Improvements in or relating to Tobacco Pipes, Cigarette Holders, and other Smoking Mouth-pieces.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 4th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 18th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Tobacco Pipes, Cigarette Holders,
and other Smoking Mouth-pieces.
1, CHARLES WILLIAM JONES of Devonshire Park, Birkenhead, in the County
Chester, Bachelor of Medicine, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
:-
This invention has for its object a medical tobacco, pipe, that is a tobacco pipe
which can be used by invalids so as to avoid the injurious effects of tobacco and to
convey medicines to the system in what to them would be an agreeable manner.
It
may however be used for ordinary smoking purposes.
The principle I have at present designed for this purpose consists of the following
parts.―
First. The bowl formed of meerschaum. I, however, propose to form this of paper
or paper stock, or of asbestos, vulcanite, clay, or other suitable material or a com-
bination of these. The paper or paper stock I believe to be quite new as regards pipe
manufacture and I think will prove a useful novelty.
Second. The socket into which the bowl fits, the drainage cap and the pipe stem
are screwed or otherwise fixed. In this socket I place a chemical radiating and
vaporising filter immediately below the bowl. This filter is of porous material such
as wool or asbestos fibre impregnated with some or all of the following ingredients.-
Carbon, exhausted coffee, common salt, or other non-poisonous salt of an alkali, a
vegetable acid, such as tannic, benzoic, tartaric or citric acid, lastly any volatile
medicine or medicine volatilisable at the heat to which this filter is exposed, or
medicinal matter capable of altering the other vapours or gases passing through or
generated in the filter. Immediately below this filter which is so arranged that it can
be easily replaced by another when exhausted is a cavity and below this cavity and
hollow removable cap receive the nicotine or tobacco juice or other liquid matter that
escapes from the filter. The stem is of suitable diameter and contains gauze, loofah,
sponge, coir or other absorbent porous material impregnated with tannic acid. Beyond
this is placed a second filter formed of worsted impregnated with chloride of ammonium.
Both these two filters are preferably enclosed in paper tubes so as to prevent them
soiling the fingers when inserted into the tube of the pipe. Beyond these two filters
is the mouthpiece which is preferably lined with metal and provided with a screwed
smoke regulator at the end.
The above is simply the description of one form of my pipe. It is obvious, however,
that the principle of putting chemical filters into the pipe so as to absorb or neutralize
deleterious matters and to produce curative or useful vapours could be carried out in
pipes of considerably different construction, and I merely give the particulars of the
pipe and arrangement of the filters above mentioned as an illustration of my invention,
and not as confining my invention to the exact arrangement set forth or the exact
chemicals employed as chemical equivalents of these can in many cases be substituted.
The principle can also be equally well applied to cigarette & cigar holders or to
chibooks and other mouth pieces. One advantage of this invention is that the
"nicotine" or "
tobacco juice" is robbed of its smell and stickiness.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Tobacco Pipes, Cigarette Holders,
and other Smoking Mouth-pieces.
I, CHARLES WILLIAM JONES of Devonshire Park, Birkenhead, in the County of
Chester, Bachelor of Medicine do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object a medical tobacco pipe or mouthpiece, that is, a
tobacco pipe which can be used by invalids or other delicate smokers so as to diminish
the injurious effects of tobacco, and to convey medicines to the system in what, to
them, would be an agreeable manner, namely, by inhalation. It may, however, be
used for ordinary smoking, and it may be employed as an insufflator.
The principle I have at present designed for this purpose consists of the following
parts:
First. The bowl A. This may be formed of any suitable material, such as
meerschaum, wood, including briar-root, asbestos, clay, vulcanite, paper, or paper
stock, or any combination of these. The paper or paper stock I believe to
bé quite new as regards pipe manufacture. The bottom of the cavity for tobacco I
line with wire gauze a to prevent burning. From the under surface of the gauze, a
channel a¹ is made for the passage of the smoke. The bowl is screwed or otherwise
suitably fixed into the socket B.
Second. The socket or cup B into which the bowl A, drainage cup C, and the
pipe stem D are screwed or otherwise suitably fitted. This may be made of any
suitable material.
In this socket I place a box b containing a chemical radiating or. vaporising material
immediately below the bowl. The box has a projecting collar by which it fits on
to a boss on the under surface of the bowl. This box and its contents I name the
filter. This filter is of suitable stable porous material, such as carbon, exhausted
coffee, amianth, wool, (chloride of sodium or binoxide of manganese in some cases
only), etcetera, and is impregnated with any one or more suitable volatilisable medicines
or with a suitable absorbent or neutraliser of nicotine. Those most generally available
for the purpose are the following:-

page_text: Almost any other volatilisable medicinal compound can be used instead of these, but
I mention these as the principal ones valuable for the purpose in medicinal use
at the present time, also almost any other compound capable of neutralising the
effect of nicotine can be used in place of tartaric acid and other chemicals above
mentioned.
Immediately below this filter, which is so arranged that it can be easily replaced
by the smoker when exhausted, is a cavity for draining purposes, and below this
cavity a hollow removable cap C, which receives the nicotine or tobacco juice or
other liquid matter that escapes from the filter or from the accumulator. The filter
screws down upon a flange or ridge made as part of the socket, so that when ready
for use it becomes a smoke-tight box through which the smoke has to pass on its way
from the bowl to the month piece of the pipe.
Third. The stem D is of appropriate diameter and may be made of any of the before
mentioned or other suitable material. Within the stem is contained a roll d composed
either of gauze, worsted, loofah, tenax or tow, coir, cocoa fibre, sponge, Mexican fibre,
or other suitable absorbent, porous material which is impregnated with any one or
more of all the before mentioned drugs. Beyond this may or may not be placed a
second filter formed of worsted impregnated according to the particular drug in use
at the time. Both these two filters are preferably enclosed in paper or other suitable
wrapper d', so as to prevent them soiling the fingers when inserted into or withdrawn
from the pipe. This roll name the "accumulator."
Fourth. The mouth piece E, made of horn, vulcanite, amber, or other suitable
material, fits into the stem by screw or other suitable fastening, beyond this filter.
It is preferably lined with metal e.
Fifth. The drainer C, made of metal, horn or vulcanite or other suitable material.
This is merely a cup which screws or is otherwise attached to the under side of
the socket, and is used to catch any fluid which falls into it. It is removable at
will.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is:
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1. The improvement in tobacco pipes and other smoking mouthpieces which
consists in forming them with one or more filters of a porous material, comparatively
unalterable under the conditions used and impregnated with a drug or chemical
capable, when the pipe or other smoking mouth piece is being smoked, of producing
a medicinal effect or of absorbing or neutralising the nicotine or its effects in whole
or in part, substantially as described.
2. The improved form of pipe or other smoking mouthpiece formed in several
pieces, substantially as herein described and illustrated, and for the purposes sub-
stantially as described.
Dated this 2nd day of December 1889.
WM. P. THOMPSON &.Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, and London, Patent Agents.