US473646A - Cigar and ash holder - Google Patents

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EDYVIN ALLEN TIBBITS AND CLARENCE XVILLIAM SADLER, OF SUTTER CREEK, CALIFORNIA.

CIGAR AND ASH HOLDER.

PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 473,646, dated April 26, 1892.

Application filed June 10, 1891. Serial No. 395.809. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, EDWIN ALLEN TIBBITs and CLARENCE WILLIAM SADLER, citizens of the United States, residing at Sutter Creek, Amador county, State of California, have invented an Improvement in Cigar and Ash Holders and Furniture-Protectors; and we hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

Our invention relates to a device which we term a cigar and ash holder and furnitureprotector.

It consists of a corrugated grooved or channeled plate with a connecting-clamp and screw, whereby it may be adj ustably attached to a table or other piece of furniture, and a receiver or holder swiveling upon the holding screw-shank, so that it may be concealed beneath the table or swung out beneath the end of a cigar which rests upon the channeled plate to receive the ashes therefrom.

Referring to the accompanying drawings for a more complete explanation of our invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of our device attached to a table. Fig. 2 is a section of the same, showing the cup under the table.

Persons who smoke are in the habit of laying their cigars upon any convenient piece of furniture, and more especially upon the edge of the table or desk at which they work. In some cases the burning end of the cigar is laid so near to the wood-Work as to burn and discolor it and the ashes dropping from the end of the cigar fall upon the carpet, making a great deal of unsightly dirt and litter. Our device is intended to protect the furniture, to provide a convenient holder or support for the cigar when not in use, and a receptacle for the ashes which fall from its end.

A is a plate, which is preferably made of metal and may be plated or ornamented, as desired. This plate has shallow grooves or channels B, made in its upper surface, these grooves serving to receive a cigar when it is laid down and prevent its rolling away from The edge of this plate is bent down at right angles, as shown at C, and another bend D extends inwardly beneath the part A and at such a distance therefrom thatit will extend beneath the edge of the table or desk to which the holder is to be applied. Through the inwardly-projecting end D passes a screw E, which serves to clamp the holder permanently to the desk or other piece of furniture.

F is a cup or receiver of any suitable shape, having a projection G at one sideof its upper edge. Through this projection a hole is made, and the screw E passes through this hole and thence is screwed into the part D of the holder and against the bottom of the table or desk, so as to clamp the holder in place and at the same time allow the cup F to swivel about the vertical screwshank E. WVhen not in use, this cup swings underneath the table or desk and is not exposed to sight. When a cigar is laid down upon the plate A. the lighted end projecting over the edge, this cup is swung out beneath the end of the cigar, and any ashes which fall from the cigar will be received in the cup and prevented from falling upon the floor. The plateA also prevents the lighted end of the cigar from burning the table or other piece of furniture if it be laid down carelessly and the end not projecting sufficiently,

Having thus described our invention,what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A combined cigar-support and ash-receiver consisting of a grooved or corrugated plate having extensions to fit the front and under side of the table, a screw passing into the extension under the table to clamp it to the under side of the table, in combination with the cup below the under side of the table, having a flange projecting from its upper edge and perforated to fit loosely upon. the screw-shank, whereby the cup may be turned under the table when not in use, substantially as herein described.

2. A combined cigar-support and ash-receiver consisting of a grooved or corrugated plate fitting the top of the table, having an extension fitting the front edge and turned under the lower edge, a cup-shaped receiver below the plane of the under surface of the In witness whereof We have hereunto set table havinga perforated flange, a screw passour hands.

ing through said flange, so that the receiver EDWIN ALLEN TIBBITS. isrevoluble about the screw-shank and may CLARENCE WILLIAM SADLER. be turned under the table, said screw secur- Witnesses:

ing the plate to the table and-the receiver of J. DENNIS,

the plate, substantially as herein described. G. W. HART.

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