Im- PROVEMENTS IN PIPES FOR SMOKING TOBACCO
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George White, of 68, Queen Street, Cheapside,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN PIPES FOR SMOKING TOBACCO."-A communication from
abroad by Messieurs Hochapfel, frères, of Strasbourg, France.
Sealed the 8th February 1870, and dated the 11th August 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George White at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th August 1869.
I, GEORGE WHITE, of 68, Queen Street, Cheapside, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES FOR 'SMOKING TOBACCO," a communication
to me from abroad by Messieurs Hochapfel, frères, of Strasbourg, France,
to be as follows:-
The Invention consists in improvements in the construction of pipes
for smoking tobacco arranged for the purpose of more effectually than
in ordinary pipes preventing the nicotine juice from forming and

page_text: rising into the mouth of the smoker, and to allow of getting rid of this
juice.
The annexed Drawing represents a longitudinal sectional view of an
arrangement showing the principal features of my improved pipes; they
consist of a bowl A connected by an ascending pipe B to a vertical or
suitably inclined canal or tubular part serving as a collector for the
nicotine juice, and provided at the upper and lower end with moveable
plugs d and D, the latter being hollow for the purpose of receiving the
juice collected in the canal C; towards the middle of its length the
collecting canal C is connected to a pipe E formed in the stem G, to
the open end of which stem is connected the mouth piece H, which
latter has a contracted end h projecting into the interior of the pipe E, so
as to leave an open space i all round between this latter and the end h
for the purpose of preventing the nicotine juice from ascending into
the mouth of the smoker. This description of mouth piece H with
contracted end h may be applied to other descriptions of. tobacco
pipes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George White in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 11th February 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
WHITE, of 68, Queen Street, Cheapside, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said George White, Her special licence that
I, the said George White, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said George White, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES FOR SMOKING

page_text: TOBACCO," a communication to me from abroad by Messieurs Hochapfel,
frères, of Strasbourg, France, upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said George White, 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 what manner the same was to be performed, 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 George White, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
The Invention relates to a construction of tobacco pipe which forms
an improvement on those for which a Patent was granted to me on the
18 of April 1866, No. 1088, as an Invention communicated to me by
Messieurs Jean Hochapfel & George Hochapfel, of Strasbourg, France;
and the object of the Invention is to prevent still more effectually than
in the description of pipes just mentioned the saliva or liquid deriving
from the mouth of the smoker from coming in contact with the tobacco,
thus keeping this latter dry, whilst the nicotine juice collects in a special
canal and reservoir, from which it may be easily removed and is prevented
from rising into the mouth of the smoker.
The arrangement of this novel construction of tobacco pipe, which I
intend calling the international pipe, will be easily understood from the
annexed Drawings and description thereof.
In the said Drawings the Figs. 1 & 2 respectively represent an outside
and a longitudinal sectional view of this improved pipe; the Figs. 3 & 4
showing similar views of a modification in the shape of the pipe, it being
understood that various other forms may be given either to the bowl or
other constituent parts of the pipe, and that the said bowl or other
parts may be made in any suitable size of briar, meerschaum, amber,
porcelain, clay, or other suitable material, and be ornamented in any
convenient manner. In the four Figures of the Drawing the same letters
of reference relate to corresponding parts.
A represents the bowl in which is to be put the tobacco; an ascending.
tube D connects the lower part of this bowl with another tube or.
canal E, which when the pipe is held in position shown in the

page_text: Drawings as situated vertical, or nearly so, and which canal passes
through the entire thickness of the stem S and through two projecting
parts d and e of the said stem, which projecting parts form sockets or
seats respectively for the plugs H and C, the plug H serving merely as a
stopper, whereas the plug C is made hollow so as to form a kind of cup
for receiving the liquid collecting in the canal E; these plugs are to fit
air-tight either in or upon the said sockets d & e by a screw thread
or other suitable means, which allow of easily removing the plugs when
required, whilst when applied to their sockets the said plugs effectually
close the two open ends of the canal E, into which the tubular part B
of the further end S of the stem opens, whereas in the other end of
this tubular part B is screwed or otherwise fitted the mouth piece F,
which latter is provided with a cylindrical elongated part G, the
diameter of which is a little smaller than that of the tubular part B
in order to leave an open space g all round between the outside of the
said elongated G and the inside of the tube B for the purpose of
preventing the liquid collected in the cup or hollow plug C from rising
into the mouth piece F. It will be evident that in this construction of
pipes the liquid derived from the mouth of the smoker or resulting
from the condensation of the smoke and breath is obliged to collect
in the canal E, and from thence fall in the cup or hollow plug C, which
latter is consequently to be removed and emptied from time to time,
whilst the plug H allows of cleaning the tube D and canal E. Previously
to lighting the pipe the cup Ċ ought always to be emptied, and after
having then been replaced on its seat or socket e the pipe may be made
use of as any ordinary pipe.
What forms the characteristic feature of this improved construction
of tobacco pipes is that all the saliva or other liquid entering through
the mouth piece F is necessarily obliged to collect in the canal E and
cup C, from whence it may be easily removed, whilst the elongated
part G of the mouth piece F prevents the said liquid from becoming
drawn up into the mouth of the smoker.
Having thus described and particularly ascertained the nature of
the Invention, I wish it to be understood that I do not intend to
confine or restrict myself to the precise details or to the exact shape
of the arrangements above described and illustrated in the Drawings,
as many variations may be made therefrom without materially deviating
from the principles or main features of the Invention; but what I con-

page_text: sider to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention
secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the
general arrangement and combination of parts of this new description
of pipes for smoking tobacco, viz., the combination and respective
positions and the arrangement of the tubular parts D and B, the
canal E open at both ends, the plugs H and C, and the elongation G,
substantially as described and illustrated in the Drawings and for the
purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said George White, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Tenth day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
GEO. WHITE. (L.S.)