IMPROVEMENTS IN SMOKING PIPES AND CIGAR HOLDERS, AND AN IMPROVED TOBACCO CARTRIDGE TO BE USED WITH THE SAME
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Saul Myers, of Liverpool, in the County of Lan-
caster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SMOKING PIPES AND CIGAR
HOLDERS, AND AN IMPROVED TOBACCO CARTRIDGE TO BE USED WITH THE SAME."
-A communication from abroad by Elijah Miers, of New York, in the
United States of America.
Sealed the 13th March 1866, and dated the 15th September 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Saul Myers at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 15th September
1865.
I, SAUL MYERS, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SMOKING PIPES AND
CIGAR HOLDERS, AND AN IMPROVED TOBACCO CARTRIDGE TO BE USED WITH THE
SAME," to be as follows (that is to say):-
This improved smoking pipe, cigar and cartridge holder, consists of a short
hollow cylinder of wood or other suitable material, which is closed at one
end, and into the other is fitted a pipe or stem, by preference formed of
vulcanite or hard india-rubber, as a stem from that material 'may be formed
light and elegant. The under side of the cylindrical or other suitably shaped
chamber is fitted with a globular or other suitably shaped hollow vessel for
receiving the oil and other moisture. This globular or other suitably shaped
depot it is also preferred to form of ebonite, with a hollow neck or shank of
metal, the upper end of which neck is screwed or otherwise fastened into the
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page_text: under side of the cylindrical or other shaped chamber, and to the lower end
of which the body of the chamber is attached by a screw, or its mechanical
equivalent, so that the same may be readily removed to discharge any
accumulation of moisture that may collect therein. On the upper portion of
the cylindrical or other suitably shaped chamber there is a short pipe or tube,
which at a little distance upwards is fitted with a small disc or collar piece, a
little above which a screwed or tapered shoulder is formed to receive the
bowl of the pipe or tobacco cartridge, as will be herein-after described. Above
the tapered or screwed shoulder the upper end of the small tube may be
tapered, so as to enter the side or end of the cigar when the same is used for
smoking cigars, in which case the bowl herein-before described is removed,
as well as when the apparatus is used with the tobacco cartridge.
The improved tobacco cartridge consists of a cylinder of thin paper, with a
lower end or bottom formed of a piece of thin cardboard or other suitable
material, with a hole in the centre to receive the screwed tapered portion of
the tube. This cartridge is partially filled with tobacco, when the upper
portion of the paper cylinder is turned over to enclose the tobacco on the top.
The cartridge is then coated with a light solution of gum or other adhesive
liquid to receive a coating of powdered or fine tobacco. The object of
applying the small or powdered tobacco to the outside of the cartridge is to
improve the appearance thereof, and secure a uniform combustion of the paper
cylinder. It is preferred to form the paper cylinder of an inverted, truncated,
slightly conical shape. When the apparatus is used as an ordinary tobacco
pipe the bowl or head of the pipe is attached by means of the screwed or
tapered shoulder on the upper tube, and charged with tobacco in the ordinary
way. When the apparatus is required to be used for smoking cigars, or the
tobacco cartridge herein-before described, the bowl or head of the pipe is
removed, and the cigar or tobacco cartridge substituted therefor.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Saul Myers in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 15th
March 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAUL
MYERS, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord:
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of Her.

page_text: reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Saul Myers, Her special licence that I, the said Saul Myers,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Saul Myers, 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 SMOKING PIPES AND CIGAR HOLDERS, AND AN IMPROVED TOBACCO CARTRIDGE TO
BE USED WITH THE SAME," a communication to me from abroad by Elijah Myers,
of New York, in the United States of America, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Saul Myers, 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 Saul Myers, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say):--
This improved smoking pipe, cigar and cartridge holder, consists of a short
hollow cylinder of wood or other suitable material, which is closed at one
end, and in the other is fitted a pipe or stem, by preference formed of
vulcanite or hard india-rubber, as a stem from that material may be formed
light and elegant. The under side of the cylindrical or other suitably
shaped chamber is fitted with a globular or other suitably shaped vessel for
receiving the oil and other moisture. This globular or other suitably shaped
depot it is also preferred to form of ebonite, with a hollow neck or shank of
metal, the upper end of which neck is screwed or otherwise fastened into the
under side of the cylindrical or other shaped chamber, and to the lower end
of which the body of the chamber is attached by a screw, or its mechanical
equivalent, so that the same may be readily removed to discharge any
accumulation of moisture that may collect therein. On the upper portion of
the cylindrical or other suitably shaped chamber there is a short pipe or tube,
which at a little distance upwards it fitted with a small disc or collar piece, a
little above which a screwed or tapered shoulder is formed to receive the
bowl of the pipe or tobacco cartridge, as will be herein-after described.
Above the tapered or screwed shoulder the upper end of the small tube may

