Improvements in or pertaining to Cigars and Cigarettes.
Year: 1892

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or pertaining to Cigars and Cigarettes.
I JULIUS FRIEDRICH HERMANN ENGELHARDT of the firm of Engelhardt &
Rübe of 16 Sielwall Bremen in the German Empire Manufacturer 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:-
An evil is experienced in the smoking of cigars and cigarettes in and according
to the ordinary and customary manner in that the same are in direct and
immediate contact with the lips and it generally is with the teeth also of the
smokers whereby not only are the lips and generally the teeth also somewhat
contaminated but the ends of the cigars and cigarettes are very frequently
damaged it may most likely be by being held too tightly especially when between
the teeth and therefore the cigars and cigarettes do not draw or smoke properly
and comfortably.
It is as a general rule to obviate this evil that meerschaum and other cigar and
cigarette holders have been used but an evil is also experienced in their use in that
these cigar and cigarette holders rapidly become foul and unpleasant to use and
then of course they are not always and invariably at hand when wanted.
Now the object of this my invention is to obviate and remedy all these evils and
to fit to each cigar or cigarette and to provide the same with a very simple and
cheap appliance whereby this object will be effected.
To carry out this object I make of glass earthenware metal or any other suitable
material a short tube of the desired length and diameter which tube preferably and
especially when it is intended for use with a cigar is slightly tapered or is of a
smaller diameter at or near one of its ends than at the other of its ends and on the
outside of the smaller end of this tube if so formed or on the outside of one of the
ends thereof is most conveniently and suitably created a slightly enlarged lip or
small bulbous or other excrescence it may preferably be all round the same and the
walls of this tube are or can be made very thin.
Into the larger end of this tube if so formed or into that end thereof on which
the enlarged lip if any is not or into one of the ends thereof is inserted the proper
end of the cigar or cigarette which can most easily and properly and conveniently
be effected immediately on its being created and rolled up when its natural
expansion on being released will cause it tightly to fill this tube and thus to
retain the same securely in position or this end of the cigar or cigarette may if
and when preferred at any time be inserted into the tube and may if necessary
or advisable be secured therein by any suitable adhesive substance or otherwise.
I would mention that the cigar that is to be inserted into this tube does not
require to be rolled up as is customary in and with certain styles or brands of
cigars into a point at this end or rather ought not to be so rolled up and if it has
been so rolled up this point ought to be cut off before insertion for when the cigar
as likewise the cigarette is properly inserted into the tube the end thereof ought
not to project and does not project beyond the same and therefore the point could
not be cut off after such insertion.
Across the end of the tube outside of the cigar or cigarette I may if and when I
should deem it desirable or expedient so to do fit and attach in any convenient
manner or therewith I may create a perforated diaphragm of the same material as
the tube or of a different but suitable material as may be preferred.
Thus in and by this my invention the desiderated object hereinbefore stated is
effected and the lips and teeth of the smokers are not and cannot be in direct and
immediate contact with the cigars and cigarettes but with the tubes therearoun.l

page_text: whereby no contamination of the lips and teeth can be produced nor can the ends
of the cigars and cigarettes be damaged while as a tube is fitted to and on and
provided for each cigar or cigarette it cannot become foul and unpleasant to use
nor can it be wanting or not to be found when required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
The improvements in or pertaining to cigars and cigarettes substantially as
hereinbefore described and set forth.
Dated this 16th day of December 1892.
HART & Co.,
186, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agents].