Improvements in Pipe Cleaners, and in Receptacles or Holders for the same.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 19th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 4th Feb.. 1897-Accepted, 17th Apr.. 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pipe Cleaners, and in Receptacles or Holders for
the same.
I, GEORGE HENRY HILL, of Mott Street, in the City of Birmingham, Art Metal
Worker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved form of pipe cleaner or apparatus for
cleaning the stem of a tobacco pipe that has become foul or choked, and also to a
receptacle, case or holder wherein one or a number of such cleaners may be placed
when in use.
The objection to pipe cleaning devices at present in use is that after being pushed
through the stem of a pipe, the end requires to be laid hold of by some means in
order to draw the cleaner through the bowl.
According to my invention, I make a pipe cleaner from a length of closely coiled
fine wire, or a long close-wound spiral of fine wire, about equal in its diameter
to the bore of the pipe stem to be cleansed. This length of coiled wire is inserted
into the mouth end of the stem and worked right through the whole length of the
said stem and into and up the bowl of the pipe simply by a screwing action, which
thoroughly cleanses both the stem and the bottom of the bowl of all nicotine
accumulations and impurities.
These pipe cleaners can be conveniently carried in small receptacles consisting of a
disc shaped piece of metal or other material, whose edges are turned up all round
forming an annular undercut or groove, wherein one or more cleaners, when coiled
up, can lie. A part of the turned over edging is cut away forming a thumb gap
which facilitates the removal of a cleaner from the holder.
If necessary, one end of the pipe cleaner may be jointedly connected to the receptacle
or case, which then forms a convenient finger hold.
The cleaners are made in convenient lengths suitable to the pipes to be cleansed
and are so cheaply manufactured that they may be thrown away after being once or
twice used.
Dated this 18th day of May 1896.
GEORGE HENR
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pipe Cleaners, and in Receptacles or Holders for
the same.
I, GEORGE HENRY HILL, of Mott Street, in the City of Birmingham, Art Metal
Worker, 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 an improved form of pipe cleaner or apparatus for

page_text: cleansing the stem of a tobacco pipe that has become foul or choked, and also to a
receptacle, case or holder wherein one or a number of such cleaners may be placed
when not in use.
The objection to pipe cleaning devices at present in use is that after being pushed
through the stem of a pipe, the end requires to be laid hold of by some means in
order to draw the cleaner through the bowl.
According to my invention, I make a pipe cleaner from flexible length of coiled
fine wire, or a long spiral of fine wire, about equal in its diameter to the bore of the
pipe stem to be cleansed. This length of coiled wire is inserted into the mouth end
of the stem and worked right through the whole length of the said stem and into
and up the bowl of the pipe simply by a screwing action, or by a combined rotatory
and advancing movement, which thoroughly cleanses both the stem and the bottom
of the bowl of all nicotine and other foreign accumulations.
These pipe cleaners can be conveniently carried in small receptacles consisting of
two disc-shaped pieces of metal or other material, whose edges are united together,
and wherein one or more of the cleaners, when coiled up, can lie.
A part of one
of the sides is cut away forming a thumb gap which facilitates the removal of a
cleaner from the holder.
If necessary. one end of the pipe cleaner may be jointedly connected to the
receptacle or case, which then forms a convenient finger hold.
The cleaners are made in convenient lengths suitable to the pipes to be cleansed
and are so cheaply manufactured that they may be thrown away after being once or
twice used.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represent a pipe cleaner made according
to my improvements.
Figure 2 represents a portion of the same upon an enlarged scale.
Figure 3 shows how the cleaner is used for cleansing a pipe.
Figure 4 represents the holder for the cleaners and Figure 5 is a vertical section
of the same, whilst
Figure 6 shows a modified form of holder and
Figure 7 is a vertical section thereof.
In Figures 1 to 6, a is the pipe cleaner, and 6 is the holder for the same,
composed of two dished discs or shells b', 62, united together at their middles by an
eyelet 3, and having a thumb gap 6, adjacent to the edge of one of them, through
which the said cleaner is introduced into or withdrawn from the case.
In the modified form Figures 6 and 7, the holder consists of a disc of metal b,
with the edges 2 turned over so as to form an annular groove ³, wherein one
or more cleaners lie.
The coils of the cleaner are preferably slightly open in order to give greater
flexibility to it and thus facilitating its passage down the bore and into the bowl of
the pipe.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
First. A pipe cleaner, consisting of a flexible length of coiled fine wire, or a long
spiral of fine wire.
Secondly. The improved forms of holder for pipe cleaners of the kind such as
referred to in the preceding claim, substantially as described and set forth in
Figures 4, 5, 6 and 7.
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GEORGE HENRY HILL,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.