improvements in connection with Tobacco Pipes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Reprinted as amended in accordance with the decision of the Comptroller-
General, dated the 22nd day of March, 1900.
Date of Application, 12th Nov., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 10th May, 1898-Accepted, 16th July, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION..
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improvements in connection with Tobacco Pipes.
I, MARGARET MONTGOMERY GRANT, of Queen's Gate, Aberdeen, Artist in Oils, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in connection with tobacco pipes, and has
for its object to provide means whereby an ordinary tobacco pipe may be quickly and
easily filled or supplied with tobacco without having recourse to the usual method of
filling or packing the same with the fingers.
For this purpose I use what I call a "cartridge" or small case for holding the
required amount of tobacco for filling a pipe.
The shell or skin of the said "cartridge" consists preferably of thin waxed muslin,
or other suitable light porous material may be used capable of securely holding the
tobacco.
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This shell or skin is packed with the tobacco and the top end secured and tipped
with spirits of wine or similar substance or liquid.
The "cartridge" is preferably similar in shape and size to the interior of the bowl
of the pipe and a number of them may be packed in boxes and sold in sizes to suit
all pipes.
My improved cartridges" are especially applicable for use with divided pipes the
two halves of which open out on hinges and shut with a strong clasp.
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By means of my invention the evil effects of nicotine are greatly diminished, the
ash does not fall about and a cool and refreshing smoke is provided.
Dated this 10th day of November 1807
I, MARGARET MONTGOMERY GRANT, of Queen's Gate, Aberdeen, Artist in Oils, 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:
My invention relates to improvements in connection with tobacco pipes and the
objects are to provide means whereby smokers' pipes may be quickly and easily
supplied with tobacco and the nicotine absorbed and so prevented from passing into

page_text: the user's mouth. For this purpose I use cartridges or plugs each containing the
required quantity of tobacco done up in a suitable manner for putting into the pipe.
The necessary quantity of tobacco to form a "charge" is pressed or moulded into the
proper shape according as it is to be used in a pipe bowl or in an elongated mouth-
piece of cigar shape. The plug is then wrapped in non-combustible gossamer or other
suitable material of an absorbaent character, the wrapper being gathered in and tied up
at one end of the plug. A number of perforations may be made at the top of the
wrapper and the tied-up end may be waxed or otherwise treated to facilitate lighting
the charge. Finally the cartridge or plug may be enclosed in tin foil or otherwise
protected from change and made to retain the aroma and natural moisture of the
tobacco. If the material in which the tobacco is first wrapped is not naturally
incombustible I. render it so by any suitable means. For instance in the case of
gossamer, which is the material I prefer to use, I first free it from all diletenous
deleterious matters and then treat it with a strong solution of alum or in some other
manner to render it non-combustible, drying it carefully before use. The wrapper may
be made specially if desired, in which case, if of gossamer, it might be woven so as to
be of more open mesh near the edge so that when tied up over the tobacco the holes
round the tied up end would not need to be made.
My improved cartridges or plugs are applicable for use with ordinary pipes or with
divided ones, the halves of which open out on hinges and shut with a strong clasp.
By means of my invention the nicotine is absorbed by the non-combustible wrapper
and the wrapper can be knocked out of the pipe or the like before refilling. The ash
is also prevented from falling about, besides which no grit gets into the bowl or stem
of the pipe and a cool dry and refreshing smoke is provided. It is proposed to pack
the plugs into boxes and to sell them in sizes to suit pipes of various sizes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 say that I am aware
that it is not new to make covered plugs or cartridges of tobacco, and I lay no claim
to such plugs or cartridges, per se, but I declare that what I claim is :-
Plugs or cartridges of tobacco made in forms to fit the pipe bowls or other articles
in which the tobacco is to be smoked, the said plugs or cartridges being wrapped in
a covering of incombustible and absorbent material which is gathered up and tied
over one end of the plug or cartridge, perforations being provided round the top of
the plug and its covering and the tied up end being waxed or otherwise treated to
facilitate the lighting of the tobacco, the completed plug being or not finally enveloped
in tin-foil or other material to protect it from damp and to retain the aroma and
natural moisture of the tobacco the whole substantially as described in the above
Specification.