Improvements in Tobacco Pipes and other Smoking Tubes or Mouthpieces.
Year: 1893

page_text: The decision of the Comptroller-General, of the 23rd day of November 1893,
allowed, under Section 18 of the Patents, &c. Act, 1883, an Amendment of
this Specification.
Date of Application, 2nd June, 1893-Accepted, 8th July, 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION (AMENDED).
Improvements in Tobacco Pipes and other Smoking Tubes or
Mouthpieces.
I ALFRED HAMERTON of Alverthorpe-with-Thornes in the County of York,
Architect, 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 improvements in tobacco pipes, and has for its object to
construct such tobacco pipes so that the nicotine will be prevented or trapped,
instead of entering the mouth of the smoker with the tobacco smoke.
And in order that my said invention may be more readily understood, reference is
made to the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which
Fig. 1 is a section of my improved form of tobacco pipe, with bowl and stem of
wood.
The same letters and numbers are used to indicate similar parts of the
drawings.
A. indicates the bowl of the pipe with smoke passage S. P. and improved stem
end.
B indicates my improved tube-hereafter referred to as the nicotine tube-which
has a hollow collar or ring or chamber D, in which the nicotine can lodge. It can
be made of any suitable metal or other substance.
C indicates the mouthpiece with smoke passage S. P. 2, and improved stem end.
The stem E of the pipe bowl has a projecting end or tube F of less diameter than
the stem E. This tube F can be of any suitable metal or other substance, and be
screwed as shown into the end of the stem E, or it can be socketed into the
stem end.
The stem G of mouthpiece has a projecting end or tube H, preferably rather
longer than the tube F, but similar in all other respects.
It will be observed that there is a space or break J in the smoke passage, between
the tubes F and H; the object of this is to allow the nicotine to drop into the
nicotine tube, when the smoke is drawn from the bowl through the mouthpiece.
When the bowl stem E, and the mouthpiece stem G, are inserted into the
nicotine tube B, it will be seen that they form a trap or traps, at each end of the
nicotine tube, in such a manner that the nicotine will lodge in the nicotine tube, in
whatever position the pipe may be held; and an ordinary quantity of the nicotine
cannot return either to the pipe bowl, or penetrate through the mouthpiece to the
mouth of the smoker.
The nicotine collecting in the nicotine tube B can be emptied either by taking
out the mouthpiece C, or by taking out the bowl A, and be easily cleansed.
The stem E of the pipe bowl A, and the stem G of the mouthpiece C may be
screwed into the nicotine tube as shown ou drawing Fig. 2, which is a section of my
improved form of pine.

page_text: The projecting tubes F and H may form and be a portion of their respective
stems E, and G, as shown on said Fig. 2.
Fig. 3 is a section of my improved form of pipe showing how the nicotine tube may
be made of pipe clay, glass, meerschaum, or vulcanite or other suitable substance
or materials other than metal.
B is the nicotine tube as adapted for bowls made of pipe clay, meerschaum,
asbestos or other suitable materials or substance, and also as adapted for clay pipe
stems, erow goose quill stems and other like stems; provision being made for washers
or rings K, L, which may be of cork, india rubber or other suitable materials.
This invention is also applicable to hookhas, engar holders, eigarette holders, and
long clay pipes and the like.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
1. An improved tube for tobacco smoking pipes, in which provision is made for
the nicotine to lodge and be trapped, instead of entering the mouth of the smoker
with the smoke; and from which tube the nicotine can from time to time be
withdrawn, substantially as described and as shown.
2. In pipes for smoking tobacco the improved ends or small projecting tubes to
the bowl stem, and mouthpiece stem; which combined with the improved tube B,
form a trap or traps for the nicotine, substantially as described and as shown.
Dated this 30th day of May 1893.
ALFRED HAMERTON,
4, Fryergate Terrace, Wakefield.