An Improvement applicable to Smoking Pipes and Cigar and Cigarette Tubes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 30th June, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 22nd July, 1891-Accepted, 15th Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement applicable to Smoking Pipes and Cigar and
Cigarette Tubes.
I. JAMES BELLAERS of 133 Church Street Blackpool in the County of
Lancaster Watchmaker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide smoking pipes and cigar and cigarette
tubes permanently with means for striking a fusee or match for lighting purposes.
For the purposes of my invention I fix to the side of the bowl or stem of the pipe
or tube by pins or otherwise a curved metal plate the surface of which is cut like a
file or otherwise roughened so that it will ignite a fusee or match if struck against,
or drawn across it: and in order that this roughened plate may not spoil the
appearance of the pipe when not in use I provide it with a lid or cover.
This lid or cover may be polished or embossed, engraved, or otherwise made
ornamental, and may either be so connected to the roughened plate that it can slide
either vertically or horizontally over it so as to conceal it from view or it may
attached thereto by means of a hinge.
The striking-plate may be conveniently fixed by pins when the pipe or tube is
made of wood, or for meerschaumes or other costly pipes or cigar or cigarette tubes
it may be attached to, or form part of the ordinary silver or other mounting.
Dated this 29th day of June 1891.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement applicable to Smoking Pipes and Cigar and
Cigarette Tubes.
I JAMES BELLAERS of 133 Church Street Blackpool in the County of
Lancaster Watch Maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
The object of this invention is to provide smoking-pipes and cigar and cigarette
tubes permanently with a means for striking a fusee or match for lighting
purposes.
The nature of the said invention and the manner in which the same is to be
performed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference
to the sheet of drawings hereunto annexed and the following explanation thereof.
For the purposes of my invention I fix to the side of the bowl or stem of the
pipe or tube (by pins or otherwise) a curved metal plate a as shown at Fig. 1.
applied to the bowl and at Fig. 2. applied to the stem of a briar wood pipe.
The surface of this plate is cut like a file (as shown) or it may be pricked like a
nutmeg grater or otherwise roughened so that it will ignite a fusee or match when
struck against or drawn across it.
And in order that this roughened plate may not spoil the appearance of the
pipe when not in use I provide it with a lid or cover to conceal it from view.
This lid or cover may be polished or embossed, engraved or otherwise made
ornamental, and it may either be connected to the roughened plate a as shown
at Figs. 3 and 4, so that it can slide horizontally over it (Fig. 3 showing the
cover partly drawn back, and Fig. 4 entirely closed) or it may be made to slide
b

page_text: vertically if preferred, or it may be hinged or pivotted to the plate a at one end
or at the top (as shown at Fig. 2) or at the bottom.
The striking plate a may be conveniently fixed by pins when the pipe or tube
is made of wood, or for meerschaums or other costly pipes or cigar or cigarette
tubes it may be attached to, or form part of the ordinary silver or other mounting.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
The combination with the bowl or stem or mount of a smoking pipe, or a cigar
or cigarette tube, of a roughened metal fusee or match striking-plate, permanently
attached thereto and provided with a sliding, hinged, or pivotted, lid or cover to
conceal the same from view when not in use, substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated by the drawings annexed.
Dated this Olot dov of Lule 1901
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.