IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES FOR SMOKING TOBACCO
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George White, of 68, Queen Street, Cheapside, in
the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN PIPES FOR SMOKING TOBACCO."-A communication from abroad by Jean
Hochapfel and George Hochapfel, Manufacturers of Smoking Articles,
of Strasbourg, France.
Sealed the 16th October 1866, and dated the 18th April 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George White at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 18th
April 1866.
I, GEORGE WHITE, of 68, Queen Street, Cheapside, in the City of London,
Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES FOR SMOKING TOBACCO," that it has been communicated
to me from abroad by Jean Hochapfel and George Hochapfel, Manufacturers
of Smoking Articles, of Strasburg, France, to be as follows:-
The Invention consists in an improved construction of pipes for smoking
tobacco. The annexed Drawing shows a longitudinal sectional view of a pipe
arranged according to this Invention.
D is the bowl for containing the tobacco; C, a collecting reservoir for the
condensed liquid or oil; A, a pipe communicating with the bowl D, and by
means of a hole or canal a, with the tube end E. Whilst smoking the upper
end of the pipe A is closed by a moveable plug B, so as to cause the smoke
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page_text: to be drawn through the pipe A and canal a, and enter at once in the tube
end E, whereas the oil collects in the reservoir C. These improved pipes may
be made of any suitable material, shape, or size.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George White in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
18th October 1866.
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 Eighteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successore, 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 1, the
said George White, my 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 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN PIPES FOR SMOKING TOBACCO," a communication to me from abroad by
Messieurs Jean and George Hochapfel, Manufacturers of Smoking Articles, 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 state-
nent:
The Invention relates to an improved construction of pipes for smoking
tobacco which among others offers the advantage that any liquid deriving
from the mouth of the smoker is effectually prevented from entering the

page_text: bowl of the pipe and moisten the tobacco, thus causing this latter to burn dry
to the last particle and without having its peculiar flavour in the least im-
paired, besides which in this improvod pipe the formation of that rancid
nicotine juice prevalent in ordinary tobacco pipes, and which renders these
latter so unwholesome, and if not frequently cleaned so disagreeable to the
smoker, is entirely avoided.
In the annexed Drawings Fig. 1 shows a side elevation, and Fig. 2 a
longitudinal sectional view of this improved tobacco pipe; the Figs. 3 & 4
represent two modifications in shape and bore of the pipe. The various
Figure's, however, merely serve for showing examples of the inner construc-
tion of the pipe, it being understood that any other suitable shape, size,
or proportions may be given to pipes constructed according to this Inven.
tion. In these Figures the same letters of reference relate to corresponding
parts.
D is the bowl for containing the to bacco; C, a recess or reservoir pro.
vided in the stem F of the pipe, in which reservoir collects the saliva or other
liquid deriving from the mouth of the smoker. A is a pipe or channel, one
end of which opens in the lower part of the bowl D, whereas the other end,
closed by a moveable plug B, communicates by means of a connecting hole a
with the mouth-piece or tip end E, which latter is moveal·le and fits into the
stem F of the pipe.
This improved pipe is made use of in exactly the same manner as any
other ordinary description of smoking pipes, viz., the bowl D having been
provided with tobacco the pipe is lighted in the usual manner, and the smoke
drawn up by the mouth-piece E in the manner as shown by the arrows; atten-
tion should be paid in emptying the reservoir C before knocking out the
ashes, for which purpose the mouth-piece E is momentarily removed; the
canal A requires to be cleaned from time to time, to do which it will be
necessary to draw out the plug B and pass an ordinary pipe-cleaner up the
canal A.
The Figs. 3 & 4 show a bore and shape of pipe differing slightly from
that represented in the Figs. 1 & 2. It will be understood that though the
general arrangement of the bore remains unaltered the same requires to be
modified more or less according to the particular shape of the pipe, which
latter may be made as usual of briar, meerschaum, amber, pipe-clay, porcelain,
or any other suitable material.
What forms the main or characteristic feature of this improved construc-
tion of smoking pipes is, that any liquid deriving from the mouth of the
smoker is carried into the reservoir C, and that the connecting hole a, by

page_text: means of which the smoke is allowed of being drawn up at once from the
bowl D and canal A into the mouth-piece E, is situated in such position as
to prevent any liquid contained in the reservoir C from re-entering into the
bowlD,in consequence of which the tobacco contained in this latter will remain
dry and burn agreeably to the last particle, and the formation of nicotine
juice be entirely prevented.
Having thus described and particularly ascertained the nature of this
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be carried into
effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not confine or restrict myself to
the precise details or shape of the arrangements above described, as many
variations may be made therefrom without deviating from the principles
or main features of the said Invention; but what I consider 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 of
this improved description of pipes for smoking tobacco, substantially as above
described and illustrated in the Drawings hereunto annexed and for the
purposes set down.
In witness whereof, I, the said George White, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
GEO. WHITE. (L.S.)