US1747157A - Holder for cigars, cigarettes, cigar and cigarette ashes, electric lamps, and other articles - Google Patents

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Feb. 18, 1939. s. BROWN 1,747,157

HOLDER FOR CIGARS, CIGARETTES, CIGAR AND CIGARETTE ASHES, ELECTRIC LAMPS, AND OTHER ARTICLES Filed Oct. 29. 1928 Patented Feb. 18, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT @FFICE STEWART BROWN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS HOLDER FOR CIGARS, CIGARETTES, CIGAR AND CIGARETTE ASHES. ELECTRIC LAMPS, AND OTHER ARTICLES Application filed. October 29, 1928. Serial No. 315,711.

This invention relates to a holder which is attachable to and detachable from the edge of a table, a horizontal or vertical bar or beam, or other stationary object, without the use of bolts, nuts or screws; and a holder which is provided with a holding member that may be adjusted after the device is attached to a suitable rigid member, by means of a universal joint forming an element of the holder, to hold a cigar or cigarette, or ashes, and, when the holder is designed to support an electric lamp, adjustable to direct the rays of said lamp in any desired direction.

hen the holder embodying this invention is used as a cigar, cigarette and ash holder, it is usually attached to the edge of a table,

to the arm or leg of a chair, or other article,

so that the holder is convenient ior use by a person or persons seated at a table, or in a chair not adjacent to a table, and when used as a holder for an electric lamp it is attached to any rigid article adjacent to the thing which it is desired to illumine when the lamp is energized.

The holder when used as a support of an electric lamp is usually employed in and about the repair or cleaning of automobile parts, and said lamp is frequently termed a trouble lamp; and when used as aholder for cigars, cigarettes and ashes, its is particularly advantageous for players at a card game, or for a person seated in a chair and desiring to read or study while smoking a cigar or cigarette.

Among the objects of the invention is to obtain a holder which is readily attachable to a rigid member and universally adjustable; an additional object is to obtain a holder which, when attached to a rigid member, and adjusted, is not likely to become accidentally detached or out of adjustment. A further object is to obtain a holder of the kind named which is economically made, is sightly in appearance, is not liable to get out of order, or become broken; is durable, and is easily manipulated.

In the drawing referred to Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a holder embodying the invention attached to the edge of a horizontal table or bar, a portion of said table or bar being shown in section. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a portion of the resilient member of the device which is illustrated in Fig. 1, and of the greater portion of a cigar, cigarette and ash holder, also illustrated in Fig. 1, in an adjusted position. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a portion of said resilient member illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, in position attached to a horizontal bar, and of the greater portion of said cigar, cigarette and ash holder, in an adjusted position. And Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the holder attached to a vertical bar or rod, with one end of an electric lamp supported thereby also in elevation.

A reference character applied to designate a given part indicates said part throughout the several figures of the drawing, wherever the same appears. 7

1, Fig. 1, represents a small section of the edge of a table, or of a horizontal bar; and 2,- Fig. 4, represents the lower end of a vertical rod. 3 represents the base and attach able member of the device, and comprises a rod of resilient material which is provided with coils, l, 5, bends 6, 7, 8, 9, and members 10 and 11. Members 10, 11, are represented as covered with rubber tubing, or other like material, 12, 13, to prevent marring of articles to which said base 3 is attached. The base 3, including coils 4:, 5, bends 6, 7, 8, 9, and members 10, 11, 12 and 13, is not new in the art; but is one of the elements or members of a construction embodying this invention. I l, 15, 16, represents a connecting member forming an element of the device. This connecting member is illustrated as made of a metal bar, which in Figures 1, 2 and 3, is provided with the bends 17. Part 15 of this connecting member is circular in shape and fits loosely on coil 4 of base 3;.so it may be moved longitudinally along on said coil, and also may be turned pivotally on the material forming said coil. The parts 14 of said connecting member are parallel, and may be in close contact with each other. By means of the bends 17, Figs. 1, 2 and 3, parts 16 of the connecting member are at substantially right angles to parts 14,-as is well illustrated in Fig. 3, when a member designed to hold ci ars, cigarettes and ashes, as 19 in said figures, is an element of the device. 18 represents rivets, or bolts, by which connecting member 14, 15, 16, is attached to member 19. 20 represents an element of member 19, in or on which a cigar or cigarette may be held. Member 19 thus forms a tray-or pan in which ashes, cigar butts, burned or partially burned matches, and the like, may be held.

WVhen a holder embodying this invention is constructed as a support for an electric lamp, as is illustrated in Fig. 4, bends 21, 22, in the connecting member 14, 15, 16, are substituted for bends 17 in Figs. 1, 2 and 3; so that said connecting member is attachable to the lamp holding member 23, as by rivets or bolts 24. 25, 26, Fig. 4, represent the ingoing and outgoing wires of an electric lamp.

The thickness of the metal bar forming connecting member 14, 15, 16, is such that coil 4 is forced away from coil 5 of base 3, thereby, as is Well illustrated in Figs. 2, 3 and 4. Tension is thus put on said coils by said connecting member, and said connecting member is thereby held pivotally in place on coil 4; although it is pivotally movable for adjustment, as well as it is also movable along on said coil. By this means a universal joint is obtained between the holding member to which the connecting member 14, 15, 16 is attached, and the base 3.

It therefore occurs that in whatever plane members 1 and 2, to which the base 3 is attached, may be, the holding member which is secured to the connecting member 14, 15, 16, may be adjusted in any desired plane, as is well illustrated in the several figures of the drawing.

I claim: V

1. A holder comprising a base of resilient material provided with a coil, in combination with a holding member and a connecting member pivotally mounted on and movable along said coil, said connecting member attached to said holding member.

2. A base of resilient material, said base provided with a coil, and a holding member, in combination with a connecting member attached to said holding member and mounted on said coil to be longitudinally movable on and pivotally movable around said coil, said connecting member adapted to separate said coil from an adjacent coil to hold said connecting member in a determined position by the tension on said coils.

STEWVART BROWN.

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