IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PIPES FOR SMOKING
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Primerose Howard Vaughan, of 54,
Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PIPES FOR
SMOKING." A communication from abroad by Charles James Irwin
Grant, Baron de Longueuil, of the City of Montreal, Canada.
Sealed the 17th November 1868, and dated the 19th May 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Primerose
Howard Vaughan, at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with his Petition, on the 19th May 1868.
I, EDWARD PRIMEROSE HOWARD VAUGHAN, of 54, Chancery Lane,
5 in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF
PIPES FOR SMOKING," being a communication to me from abroad by
Charles James Irwin Grant, Baron de Longueuil, of the City of
Montreal, Canada, to be as follows:-

page_text: This Invention consists in certain improvements whereby portable
pipes for smoking tobacco are produced, which possess the important
advantages connected with the Oriental nargigli in which the smoke
is drawn through water.
The pipe consists essentially of four parts, that is to say, the bowl
and pipe attached thereto, the water holder or reservoir, the mouth
piece, and the joint by which the bowl and mouth piece are connected
with the water holder or reservoir. The bowl with its tube may be
of any desired and suitable form and material, as may also be the
mouth piece. The connecting joint is placed between the bowl tube
and the mouth piece, and at right angles thereto, and is secured to
the same by means of screw threads with which the several parts are
respectively provided. The upper part of the connecting joint is con-
structed with two cavities or recesses, one of which communicates with
the bowl tube, and the other with the mouth piece. A channel is formed
from the cavity or recess which communicates with the bowl tube
and is continued downwards through the connecting joint, the lower
end thereof opening into the water holder or reservoir. A small pipe
is also fixed in the connecting joint, the upper end of which pipe
opens into the cavity or recess which is in communication with the
mouth piece, the lower end of the pipe descending into the water holder
or reservoir. The water holder or reservoir is formed of any desired
and suitable shape and material, and is secured to the lower portion
of the connecting tube by means of screw threads with which the
parts brought into contact are respectively furnished. The water holder
or reservoir should be so placed with reference to the bowl and mouth
piece that very little leverage or strain upon the latter and the mouth
of the smoker shall occur. The tubes or parts may of course be
increased in number without departing from the principles of con-
struction as above described.
In order to use the pipe the bowl should be charged with tobacco,
the water holder or reservoir unscrewed and half filled with water, and
then replaced. Upon the tobacco being lighted and the pipe used
in the ordinary way the smoke will be drawn from the bowl into
the water holder or reservoir, passing through the water contained therein
and rising through the before-mentioned pipe to the mouth piece.
The result of this arrangement is, that the smoke is cooled by passing

page_text: through the water, whilst the latter takes up and retains the noxious
principles of the tobacco.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Primerose Howard Vaughan in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 19th November 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
PRIMEROSE HOWARD VAUGHAN, of 54, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Edward Primerose Howard Vaughan,
Her special licence that I, the said Edward Primerose Howard Vaughan,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Edward Primerose Howard Vaughan, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION
OF PIPES FOR SMOKING," being a communication to me from abroad by
Charles James Irwin Grant, Baron de Longueuil, of the City of
Montreal, Canada, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Edward Primerose Howard Vaughan, 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 Edward Primerose Howard
Vaughan, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described

page_text: and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had
to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the Figures marked thereon,
that is to say :-
This Invention consists in certain improvements whereby portable
pipes for smoking tobacco are produced which possess the important
advantages connected with the Oriental "nargigli" and "hookah,"
in which the smoke is drawn through water.
The pipe consists essentially of four parts, that is to say, the bowl
and pipe attached thereto, the water holder or reservoir, the mouth
piece, and the joint piece by which the bowl and mouth piece are
connected with the water holder or reservoir. The bowl with its tube
may be of any desired and suitable form and material, as may also be
the mouth piece. The connecting joint piece is placed between the
bowl tube and the mouth piece, and at right angles thereto, and is
secured to the same by means of screw threads with which the several
parts are respectively provided. The upper part of the connecting
joint piece is constructed with two cavities or recesses, one of which
communicates with the bowl tube, and the other with the mouth
piece. A channel is formed from the cavity or recess which com-
municates with the mouth piece, and is continued downwards through
the connecting joint piece, the lower end thereof opening into the
water holder or reservoir. A small pipe is also fixed in the connecting
joint piece, the upper end of which pipe opens into the cavity or recess
which is in communication with the bowl tube, the lower end of the
pipe descending into the water holder or reservoir. The water holder
or reservoir is formed of any desired and suitable shape and material,
and is secured to the lower portion of the connecting tube by means
of screw threads with which the parts brought into contact are
respectively furnished. The water holder or reservoir should be so
placed with reference to the bowl and mouth piece that very little
leverage or strain upon the latter and the mouth of the smoker shall
occur. The tubes or parts may of course be increased in number
without departing from the principles of construction as before described,
and a cigar holder may if desired .be substituted for the ordinary pipe
bowl..
In order to use the pipe the bowl should be charged with tobacco,
the water holder or reservoir unscrewed and half filled with water,

page_text: and then replaced. Upon the tobacco being lighted and the pipe used
in the ordinary way the smoke will be drawn from the bowl into
the water holder or reservoir, passing through the water contained
therein and rising through the before-mentioned channel to the mouth
piece. The result of this arrangement is, that the smoke is cooled by
passing through the water, whilst the latter takes up and retains the
and then replaced. Upon the tobacco being lighted and the pipe used
in the ordinary way the smoke will be drawn from the bowl into
the water holder or reservoir, passing through the water contained
therein and rising through the before-mentioned channel to the mouth
piece. The result of this arrangement is, that the smoke is cooled by
passing through the water, whilst the latter takes up and retains the
noxious principles of the tobacco.
I will now proceed to refer to the annexed Drawings from which
the nature of the said Invention and the modifications of which it
is capable will be more clearly understood.
Figures 1 and 2 shew in section and elevation the simplest form of
pipe constructed in accordance with this Invention, Figure 3 being
the water holder or reservoir with an end view of the connecting joint
piece; Figures 4, 5, and 6, represent in elevation and section an
arrangement in which a stop-cock is placed in the connecting joint
piece, such stop-cock being constructed with channels or apertures
therein by which the water holder can be connected with or shut off
from the bowl and mouth piece; Figure 7 is an elevation of another form
of pipe in which the same principles of construction are adopted, but
with the parts somewhat differently arranged. In this pipe the bowl
stem is inserted into what may be termed a "carrier" piece which
passes through the centre of the connecting joint piece, such "carrier"
piece being provided with channels or ducts therein capable by simply
turning the piece round of being placed in connection with the
respective communications with the water holder or reservoir and the
mouth piece, or of being disconnected therefrom, as may be desired.
These last-mentioned arrangements are shewn in Figures 8 and 9;
Figure 10 is a cigar holder capable of being screwed into the con-
necting joint piece when it is desired to use a cigar instead of an
ordinary pipe bowl.
Having thus declared and ascertained the nature of the said Invention,
and the manner in which it is to be performed, I would observe in
conclusion that what I consider novel and original and therefore claim
as constituting the Invention secured to me by the said herein-before
in part recited Letters Patent is, the combination and arrangement of
parts and mechanism in the construction of pipes for smoking,

page_text: substantially as herein-before set forth and described, or any mere
modifications thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Primerose Howard
Vaughan, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth
day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight.
E. P. H. VAUGHAN. (L.S.)