An Improvement in Tobacco Pipes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Sate of Application, 23rd Nov., 1889-Accepted, 28th Dec. 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Tobacco Pipes.
I, FERDINAND ZIRNGIBL of Maximilian Strasse 21, Munich, in the Kingdom of
Bavaria, Empire of Germany, Turner, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improvement in tobacco pipes and has for its purpose.
to provide efficacious means, for preventing the juice from reaching the mouth of
the smoker, and impregnating the body of the pipe, and further for allowing said
juice to be easily removed and the pipe to be folded to a small compass for carrying
it in the pocket.
Referring to the accompanying drawing, showing a partial longitudinal section.
of the improved pipe, a designates a hinge connecting the two parts of the stem
and allowing the fore part or mouth piece to be folded or turned up.
Into the rear or bowl portion of the stem, a tube b of suitable material is intro-
duced, which is closed at the bowl end and has at the top an outward groove c
extending nearly to the open extremity of the tube where it communicates with the
interior thereof by means of a small aperture c¹. At its open end, the tube is
provided with a suitable flange e having an elastic packing ring e¹, while the
contiguous end of the fore part or mouthpiece is lined inside with cork or other
suitable elastic material f
The tube being introduced into the rear part of the stem, and the fore part or
mouthpiece folded into its normal position, the elastic ring f' presses against flange e,
causing the same to be held firmly against the rim of the stem by means of the
packing ring e and allowing the whole to be held in position by the elastic hook g
or in any other convenient manner.
By this arrangement, the tobacco juice is collected in tube b, whence it can be
easily removed, the smoke flowing through the passage formed by the bore of the
stem and groove c.
The bore of the fore part of the stem being narrower than
the tube, the juice collects in the latter and can be poured out by folding back the
mouthpiece or fore part of the stem. By the application of the improved device,
also the impregnation of the stem by the tobacco juice is efficaciously obviated, and
the improved pipe is therefore more pleasant in smoking than the pipes hitherto
known.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim, is:
1) In tobacco pipes, the application of a tube b, with groove c and aperture c¹
adapted to be introduced into and removed from the stem of the pipe for the purpose
of collecting the juice and preventing the stem from being impregnated therewith,
substantially as set forth.
2) To allow the tube b, referred to in claim 1, to be easily removed, the hinge-.
fashion connection of the two parts of the stem, in combination with an elastic book
or similar device for holding said parts together, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 23rd day of November 1889.
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F. ZIRNGIDL..
By Huelser & Co.,
Attorneys.