Improvements in Plugs for Tobacco Pipes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left. 31st Oct.. 1889-Accepted. 7th Dec.. 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Plugs for Tobacco Pipes.
I, HERBERT Fox, of 64 Gloucester Road Regents Park, London, Middlesex,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
This Invention consists of a plug of Meerschaum or such like material to which is
attached by means of a small wire a piece of sponge. I saturate this piece of sponge
with pure Glycerine-the plug is now placed in the bowl of the pipe with the
saturated sponge underneath.
A pipe fitted with my improved plug smokes very cool and the nicotine is absorbed.
This plug can easily be removed from the pipe when required by means of the wire
which attaches the sponge to the underneath side of the plug. This plug may also be
used in connection with Cigar or Cigarette tubes or holders for the same purposes as
heretofore described. As my improvements are capable of some modifications without
departing from the principle thereof, I do not restrict myself to dimensions or exact
size of the plug and spongy inaterial attached.
Dated this 1st day of Brahma 1980
RAYNER & CASSELL,
43, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Plugs for Tobacco Pipes.
I, HERBERT Fox of 64, Gloucester Road Regents Park, London, Middlesex
Gentleman 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 consists of a plug to be placed inside an ordinary pipe for smoking
tobacco, so as to enable the pipe to smoke in a very cool manner, and to absorb all
nicotine.
I make up my improved plug in the following manner-I first take a piece of
meerschaum of a size that fits comfortably into the pipo, and this I pierce with two
or three, or more holes.
1 now make a thin disc of carbon, either animal or vegetable, and also a further disc
of pumice-stone. Both these latter articles have a hole pierced in the centre.
I now
employ a small piece of sponge, which I saturate with pure glycerine, and I put
together my plug in the following manner. With a thin piece of silvered wire I
attach the sponge to the pumice-stone, 1 then add the charcoal disc, and finally the
meerschaum.
These are all engaged together by means of the silvered wire before mentioned.
To use my plug, I place it inside the pipe with the sponge downwards and the
meerschaum it the top upon which is placed the tobacco to be smoked in the pipe.
In the smoking of a pipe provided with my improved plug no inconvenience will
be obtained from nicotine, and the pipe will be very cool.
As my improvements are capable of some modifications without departing from the
principle thereof, I do not restrict myself to materials or dimensions or to the character
of charcoal (animal or vegetable) which I may use..

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what
I claim is :
An Improved plug for tobacco pipes formed of meerschaum, carbon, pumice-stone,
and a spongey material soaked with glycerine all as herein-hefore described, and set
forth in this specification for the purposes of enabling a tobacco pipe to be smoked
cooly and to insure the absence of nicotine in the stem of the pipe.
1
1000
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.