page_text: be tapered, so as to enter the side or end of the cigar when the same is used
for smoking cigars, in which case the bowl herein-before described is removed,
as well as when the apparatus is used with the tobacco cartridge.
The improved tobacco cartridge consists of a cylinder of thin paper, with a
lower end or bottom formed of piece of thin cardboard or other suitable
material, with a hole in the centre to receive the screwed tapered portion of
the tube. This cartridge is partially filled with tobacco, when the upper
portion of the paper cylinder is turned over to enclose the tobacco on the top.
The cartridge is then coated with a light solution of gum or other adhesive
liquid to receive a coating of powdered or fine tobacco. The object of
applying the small or powdered tobacco to the outside of the cartridge is 10
improve the appearance thereof, and secure a uniform combustion of the
paper cylinder. It is preferred to form the paper cylinder of an inverted,
truncated, slightly conical shape. When the apparatus is used as an ordinary
tobacco pipe, the bowl or head of the pipe is attached by means of the
screwed or tapered shoulder on the upper tube, and charged with tobacco in
the ordinary way. When the apparatus is required to be used for smoking
cigars, or the tobacco cartridge herein-before described, the bowl or head of
the pipe is removed, and the cigar or tobacco cartridge substituted therefor.
That the said Invention may be the more readily seen and understood, I
have hereunto annexed Drawings in partial illustration of so much of the
Invention as will be necessary to enable the principle thereof to be clearly
understood; like letters and figures marked thereon being used to denote
similar parts.
Figure 1 is a partial sectional side elevation of the apparatus as it would
appear when used as a pipe for smoking cut tobacco; Figure 2 is a partial
sectional elevation of the same with the bowl removed, and a tobacco
cartridge substituted therefor; Figure 3 is an external elevation of the
cylindrical chamber, seen with a portion of the stem broken off; Figure 4 is
an external view of the pipe head or bowl; Figure 5 is an external side
elevation of the cylindrical chamber for receiving the oil or other moisture
that may accumulate during the use of the apparatus; Figure 6 is an external
elevation of the tobacco cartridge, and Figure is a view of the same
looking from the bottom, Figure 8 is a partial sectional elevation of so much
of the apparatus as will show its adaptation to the smoking of cigars.
A, a bowl or pipe head, which may be formed of wood, meerchaum, or
other suitable material, and which may be of any suitable form, and is
screwed on the upper end of B, a short tube, which is screwed into the
upper side of C, a cylindrical chamber, into one end of which is screwed of

page_text: otherwise fitted D, the stem or shank; E, a short pendant tube, to the lower
end of which is screwed F. a small hollow globular chamber; G, the tobacco
cartridge, the bottom of which is formed with a small disc of cardboard or
other suitable material, and is perforated in the centre to receive the upper
end of the small screwed tube B, the sides of which cartridge are formed of
thin paper, which when charged with tobacco are turned over on the top to
enclose the tobacco: or the top of the cartridge may be closed by a disc of
thin paper, after which the sides of the cartridge are coated with a solution of
thin gum or other suitable material to receive a covering of tobacco dust,
which not only improves the appearance of the cartridge, but also insures
perfect and even combustion of the thin paper forming the sides of the
cartridge: H, a small disc fitted on to the short vertical tube B, which forms
a collar or bed, against which is screwed the pipe head and the tobacco
cartridge; K. a section of the small vertical tube B, adapted to receive a
cigar. When it is desired to use the apparatus as a tobacco pipe. the bowl or
head is screwed on to the upper end of the small vertical tube B: when it is
charged with tobacco it is ready for use. after which the small globular vessel
should be removed, and any moisture that may have accumulated therein
during the smoking of the tobacco thrown out, when it should be replaced.
the head removed, and the cigar or tobacco cartridge next to be consumed
substituted therefor..
Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same into
effect, I wish is to be understood that I do not confine myself to the precise
forms, relative proportions, or dimensions of the various parts of the apparatus
herein-before described and set forth. as it will be readily seen that the same
may be considerably varied in form without departing from the Invention, nor
do I claim separately any peculiar form of pipe head, nor the use of the
globular or other suitably shaped receptacle for the essential oil, or other
moisture accumulating during the use of the apparatus, as these parts are
old when taken alone, nor any peculiar form of stem or materials from which
they may be formed; but what I claim is,--
First, the intermediate cylindrical or other suitably shaped chamber C,
substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein-before described and
set forth.
Secondly, the use, peculiar construction, and form of tobacco cartridge,
substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein-before described and
set forth.
And lastly, the peculiar arrangement and combination of the various parts

page_text: of the apparatus as a smoking pipe for cut tobacco, the smoking of tobacco
cartridges and cigar, as hercin-before described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Saul Myers, have hereunto set my hand
and affixed my scal, this Fourteenth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
Witness,
WILLIAM WALKER,
of 44, Castle Street,
Liverpool.
PL
ATTERS.