Improvements in Pipes for Smoking Tobacco, and which Improve- ments are also applicable to Cigar and Cigarette Holders or Mouthpieces.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 15th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 28th Mar., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pipes for Smoking Tobacco, and which Improve-
ments are also applicable to Cigar and Cigarette Holders or
Mouthpieces.
1 EDWIN MILLER RICHFORD of 44 Snow Hill in the City of London, India
Rubber Stamp Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows
My invention relates to an improved method of constructing tobacco pipes and
the like whereby the nicotine or oil generated by the combustion of the tobacco in
the act of smoking is condensed and entirely prevented from being drawn into the
mouth of the smoker.
For this purpose I construct the whole of the stem, from the bowl to the extreme
end (where the mouthpiece touches the lips), large enough to admit of one or more
discs with small central apertures. These discs being placed at stated intervals
divide the stem into chambers whereby the smoke charged with moisture is
condensed and the dry and cool smoke alone is drawn into the mouth. After
smoking the oil can be emptied out by detaching the mouthpiece and inverting the
parts.
Dated this 31st day of October 1895.
Improvements in Pipes for Smoking Tobacco, and which Improve-
ments are also applicable to Cigar and Cigarette Holders or
Mouthpieces.
1, EDWIN MILLER RICHFORD, of 44, Snow Hill, in the City of London,
Rubber Stamp Manufacturer, 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 :-
My invention relates to an improvement in tobacco pipes the same being also
applicable to cigar and cigarette holders or mouthpieces, and the invention has
for its object to provide improved means of trapping or intercepting the nicotine
or oil and moisture and preventing it being drawn into the mouth of the smoker
and to provide a sufficiently capacious depositing and cooling chamber without
altering the external form of the pipe or cigar or cigarette holder as the case
may be.
The invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawing
forming part of this Specification wherein I have in Figure 1 represented a
longitudinal section of the improved construction of tobacco pipe and in Figure 2
a similar section of a cigar or cigarette holder.
For the purpose above mentioned the whole pipe stem (that to say the stem
proper A and the mouthpiece B) is chambered or made hollow, the chambering

page_text: extending from a point near the bowl nearly to the tip of the mouthpiece, the
chamber being of a sufficiently large bore to admit of being divided by a centrally
apertured disc D into capacious chambers C¹ C' wherein the smoke is cooled and
the moisture with which it is charged condensed so that the cool and dry smoke
alone will be drawn into the mouth. The chamber C¹ which is formed in the stem
portion A is connected with the bowl by a central bore c of ordinary size and to
prevent moisture collected in said chamber running back into the bowl this bore is
preferably surrounded by a tubular extension or flange el projecting into the
chamber C¹ so as to form a trap, and with the object of preventing the moisture
collected passing from the chamber C¹ to the chamber C3 the orifice or bore d of
the disc D is surrounded by a similar tubular extension or flange d, and similarly
to prevent the moisture collected in chamber C2 passing into the mouth the bore b
(of the solid tip of the mouthpiece which is held in the mouth) is surrounded by a
tubular extension projecting centrally into the chamber C. To facilitate
cleaning, the mouthpiece B is connected to the stem A by the thin spigot end B'
of the mouthpiece fitting into and forming a partial lining for the chamber C¹ or a
screw joint may be used if preferred.
In order that any deposit accumulated in chamber C² may be more readily and
completely emptied out through the bored when the mouthpiece is removed for
cleaning, the face of the disc D next to chamber C2 is cupped as shewn, and for the
purpose of facilitating manufacture this disc is in the form of a plug fitting friction
tight in the enlarged bore of the mouthpiece in which it may be adjusted and from
which it can if desired be removed by any suitable hooked instrument inserted
in its bore d or otherwise. The bowl and stem portion A of the pipe may be made
of wood or any other material usually employed, and the mouthpiece B and disc D
would preferably be made of vulcanite moulded or otherwise brought to the form
illustrated.
Although the drawing illustrates a pipe whose stem is divided into two
chambers only by a single disc D I do not limit myself in this respect as the
stem may be divided into a succession of chambers by two or more discs arranged
at intervals.
In applying the invention to cigar and cigarette holders the part B instead
of being formed of reduced external diameter to form a spigot joint would
be of the usual external form as seen in Figure 2 and made of the usual
material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed declare that what I
claim is
1. A tobacco pipe substantially as herein shewn and described having not only
the stem proper but also the mouthpiece portion chambered of large diameter and
divided by one or more centrally bored discs or plugs into two or more cooling
and intercepting chambers as specified.
2. A cigar or cigarette holder or mouthpiece chambered as shown and
described, the said chamber being separated by a centrally bored disc or plug
from the socket in which the cigar or cigarette is held substantially as specified.
3. A tobacco pipe or cigar or cigarette holder constructed substantially as
described and illustrated in the drawings.
Dated this 15th day of February 1896.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.