AN IMPROVED INSTRUMENT FOR CLEANING PIPES USED IN SMOKING
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Marie Pierre Ernest Vors, of Marvejols Town, in the
French Empire, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED INSTRUMENT FOR
CLEANING PIPES USED IN SMOKING."
Sealed the 28th September 1866, and dated the 2nd April 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Marie Pierre Ernest
Vors at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 2nd April 1866.
I, MARIE PIERRE ERNEST VORS, of Marvejols Town, in the French Empire,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
INSTRUMENT FOR CLEANING PIPES USED IN SMOKING," to be as follows:-
This instrument is intended to remove from the stem of pipes the juice and
other matters which become collected therein during smoking. It consists of
a rod which in its sectional form may have various configurations, and is
constructed by preference in one of the manners about to be described.
I take a round or square metal rod and cover it with caoutchouc or other
suitable material, so that the whole forms a rod sufficiently rigid to drive out
matters from the stems of pipes, and sufficiently flexible to enable it to be

page_text: introduced at the mouth-piece of the stem and to issue at the bowl. The
caoutchouc may be formed at the end of the rod with a hollow or solid
enlargement in order the better to clean the stem. Sometimes I employ a
plain rod of hardened caoutchouc, boiled leather, whalebone, horn, gutta
percha, or other material combining rigidity with flexibility; it may be round
or square in section, or round or oval and formed into a spiral, or square and
formed into a spiral; it may terminate in a flexible enlargement or in a
bundle of filaments, so as to act as a brush. Sometimes I form my pipe
cleaner of metal, caoutchouc, horn, whalebone, gutta percha, boiler leather,
or other material with a spiral projecting rib on the rod, or I form the rod
or one end of it in the form of a screw.
My pipe cleaner may be ornamented by silvering, gilding, painting, or
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SPECIFICATION. in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Marie Pierre Ernest Vors in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 2nd October 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MARIE
PIERRE ERNEST VORS, of Marvejols Town, in the French Empire, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Marie Pierre Ernest Vors, Her special licence that I, the
said Marie Pierre Ernest Vors, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Marie Pierre Ernest Vors, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED INSTRUMENT FOR CLEANING
PIPES USED IN SMOKING," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Marie Pierre Ernest Vors, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in

page_text: what manner the same was to be perforined, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Marie Pierre Ernest Vors, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say :-
This instrument is intended to remove from the stem of pipes the juice
and other matters which become collected therein during smoking. It
consists of a rod sufficiently rigid and sufficiently supple for the purpose,
and which in its sectional form may have various configurations, and is
constructed by preference in one of the manners about to be described.
I take a round or square metal rod, as represented at a in Figure 1 of the
annexed Drawings, and cover it with caoutchouc or other suitable material b,
so that the whole forms a rod sufficiently rigid to drive out matters from the
stems of pipes, and sufficiently flexible to enable it to be introduced at the
mouth-piece of the stem and to issue at the bowl. The caoutchouc may be
formed at the end of the rod with a hollow or solid enlargement, as shown at c,
Figure 2, in order the better to clean the stem. Sometimes I employ a plain
rod, as represented in Figure 3, of hardened caoutchouc, boiled leather,
whalebone, horn, gutta percha, or other material combining rigidity with
flexibility; it may be round or square in section, or round or oval and formed
into a spiral, or square and formed into a spiral; it may terminate in a
flexible enlargement as at c, Figure 2, or in a bundle of filaments, as shewn
at d, Figure 3*, so as to act as a brush. Sometimes I form my pipe cleaner
of metal, caoutchouc, horn, whalebone, gutta percha, boiled leather, or other
material with a spiral projecting rib on the rod, as represented at d, Figure 4,
or I form the rod or one end of it in the form of a spiral, as represented in
Figure 5.
My pipe cleaner may be ornamented by silvering, gilding, painting, or
otherwise.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the improved
instrument for cleaning pipes used in smoking constructed as herein-before
described and represented in the accompanying Drawings, that is to say,
consisting of a central metal rod covered with caoutchouc, gutta percha, or
other suitable material, or simply of a rod of metal, hardened caoutchouc,

page_text: whalebone, horn, gutta percha, or other suitable material combining rigidity
and flexibility, and either plain, or formed spiral, or with a spiral projecting
rib.
In witness whereof, I, the said Marie Pierre Ernest Vors, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of September, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six..
M. P. ERN. VORS. (L.S.)
Witness,
JULES ARMENGAUD, Je.,
Civil Engineer,
No. 23, Boulevard de Strasbourg,
Paris.