An Improved Device for Cleaning Tobacco-pipes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 20th Oct., 1894
An Improved Device for Cleaning Tobacco-pipes.
1, David GRIFFITH LEWIS, of 28 Bailey Street, Brynmaur, Breconshire,
Grocers Assistant, 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 :-
My invention relates to an improved device for cleaning tobacco-pipes, and has
for its object to provide means for use in cleaning tobacco-pipes (where such
cleaning is performed by blowing through the bowl), that will prevent the
accumulated nicotine, tobacco ash or the like finding its way into the mouth or
soiling the lips of the person cleaning the pipe, while at the same time the
employment of handkerchiefs or the like to place over the bowl will be dispensed
with.
And in order that the said invention may be the more readily understood, I have
shewn same upon the accompanying sheet of drawings, wherein :-
Fig. 1 is a plan of the device shewn separate,
Fig. 2 being a section thereof.
Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the bowl and portion of the stem of a pipe shewing
the invention applied thereto, while ;
Fig. 4 is a section of a modified form of the device.
In the method of cleaning a tobacco-pipe by blowing down the bowl of same, the
lips of the person performing the operation, had either to be placed in direct
contact with the top of the pipe-bowl, thereby exposing the operator to the risk of
getting nicotine, tobacco ash and other noxious matter upon his lips and into his
mouth or to obviate this unpleasantness, a handkerchief or the like had to be placed
over the said bowl. In this latter case the said handkerchief or other covering
invariably became stained or discoloured and caused to retain the odour of the
nicotine.
Now by my invention I provide a metal or other disc a having a number of
perforations of suitable size formed in such disc in the centre or other suitable
part of same.
The said disc a is intended to be placed over the mouth of a pipe bowl d when
such pipe bowl is to be cleaned by the process of blowing down and through the
said bowl, and will be fashioned of such a size as to fit over and cover the
mouth of an ordinary tobacco-pipe bowl. The disc a is provided with an
opening e near its edge, for the purpose of attaching same to a watch chain or the
like.
If desirable I may flange or turn-down the edge of the disc a, as shewn by a'
(Fig. 4) for the purpose of preventing same slipping off, or otherwise becoming
displaced from the mouth of the pipe bowl d.
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 improved device for use in cleaning tobacco-pipes, consisting in a disc,
flanged or otherwise around its edge, and perforated in or near the centre, and

page_text: provided with means for attaching to a watch chain or the like, substantially as
specified and illustrated.
Dated this 15th day of September 1894.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
12, Basinghall Street, London, E.C., Agents.