IMPROVE- MENTS IN PIPES FOR SMOKING TOBACCO OR OTHER HERBACEOUS COMPOUNDS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Alfred Distin, of Tavistock Row, Covent
Garden, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN PIPES FOR SMOKING TOBACCO OR OTHER HERBACEOUS COMPOUNDS."
Sealed the 30th June 1863, and dated the 2nd January 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Alfred Distin
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd January 1868.
I, WILLIAM ALFRED DISTIN, of Tavistock Row, Covent Garden, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES FOR SMOKING TOBACCO OR OTHER HERBACEOUS
COMPOUNDS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to certain improvements upon a former Invention, for
which Letters Patent were granted to me, the said William Alfred Distin, dated
3rd January 1856, numbered 18, for the Invention of "Improvements in
Pipes for Smoking," and the present improvements consist in an improved
mode of connecting the tube of the pipe to the bowl thereof, for which purpose
said tube and bowl are formed as follows:-The upper end of the bowl, which
may be of any suitable substance or material, has a shallow recess formed
therein with annular grooves; said grooves communicating, by a passage
formed along and in the substance of the side of the bowl, with a reservoir at
bottom thereof for the passage of oil from the tobacco or other herb. Into said
recess a flange piece fits, said flange piece being fixed around the lower part

page_text: of the tube or stem of the pipe; a part of said tube extends beyond and below
said flange piece, and such extended part fits into the upper end of the bowl
of the pipe after the smoking herb has been placed therein to a level with one
or more small holes made through said bowl, for lighting the contents thereof,
and for admitting air thereto. There is a hole or holes formed in the side of this
part of the stem or tube, corresponding with the hole or holes through the side
of the bowl, as before described, so that when it is required to light the pipe
or put it out, the same may be done by the smoker holding the bowl of the
pipe with one hand, and turning the tube or stem thereof partly round with
the other hand, stop pins being adapted to the flange piece of the tube and
bowl to ensure the proper opening and closing of the orifices in the bowl; or
the same result may be obtained by constructing the tube or stem to lift up
and push down. There is a hole formed across the tube of the pipe just above
the flange piece before mentioned. A dome-shaped piece of thin metal fits air-
tight around the aforesaid tube or stem and the upper part of the bowl of the
pipe, and forms a chamber for the smoke, which passes from the bottom of
the bowl up a channel in the side of said bowl, as in the bowl described in
the Specification of the aforesaid former Patent, thence the smoke passes by
the cross hole up the hole in the tube or stem to the mouth of the smoker.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Alfred Distin in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 2nd July 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ALFRED DISTIN, of Tavistock Row, Covent Garden, in the County of Middlesex,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Alfred Distin, Her special licence that I, the said William
Alfred Distin, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said William Alfred Distin, 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

page_text: "IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES FOR SMOKING TOBACCO OR OTHER HERBACEOUS COM-
POUNDS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William
Alfred Distin, 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 William Alfred Distin, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to certain improvements upon a former Invention, for
which Letters Patent were granted to. me, the said William Alfred Distin,
dated 3rd January 1856, numbered 18, for the Invention of "Improvements
in Pipes for Smoking," and the present improvements consist in an improved
mode of connecting the tube of the pipe to the bowl thereof, for which purpose
said tube and bowl. are formed as follows:-The upper end of the bowl, which
may be of any suitable substance or material, has a shallow recess formed
therein with annular grooves; said grooves communicating, by a passage
formed along and in the substance of the side of the bowl, with a reservoir at
bottom thereof for the passage of oil from the tobacco or other herb. Into
said recess a flange piece fits, said flange piece being fixed around the lower
part of the tube or stem of the pipe; a part of said tube extends beyond and
below said flange piece, and such extended part fits into the upper end of the
bowl of the pipe after the smoking herb has been placed therein to a level with
one or more small holes made through said bowl for lighting the contents
thereof, and for admitting air thereto. There is a hole or holes formed in the
side of this part of the stem or tube, corresponding with the hole or holes
through the side of the bowl, as before described, so that when it is required
to light the pipe or put it out, the same may be done by the smoker holding
the bowl of the pipe with one hand, and turning the tube or stem thereof
partly round with the other hand, stop pins being adapted to the flange piece
of the tube and bowl to ensure the proper opening and closing of the orifices
in the bowl; or the same result may be obtained by constructing the tube or
stem to lift up and push down. There is a hole formed across the tube of the
pipe just above the flange piece before mentioned. A dome-shaped piece of
thin metal fits air-tight around the aforesaid tube or stem and the upper part
of the bowl of the pipe, and forms a chamber for the smoke, which passes from

page_text: the bottom of the bows up a cual
described in the Specification of the aforesaid former Patent, thence the smoke
passes by the cross hole up the hole in the tube or stem to the mouth of the
smoker.
And in order to explain my said Invention more completely, I will now
proceed to describe the best means by which this Invention may be carried
into practical effect, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet of
Drawing, and to the letters and figures marked thereon.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents a section of a pipe constructed according to my
Invention; Figure 2 is a section, and Figure 3 an elevation, of a modification
of the same.
.
A is the body or bowl of the pipe, composed of wood or other suitable
material; B is the flange piece, which fits in a groove or recess in the upper
part of the bowl. To this flange piece is fitted the stem C of the pipe. D is
a metal cap, which fits on the bowl of the pipe, and secures the same to the
stem C. E is an air hole formed in the flange piece or in the bowl as desired
for allowing the air to enter the interior of the bowl A. This hole may be
closed at will by a metal slide placed on the outside of the bowl. G is a cover
of metal or wood, which fits on the bottom of the bowl and forms a reservoir G¹
for the oil and other matters produced when smoking tobacco; H is a channel
for the passage of the smoke from the bowl to the stem of the pipe.
Having now fully described the nature and object of my said Invention
of "Improvements in Pipes for Smoking Tobacco or other Herbaceous
Compounds," together with the best means I am acquainted with for carrying
the same into practical effect, I hereby declare my Invention to consist in, and
I claim, the improved mode above described with reference to the accompany-
ing Sheet of Drawing, of forming the bowls of pipes and the mode of connecting
the tube thereto.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Alfred Distin, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Second day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
WILLIAM ALFRED DISTIN. (L.S.)