A Tobacco Pipe with New and Improved Bore Cleaning Arrangements.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 17th May, 1889-Accepted, 22nd June, 1889
A Tobacco Pipe with New and Improved Bore Cleaning
Arrangements.
I THOMAS LANCASHIRE HARDY now residing at 106 Milkwood Road Herne Hil
London Exporter of Merchandise do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
This pipe is constructed with two bores one of which is used to carry the cleaning
instrument, which instrument may be roughly described as a Ramrod or Rammer.
The two bores run parallel and may be called respectively the draught bore and the
Ramrod hore. In the form which I value the most, the pipe is constructed in two
parts the mouthpiece and howlpiece, and the ramrod bore is in the bowl piece only
while in this form of the invention the Ramrod itself is made to fold-being in this
case semicilindrical in form except at the end. In this form the Ramrod bore is
situated under the draught bore commencing at the pipe joint and may either be
bored through to the outside of the pipe, so that the folded Ramrod may be with-
drawn from the outside of the pipe at the bottom of the bowl, or the ramrod bore
may terminate before coming to the outside so that the folded Ramrod can only be
withdrawn from the inside after disconnecting the mouth-piece and bowl piece.
In another form of this invention the ramrod bore may commence at the front
base of the pipe bowl, and may terminate under the opening of the draught-bore, at
the mouth piece end.
In another form the ramrod bore may commence alongside the dranght bore, at the
mouth piece end, and may terminate in the base of the bowl.
Dated 27th day of August 1888
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Tobacco Pipe with New and Improved Bore-cleaning
Arrangements.
I THOMAS LANCASHIRE HARDY formerly residing at 106 Milkwood Road, Herne
Hill, London, but now residing at 15 Barton Street, Moss Side Manchester,
Exporter of Merchandise 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 relates to the combination, of a Tobacco Pipe, with a folding cleaner,
which cleaner, when open, is so long, as to be thoroughly efficient, but which when
shut becomes so short as to go into convenient compass-The Pipe is constructed,
with two hores one of which is used to carry the folding cleaning instrument.
1 append drawings to this specification, which will render the description easier and
more clear. The cleaner, which is shewn in the drawings, as partly folded at A, as
shut at B, and as open ready for use at C is semi-cilindrical, in form except at the end
which may be called the head. It is constructed in two halves or parts, which are
connected by a pin, and which fold upon each other. The bore shewn at D, which is
made to carry the cleaner, may be made as shewn in Fig. 1 and Fig. 3, so that the
cleaner can be withdrawn from the outside, or it may be made as in Fig. 2 so that
the cleaner can only be withdrawn after disconnecting the bowlpiece from the mouth-
piece. The bore which is used to carry the cleaner is shewn in Fig. 1 and in Fig. 2
as being constructed in the Bowlpiece only, but it may be made as in Fig. 3, where it
is shewn as partly in the Bowlpiece and partly in the mouthpiece or the pipe itself
may be made entirely in one piece. The cleaner may be made in Brass, Silver, or in

page_text: any supple-tempered metal, or in any other suitable material. The cleaner, when
carried as in Fig. 1 and in Fig. 3, may be made to, securely retain its position by
having a slightly arched or bent form given to one half, which then acts as a spring
and holds the cleaner in place.
The cleaner when carried enclosed as in. Fig. 2' may fit somewhat, loosely in its
carrying bore, so that it can be made to drop out easily, when the mouthpiece, is
disconnected.
The form of the head of the cleaner, may be varied but I prefer a plainly
cilindrical form to any other, it may be made to fit somewhat closely in the draught
bore, so that being pressed through it will expel, the entire contents.
The joint pin of the cleaner can be made as a portion of one; of the halves of the
cleaner, or as a seperate piece. The cleaner is shewn in the drawings as made with
a slight circular indentation round the end of the head to facilitate withdrawal, when
required for use. The drawing is made to scale, but the pipe may be made of any
suitable size and the proportion of the parts to each other may be varied. The Pipe
may be and is intended to be varied in shape, and may include such curves, as a
flexable folding cleaner will adapt itself to. The Pipe may be made in Clay, Brier,
Meerchaum, or other suitable materials.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. The invention of a folding cleaner adapted to be combined with a pipe.
2. The combination of a Pipe with a folding cleaner, substantially such as
described.