New or Improved Tobacco Pipe Cleaner.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 10th July, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 6th Apr., 1895-Accepted, 18th May, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Tobacco Pipe Cleaner.
I, PERCY ELFORD, of St. John's College, Oxford, Fellow and Lecturer at
the same College, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
follows:-
as
My invention has for its object a new or improved device for cleaning the
straight or approximately straight stems of tobacco and like pipes.
For this purpose I use a piece of wire of suitable length and thickness and of
round, square or other desirable section. At one end of this wire I form a handle
by bending said wire at a suitable distance from this end so that one part of the
wire lies at right angles to the other. The shorter portion of the wire so bent, is
bent back at a point above two thirds of its length from its free end through an
angle of 180° thus forming a cross piece or handle. The free end of this unbent
portion of the wire is flattened and then bent to the form of a half tube, so forming
a recess or scoop in which the deposit in the pipe stem may be collected and
withdrawn. The end of the scoop is either with or without a twist or screw.
Dated this 10th dox of Tule 1804
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
1, PERCY ELFORD, of St. John's College, Oxford, in the County of Oxford,
Fellow and Lecturer at the same College, 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 has for its object a new or improved device for cleaning the
straight or approximately straight stems of tobacco and like pipes.
.
For this purpose I use a piece of wire of suitable length and thickness, and of
round, square, or other desirable section. At one end of this wire I form a handle
by bending said wire at a suitable distance from this end, so that one part of the
wire lies at right angles to the other. The shorter portion of the wire so bent is
bent back at a point about three-fourths of its length from its free end through an
angle of 180°, and the end of the remaining unbent portion bent through an angle
of 180° at a point about a third of its length from its free end, the whole thus
forming a cross-piece or handle. The opposite end of the wire to that which has
been bent to form a handle is flattened and then bent to the form of a half tube, so
forming a recess or scoop in which the deposit in the pipe stem may be collected.
and withdrawn.
In the accompanying drawing,
Fig. 1 is a perspective view, of a pipe cleaner constructed according to my
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page_text: This is formed of a wire a bent at one end as shown to form a handle a', whilst
at its opposite end it is either flattened out and the edges of the flattened portion
curved towards one another, or is otherwise so shaped as to give it a semi-
cylindrical, or approximately semi-cylindrical section as shown in Fig. 2.
The end of the scoop is either with, or without, a twist or screw.
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 :-
A pipe cleaner consisting of a wire bent at one end to form a handle and shaped
to form a scoop at its opposite end substantially as described and illustrated in the
..accompanying drawing.
+ $6
Invention
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CASTLE SMITH,
Office, 54; Fleet Street, London,' E:C.,
Agent for the Applicant.