US603051A

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Publication number: US603051A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1898-04-26
Anticipated expiration: 1915-04-26

Description

(No Model.)

W. W. BAHAN.

CIGAR HOLDER. No, 603,051. Patented Apr.'26, 1898.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Enron.

WALTER lV. BAHAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE W. CLARK, OF SAME PLACE.

CIGAR-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 603,051, dated April 26, 1898.

Application filed April 21, 1897.

To all whens it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WALTER W. BAHAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Cigar-Holder, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in cases or holders for cigars, and has for its object to provide a device of this character of a simple and inexpensive nature, adapted to be carried inside the hat of a smoker, so as to be in position for convenient use, the cigars being at the same time kept concealed from view and out of the way from being crushed.

The invention consists in a cigar holder or case comprising a band to be secured inside the hat, an envelop for containing cigars, and a spring connection between the envelop and said band, said spring being adapted to hold the envelop in place in the band in the hat and being also adapted to place the sides of said envelop under tension, so as to hold the cigars in place therein.

The invention also contemplates certain novel features of the construction, combination, and arrangement of the various parts of the improved cigar holder or case whereby certain important advantages are attained and the device is made simpler, cheaper, and otherwise better adapted and more convenient for use, all as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined in the claims.

In order that my invention may be the better understood, I have shown in the accompanying drawings two embodiments thereof, in which drawings- Figure l is aview of a hat, showing my improved cigar case or holder in place thereon; and Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken through the hat and provided with myimproved case or holder. Fig. 3 is a view showing the supporting-band and spring connection of the device, the envelop being removed. Fig. 4 is a sectional view similar to Fig. 2, but illustratin g a modified arrangement of the parts.

Referring first to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, 1 indi- Serial No. 633,148. (No model.)

cates the hat, herein shown as provided with a sweat-band 2 in the ordinary way, and 3 indicates the supporting-band of the improved cigar case or holder, said band being constructed, by preference, of a narrow strip of elastic or spring metal bent to conform to the inside of the crown of the hat and having its end portions 4 4. adapted to be inserted between the inside of the hat and the said band 2 thereof, as shown in the sectional view, Fig. 2.

In order to hold the band 3 in place at the upper portion thereof, I secure a cross-piece 5 thereto by means of a rivet or other fastening device, said cross-piece having its ends arranged to extend at right angles beyond the side edges of the central portion of the supporting-band 3, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, and the rivet 6, which forms the means of attachment of the cross-piece 5 to the supporting-band 3, is also employed for securing to the opposite face of said supporting-band a strip of resilient material-such, for example, as spring metal-having its opposite ends bent downward or away from the surface of the supporting-band 3, as indicated at 7 in Fig. 2, and provided at their extremities with loops or eyes 8, wherein are held the opposite edge portions of the envelop 9, formed, by preference, of flexible material-such, for example, as leather or clothand having a pocket 10 formed within it to receive the cigars, as indicated at 11 in the drawings.

In order to reinforce the opposite edges of the envelop 9, wherein the cigars are held, which edges are connected With the eyes or loops 8 of the spring-arms 7 of the elastic connection between the envelop and the supporting-band 3, I provide said edges of the envelop with a binding, which may be of cloth or other material, as shown at 12 in the drawings, and in said binding, at opposite sides of the envelop, I arrange reinforcing wires or strips 13, with the central portion of which,

the eyes or loops 8 of the elastic or spring arms are engaged, as shown clearly in Fig. 3. In order to provide means for holding partlyburned cigars, I provide the supporting-band 3 with one or more clips 14, of spring material, having cnrved arms adapted to embrace the opposite sides of the cigar, as indicated in Fig. 1.

.From the above description it will be seen that the improved cigar case or holder is of an extremely simple and inexpensive nature and is especially well adapted for use, since it permits the cigars to be held in the hat so V the envelop, so asto hold the cigars securely J in the pocketthereof.

tion shown in Fig. at may be adopted.

shown in this view, the supporting band or The spring clip or clips 14, provided on the supporting-band 3, also'forma convenient meansfor holding partly-burnedcigars, as will be readily understood.

It will also be obvious from the above description that the invention is susceptible'of considerable modification without material departure from its principles and spirit, and

rangement of the several parts, herein set forth. For example, if desired, the construc- 1&3

strip 16 of the device is held in place at its op posite ends by means of tubular rivets or eyelets 17, passing through the crown of the hat and forming ventilators for the interior there of in a well-known way, and instead of employing a spring connection, such as is shown in Fig. 1, the connection 18 is formed of springwire held in place by loops 19, projecting from the under side of the supporting-band 16 and havinga central spring-coil, the opposite ends of said spring-wire being bent down and connected to the opposite edges of the envelop by means of eyes 21, as clearly illustrated.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. In a holder for cigars or other articles, the combination with a bow-shaped band, of a cigar-carrying envelop separate from the band and arranged below a horizontal part of the same, and a single spring attached centrally to said band and connected to said envelop, whereby the envelop in its entirety is suspended by said spring from said band, as and for the purposes described.

2. In a holder for cigars, or the like, the combination with a supporting-band, of a carrying-envelop separate from the band, and an attaching-spring connected to said band and arranged in connection with said envelop to normally place the same under transverse tension, whereby the envelop is adapted, by frictional engagement with its contents, to hold the latter in place, as set forth.

3. In a holder for cigars or other articles,

the combination with a supporting-band, of a carrying-envelopprovided at its edge with a reinforcement wire or strip, and a' single attaching-spring fastened to said band and de-. tachably connected to said strip or wire of the envelop,whereby the envelop may be removed in its entirety from the band and said spring, as'and for the purposes described.

4. A holder or case for cigars or other articles comprising a band'to be arranged inside the hat, an envelop having a pocket to receive the cigars or other articles,'and spring-arms carried by the band and connected at their ends to the edges of the envelop at opposite sides of the pocket thereof, said arms being arranged to hold thesides of the envelop under tension to retain the cigars or other articles in place therein, substantially asset forth.

5. In a holder for cigars, or the like, the combination with a supporting-banchof an open-ended envelop having its edges reinforced by a marginal wire, and attachingsprings fastened to said holder and engaging with said reinforcing-wires of the envelop to strain the latter transversely, as and for the purposes described. 1 r

6. A holder for cigars and the like comprising an envelop having a pocket for containing the cigars or other articles, a strip of spring material connected to the edge of the envelop on each side of said pocket, and means for securing said strip inside the hat, said strip being arranged to hold the sides of the envelop under tension to retain the cigars or other articles in the pocket, substantially as set forth.

7. As anew article of manufacture, aholder for cigars, and the like, comprising a supporting-band, an attaching-spring fastened, at a point intermediate of its length, to said bar, and terminating, at its ends, in elastic arms which are free from engagement with said band, and an envelop separate from the band and engaged, at its side edges, with the elastic arms of said attaching-spring, as set forth.

8. As a new article of manufacture, a holder for cigars, and the like, comprising a continuous supporting-band provided with the transverse bar 5, a spring fastened centrally to the band and terminating in free, elastic arms, an open-ended envelop connected at its side edges to the free ends of said spring, and a clip let attached to the band at one side of the spring and the envelop, as set forth.

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

IVALTER W. BAHAN.

Witnesses:

WM. H. DEADY, JOHN J. RooHE.