Improvements in Tobacco Pipes, Cigar and Cigarette Holders.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 11th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 13th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tobacco Pipes, Cigar and Cigarette Holders.
I GEORG FRIEDRICH EICH II of Erbach (Odenwald) in the Empire of
Germany Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide an improved absorbent plug for pipes,
cigar and cigarette holders, by means of which the nicotine and the flow of saliva
be readily absorbed, thereby rendering smoking more healthy and dry.
I am aware that attempts have heretofore been made. to insert so-called absorbent
plugs in the stems of pipes, cigar and cigarette holders for the purpose of the
absorption of the nicotine and saliva.
In carrying out my invention I employ a tubular body-made of suitable
material to the one end of which I fit the mouth piece and to the other end I fit
the bowl of the pipe, or the holder proper, of the cigar or cigarette holder. The
tubular body is provided at one end with a thin tube, which communicates with the
bowl of the pipe or the holder proper of the cigar or cigarette holder.
At the mouth piece I insert a tube of sufficient length and diameter to cover and
surround the above mentioned thin tube. By means of this arrangement the smoke
is driven in a zigzag way and I fulfill the double purpose of depositing the saliva
coming from the month and the nicotine coming from the bowl of the pipe or the
end of the cigar or cigarrette holder-in the tube. These deposits may be easily
removed when required.
The tube is preferably made of glass and held in the stem by means of suitably
shaped pieces of cork.
The tubular continuation of the mouth piece is arranged in such a manner that
the part nearest the mouth piece is separated from the part near the bowl or holder
end and the part nearest the mouth piece is communicating with the inner part of
the inserted tube by means of suitable holes or openings at the side.
In the accompanying illustrative drawings-
Fig. 1. shows a section of my improved absorbent plug for pipes, cigar and
cigarette holders.
Fig. 2. shows a section of a modification of same.
A is the mouth piece attached to which is a tube C-preferably made of glass
which ends in the stem B at its other end.
The glass tubes are held in position by cork pieces E (F).
A divided tube D is attached to the mouthpiece, the hole or bore of which
mouthpiece a communicates with the inner part of the tube, through openings b.
The smoke goes in a zigzag way through space c-through the escape tube d—
which is fitted and passes part of the way into space c.
My invention may be constructed vice versa, i.e. B can be made the mouthpiece
and A the part nearest the bowl end of the pipe or cigar or cigarette end of the
holder.
Dated this 12th day
December 1893
CHARLES WILLIAM JULIUS NOLTE,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Tobacco Pipes, Cigar and Cigarette Holders.
I, GEORG FRIEDRICH EICH II of Erbach (Odenwald) in the Empire of
Germany, Manufacturer, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to render the smoking of pipes, and of cigars and
cigarettes, when a holder is used, more agreeable and less detrimental to the smoker
than has hitherto been the case, by providing the pipe or holder with means for
catching the saliva and the moisture and nicotine and preventing the same from
passing into the mouth. To this end my invention consists in providing the stem
of the pipe, or the holder itself, with a trap or interceptor, consisting of a chamber
containing a short tube which projects from one end of the chamber and a nozzle
which projects from the other end of the chamber and enters said tube, the tube
being provided with a partition which cuts off direct communication between the
bowl of the pipe (or the outer end of the holder) and the mouthpiece, and with
lateral openings which communicate with the chamber at the opposite side of the
partition to that on which the nozzle is situated and give passage to the smoke
which as it is inhaled passes in a zig-zag direction through the trap or interceptor.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming part of this
Specification, wherein sectional views of cigar or cigarette holders are shewn.
will, however, of course be understood that the invention is equally applicable to
a pipe.
It
The chamber is preferably a cylindrical glass vessel C open at one end to
permit of its attachment either to the mouthpiece A, as in Figure 1, or to the stem
portion B, as in Figure 3, and formed in one with the inwardly-directed nozzle d which
enters a sufficient distance into the oppositely directed tube D to cause the smoke
as it is inhaled to pass into the tubular portion D from whence it passes into the
chamber C, and thence through the lateral apertures b, the tube D having a
partition c which prevents the smoke passing direct from the bowl of the pipe, etc.,
to the mouth. In this manner the smoke is caused to take a zig-zag course and
the moisture and nicotine are intercepted and deposited within the trap which can
be readily cleaned when found necessary. The vessel C and the tube D are secured
in place preferably by cork washers E, F.
In Figure 2 the chamber C is not enclosed in the stem, as in Figure 1, but it
forms a continuation of the latter and is provided at its inner end with a socket in
which the stem is retained by the cork packing F.
Figure 3 shews a modification in which the positions occupied by the tube D
and the nozzle d are the reverse of those shewn in the other two figures.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what munner the same is to be performed, I would observe that I
am aware that it has been before proposed to provide the stems of pipes and cigar
and cigarette holders with plugs to absorb moisture, etc., but I declare that what I
claim is :-
A pipe, or a holder for a cigar or cigarette, provided with the improved trap or
interceptor substantially as described and shewn in the drawings.
Dated this 11th day of September 1894.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.