US889207A - Cigarette-holder. - Google Patents

Description

No. 889,207. PATENTED JUNE 2, 1-908. 5

E. T. CRANE.

CIGARETTE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE so. 1906.

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EDWARD T. CRANE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CIGARETTE-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 2, 1908.

Application filed June 30, 1906. Serial No. 324,113.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD T. CRANE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadel hia, county of Philadelphia and State of ennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inOigarette- Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new article of manufacture consisting of a cigarette holder, and has for its object to provide a cheap and effective holder of this description u on which the brand or trade-mark of the ma or may be displayed and at the same time serves as a means for supporting the cigarette while being smoked, thus avoiding the discoloration of the fingers of the smoker and permitting the cigarette to be entirely consumed without inconvenience.

With these ends in view, this invention consists in the details of construction and 'stand how to make an improved holder attached thereto.

combination of elements hereinafter set forth and then specifically designated by the claims.

In order that those skilled in the art to which this invention ap ertains may underd use the same,Iwill describe its construction in detail, referring by letter to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a cigarette my 1g. 2, a similar view showing the holder bent outward into operative position. Fig. 3, a similar view showing my improved holder applied to a cigarette having a cork or other mouth piece. Fi 4, a detail view of a slightly modified form of my im rovement in which the mouth piece and older are formed of a single piece of material.

In carrying out my invention as embodied in Figs. 1 and 2 I cut from paper or other material of sufficient stiffness a small strip A having a notch B formed therein, and this strip is pasted or otherwise attached to the cigarette from the notch to the end of the cigarette, the unpasted end lying free against the cigarette so as not to in any way interfere with the packing of the cigarettes in boxes. When the cigarette is to be smoked the free portion of the strip is bent at right angles to the pasted portion, as clearly indicated in Fig. 2 and will thus provide a holder which may be grasped by the smoker so as to avoid the nicotin fumes from coming in contact with the fingers and'permitting'the cigarette to be consumed down to the holder, thus leaving only that portion of the cigarette which is held in the mouth of the smoker. The notch B serves to facilitate the bending of the free portion of the strip at the desired angle and this angle may be determined by the perforated or indented line b.

In'Fig. 3 I have shown my improvement as applied to a cigarette having a cork or other mouth piece G, the strip passing under the mouth piece thus holding it in place.

In Fig. 4 I have shown a form of my holder in which the mouth piece D is formed with the strip A so that when the mouth piece is secured around the end of the cigarette the supporting strip will lie free lengthwise of the cigarette and may be bent outward when desired for use. Of course the strip A might project from the mouth piece D or any point desired, but I have found that economy of material is effected by making the mouth piece and strip in the form'shown in Fig. 4 since butlittle or no stock iswasted in cut ting such a form from material.

Of course I do not wish to be limited to any particular form of holder, as the gist of my invention rests in the broad idea of a supporting holder in combination with a cigarette.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, is

In combination with a cigarette, a strip of paper, adapted to encircle the end of the cigarette to be applied to the mouth of the smoker, having formed therewith at its right extremity, when gummed in position at the end of the cigarette, a strip of reduced width and extending at right angles to the first strip, and adapted to serve the purpose ofa holder for the cigarette, when the first or main strip is gummed about the cigarette at the extremity thereof.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto afiixed my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD T. CRANE.

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