IMPROVED APPLIANCES TO BE FITTED TO PIPES USED FOR SMOKING
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Marian Eckhold, of No. 3, Kembley Road,
Nunhcad Junction, in the County of Surrey, Widow and Admini-
stratrix of Charles August Constantin Eckhold, late of Green
Strect, Leicester Square, in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVED APPLIANCES TO BE FITTED
TO PIPES USED FOR SMOKING.”
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles August Con-
stantin Eckhold at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with his Petition, on the 6th April 1875.
I, CHARLES AUGUST CONSTANTIN ECKHOLD, of Green Street, Leicester
Square, in. the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED APPLIANCES TO BE FITTED
TO PIPES USED FOR SMOKING," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improved appliances to be fitted to pipes
used for smoking, and consists mainly of a skeleton frame with a bottom

page_text: disc or cup and a top ring. The disc or cup is perforated and is in con-
nection with the top ring by arms or bars, the lengths of which determine
the depth to which the appliance shall descend into the bowl of a pipe.
The ring rests upon the top edge of the bowl, where it also serves as a
protection to the top.
The ring may have a shield depending from its outer edge, and this
may have a pin on it to ride in a socket or groove formed in the bowl,
cither to lock the appliance in the required position or to act as a means
of retaining the appliance at any elevation within the bowl.
The appliances are preferably of metal, and are capable of being
pushed into the bowl and be retained there by a slight pinch of the bars
against the inner wall of the bowl. Below the disc or cup a space is
left, forming a chamber into which moisture from the mouth can flow
without coming into contact with the tobacco, the space also serving to
reduce the licat of the smoke on its way to and through the stem
In some cases the pipe bowl is formed with a ledge or seat for the
disc or cup to rest upon.

page_text: of Surrey, Widow and Administratrix of Charles August Constantin
Eckhold, late of Green Strect, Leicester Square, in the County of
Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send greeting
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of April, in tlic year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Ier reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Charles August Constantin
Eckhold, Her special licence that hc, the said Charles August Con-
stantin Eckhold, his exccutors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as hc, the said Charles August Constantin Eckhold, his
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 therem expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, excrcise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVED
APPLIANCES TO BE FITTED TO PIPES USED FOR SMOKING," upon the condition
(amongst others) that he, the said Charles August Constantin Eckhold,.
his executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under his
or their, or one of their hands and scals, should particularly describo.
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
Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Marian Eckhold, as such Adminis
tratrix, as aforesaid, 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 thereof,
reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, that is to say':-
Thus Invention relates to improved appliances to be fitted to pipes
used for smoking, and consists mainly of a skeleton framc, Figure 1,
with a bottom disc a or cup, as in Figure 2, and a top ring b, or it may
be a portion of a ring. The disc or cup a is perforated, and is in con-
nection with the top ring by arms or bars c, c, the lengths of which
determine the depth to which the appliance hall descend into the
bowl d of a pipe, as in Figures 3 and 4 The ring rests upon the top.
.

page_text: part of a ring, connected by bars to be fitted into the bowl of a pipe for
smoking, as described and substantially as shown.
In witness whercof, I, the said Marian Eckhold, have hercunto
set my hand and scal, this Sixth day of October, One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-five.
Witness,
II. GARDNER,
160, Flect Street,
London.
MARIAN ECKHOLD. (L.S.)