IM- PROVEMENTS IN MOUNTS FOR TOBACCO PIPES AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edwin Barling and William Barling, both of Camden
Town, in the County of Middlesex, Silversmiths, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MOUNTS FOR TOBACCO PIPES AND OTHER PURPOSES."
Sealed the 24th September 1878, and dated the 27th March 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edwin Barling and William
Barling at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th March
1878.
EDWIN BARLING and WILLIAM BABLING, both of Camden Town, in the County
of Middlesex, Silversmiths. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MOUNTS FOR TOBACCO PIPES AND
OTHER PURPOSES."
The improvements relate more particularly to tobacco pipe mounts or connexions,
though they may be also applied to fishing rod mounts, or to mounts or connexion
pieces generally. And they consist in so constructing the mounts or connexions in
two pieces that they may when placed in conjunction constitute a locking device
which by turning either piece shall secure the two pieces together and thus form a
ready mode of joining and unjoining for cleansing, packing, and other purposes.
The improvements are to be performed by making the mounts of metal or bard
substance in two pieces, one piece that we call the key piece being fashioned with
a barrel and key ward upon it; the other that we call the lock piece being fashioned
to receive the key and ward through an aperture in a locking plate which is pressed
against a collar by means of a spiral spring. The pieces are fitted together by
putting the key of the key piece into or through the aperture of the locking plate
of the lock piece, giving a partial turn to the key piece which depresses the locking

page_text: plate, the spring collar of which clips and holds the key piece fixed by the koy
ward, and the two pieces then constitute an air-tight connexion. If intended for a
pipe or tube the pieces are both bored through.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Lotters Patent filed
by the said Edwin Barling and William Barling in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 25th September 1878.
EDWIN BARLING and WILLIAM BARLING, of Camden Town, in the County
of Middlesex, Silversmiths. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MOUNTS FOR TOBACCO PIPES AND
OTHER PURPOSES.”
The improvements relate more particularly to tobacco pipe mounts or connexions,
though they may be also applied to fishing rod mounts, or to mounts or connexion
pieces generally. And they consist in so constructing the mounts or connexions in
two pieces that they may when placed in conjunction constitute a locking devico
which by turning either piece shall secure the two pieces together and thus form a
ready mode of joining and unjoining for cleansing, packing, and other purposes.
The improvements are to be performed by making the mounts of metal or hard
substance in two pieces, one piece that we call the key piece being fashioned with
a barrel and key ward upon it; the other that we call the lock piece being fashioned
to receive the key and ward through an aperture in a locking plate which is pressed
against a collar by means of a spiral spring. The pieces are fitted together by
putting the key of the key piece into or through the aperture of the locking plate
of the lock piece, giving a partial turn to either the key or the locking piece which
depresses the locking plate, the spring collar of which clips and holds the key piece
fixed by the key ward, and the two pieces then constitute an air-tight connexion.
If intended for a pipe or tube the pieces are both bored through.
The accompanying Drawing will serve to illustrate a convenient mode of per-
forming our Invention as applied to a smoking pipe, like letters representing liko
parts.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 a section.
Fig. 3 is an enlarged section of A and B locked together, and plan looking from
bowl side of pipe.
Fig. 4 is a section and plan of piece A.
Fig. 5, side view and plan of locking plate C.
And Fig. 6, clevation, section, and plan of piece B, showing the key part E.
A represents the lower part of joint containing the locking plate C, with its
special spring D, the locking plate being secured by two or more studs not shown;
B is the upper part of joint containing the key piece E formed for insertion in one
direction through the aperture in the plate C. There is a slight rise or inclined

page_text: part on E; the piece B is inserted into A, and the key part E into the lock plate
C; the part B is then given a partial turn to the right, and a tight connection
between A and B is secured, as previously explained.
In witness whereof, we, the said Edwin Barling and William Barling, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-fourth day of September,
A.D. 1878.
EDWIN BARLING.
(L.S.)
WILLIAM BARLING. (L.B.)