IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES AND CIGAR TUBES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Raoul Paul Faucheux, of Paris, in the Empire of
France, but at present residing at Caversham Road, Kentish Town, in
the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES
AND CIGAR TUBES."
Sealed the 17th March 1868, and dated the 7th October 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Raoul Paul Faucheux
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th October 1867.
I, RAOUL PAUL FAUCHEUX, of Paris, in the Empire of France, but at
present residing at Caversham Road, Kentish Town, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN PIPES AND CIGAR TUBES," to be as follows:-
The Invention has for its object improvements in pipes and cigar tubes, and
relates to the application of means whereby the nicotine and other condensible
noxious vapours given off during smoking are arrested and prevented passing
into the mouth of the smoker. For this purpose I form on or fix to the stem
of the pipe or cigar tube a pointed tube, which enters a tube or reservoir
placed on the stem of the pipe or cigar tube; I also employ another pointed
tube, which also enters the tube or reservoir, which may be fixed at the middle,
end, or other suitable part of the stem of the pipe or cigar tube. If desired
the tube or reservoir may be supplied with water, and in some cases I form
such reservoir in two parts separated from each other by a portion of the stem

page_text: of the pipe or cigar tube, each part having one of the pointed tubes entering
therein.
The action of the pipe or cigar tube during smoking is as follows:-The
nicotine and other condensible noxious vapours contained in the smoke pass
up the stem of the pipe or cigar tube, and are collected in the reservoir either
with or without the addition of water therein, the smoke passing to the mouth
deprived to a great extent of the nicotine and other condensible noxious
vapours contained therein.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Raoul Paul Faucheux in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 7th April 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RAOUL
PAUL FAUCHEUX, of Paris, in the Empire of France, but at present residing
at Caversham Road, Kentish Town, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Raoul Paul Faucheux, Her special licence that I, the said
Raoul Paul Faucheux, executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Raoul Paul Faucheux, 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 PIPES AND CIGAR TUBES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Raoul Paul Faucheux, 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 Raoul Paul Faucheux, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to

page_text: deprived to a great extent of the nicotine and other condensible noxious
vapours contained therein.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the mode in
which I carry the samo into effect, I would have it understood that I do not
confine myself to the precise details herein shown and described, as such may
be varied without departing from the peculiar character of my Invention; but
what I do claim is. the combined improvements in pipes and cigar tubes
substantially as herein shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Raoul Paul Faucheux, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
RAOUL FAUCHEUX. (L.B.)
Witness,
B. J. B. MILLS,
Patent Agent,
35, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane, London.