Patent ID: 8881736

Claim:
A holder assembly for a smoking article comprising: a shaft having a unitary first end, middle area and second end; a plurality of holes on the middle area; wherein the second end of the shaft is a first gripping element; a second gripping element having an arm with a length of the middle area of the shaft and extending from the second gripping element; wherein the arm features channels that align with the plurality of holes on the middle area of the handle; a screw received by one hole in the middle area of the shaft and a channel in the second gripping element to connect the shaft to the second gripping element; a spring inside of the channel that receives the screw; pins received in the remaining holes and aligned channels that connect the middle area of the shaft to the arm of the second gripping element providing the entire shaft and second gripping element to maintain a parallel direction in relation to each other when the first gripping element and the second gripping element retract and expand.