US456943A - Pipe or cigar holder - Google Patents

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E. G. D'BLIMAGB. PIPE 0B. GIGAR HOLDER. No. 456,943-I Patented Aug. 4, 1891.

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EDGAR O. DELIMAGE, OF FORT IVORTH, ASSIGNOR OF TIFO-THIRDS TO FORTUNATO C. ZANETTI, OF BRYAN, TEXAS.

PIPE 0R clcAR HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 456,943, dated August 4, 1891. Application tiled December 10, 1890. Serial No. 374,204. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that l, EDGAR C. DELIMAGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fort Vorth, in the county of Tarrant and State of Texas, have invented a newand useful Holder, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to tobacco, and more especially to pipes and stems, and the object thereof is to produce a device capable of being used as a cigar or cigarette holder, having a removable nicotine-cup, or as a pipe.

To this end the invention consists in the details of construction hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and as illustrated on the accompanying sheet of drawings, whereirl- Y Figure l is a perspective view of this device complete. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section. Fig. 3 is a detailed perspective view of the bowl and cup slightly separated. Fig. 4. is a section showing the manner of using the device as a pipe.

Referring to the said drawings, l is the body or bowl of this improved device, which is constructed aboutas shown, and has a cylindrical bore closed at one end. Upon the exterior of the bowl, opposite the bottom of this bore, is formed a projection 5, which is perforated, as shown, and diametrically opposite the said projection, but nearer the mouth of the bore and hence out of alignment with the perforation referred to, is another projection 6, also perforated, as shown. In the projection 5 is removably seated the stem 9, which extends to the mouth of the user, and in the outer projection 6 is removably inserted the inner end of a cigar or cigarette holder or the stub-stem of a pipe-bowl, although I have shown only a cigar-holder as used in connection therewith.

3 designates a deep cup whose bottom extends a little beyond its sides, so as to form an annular shoulder or iiange 2, and 4 is a handle or thumb-piece projecting from the bottom of this cup. The latter is of a size to fit closely yetreinovably in the bore of the bowl, and of such length that when its flange 2 strikes the end of the bowl, as seen in Fig; 2, its open .inner end will extend almost to the perforation through the outer projection G. This cup may, if desired, be iilled with some absorbent material, although when used, as shown, it will be highly advantageous in collecting both the nicotine of the smoke which may pass in through the holder l0 and the saliva from the mouth which may run down the stern 9, the absorbent material, it' it be used, taking up these liquids.

In use a cigar or cigarette is inserted in the holder l0 and the latter-"or the stub-stem of a pipe-bowl inserted in the outer projection 6. The cup 3 and the stem 9 being in place and the tobacco being lighted, the smoking is done in the usual manner, and as the smoke circulates within the bore of the bowl the nicotine collects within the cup 3, together with what saliva may run down the stem. It will be noticed that the cup passes inside the bowl and extends for a considerable distance up into the same, and by this means the nicotine which may collect and stand in the cup will not come in contact with the body of the bowl, which is usually of wood, and soak into the same with detriment thereto; but when the cup is removed the liquid is drawn with it, and it is only necessary to clean out the cup, the moisture in the balance of the bore being not sufliciently deep to soak into the bowl. It will be noticed that the holder passes into one side of the bowl and the stem leads out of the other side, whereas the cup is removable in a line at right angles to these members. By this construction the normal position of parts will keep the cup ready to receive the liquids and will allow the cigar or cigarette to project in the proper direction for use, and, moreover, the horizontal position of both the holder and the stem causes them to convey as little as possible liquid into the bowl without a tendency to convey it in the other direction, the natural inclination of the liquid being of course to run with an incline in either direction. Again, if the holder entered the bowl vertically or if its inner end projected into said bowl, as soon as the liquid collected suficiently to cover the inner end of the holder the draft through the stem would draw the smoke through said liquid and impregnate it with noxious odors and tastes, which would be highly undesirable.

In Fig. 4 I have shown the holder lO removed and the bowl inverted, the same being IOO partially illed` With tobacco, and the cup 3 in place. Vhen so arranged, the device becomes a pipe, and the fact that the stem enters the bowl near the bottoni of the bore therein permits it to be so used. The draft in this case is into the perforated projection G, through the tobacco, out the perforated projection 5, and up the stein, and while the device is thus useful as a pipe the advantage of the nicotinecup is here lost sight of.

"What is claimed as new is- 1. The herein-described mouthpiece for cigar-holders and the like, the saine comprising a bowl having a vertical cylindrical bore open at its lower end, said bowl having a projection at one side provided with a horizontal perforation communicating' with the bore at its closed end and a similar perforated projection at the other side,but nearer the mouth of the bore, and adapted to receive the cigarholder, a stein inserted in and leading from therother projection, and a removable nicotine-cup closing the mouth of the bore, as set forth. v

2. The herein described lnouth.- piece for cigar-holders and the like, the same comprising a bowl having a vertical cylindrical bore open at its lower end, said bowl having at one side a horizontal perforation communicating with the bore at the closed end of the latter and a similar perforation at the other side, but nearer the month of the bore, and adapted to receive the cigar-holder, a stein inserted in and leading'from the first-mentioned perforation, and a cylindrical nicotine-cup whose body its frictionally within the bore and extends from the mouth thereof nearly to the holder-perforation and Whose closed bottom extends radially beyond its sides, so as to form an annular iiange 2, adapted to strike the lower end of the bowl, as hereinbefore set forth.

In testimony that'I elain'i the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' .EDGAR C. DELIMAGE.

Witnesses:

' W. H. WILLE, J. H. MELTON.

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