AN IMPROVEMENT IN PIPES FOR SMOKING TOBACCO, WHICH IMPROVEMENT CAN ALSO BE EMPLOYED AS A CIGAR OR CIGARETTE HOLDER OR TUBE."
Year: 1878

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LETTERS PATENT to Adolphe Oppenheimer, of the Firm of David Oppenheimer
and Company, of Watling Street, in the City of London, Merchants, for the
Invention of AN IMPROVEMENT IN PIPES FOR SMOKING TOBACCO, WHICH
IMPROVEMENT CAN ALSO BE EMPLOYED AS A CIGAR OR CIGARETTE HOLDER
OR TUBE." A communication from abroad by Charles Vuillard, of Saint-
Claude Jura France.
Sealed the 27th August 1878, and dated the 2nd March 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Adolphe Oppenheimer at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd March 1878.
ADOLPHE OPPENHEIMER, of the Firm of David Oppenheimer and Company, of
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN PIPES
Watling Street, in the City of London, Merchants.
ALSO BE EMPLOYED AS A
FOR SMOKING TOBACCO, WHICH IMPROVEMENT CAN
CIGAR OR CIGARETTE HOLDER OR TUBE." A communication from abroad by Charles
Vuillard, of Saint-Claude, Jura, France.
The object of this Invention is the construction and employment of an appliance
or device for preventing the nicotine or other deleterious juices of the tobacco
passing into the mouth of the smoker, and for employment (when detached from
the bowl portion of the pipe) as a tube or holder for cigars or cigarettes.
This appliance or device consists of two sockets or ferrules, an upper one and a
lower one, which are securely fixed together, and whose mouths or openings are
placed in opposite directions to each other. The stem of the pipe is placed in the
upper socket or ferrule, and the mouth-piece is mounted in the lower socket or
ferrule. An orifice contrived between these sockets or ferrules permits the passage
of the smoke to the mouth, and allows the nicotine coming from the tobacco to pass
from the upper socket or ferrule into the lower one, which acts as a chamber or
receptacle for the purpose, and thus the nicotine is prevented from entering the
mouth of the smoker, and a cool smoke is obtained.

page_text: A removeable disc or plug of felt or other suitable absorbent may be placed at the
bottom of the lower socket or ferrule to absorb the nicotine.
When the appliance or device is to be employed as a holder for a cigar or
cigarette, the pipe is detached therefrom, and the upper socket or ferrule receives
the cigar or cigarette.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Adolphe Oppenheimer in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th August 1878.
ADOLPHE OPPENHEIMER, of the Firm of David Oppenheimer and Company, of
Watling Street, in the City of London, Merchants. "AN IMPROVEMENT IN PIPES
FOR SMOKING TOBACCO, WHICH IMPROVEMENT CAN ALSO BE EMPLOYED AS A CIGAR
OR CIGARETTE HOLDER OR TUBE." A communication from abroad by Charles Vuillard,
of Saint-Claude, Jura, France.
The object of this Invention is the construction and employment of an appliance
or device for preventing the nicotine or other deleterious juices of the tobacco
passing into the mouth of the smoker, the said appliance or device being also
capable of employment when detached from the bowl portion of the pipe as a
holder or tube for smoking cigars or cigarettes.
I proceed with reference to the accompanying Drawings to describe more fully
the said Invention.
This appliance or device which is seen in detached views in Figures 1 and 2
(Figure 1 being an elevation, and Figure 2 a section), consists of two metal sockets
or ferrules a¹, a, which are placed one above the other as shewn, and secured
together by solder or other convenient means of attachment. The mouths or
openings of these sockets or ferrules are placed in opposite directions to each other,
and into the upper socket or ferrule a¹, the stem of the pipe is fitted, and into the
lower socket or ferrule a² the mouth-piece is fitted. Between these two ferrules or
sockets a', a², is an orifice b, for the purpose of permitting the smoke to pass or to
be drawn from the kindled tobacco within the bowl into the mouth of the smoker,
and at the same time to allow the nicotine coming from the tobacco, to pass into
the lower ferrule or socket a³, which acts as a chamber or receptacle for the purpose,
and wherein it is retained and prevented being drawn into the mouth of the smoker.
By these means what is known to smokers as a "cool smoke" is obtained, and all
chance of the nictine passing into the mouth avoided.
Figure 3 shows a pipe in section to which the improved appliance or device is
fitted.
This appliance or device can also be employed in combination with the mouth-
piece of the pipe, so as to enable it to be used as a holder or tube, through which a
cigar or cigarette may be smoked. It is so shewn in Figure 4, in which the
appliance is inverted, and from which the bowl is detached, and the lower socket
or ferrule a² receives the cigar or cigarette.
.

page_text: When the appliance becomes foul or the orifice clogged from smoking, it can be
readily removed from the stem and mouth-piece in order to be cleaned.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same may be performed, I declare that I claim,—
First. The appliance or device substantially as described and shewn, the same
being placed between the stem and mouth-piece of a pipe for the purpose set forth.
Second. The appliance or device fitted to the mouth-piece of a pipe, and con-
stituting in combination there with a holder or tube, through which a cigar or
cigarette may be smoked, as described and shewn.
In witness whereof, I, the said Adolphe Oppenheimer, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of August, in the year One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight,
Witness,
F. R. DOWER.
ADOLPHE OPPENHEIMER. (L.S.)