Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 8th June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 6th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 6th Apr., 1895
I, HERBERT MOY THOMAS of 222 Walworth Road in the County of Surrey
Coppersmith do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention relates to improvements in tobacco pipes and cigar and cigarette
holders.
In tobacco pipes and the like as ordinarily constructed the bore opens at the tip
of the mouthpiece, and the smoke issuing therefrom in a more or less heated state
impinges directly upon the tongue of the smoker.
This is both unpleasant and injurious causing soreness of the tongue in some cases
resulting in disease of a serious nature such as cancer.
Now the object of the present invention is to so construct the pipe or the like
that the smoke drawn from the bowl in the act of smoking instead of impinging
upon the tongue will be deflected or thrown back in the direction of the bowl of
the pipe by which means any unpleasant or injurious heating of the tongue is
entirely obviated.
In carrying the invention into effect in lieu of continuing the bore through the
tip of the mouthpiece it is caused to terminate some little distance short thereof
and at the sides of the mouthpiece and covered by the tip or enlargement thereof
are formed two ways communicating with the bore of the pipe and arranged at an
acute angle thereto or nearly parallel therewith, so that the smoke drawn from the
bowl will be deflected and caused to issue therefrom in a direction away from the
tongue of the smoker and towards the bowl of the pipe.
.
In lieu of forming two angular ways in the manner hereinbefore described one or
more than two such ways may be employed if desired and such way or ways may
be arranged at the top or bottom or top and bottom of the mouthpiece in lieu of at
the side or sides thereof, but the arrangement firstly herein before described is the
preferred one.
By the means hereinbefore described at little or no additional cost, a pipe or the
like is rendered harmless so far as the objections hereinbefore pointed out are
concerned, and may be smoked with greater comfort than heretofore.
Dated this 6th day of June 1894.
WHITE & WOODINGTON,
27, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tobacco. Pipes and Cigar and Cigarette Holders.
I, HERBERT MOY THOMAS of 222 Walworth Road in the County of Surrey
Coppersmith 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 invention relates to improvements in tobacco pipes and cigar and cigarette
holders.

page_text: drawn from the bowl a will be deflected by the angular ways ³ and caused to issue
therefrom in a direction away from the tongue of the smoker and towards the bowl a
of the pipe.
In addition to preventing the smoke impinging directly upon the tongue of the
smoker the device hereinbefore described also possesses the advantage that saliva
from the mouth of the smoker is prevented from finding its way through the bore h²
of the mouth-piece into the pipe.
This although perhaps not generally recognised is a common cause of the
accumulation of moisture in an ordinary pipe; the presence of such moisture is
more largely attributable to that cause than to the more generally accepted theory
that it all results from the condensation of vapour from the tobacco.
In lieu of employing two angular lateral ways 63 as hereinbefore described, only
one of such ways may if desired be employed, but the hereiubefore described
arrangement is the preferred one.
In the example given at Figures. 5, 6, and 7 only one angular way is employed
and which is arranged upon the upper side of the mouth-piece but it will be
evident that in lieu of its being formed on the upper side it might be arranged on
the underside thereof as indicated by the dotted lines in Figure 6.
In this example also and as shown at Figure 5 the pipe is fitted with an absorber c
of soft clay or the like and which is well known and in common use in order that
any slight moisture produced by the condensation of vapour from the tobacco and
accumulating in the stem may be taken up or absorbed.
In the example given at Figure 8 two vertically disposed angular ways b³ are
employed that is to say the device is similar to that represented at Figure 6 with
the exception that a second way b³ is arranged beneath the mouth-piece b.
In the example given at Figure 9 which represents a cigar or cigarette tube or
holder the arrangement of the angular ways is similar to that represented at
Figure 4 and needs no special description.
Although the arrangement herein first described is the preferred form of the
invention it will be evident that the device may be varied without departing from
the spirit of the invention, provided the effect thereof is to deflect the smoke
towards the bowl of the pipe.
By the means hereinbefore described at little or no additional cost a pipe or the
like is rendered harmless so far as the objections herein before pointed out are
concerned, and may be smoked with greater comfort than heretofore.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A tobacco pipe or cigar or like holder or a mouth-piece therefor provided
with means for shielding the end of the bore and deflecting the smoke issuing
therefrom into the mouth away from the tongue and towards the bowl substantially
as herein shown and described and for the purpose stated.
2. A tobacco pipe or cigar or like holder or a mouth-piece therefor formed with
a bore closed at the end and provided with one or more angular ways communicating
with the bore and directed towards the bowl of the pipe substantially as herein
shown and described and for the purpose stated.
Dated this 6th day of March 1895.
WHITE & WOODINGTON,
27, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents.