An Apparatus or Contrivance for Protecting the Unconsumed Parts of Cigars and Oigarettes from Contact with the Smoke and Volatile Products of Combustion during Consumption.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1886.
Complete Left, 26th Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 1st Mar., 1887.
An Apparatus or Contrivance for Protecting the Unconsumed Parts
of Cigars and Oigarettes from Contact with the Smoke and
Volatile Products of Combustion during Consumption.
I FLORENCE LOUISE BENNETT, of Glonwood Longton Avenue, Upper Sydenham,
London, S.E. Spinster, Lady, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention has for its object to provide a cheap and easily applied apparatus for
the use of smokers, by means of which the chief part of the smoke and volatile products
of combustion can be drawn through Cigars and Cigarettes when in a state of
ignition, without coming into contact with the whole of the unburnt part, thus
preserving such part fresh for subsequent smoking.
In constructing an apparatus according to my invention I form a tube with a point at
one end, and a mouth piece at the other, the point is closed, but I form apertures in the
sides of the Tube near the point in use the Tube is inserted into the end of the Cigar
& pushed down until the mouth piece is close to the end of the Cigar, upon ignition
the smoke &c. is drawn through the apertures into the Tubo and then into the mouth
of the smoker, without passing through that part of the Cigar protected by the Tube,
the Tube can be adjusted to any required length by means of joints, either screwed or
with telescopic action, I prefer to construct the Tube of Silver, but it may be made
of any other suitable metal, or of Glass, china Bone, Ivory, Meerschaum, Amber or
other suitable substance or combination of substances.

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An Apparatus or Contrivance for Protecting the Unconsumed Parts
of Cigars and Cigarettes from Contact with the Smoke and
Volatile Products of Combustion during Consumption.
I FLORENCE LOUISE BENNETT Glenwood, Longton Avenue, Upper Sydenham,
London, S.E. Spinster, 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 has for its object to provide a cheap and casily applied apparatus for
the use of smokers, by means of which the chief part of the smoke and valatile products
of combustion can be drawn through Cigars & Cigarettes when they are in a state of
ignition or being "smoked" without the said smoke coming into contact with the whole
of the unburnt part, thus preserving such part in a better state for subsequent smoking.
In constructing an apparatus according to my invention I form a tube with a point
at one end and a mouth piece at the other; the extreme point is closed or solid for
strength; but I form apertures in the sides of the Tube near the point: the mouth
piece may be of any desired shape, but preferably of such shape as to fit or cover the
end of the Cigar or Cigarette, the point may also be constructed so as to be withdrawn
from the Tube, or unscrewed as hereinafter described.
And in order that my said invention may be fully understood, I shall now proceed
to more particularly describe the same, and for that purpose shall refer to the several
figures on the annexed sheet of drawings, the same letters of reference indicating
corresponding parts in each figure.
Fig. 1 represents an enlarged section of the apparatus where the whole is put
together in one piece the point A is solid and screwed on to the Tube, the mouth piece C
is shaped to fit over the end of the Cigar, upon inserting this tube into the centre of a
Cigar or Cigarette, the smoke can be drawn through the holes at B, and thence through
the Tube by the mouth piece into the mouth of the smoker instead of its passing
through the folds of the unburnt part of the Cigar for the purpose of cleaning the
Tube, the point may be unscrewed and a wire or brush may be passed through it, or
what I consider a more convenient arrangement is fig. 2 where the tube is made
without the point, and a seperate pin, or pointed piece of wire fig. 3 inserted into the
Tube as fig. 4 is using the apparatus the fingor is placed on the knob E and the tube
with the pin as fig. 4 inserted-the pin is then withdrawn leaving the Tube clear,
fig. 5 shows a section of a Cigar & tube inserted.

page_text: The apparatus may be made of any desired length or thickness, it may be in lengths
fitted together or made Telescopic. I consider fig. 4 the best arrangement, and when
the Cigar is burnt down to the point I would remove the tube & insert a shorter one
or the same reduced in length.
I prefer to construct the apparatus of Silver, but any other suitable metal may be
used, or it may be made of Glass, Bone, Ivory or any other suitable material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is―
First. An apparatus or appliance for drawing the smoke & valatile products of com-
bustion through a Cigar or Cigarette without their passing through all the unconsumed
part, such apparatus being easily inserted withdrawn or replaced in manner substantially
as herein described.
Secondly. The use of the pin D for the purpose of providing a point for the more easy
& effectual insertion of the Tube, such pin & point being removable in the way
herein described.
FLORENCE LOUISE BENNETT.