R. C. Du BOIS. Cigar and Cigarette Holder. No. 216,160. Patented June 3, 1879.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD C. DU BOIS, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. MPROVEMENT IN CGAR AND CGARETTE HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 26,160, dated June 3, 1879; application filed December 26, 1878.

To all whom it may concern: inside of the tube render the material more Be it known that I, RICHARD C. DU Bois, absorbent than it otherwise would be, not only of Washington, in the District of Columbia, because additional surface is by them pre have invented a certain new and useful Im sented, but also because the edges are more provement in Cigar and Cigarette Holders, of absorptive, especially when the material en which the following is a specification. ployed is calendered paper. The object of my improvements is to pro By pulling the ends of the holder longitudi duce a holder for cigars and cigarettes which nally it may be extended to any desirable shall be simple, cheap, and capable of extension length, as shown in Fig. 1, or by pushing the and contraction, as also of adjustment for dif. ends toward each other may be partially con ferent-sized articles to be held in it. tracted, as shown in Fig. 2. My invention consists in a holder for cigars Moreover, by pushing one end of the holder and cigarettes, consisting of a tube made by toward the other, several coils may be forced spirally folding a strip of paper, wood, or other together, and the internal diameter of the outer suitable substance, and having its outer end end of the holder decreased in diameter inter fastened to the main body, but having its coils nally, whereby it is adapted for holding a small otherwise left free to permit their adjustment cigar or cigarette, as shown in Fig. 3. relatively to each other. " By pushing both ends sufficiently together, In the accompanying drawings, Figule 1 is the coils may be all forced into one another a side view of a holder embodying my improve into convolute form, rendering the cigar-holder ments, showing it used for a cigar. Fig. 2 is compact and convenient to be carried in the a side view of such holder partially contracted. pocket. Fig. 3 is a side view of such holder with its It will be seen that by my invention I pro outer portion adjusted for holding a cigarette, duce a very simple and desirable cigar-holder, and Fig. 4 is a side view of such holder en which can be manufactured so cheaply that it tirely contracted to render it convenient to may be thrown away after a single use, if de carry in the pocket. sirable. Similar letters of reference designate corre The manufacture of such cigar-holders by sponding parts in all the figures. cutting, rolling, and gumming strips of mate My holder consists of a strip of paper, Wood, rial may be carried on by means of machinery. or other analogous material, A, Wound spirally What I claim as my invention, and desire into a conical tube, and having its outer end to secure by Letters Patent, is (and preferably, also, its inner end)fastened, to A holder for cigars and cigarettes, consist precludeitfrom unwinding and losing its shape. ing of a tube made by spirally folding a strip It needs really only to be secured at the of paper, wood, or other suitable substance, larger end, and may be secured by simply and having its outer end fastened to the main gumming that end, or by an outer Wrapper, B, body, but having its coils otherwise left free encircling it and attached by mucilaginous to permit their adjustment relatively to each material. This outer wrapper may be made other. ornamental, and may have names or devices In testimony that I consider the within-de or advertisements delineated upon it. scribed improvements to be my invention I Preferably the material employed for the hereunto subscribe my name. manufacture of this holder Will be of an ab sorbent nature, so as to take up the nicotine RICHARL) C. DU BOS. and all other deleterious matters emanating Witnesses: from cigars or cigarettes during smoking. NIC GRANDPRé, The edges of the material presented on the E. EIALLENSTEIN.