IMPROVEMENTS IN AND ADDITIONS TO PIPES FOR SMOKING THE BEING ALSO AVAILABLE FOR CIGARS AND CIGARET
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Adolph Strauss, of Basinghall Street, in the City
of London, Pipe Merchant and Fancy Warehouseman, for the In-
vention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND ADDITIONS TO PIPES FOR SMOKING, THE
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Scaled the 25th March 1875, and dated the 1st October 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Adolph Strauss at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
1st October 1874.
I, ADOLPH STRAUSS, of Basinghall Street, in the City of London, Pipe
Merchant and Fancy Warchouseman, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND ADDITIONS TO PIPES FOR
SMOKING, THE ADDITIONS BEING ALSO AVAILABLE FOR CIGARS AND CIGARETTES," to
be as follows:-
This Invention relates, firstly, to pipes for smoking, and consists in
forming or attaching one or more hooks, studs, buttons, or clips (spring

page_text: or others) either upon the bowl or the stem, so that the pipe can be held
from the button hole of a coat or other garment worn by the smoker.
The advantage of this plan is that a person can smoke while reading,
travelling, or walking without the necessity of holding the pipe in his
hand, as is now the case. Another advantage is, all chances of a pipe
falling and becoming broken are obviated. The hands are always at
liberty, smoke is kept from the face, and the distance of the pipe,
necessitated by the length of tube, causes the draught to be cooler and
the flavour of the tobacco more suited to the taste.
The hook, stud, clip, or button may be of the same material as the
pipe or the cigar or cigarette holder or of different material, as found
convenient, and it can be screwed or cemented into the upper portion or
other part of the bowl, or the hook may have a clip or other ring
attached, into which the bowl can be dropped.
If I fit a ring to the hook I purpose arranging it so that the ring
portion or coil can be reduced in diameter to take a cigar or a cigarette
within its folds, the draught tube being attached to a convenient part of
the ring portion for the smoke to pass into the mouth of a smoker in a
similar manner as from a pipe.
An ordinary cigar or cigarette tube can have my hook, stud, clip, or 1
button arranged upon it so that the tube can be carried in a manner
similar to that referred to for the pipe.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Adolph Strauss in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 1st April 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ADOLPH
STRAUSS, of Basinghall Street, in the City of London, Pipe Merchant
and Fancy Warehouseman, send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of October, in the year of 3
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-

page_text: eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Adolph Strauss, Her special licence
that I, the said Adolph Strauss, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Adolph Strauss, 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
AND ADDITIONS TO PIPES FOR SMOKING, THE ADDITIONS BEING ALSO AVAILABLE FOR
CIGARS AND CIGARETTES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Adolph Strauss, 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 Adolph Strauss, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, that is to say :—
This Invention relates to pipes for smoking, also cigar and cigarette
tubes or holders to facilitate the carrying of them in the button holes or
other part of gentlemen's wearing apparel, and consists in forming a
hook, stud, button, or other similar appliance upon the bowl or the stem
thereof, or attaching a hook, stud, clip, button, or other similar applianco
thereon or thereto to enable the pipe or the tube to be attached in a
temporary manner, say, to a button hole of a coat or other garment.
The Invention is clearly shown in the accompanying Drawings.
Figure 1 is a view of a pipe bowl A with a hook B attached to the
upper part; C is the ordinary tube of caoutchouc; and D, the mouth-
piece.
Figure 2 shows a pipe bowl A with a stud or button B, by which the
bowl can be suspended.
Figure 3 shows a tube or holder E, into which a cigar For a pipe
bowl A can be inserted in the manner shown.

page_text: appliance, substantially as herein-before described and shown in the
Drawings, or by any other means or appliance.
In witness whereof, I, the said Adolph Strauss, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of March, One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-five.
Witness,
H*. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street,
London.
ADOLPH STRAUSS. (L.S.)