An Improved Pipe Rack or Suspender.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Dec., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 21st Sept., 1898-Accepted, 12th Nov., 1898
An Improved Pipe Rack or Suspender.
WE, HARRY WILLIAM MOBBS and ALFRED LEWIS, both of Carrington Foundry,
Carrington Street, Kettering, in the County of Northampton, Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to racks, or other devices for suspending tobacco and like
pipes, and has for its object a simple form of suspender which can be produced at a
low first cost, and which will enable any number of pipes to be suspended with their
stems approximately vertical and with their bowls downward.
For this purpose I provide one or more wires of less diameter than the bore of the
These are
stem and bend or shape these in a slightly waved or coiled form.
suspended from a wall or other support in such manner that the waved or coiled ends
depend freely therefrom. In order to suspend a pipe all that is necessary is to thrust
the stem against one of these wires in such manner that it enters the hole bored in
the pipe stem when the irregularities of the wire engage with the sides of the hole
in the stem with sufficient pressure to hold the pipe in the suspended position with
the bowl downwards.
Any number of wires may be attached separately or in groups to a wall, or to any
convenient article of furniture; or to a stand, or a stein, or from wires or cords
suspended across a window or the like.
In some cases we employ two wires parallel to each other of such a size that both
can enter the bore of the pipe stem. The springing aprat of these against the sides
of the bore hold the pipe in the same position.
WILLIAM J. MUNDEN,
75, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicants.
A Improved va
We, HARRY WILLIAM MOBBS and ALFRED LEWIS, both of Carrington Foundry,
Carrington Street, Kettering, in the County of Northampton, Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This invention relates to racks or other devices for suspending tobacco and like
pipes and has for its object a simple form of suspender which can be produced at a
low first cost and which will enable any number of pipes to be suspended with their
stems approximately vertical, and with their bowls downwards.
For this purpose I provide one or more wires of less diameter than the bore of
the stem and bend or shape these in a slightly waved or coiled form. These are

page_text: suspended from a wall or other support in such manner that the waved or coiled ends
depend freely therefrom. In order to suspend a pipe all that is necessary is to
thrust the stem against one of these wires in such manner that it enters the hole
bored in the pipe stem when the irregularities of the wire engage with the sides of
the hole in the stem with sufficient pressure to hold the pipe in the suspended
position with the bowl downwards.
Any number of wires may be attached separately or in groups to a wall, or to
any convenient article of furniture; or to a stand or a stem; or from wires or cords
suspended across a window or the like.
In some cases we employ two wires closely parallel to each other, of such a size
that both can enter the bore of the pipe stem. The springing apart of these
against the sides of the bore holds the pipe in the same position.
In order that our invention may be fully understood and ascertained we append
drawings in which :-
Fig. 1 is a view of a simple form of rack which can be hung upon a nail.
Fig. 2 shews the suspending wires depending from a table stand.
Fig. 3 shews the suspending wires depending from stem which can be hung from
a nail or peg.
Fig.
shews a number of wires suspended from the same horizontal wire.
Fig. 5 shews a rack in which double wires are employed.
In Fig. 1 A indicates a loop from which several wires a (one or more may be
employed) depend; either of these may be inserted into the bore of any pipe X,
in such manner that the latter is supported thereby.
In Fig. 2 the wires a are shewn suspended from the head b of a stand B, the
base being so enlarged that when resting upon a table or other horizontal
surface the stand is maintained in a vertical position.
In Fig. 3 the stand B, has a loop C, attached to its upper end, by means of
which the stand can be hung upon a nail or peg. In this case a handle b forms the
base.
In Fig. 4 a perpendicular or horizontal wire A¹ which can be drawn from side
to side of a window or stretched along a wall, has a number of wires & depending
from it.
In Fig. 5 the wires are thinner, and two, closely disposed parallel or approxi-
mately parallel to each other are inserted into the bore of the pipe stem.
The pipe may if desired be suspended with their bowls upwards.
"Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
claim is 19
:-
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1. A pipe rack or suspender in which the pipe is supported by a hanging wire or
the like which is thrust into the bore of the stem substantially as described and
shewn.
2. A pipe rack or suspender consisting essentially of one or more wires or the
like, depending from any convenient support, any one of which wires or the like can
be thrust into the bore of a pipe in such manner as to support it, substantially as
described and shewn.
3. A pipe rack or suspender constructed substantially as described and shewn in
the accompanying drawings.
4. A pipe rack or suspender in which double wires are employed substantially as
described and shewn, with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 21st day of September 1898.
WILLIAM. J. MUNDEN,
75, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicants.