Improvements in Tobacco Pipes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Oct., 1899-Accepted, 27th Jan., 1900
Improvements in Tobacco Pipes.
We, MICHAEL LEHOTAY, Government Official, and GZULA GERO, Captain, both
of 17, Erzsebet-körut, Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary, Empire of Austria, do
hereby declare the nature of our said invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
The present invention relates to tobacco pipes and consists of the details of
construction herein after set forth and particularly pointed out in the claims..
In order to render the present specification more easily intelligible reference is
had to the accompanying drawing in which similar letters of reference denote
similar parts throughout the several views:-
Fig. 1 is a vertical section through the bowl of a pipe constructed according to
the present invention and Fig. 2 is a similar section through modified form of
bowl.
The pipe bowl b is provided with the sleeve into which the stem of the pipe
is inserted in the usual manner. At the bottom of the bowl an opening c is
provided by means of which the lower part of the said bowl communicates with
the outer air. At the top of the bowl a channel e opens at e¹ into the same,
the said channel being extended down through the bowl wall and opening into
the interior of the stem sleeve, into the mouth e² of which the stem is fitted. The
rim of the bowl may be provided with a ring f of metal, which serves to secure
the cover g which should fit air tightly to the said bowl.
The pipe bowl is filled with tobacco in the ordinary manner and a light is
applied to the opening e, when, on drawing, the tobacco will be lighted at the
bottom. The smoker then draws the smoke up through the tobacco along the
channel ee and stem into the mouth. Thus the tobacco will be smoked from
the bottom to the top instead of from the top to the bottom, and the formation
of the moist plug of tobacco, which invariably takes place in pipes of the present
construction, as well as the waste of tobacco accruing therefrom, will be effectually
avoided.
In the modification shown at Figure 2, the pipe bowl is ornamented as at a¹
and the channel e is taken through the said ornamental part whilst the cover g
simply fits the top of the pipe, the ring f being omitted.
In the modification the igniting opening c communicates with the bowl b by
means of a short channel or neck b¹.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:
1: In a pipe bowl the combination of a channel leading from the upper part
of the bowl to the stem and an igniting opening in the lower part of the bowl
substantially as described.
2: In a pipe bowl, the combination of a bowl sleeve for the stem, a channel
leading from the top of the bowl to the said sleeve, an igniting opening at the

page_text: bottom of the bowl and an air-tightly fitting cover to the bowl in the manner
and for the purpose substantially as described.
3: In a pipe bowl the combination of a stem sleeve and ornamentation between
said sleeve and the bowl, a channel leading from the upper part of the bowl to the
sleeve through the said ornamentation, an igniting opening at the lower
part of the bowl and a channel to establish communication between the said
opening and the bottom of the bowl and an air-tightly fitting cover to the said
bowl in the manner and for the purpose substantially as described.
Dated this 28th day of October 1899.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
100, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.