IMPROVEMENTS IN MOUTH-PIECES FOR CIGARS AND PIPES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Thompson, of No. 85, Lower Gardiner
Street, in the City of Dublin, and of Clare Hall, in the County of
Dublin, Ireland, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MOUTH-PIECES
FOR CIGARS AND PIPES."
Sealed the 31st December 1867, and dated the 3rd July 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Thompson at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
3rd July 1867.
I, WILLIAM THOMPSON, of No. 85, Lower Gardiner Street, in the City of
Dublin, and of Clare Hall, in the County of Dublin, Ireland, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MOUTH-PIECES
FOR CIGARS AND PIPES," to be as follows:-
My Invention has for its object to absorb the deleterious essential and
other oils out of tobacco smoke before it enters the mouth. For this purpose
I construct a mouth-piece of any suitable material, having a chamber into
which is placed a piece of cotton wool or other suitable porous substance.
through which the smoke has to pass before entering the mouth, and which
effectually absorbs the said essential and other oils. The said chamber with

page_text: porous material may be variously arranged; thus it may form part of the
cavity into which the cigar is inserted, or the cigar may be held by a separate
piece, fixed either by screwing or otherwise into the end of such chamber,
and communicating therewith by a small aperture; or the said chamber.may
be arranged in any other convenient manner. In applying the said mouth-
piece to pipes the stem of the latter is simply fixed into the open end of the
mouth-piece by screwing or otherwise, in which case also the part connected
to the pipe stem may be detachable from the chamber containing the porous
material. The porous material may for the sake of convenience be contained
in a separate casing, which is made to fit inside the chamber of the mouth
piece, and which is perforated to allow the smoke to pass through it, and
may be provided at the front end with a small sharp tube which enters the
cigar when this is inserted, and thus affords the requisite draught without the
necessity of cutting off the end of the cigar; the porous material is renewed
from time to time.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Thompson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
2nd January 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
THOMPSON, of No. 85, Lower Gardiner Street, in the City of Dublin, and of
Clare Hall, in the County of Dublin, Ireland, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Thompson, Her special licence that I, the said William Thompson,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Thompson, 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
MOUTH-PIECES FOR CIGARS AND PIPES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said William Thompson, 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,

page_text: 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 William Thompson, do hereby'
declare the nature of the 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, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say:-
My Invention has for its object to absorb the deleterious essential and other
oils out of tobacco smoke before it enters the mouth. For this purpose I
construct à mouth-piece of any suitable material, having a chamber into
which is placed a piece of cotton wool or other similar loose fibrous substance,
through which the smoke has to pass before entering the mouth, and which
effectually absorbs the said essential and other oils. The said chamber with
cotton wool may be variously arranged; thus it may form part of the cavity
into which the cigar is inserted, or the cigar may be held by a separate piece
fixed either by screwing or otherwise into the end of such chamber, and'
communicating therewith by a small aperture; or the said chamber may
be arranged in any other convenient manner. In applying the said mouth-
piece to pipes the stem of the latter is simply fixed into the open end of the
mouth-piece by screwing or otherwise, in which case also the part connected
to the pipe stem may be detachable from the chamber containing the cotton
wool. The cotton wool or other material may for the sake of convenience be
contained in a separate casing, which is made to fit inside the chamber of the
mouth-piece, and which is perforated to allow the smoke to pass through it,
and may be provided at the front end with a small sharp tube which enters
the cigar when this is inserted, and thus affords the requisite draught without
the necessity of cutting off the end of the cigar. The cotton wool or other
material is renewed from time to time.
Figures 1 and 2 on the accompanying Drawing show one mode of applying
my Invention to cigar tubes. Figure 1 shows a side elevation of the tube, and
Figure 2 shows a longitudinal section through same. The tube consists
of two parts, of which the front part A serves to hold the cigar and screws
into the open end of the back part B, in which is formed a chamber containing
the cotton wool or other similar fibrous material C; the smoke in passing from
the cigar through the tube has consequently to pass through and give off its
essential and other oils to the cotton wool before it can pass into the mouth.
Figure 3 shows a longitudinal section, and Figure 4 shows an end view of a
mouth-piece constructed of two parts A and B, as before described, but in this

page_text: arrangement the cotton wool C is placed in a small metallic case D, shown
detached at Figure 5, having at one end a sharp open ended tube d, which
projects into the front part A of the tube, as shown, and penetrates into the end
of the cigar when this is inserted. At the other end the case has a cover d',
which is removed to allow the introduction of the cotton or other wool, and
which has perforations to allow the smoke passing into the case through the
tube d to pass out to the mouth after permeating through the cotton wool.
If the case D be made to fit sufficiently tight into the chamber of the mouth-
piece it may also be used without the tube d, and having simply perforations
in the front end.
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Figure 6 shows a section of a mouth-piece for cigars of only one piece A,
and having simply a cavity in the rear of the open end, into which the cotton
or other wool is introduced; or in place of introducing the cotton wool directly
into such cavity it may be placed in a perforated case, as before described
fitting into such cavity.
Figure 7 shows my Invention applied to a pipe. The mouth-piece B
with chamber containing cotton or other wool, C, is similar to that shown in
Figures 1 and 2, the stem of the pipe E being screwed or otherwise secured
in the mouth-piece in the same manner as the front part B of the cigar tube.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself
to the precise mode of applying my Invention to cigar tubes and pipes as
shown on the accompanying Drawing, as various other forms of mouth-pieces
may be employed for carrying my Invention into effect; but what I claim is,
First, providing mouth-pieces for cigars and pipes with a chamber con-
taining cotton wool or its equivalent through which the smoke bas to pass on
its way to the mouth, substantially as and for the purposes herein-before set
forth.
Second, the employment of a case for containing the cotton or other wool
constructed and operating substantially in manner herein-before described
with reference to Figures 3, 4, and 5 on the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Thompson, have hereunto set
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
my
WILLIAM THOMPSON. (L.S.)