Improvements in Stems for Tobacco Pipes.
Year: 1893

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stems for Tobacco Pipes.
A communication by ALBRECHT REUSS, of 5, Moltkestrasse, Cannstatt, in the
Empire of Germany, Merchant.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool and 6, Bank Street,
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster & 323 High Holborn in the
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, 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 has for its object to provide a tobacco pipe, the stem of which is
preferably formed of vulcanite, celluloid or other suitable material in such a way
that it contains a number of passages through all of which the smoke must pass ere
it ultimately reaches the mouth.
Further, it is so made that the smoke drawn into the tube from the bowl of the
pipe is previously purified, and the saliva also cannot enter into the smoke passages;
in consequence of these improvements, smoking with this kind of a pipe is in every
way very agreeable.
On the accompanying sheet of drawings, the improved pipe stem, B, is shown in
Figures 1-8:
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Figure 1 being a vertical section with the parts put together.
Figures 2, 3 and 4 are also vertical sections showing the separate parts asunder.
Figure 5 is an elevation of the pipe tube.
Figures 6, 7 and 8 are plan or sectional views.
The pipe stem, B, may be provided with any suitable number of passages .
As shown in Figures 6, 7 and 8, there may be three, five or seven passages, though
there may be more. These passages communicate with one another by means of
suitable grooves o in the ends of the walls.
The pipe stem B is closed by means of a head piece C, attached to the pipe stem
by means of a screw thread, though it may be attached in any other suitable
manner. The bottom of this head piece is provided with a single opening only,
which coincides with one of the passages b¹ and through which the smoke is drawn
from the pipe bowl into the pipe stem. In the hollow part of the head C, wadding
is inserted, through which the smoke must pass and thereby become filtered or
purified. The tube B is closed at the top by the head piece A which forms a con-
nection with the mouth piece. Through the top of this piece A also there is only one
opening, which registers with the last passage b' and into which a pipe b is inserted
and projects in such a way that the saliva coming from the mouth piece may
accumulate in the hollow part of A, but cannot pass into the passage b¹ itself.
The head pieces A and C are attached to the tube B in such a way as to be
easily removable, so that the passages' ' may be easily got at for cleansing
purposes.
The tube B, as well as the head pieces A and C, may be made of wood, celluloid,
papier-mache or the like, but preferably of vulcanite; the tube B might also be
employed as an intermediate one to be inserted in the middle of an ordinary stem.
By this arrangement, a short pipe is provided, having a long channel for the
smoke to traverse through, which, according to the number of passages b₁, may be
once, twice, five times, seven times, or even a greater number of times longer than
the pipe stem, that is to say, that, with a short pipe, there may be obtained the
agreeableness of a long stemmed one, seeing that the smoke will not come too hot
into the mouth, whilst, further, the smoke is purified or filtered, and there will
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page_text: also be the advantage that no saliva can pass either into the pipe stem or into the
pipe itself.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:-
.
The improved tobacco pipe stem consisting of a tube having a number of
channels communicating with one another and with the bowl and mouth piece, and
having a removable cap (containing wadding) for connecting it with the bowl and
a second removable cap (for connecting it with the mouth piece) into which that
channel which establishes communication with the mouth piece opens and to which
channel a somewhat projecting small tube b is connected, all substantially as and
for the purposes herein before set forth.
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1000
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.