AN IMPROVEMENT IN TOBACCO PIPES, MOUTH-PIECES, AND CIGAR OR CIGARETTE HOLDERS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Davies, of No. 1, Serle Street, Lincoln's
Inn, in the County of Middlesex, and No. 28, St. Enoch Square, in
the City of Glasgow, Civil Engineer and Patent Agent, for the Invention
of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN TOBACCO PIPES, MOUTH-PIECES, AND CIGAR OR
CIGARETTE HOLDERS."-A communication from abroad by Messrs. Viney,
Sommer, and Hamm, all of Paris, France.
Sealed the 1st June 1860, and dated the 10th December 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Davies at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
10th December 1859.
I, GEORGE DAVIES, of No. 1, Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn, in the County of
Middlesex, and No. 28, St. Enoch Square, in the City of Glasgow, Civil
Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN TOBACCO PIPES, MOUTH-PIECES, AND CIGAR OR
CIGARETTE HOLDERS," (a communication from abroad by Messrs. Viney, Sommer,
and Hamm, all of Paris, France,) to be as follows:-
This Invention consists principally in providing the end of the pipe tube
with a cavity or chamber furnished with a hole or holes communicating with
the mouth. The oil or juice which ordinarily forms in the tube passes into
this chamber, and may run or be drawn into the mouth through the hole and

page_text: then be ejected with the saliva. This cavity or chamber, which may be of any
form, is equally applicable to all mouth-pieces or tips of pipes, and to cigar
holders and tips for cigars and cigarettes, whether of amber, bone, ivory, briar-
root, horn, silver, wood, earthenware, or other material. The cavity or
chamber may be moulded or cast of one piece with the tube, or it may be
formed of a cap, screwed or otherwise fitted to the end of the tube. The hole
or holes may be a greater or less distance from the end of the tube, but
always so as to be completely in the mouth of the smoker, so that the juice or
oil shall fall behind the teeth of the lower jaw.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Davies in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
7th June 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
DAVIES, of No. 1, Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn, in the County of Middlesex,
and No. 28, St. Enoch Square, in the City of Glasgow, Civil Engineer and
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said George Davies, Her special licence that I, the said George Davies, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
Davies, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN TOBACCO
PIPES, MOUTH-PIECES, AND CIGAR OR CIGARETTE HOLDERS," being a communication
to me from abroad by Messrs. Viney, Sommer, and Hamm, all of Paris, France,
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Davies, 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 calender months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Davies, 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 in writing, and on reference to the accompanying Drawings,
that is to say:-
This Invention consists principally in providing the end of the pipe tube
with a cavity or chamber furnished with a hole or holes communicating with
the mouth. The oil or juice which ordinarily forms in the tube passes into
this chamber, and may run or be drawn into the mouth through the hole, and
then be ejected with the saliva. This cavity or chamber, which may be of any
form, is equally applicable to all mouth-pieces or tips of pipes, and to cigar
holders and tips for cigars and cigarettes, whether of amber, bone, ivory, briar-
root, horn, silver, wood, earthenware, or other material. The cavity or
chamber may be moulded or cast of one piece with the tube, or it may be
formed of a cap, screwed or otherwise fitted to the end of the tube. The hole
or holes may be a greater or less distance from the end of the tube, but
always so arranged as to be completely in the mouth of the smoker, so that the
juice or oil shall fall behind the teeth of the lower jaw.
In order that this Invention may be perfectly understood, and that the
manner of carrying the same into practical effect may be explained more in
detail, I have annexed hereunto a Sheet of illustrative Drawings (about twice
the actual size), and have marked the same with figures and letters of
reference corresponding with those in the following explanation thereof, that
is to say:
Figure 1 represents an ordinary short clay pipe with the improvement shown
as applied thereto.
Figures 2, 3, 4, and 5 show, in section, different forms in which the chamber
may be made.
In these several Figures, a represents the ordinary hole or bore of the pipe
tube, which opens into the cavity or chamber b, which latter is pierced with a
bole c for the issue of the smoke, and also with another opening & for the
escape of the oil or juice into the mouth. The hole d may be a greater or
less distance from the extremity of the tube, but (as above stated) it should
always be so placed as to be completely in the mouth of the smoker, in order
that the juice may fall behind the teeth of the lower jaw.
In pipes made from clay, the chamber 6 may be formed in the same manner
as the bowl, or by the aid of a scoop or cutter when the clay is sufficiently soft,
or as represented in Figure 1, it may be made in a separate piece and
subsequently attached.

page_text: For mounts in amber, ivory, metal, or other material not plastic, the
method of forming the chamber will depend upon the nature of the material
employed. The effect of this arrangement may be facilitated by joining the
openings c and d by means of a slot e, as shown in section and plan at
Figures 6 and 7.
Figure 8 represents, in end view and longitudinal section, a cigar tube
constructed according to this Invention.
Having now described the nature and object of the said Invention for "An
Improvement in Tobacco Pipes, Mouth-pieces, and Cigar or Cigarette
Holders," together with the manner in which the same may be carried into
practical effect, I would remark, in conclusion, that I claim as the Invention
communicated to me the application or use of a chamber at the extremity of
the tube or mouth-piece, such chamber being pierced with one or more holes
communicating with the mouth, and either joined by a slot or otherwise, so
that the oil or juice formed in the interior of the tube may readily flow into
the mouth and be instantly ejected, as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Davies, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty.
GEORGE DAVIES.
L.S.)