A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CLEANING THE PLUGS AND STEMS OF SMOKING PIPES AND CIGAR TUBES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hermann Adolph Reinhold, of Woolwich, in
the County of Kent, Mechanician, for the Invention of "A NEW
OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CLEANING THE PLUGS AND STEMS OF SMOKING
PIPES AND CIGAR TUBES."
Scaled the 30th May 1876, and dated the 2nd December 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hermann Adolph
Reinhold at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 2nd December 1875.
I, HERMANN ADOLPH REINHOLD, of Woolwich, in the County of
Kent, Mechanician, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CLEANING THE PLUGS AND STEMS OF
SMOKING PIPES AND CIGAR TUBES," to be as follows:-
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This Invention relates to a simple, effective, economical, and durable
apparatus for cleaning the plugs and the interior of smoking pipes and
cigar tubes, which the Inventor designates the "Unicum Pipe and Cigar
Tube Cleaner," and consists of a thin rod of brass or other metal of any
convenient length jointed or not as preferred to enable it to be folded

page_text: into a small compass and contained within a convenient pocket case or
holder. One end of the said thin metal rod is formed with a loop or
other convenient handle, and its opposite end, which is to be flattened,
or of an oval, square, or triangular section, is twisted axially so as to
form a screw thread or spiral extending a convenient distance up the
stem, the edges or angles of the spirals forming scraping surfaces for
removing the deposit from the inside of the plug or tube, into which it
is introduced by turning it as in the act of screwing. After cleaning the
pipe or cigar tube any deposit adhering to the spiral or twist on the end
of the cleaner can be readily removed by turning the cleaner in the
reverse direction whilst held by a wiper between the finger and
thumb.
The stem of the cleaner may be of a round section if preferred, but
the portion on which the spiral is formed must be either flat, oval, or
formed with angular edges to produce the desired spiral scraping thread
or threads.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Hermann Adolph Reinhold in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 2nd June 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HERMANN
ADOLPH REINHOLD, of Woolwich, in the County of Kent, Mechanician,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in
the thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Hermann Adolph Reinhold,
Her special license that I, the said Hermann Adolph Reinhold, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Hermann Adolph Reinhold, 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 "A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR

page_text: CLEANING THE PLUGS AND STEMS OF SMOKING PIPES AND CIGAR TUBES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Hermann Adolph Reinhold,
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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Hermann Adolph Reinhold, 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 statement thereof, reference being had to the
accompanying Drawings and to the letters and figures marked thereon,
that is to say :-
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My said Invention relates to a simple, effective, economical, and
durable apparatus for cleaning the boles in the plugs of smoking pipes,
and for removing any deposit contained in the stems of smoking pipes
and cigar tubes, which apparatus I designate the "Unicum Pipe and
Cigar Tube Cleaner."
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood I
shall now proceed particularly to describe the same, and for that
purpose shall refer to the Figures on the annexed Sheet of Drawings,
the same letters of reference indicating corresponding parts in both the
Figures.
Figure 1 of my Drawings is a full-sized side elevation of my improved
cleaner, and Figure 2 is an edge view of the same folded for the pocket.
a is a thin rod of brass or other metal of any convenient length jointed
or not at 6 as preferred, or at as many more points as may be deemed
advisable to enable it to be folded into a small compass (see Figure 2),
and contained within a convenient pocket case or holder. One end of
the said thin metal rod is formed with a loop or other convenient
handle c, and its opposite end, which is to be flattened or of an oval,
square, or triangular section, is twisted axially so as to produce screw
threads or spirals & thereon, which extend a convenient distance up the
said rod or stem, the edges or angles of the spirals forming scraping
surfaces for removing the deposit from the inside of the plug or tube,
into which the cleaner is introduced by turning it as in the act of

page_text: screwing. After cleaning the plug, pipe, or cigar tube the deposit con-
tained between the several spirals on the end of the cleaner can be
readily removed by turning the cleaner in the reverse direction whilst
held by a wiper between the finger and thumb.
The upper portion of the stem, or that which intervenes between the
handle of the cleaner and the spiral portion, may be of a round section
if preferred, but the portion on which the spiral is to be formed should
be either flat, oval, or formed with angular edges to produce the desired
spiral scraping surfaces.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my :
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used
or carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I con-
sider 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
peculiar construction of cleaner for the plugs and stems of smoking:
pipes and cigar tubes, having its end twisted axially so as to form spirals
thereon, as herein-before described and illustrated by my Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Hermann Adolph Reinhold, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Second day of June, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.