Improvements in Stems for Tobacco Pipes, Cigar and Cigarette 9 Holders.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Apr., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Jan., 1900-Accepted, 17th Feb; 1900-
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stems for Tobacco Pipes, Cigar and Cigarette 9
Holders.
I, CHARLES LANÇON, Pipe Manufacturer, of Saint Claude, Jura, France, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
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This invention relates to a stem for cooling the smoke or tobacco juice from
the bowl of a pipe, a cigar or, cigarette holder.
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The stem is formed with three or more parallel channels of rectilinear or cur-
vilinear form, separated from one another in a free space running between them,
along the greater. part of their length, and through which the air circulates
freely so as to cool them, as also the gas or smoke, circulating therein.
These channels or conduits may be made in one piece by moulding, or they
may be manufactured separately, and then joined. together, and made to form a
whole either by means of metal rings or in any other way, such as soldering,
gumming or otherwise.
The three or more separate conduits, thus formed into a whole, around which
the outer air is able to circulate is joined by fitting, by, spring seating, or by
screws to the stem contiguous to. the bowl of a pipe of any kind, and to the tip
or mouthpiece whatever the shape and the nature of the material of which the
stem and tip are composed.
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Instead of the arrangement of. the three or more conduits as above the latter
may form the tip or mouthpiece of any kind of pipe.
The cross-section of the conduits is a matter of indifference. They may be
circular, square, elliptical, triangular or of any other form. They are perforated
with a central longitudinal hole forming a passage for the smoke.
The tube with a number of conduits may be made of wood: hardened, india-
rubber, ebonite, horn, bone, ivory, celluloid, porcelain; pipe clay or any other
composition or material.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
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- Improvements in Stems.for: Tobacco. Pipes, Cigar and Cigarette
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Holders. :
I, CHARLES LANÇON, Pipe Manufacturer, of Saint Claude,. Jura, France, 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 a stem for cooling the smoke or tobacco.iuice from

page_text: The stem is formed with three or more parallel channels of rectilinear or cur-
vilinear form, separated from one another in a free space running between them,
along the greater part of their length, and through which the air circulates
freely so as to cool them, as also the gas or smoke circulating therein.
These channels or conduits may be made in one piece by moulding, or they
may be manufactured separately and then joined together, and made to form a
whole either by means of metal rings or in any other way, such as soldering,
gumming or otherwise.
The three or more separate conduits thus formed into a whole, around which
the outer air is able to circulate are joined by fitting, by spring seating, or by
screws to the stem contiguous to the bowl of a pipe of any kind, and to the tip
or mouthpiece whatever the shape and the nature of the material of which the
stem and tip are composed.
Instead of the arrangement of the three or more conduits as above the latter
may form the tip or mouthpiece of any kind of pipe.
The cross-section of the conduits is a matter of indifference. They may be
circular, square, elliptical, triangular or of any other form. They are perforated
with a central longitudinal hole forming a passage for the smoke.
The tube with a number of conduits may be made of wood, hardened india-
rubber, ebonite, horn, bone, ivory, celluloid, porcelain, pipe clay or any other
composition or material.
In the accompanying drawing I have illustrated by way of example the appli-
cation to a tobacco pipe of my cooling stem, comprising three or four separate
tubes. It should be clearly understood that this stem may be attached to a cigar
or cigarette holder.
Figs. 1 and 2 are a side elevation and plan respectively of a pipe with a stem
composed of three separate tubes.
Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views of a pipe with a stem composed of four separate
tubes.
In the different figures, the same letters refer to the same parts.
In these pipes with a cooling stem or mouthpiece a the tobacco is placed as
usual in the bowl d and the smoke inhaled by the smoker passes through one or
two holes e formed in the bottom of the bowl. It then flows through the
chamber formed in the stem f and is there divided into three or four streams
running in the same direction but separately through the three, or four, tubes 6,
forming the cooling stem or mouthpiece a. The tubes 6 are to a certain extent
isolated, that is to say, there is a free space c between them, through which the
external air can flow freely and cool them. Near the mouth al of the mouth-
piece, the tubes 6 meet again and form a single piece, the bores of the tubes ter-
minating in holes formed in the part of the mouthpiece which is held in the
mouth, so that the smoker inhales the cooled smoke in three or four streams,
according to the number of the tubes b.
The stem is provided, as usual, with a ferrule g near its opening.
The end a of the mouthpiece is attached to the stem f, being screwed or
wedged on to the same or fastened thereto in any other manner.
The cooling tube a and its connections 6 may be produced by cutting out,
moulding, or stamping, in the same material or in different materials. Thus,
the parts a and a¹ may be made of ebonite or vulcanised india-rubber, whilst the
tubes may be of bone or ivory or even of glass. The tubes b may be either
straight or curved.
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:-
1. A tube for cooling tobacco smoke or tobacco juice coming from the bowl of
a pipe or from a cigar or cigarette holder, distinguished by three, four, or more
oblique, rectilinear or curvilinear tubes arranged parallel to and separated from

page_text: one another, that is to say, having a free space extending over the greater part
of their length, through which the air can circulate freely.
2. A cooling tube a comprising three or four tubes b connected together at
each of their extremities at the points a and a¹ and arranged apart or isolated
from each other over a certain and central part of their length, in order that the
air may circulate freely through spaces c formed between them.
Dated this 2nd day of January 1900.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.