An Improved Cigarette or Cigar Holder and the Method of Making the same.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application. 18th Oct., 1889-Accepted, 23rd Nov., 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cigarette or Cigar Holder and the Method of Making
the same.
1 HENRY JAMES JELF SHARP of Dower House, Wonerst, Surrey late Lient-
Colonel, Scots Guards 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 Improvements relate to the manufacture of a cigarette or cigar holder, from
and by means of a cigarette and cigar holder which is at present in daily use. This
cigarette or cigar holder, from which I intend to manufacture my improved holder,
consists of a conically shaped hollow paper holder fitted at the narrow end with a
quill to serve as a mouth-piece. I take this cigarette or cigar holder, which is formed
exactly after the manner here referred to, and cut in two pieces the conically shaped
paper tube, across its transverse section, at about the middle of the said paper tube.
I now insert the quill carrying the narrow end of the cone through the larger
portion of the cone, which has been cut off. This narrower portion of the cone, to
which is attached the quill, will fit tightly down into the narrow end of the larger
portion of the conical shaped tube. This will readily be understood to be the case
owing to the thickness of the material, of which the paper cone is made. The
cigarette or cigar to be smoked is inserted into the widest end of the cut off portion
of the cone shaped tube. To insure the joint between the two portions being air-
tight, the inner cone must be drawn down inside the outer cone until the necessary
air-tight joint is made.
I wish it to be distinctly understood that this is the only method in which I intend
to manufacture my improved cigarette or cigar holders.
My improved holder combines the following advantages,
If necessary
can easily reduce the diameter of that portion of the holder
receiving the cigar or cigarette to be smoked, this I accomplish by cutting down
the part of the holder with a pair of scissors or a knife.
Again should the portion of the tube fitting into this larger cone fit in too tightly
I can cut off the end until the required fit is obtained. My improved holder is very
cheap of production and is extremely light and elegant in smoking.
In order that my improvements may be the more fully understood I will now
proceed to describe the figures on the sheet of drawings hereunto annexed the like
parts of which are marked with the like letters of reference throughout.
Figure 1 is the cigarette or cigar holder as made and sold at present, from which
I intend to manufacture my improved cigarette or cigar holder.
Figure 2. is the larger part of the conical paper holder when cut in two.
Figure 3. is the smaller portion of the cone, when cut in two carrying with it the
quill mouth-piece.
Figure 4 is a vertical section taken through the centre of my improved holder,
when ready to receive the cigar or cigarette for smoking.
In Figure 1. the dotted line marked XX shows the position at which I intend
to cut my paper tube in two pieces. B is the quill mouth piece. The figures A¹
and A2 indicate a continuous paper tube.
In Figure 2 have marked as A' and the paper cone portion of figure 2 I have
marked as A².
In Figure 4 the dotted lines marked C shew the cigar or cigarette fitting into
tube A¹.

page_text: Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is.
1. A new and improved paper cigarette or cigar holder ending in a quill tube, as
before described in this specification and set forth in Figures 2, 3 & 4 of the
accompanying drawings.
2. The method of making my improved cigarette and cigar holder as herein-
before described, from a cigarette and cigar holder which is at present a commercially
known article.
A
1011 1
CALL 1000
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant