AN IMPROVED PIPE TUBE OR STEM
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Matthew Semple, of Stonehouse, Plymouth, in the
County of Devon, Gentleman, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED PIPE
TUBE OR STEM."
Sealed the 29th October 1857, and dated the 6th May 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Matthew Semple at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 6th
May 1857.
I, MATTHEW SEMPLE, of Stonehouse, Plymouth, in the County of Devon,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED PIPE TUBE OR STEM," to be as follows:-
:
My Invention consists in making pipe tubes or stems with a well or
reservoir for receiving the essential oil, formed in one piece with the tube, and
I prefer to manufacture such tubes in glass, and to make the mouthpiece flat
in order to suit the lips. These tubes will be found very pleasant to the
mouth, and can be easily cleaned by washing with water.. It will be found
useful before fitting the stem of the pipe bowl in the tube to place a piece of
muslin or other like material over the stem, the muslin then acts as a filter.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Matthew Semple in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 6th
November 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MATTHEW
SEMPLE, of Stonehouse, Plymouth, in the County of Devon, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Matthew Semple, Her special licence that I, the said Matthew Semple,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Matthew Semple, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after. 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
IMPROVED PIPE TUBE OR STEM," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Matthew Semple, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particu-
larly 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 Matthew Semple, do hereby declare the
nature of my 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 Drawings hereunto annexed, that is to
say:
My Invention consists in making pipe tubes or stems with a well or
reservoir for receiving the essential oil, formed in one piece with the tube, and
I prefer to manufacture such tubes in glass (though they may be made in
other material), and to make the mouthpiece flat in order to suit the lips.
These tubes will be found very pleasant to the mouth, and can be easily
cleaned by washing with water. It will be found useful before fitting the
stem of the pipe bowl in the tube to place a piece of muslin or other like
material over the stem, the muslin then acts as a filter.
Figure 1 of the annexed Drawings is a side elevation of a pipe stem con-

page_text: structed according to my Invention fitted to a bowl; Figure 2 shews the
tube with a cigar inserted therein; Figure 3 is a side elevation, and Figure 4
a section, through the line a, b, of Figure 3, of a stem or tube with a
reservoir of a different form.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, the constructing
of pipe tubes or stems with a well or reservoir for receiving the essential oil
from tobacco, in the manner herein-before described, and represented in the
Drawings annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Matthew Semple, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of November, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-seven.
M. SEMPLE. (L.S.)