IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES AND CIGAR HOLDERS
Year: 1879

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Jules Marinier at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 21st October 1879.
JULES MARINIER, of Paris (France), Chemist. "IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES AND
CIGAR HOLDERS."
The object of this Invention is to provide means of depriving tobacco smoke of
its acrid and poisonous properties before it reaches the mouth of the smoker.
Various devices for gaining this end have already been proposed, but they have all
been more or less unsuccessful; in some cases the smoke has been cooled and
condensed by being caused to pass through a liquid in a reservoir placed between
the pipe bowl and the mouth piece, but this method has had the great drawback that
the smoker has been obliged to hold the pipe horizontal, so as to prevent the liquid
running either down the stem or into the bowl.
Now the present Invention is intended to apply in an efficacious and practicable
manner the principle of interposing a liquid in the smoke passage of pipes and
cigar or cigarette holders. The chief feature of the Invention consists in the
arrangement of the reservoir in such manner that the liquid therein cannot escape,
no matter in what position the pipe is held.
My device is composed of several distinct parts, which can be separated from
each other at will, so as to be utilized separately if required; these parts are (1), the
bowl; (2), the holder or support for the bowl or for a cigar or cigarette; (3), the
condenser; (4), the reservoir; (5), the stem for conveying the smoke to the inouth;
and (6), a bent tube for conducting the smoke to the reservoir.
The bowl may be of any desired form; the bowl of a broken pipe can be used.
The holder or support (which forms a sort of first condenser) for receiving the
bowl or a cigar or cigarette consists of a tube open at one end, where it is fitted with a
movable ring for adjusting the bowl; its other end is narrowed, and formed to
receive the bent tube, and there is a screw thread at a short distance from this end
to enable it to be screwed to the condenser.
The condenser is made of wood, clay, meerschaum, glass, or other suitable
material, and has three openings, to which are respectively screwed or otherwise.
connected the holder, the stem, and the reservoir; it may be of any desired form,
and is hollow, so as to allow of the passage of the smoke, which it condenses and
cools afresh on its leaving the reservoir before reaching the stem. It also contains
the bent tube which leads from the holder to the reservoir.
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page_text: The reservoir is the most important part of the device; it may be made of glass,
porcelain, clay, wood, bone, cork, hardened rubber, or other suitable material; its
form will vary according to whether the pipe is to be supported by the mouth, the
hand, or on a table.
It serves chiefly to regulate the strength which the smoker wishes to give to the
smoke. I make this reservoir of special construction, as about to be described; it
will generally be of glass enclosed in a jacket, which is screwed to the condenser ;
in the mouth of the reservoir is fitted an inverted frustum of a cone open at its lower
or narrow end, the space between this cone and the sides of the reservoir being
sufficient to contain the liquid when the reservoir is inverted, thus the liquid when
once inserted into the reservoir cannot run out, but to enable the reservoir to be
cleaned its lower end is open and fitted with a stopper. The liquid I employ is
by preference water, but rose water, mint water, brandy, tar water, or other
perfumed or medicinal liquid may be used; or an absorbent or porous body, such
as sponge, cotton, or nicotianic paper, may be used instead of a liquid.
The stem leading to the mouth may be of any form, and rigid or flexible; it
may project a little into the condenser in order to keep clear of any liquid which
may enter the latter,
The bent tube for conducting the smoke from the holder to the reservoir is of
such a diameter as to pass freely through the mouth of the reservoir, and leave
sufficient space for the smoke after it escapes from the liquid to pass from the
reservoir into the condenser.