US1563541A - Smoker's article - Google Patents

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Dec. 1 1925- C. M. ADLER SMOKERS ARTICLE Filed Sept. 26, 1923 Patented Dec. 1, 1925.

UNITED STATS CYRUS M. Amen, or-onrcaeo, rumors.

SIVIUKERS ARTICLE.

Application filed September 26, 1923. Serial No. 664,837.

To all 407mm it may concern:

Be it known that I, CYnUs M. ADLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Smokers Articles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is broadly to eliminate a waste attending the use of tobacco.

It is a habit of the average smoker to en joy tobacco in some preferred form when ever the opportunity to do so offers itself even when it is known that for lack of time a comparatively small portion of the ciga rette or the like can be consumed and the remainder must be thrown away. As cigarettes and the like are usually of standard lengths, this habit leads to much waste.

My invention contemplates the provision of a cartridge comprising tobacco, from which cartridge a cigarette or the like of any desired length may be severed so that a consumer may use a length which will meet his immediate desires or meet the circumstances attending at any certain time.

Other objects of my invention will become apparent as the detail description prgrosses, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, wherein Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a smokers article embodying the novel features of my invention.

2 is an end elevation of the smokers article shown in Fig. 1, a portion of a certain incasing member being broken away to illustrate certain features of my invention, and

Fig. 8 is a section taken on line 33 of In the specific embodiment of my invention which is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, the reference character 10 designates, in its entirety, a casing of substantially cylindrical form. The casing is adapted to hold a cartridge 11 which, in this instance, comprises a tubular container 12 of paper or the like, the container being filled with a suitable mixture of tobacco as indicated at 13. It will be noted that the cartridge 11 is coiled upon itself or, as it may be said, is arranged in a substantially spiral form. I find that by so arranging the cartridge in spiral form within a substantially cylindrical casing, a package is obtained from which the cartridge may be easily withdrawn without injury thereto. As shown in Fig. 2, the substantially cylindrical peripheral wall 14 of the casing 10 is provided with an opening 15 which is formed by displacing a portion of the wall so that it projects inwardly of the casing and provides a spiral passage forming a support 16 for the outer end. of the cartridge 11. A knife 17 is hinged to the casing at 18 and is adapted to form a closure for the opening 15. The sharpened. edge of the knife may enter an aperture 19 formed in the support 16 for a purpose which will presently appear. The knife 17 may be brought into the position indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2, but a leaf spring 20 secured to the cylindrical wall 14 of the casing tends to hold it in the position shown in full lines (Fig. 2).

It is apparent that if the knife is brought into and held in the position indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2, the outer end of the cartridge 11 may be seized to permit withdrawal of so much of the cartridge as is desired. That portion of the cartridge which has been withdrawn from the casing may then be severed by means of the knife 17 from that portion of the cartridge remaining within the casing. The outer end of that portion of the cartridge which re mains within the casing 10 will then be clamped against the support 16 by the knife 17 through the medium of the spring 20, and it is there ore held in a position wherein it can be readily seized when another portion of the cartridge is to be withdrawn from the casing.

From the above description of the specific embodiment of my invention illustrated in the accompanying drawing, it will be readily understood that a plurality of cigarettes may be severed from the cartridge 11 and that each cigarette so severed from the cartridge may be of a length whichwill meet the immediate wishes of the smoker. Also it will be readily understood that there need be no Waste of tobacco when an embodiment of my invention is employed in place of the usual package of cigarettes of equal lengths. While I prefer to coil the cartridge upon itself in the manner illustrated in the drawing, I reserve the right to dispose the cartridge within the casing in any suitable manner as I am aware that changes in the form, construction and arrangement of parts may be made without departing from the spirit and withoiit' sacrificing the advantages of the invention; I also reserve the right to make all such changes as fairly fall Within the scope of the following claims,

I claim:

1. A smokers article comprising a cylin drical casing, a spiral passage therein and terminating near the peripheral Wall thereof, aknife hinged to said peripheral Wall and-adaptedfo close said. passage, and a spring normally holding said knife in p0sition to close said passage;

2. A smokersarticle embodying an incasing member, a cartridge positioned therein, said cartridge being coiled upon itself 'andadapted to be Withdrawn in indeterminate .,lengths flOlIlgSiliCl incasing member, a support carried by said lncasing member for -one endofsaid cartridge, a knife hinged to CYRUS M. ADLER.

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