired with any ornamental or other material in which
also apertures can be made to allow the heat if any of the tube to escape.
When this tube is to be applied to a pipe the passage in the stem or shank thereof
is enlarged to receive the same.
The baffle plates in the tube will retain the nicotine or other products therein and
will cool the smoke.
To clean the baffle plates when required these baffle plates can be so fitted as to
be capable of being drawn out of the tube simultaneously or otherwise or the tube
may be so constructed that access can be had to the same.
Dated this 16th day of September 1886.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cigar and Cigarette-holder, Applicable also to
Tobacco-pipes.
I, HERBERT ARTHUR COUCHMAN, of 17, Devonshire Street, Liverpool Street, in the
City of London, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention aad 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 an improved cigar or cigarette-holder, the novel and
essential parts of which are also applicable to a tobacco-pipe. The principal objects
of the said invention are to provide means whereby the smoke may be cooled before
inhalation, and the nicotine or other noxious product evolved from the tobacco
during its combustion arrested and to a certain extent retained within the hollow
stem until a convenient opportunity presents itself for cleaning the holder or pipe,
as the case may be.
In order that the invention may be readily understood, I will proceed to describe
the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters
of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts in all the Figures.
Figure 1 represents in side elevation a cigar or cigarette-holder constructed
according to the present improved method, Figure 2 being a similar view in
section, Figure 3 a cross section on the line xx (Figure 1), and Figure a sectional
elevation of a tobacco-pipe to which the principal features of this invention have been
applied. Figures 5 and 6 are side elevations of the mouth-piece, showing the device
for cooling and purifying the smoke.
Within the hollow stem of the holder or pipe, I place a series of battle-plates a,
arranged at intervals on a central rod a¹. I prefer to cut these baffle-plates and the
rod out of one solid piece of nickel or other suitable material, but the baffle-plates
may, if preferred, be formed of separate discs. The particular shape of these baffle-
plates may be varied, a larger or smaller number than is shown in the drawings may
be employed, and their arrangement may be altered, but I prefer to construct them
in the manner set forth, and of the shape indicated in cross section in Figure 3, parts
of the discs being filed or cut away, as shown in that figure, alternately on opposite
sides of the rod a¹, as seen in Figures 2, 4, and 6, in order to form a series of chambers
in which the smoke may have time to cool and the obnoxious products of combustion
to settle down. A tube of nickel or other suitable substance 6 closely surrounds tho
baffle-plates a, preventing the passage of smoke save through the spaces provided for
it alternately first on one side of the rod a¹ and then on the other, as previously set
forth. A suitable number of holes, such as c, may be provided in the stem of the
holder or pipe in order to allow of the escape of surplus heat. It is obvious the
tube 6 may be dispensed with, the stem itself serving in its stead, and being, of
course, under such circumstances, unprovided with holes such as C.

page_text: The mouth-piece with the baffle-plates attached and their surrounding tube may
be easily withdrawn from the stem, as indicated in Figure 5; in Figure 6 the
tube 6 has been removed for cleaning purposes.
I sometimes provide the mouth of a cigar or cigarette-holder constructed according
to this invention with spikes or teeth, either barbed or plain, for the purpose of
holding securely the end of the cigar or cigarette, and to enable the whole of the
tobacco to be consumed.
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 ;
First A series of baffle-plates arranged within the stem of a cigar or cigarette-
holder or tobacco-pipe, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
Second-The combination with the series of baffle-plates a of an enclosing tube b,
substantially as set forth.
Third The combination with the baffle-plates a and enclosing tube 6 of the
holes c, substantially as set forth. .
Fourth-The construction of the mouth-piece of a cigar or cigarette-holder or
tobacco-pipe with a series of baffle-plates attached thereto, substantially as set forth.
Fifth The manufacture of the baffle-plates and their supporting rod from one
piece of metal or other suitable material, substantially as set forth.
Sixth The application of teeth to the mouth of a cigar or cigarette-holder for the
purpose of holding more securely the end of the cigar or cigarette, and of enabling
the same to be more completely consumed, substantially as described.
Seventh-The improved manufacture of cigar or cigarette-holder or tobacco-pipe,
substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated th: 15th day of Tuna 1827