A Tobacco Pipe Cleaner.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Oct., 1891-Accepted, 14th Nuv., 1891
A Tobacco Pipe Cleaner.
I, FRANK W. CARPENTER, of High Point, North Carolina, United States of
America, Book Keeper, 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 relation to tobacco pipe cleaners, and has for its object the
provision of a novel device for the use of pipe smokers, by which tobacco pipes of
any shape or size may be readily and effectively cleaned, when fouled by continued
smoking, and the accumulations of nicotine etc., thoroughly removed without the
necessity of washing or resorting to the disagreeable and only partially effective
use of straws, wires or the like.
My invention contemplates the use of a device, by means of which, the stem and
bowl of a pipe may be cleaned by the action of the smokers breath, and while the
contents of the bowl are burning, the cleaning instrument consisting of a suitably
contrived mouthpiece, having arranged transversely to the bore thereof, a suitable
perforated, reticulated, or open work screen. The device when in use, is applied
to the mouth of the pipe bowl, and forcibly blown through, the effect being that
the moist breath passing through the burning tobacco, is highly heated and passes
into the stem of the pipe as steam, dissolving the accumulations of nicotine and
other impurities, and causing them to forcibly issue from the end of the stem or
the mouth piece thereof.
In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1, is a central sectional view of a pipe of ordinary form, with my
improved cleaner applied to the bowl.
Figure 2, is a plan view of the cleaner.
Figure 3, is a perspective of the same applied to a pipe.
The cleaner A, consists of a bell or trumpet shaped contrivance of any suitable
shape, size or material, but preferably of the shape shown in the drawing, which is
that of a short bell, of which a, is the body, and b, the neck. The mouth of the
bell is made of sufficient diameter, to fit the top of the bowl of an ordinary pipe,
and the walls are sufficiently thick, to adapt the device to fit bowls of somewhat
different diameters.
A rubber, leather or other suitable gasket d, is secured to the mouth of the bell,
to form an air tight joint between the cleaner and the pipe bowl, and within the
bell, is fixed a perforated or reticulated partition, which serves as a guard or fender,
to prevent the contents of the pipe bowl from being blown or sucked out into the
mouth of the person using the device.
This partition, which is lettered e, in the drawing, may be made of wire gauze,
perforated metal, woven fabric or any material which will serve as a guard, and
permit the passage of the breath.
The upper end of the bell, terminates in a suitable mouth piece, having its edge
rounded, so as to fit closely and comfortably against the lips of the user, and allow
the cleaner to forcibly blow through, without escape of breath outside the mouth
piece.
The bore of the aleaner is contracted or narrow, so as to concentrate the breath
pressure, and may be either of uniform diameter, as shown in the drawing, or
convergent.
The cleaner may be of any desirable shape externally or internally, the conditions
of the invention being met by any device in the nature of a short tube, adapted to
be fitted against the top of the bowl of a pipe, and provided with a perforated

page_text: partition, to prevent the contents of the pipe from being blown or drawn out against
the lips or into the mouth of the user.
The device described may be made of wood, clay, metal, glass, or other material,
and the perforated partition may be made integral with the body of the cleaner.
Having now particularly and fully described the nature of my invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I'declare that what I claim is :-
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First: A tobacco pipe cleaner, consisting of a short tube or mouth piece,
adapted to fit against the bowl of a pipe, and provided with a perforated partition,
substantially as described.
Secondly: A tobacco pipe cleaner, consisting of a short tube or mouth piece,
adapted to fit against the top of a pipe bowl, and having an elastic rim to contact
with the pipe, and a perforated or reticulated partition, substantially as described.
Dated this 8th day of October 1891.
FRANK W. CARPENTER.
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.