US1543043A - Cigarette holder - Google Patents

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Jun 23, 1925. 1,543,043

E. ALLEN CIGARETTE HOLDER Filed March 7, 1925 Patented June 23, .1925.

i mmi sm s -EDGARv ALLEN, OF CAMBRIDGE, OHIO.

OFF E}- T I CIGARETTE Honnnn.

Application filed Mara. 7,1923. Serial naezasoa To all uihomit concern.

- Be it known'that I, E G ALLEN, a citi-' 'zen of the United States of, America, residi'ng'at Cambridge, in the county of Guernsey and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigarette Holders, fication. I

This invention relates to improvements in cigar or cigarette holders, designed primarily to filter and collect nicotine and other injurious constituents emanating from tobacco when smoking.

I have found from actual experience that nicotine can be successfully removed from smoke, incident to smoking tobacco by passing the smoke through a body of mineral oil, and thereafter further filtering the smoke through absorbent material. In this discovery, I have found that strong tobacco which ordinarily burns theto-ngue or throat can be mellowed down to such an extent as to lend sweetness to the tobacco.

Therefore one of the principal objects of my invention is to provide a cigarette holder, or a pipe, with a chamber having valves so arranged that a sufficient body of 'oil can be properly maintained in the chamber to insure of the smoke being drawn through to collect'the nicotine, and to further provide means in the holder for filtering the smoke after passing through the oil to remove any remaining foreign constituent.

The invention also comprehends improvements in the details of construction and arrangement of parts which will be hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the holder.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical section of the holder.

Fig. 3 is a cross section on line 33 of Fig.

The numeral 1 indicates a cigarette holder, preferably comprising a cigarette holding section 2, an oil chamber section 3, a valve section 4, and a mouth piece section 5, sections 1, 4, and 5, each having an opening for the passage of the smoke. The cigarette holding section 2 is curved slightly upwardly and forwardly at the front end to properly position a cigarette while smoking.

of which the following is a speci- The inner end of the section is enteriorly threaded 'and the'terminal of the smoke passageis tapered to form a valve seat 6. Aball valve 7 cooperates with the valve v seat 6, the ball being held in operativeposh 7 tion by a light spring 7 which bearsagainst a bar S located at and extending across the mouth of'the tapered portion of the'smoke passage. t

The oil chamber section is tubular and is 'interiorly threaded atop'p c-site ends as shown at '8 and 9, the threads 8 engaging the threaded end of the cigarette. holding section. The chamber contains" a body of mineral oil sufficient to cause the smoke to pass through it when smoking, and when the holder is in normal or smoking position.

The valve section 4 is threaded at o] posite ends as shown at, 10 and 11, the

threads 10 engaging the threads .9 of the oil chamber. The smoke passage in the valve chamber is tapered at the upper end to form a valve seat 12, on which operates a ball valve 13, held'in operative position by a light spring 14, which engages a bar 15 extending "across the passage. Above the tapered portion of the smoke passage in the valve section and above the bar 15 isan enlarged chamber 16, containing absorbent material indicated at 17.

The mouth piece section is interiorl threaded at its lower end at 18, to engage the threads 11 o'fthe valve section, and the free end of the mouth piece section is curved upwardly and rearwardly with reference to the cigarette holding section, the smoke passage communicating with the chamber 16. i r

In using the holder, a suitable supply of mineral oil is put in the chamber of theoil chamber section, and the various sections are screwed together. The spring actuated valves close the smoke passage at the ends of the oil chamber so that the oil is properly and effectually confined.

WVhen the smoke is drawn through the holder, the suction withdraws the valves.

when suction is created, the incoming air and smoke precludes the oil working past the valve and into the cigarette holding section.

After the smoke passes through the oil and the nicotine is collected, the smoke is then subjected to the filtering action of the absorbent material. This may be cotton, silk, or other filtering material, and it may or may not be saturated with oil as other filtering material. I have however, found that very satisfactory results can be accomplished by employing dry filtering material.

In selecting the oil for collecting the nicotine, I have discovered that mineral oil is the most effective, paraffin oil having been found to be the most satisfactory. This oil effectually removes and collects the nicotine and mellows the taste of the tobacco and prevents burning the tongue of the user.

T he invention is extremely simple for the function accomplished, and is so constructed that When the oil or the filtering material becomes foul, the parts can be readily separated and clean oil and absorbent material replaced.

tioned section and removably secured to the latter, said hollow section being in open communication with the valved passage and being adapted to contain a free body of mineral oil, a valve section connected tothe hollow section and containing a passage controlled by a valve and open to the hollow section, and an enlargement of such passage adapted to contain an absorbent, and a mouth piece removably secured to the valve section and having a central duct communicating with the absorbent chamber, the end of the mouth piece serving to retain the ab sorbent in the chamben V In testimony Whereofl afiix my signature.

EDGAR ALLEN.

A holder for cigar or cigarettes, co-mpris-

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