US595114A - George b - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

G. B. SCHMIDT.

CIGAR 0R CIGARETTE HOLDER.

No. 595,114. Patented De0.7,1897.

WITNESSES INVENTOR lhvrrnn STATES GEORGE B. SCHMIDT,

OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CIGAR OR CIGARETTE HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,1 14, dated December '7, 1897.

Application filed March 10, 1897.

T0 to whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE B. Somnmr, 0 New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Cigar or Cigarette Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a holder for smokers use adapted to be attached to a garment or any part of wearingapparel and so constructed that the cigar, cigarette, cigar-holder, or pipe that may be carried by the device may be brought to the mouth and held in proper position for smoking, leaving both hands of the smoker free, and whereby, further, the device may be so adjusted that the article carried by it maybe placed and held at any desired distance away from the mouth.

Another object of the invention is to so construct a holder particularly adapted for smokers use that it will be simple, durable, and economic, and will not necessitate the article carried being supported by the hand, and likewise obviating the necessity of plac ing the article upon supports when not in use or when the hands are employed, which supports may be unclean, the device likewise serving to prevent persons from misplacing a cigar, cigarette, or pipe, for example, which is often done when temporarily removing the article from the mouth and placing it upon a convenient and subsequently-forgotten support.

Another object of the invention is to provide a holder which While particularly adapted for smokers use may also be utilized for holding a pen, pencil, or other small article of desk-furniture, or used for analogous purposes.

The invention consists in the. particular construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device, the body portion whereof is in an approximately upright position; and Fig. 2 is a sec- $eria1 No. 626,832. (No model.)

tion through the base, showing the body in a downwardly-extending position.

A base A is provided which may be given any desired shape and which may be made from any material found most advantageous. As shown, the base A is of cylindrical form and is provided with a pin 10, which extends downwardly therefrom at a central point, being formed with an eye 11 at the top portion of the base, as shown particularly in Fig. 1,

The body portion of the device consists of a rod 12, which is preferably a stout wire. This wire, as shown, is bent upon itself at its upper or outer end to form an open loop or socket 13 of such shape and dimensions, for example, as to receive the end of a cigar or the mouthpiece-section of a cigar'holder. The wire is further shown as carried downward in direction of the rod 12 to form a second and smaller loop or socket ll of such dimensions as to hold a cigarette.

The lower or inner end of the rod 12 is coiled at 15 around the base, being shown in the drawings as capable of turning on the base. The end of the coil 15 is passed through the eye 11 of the base, the eye forming a guide for the coil and limiting its outward movement by reason of the rod where the coil commences engaging with the eye, as shown in Fig. 1, in which figure the rod is shown in position to hold the cigar away from the mouth of the smoker; but the rod may be limited in its movement in either direction or it may-be free to turn in either direction, depending on its frictional contact with the base to overcome the weight carried by the rod after it has passed the perpendicular.

I desire it also to be understood that the rod may be rigidly secured to the base and the base mounted to turn, or the movement of the rod to and from the mouth when the rod is rigidly attached to the base may be made by simply pressing the rod outward or inward from the material to which the base is attached.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A device for supporting cigars, cigarettes, or other light articles, comprising a base, a

pin passed through the base, the base being also provided with an eye in its upper surface, and an arm consisting of a spring-rod coiled around the base in such a manner as to turn thereon, an end of the coil being passed through the eye on the base, the outer free end of the said arm being bent upon itself to form a spring-socket adapted to receive and hold the article to be supported, as and for the purpose set forth.

GEORGE E. SCHMIDT.

Witnesses:

J. FRED. ACKER, J NO. M. BITTER.

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