Improvements in Tobacco Pipes.
Year: 1890

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tobacco Pipes.
I, HARROP MOSLEY of Grove Cottage Clayton West Huddersfield in the county of
Yorkshire, Schoolmaster, 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
provide means whereby the match used for lighting the pipe may be struck and
ignited upon a roughened surface formed upon any suitable portion of the bowl or stem
of a pipe. In carrying my invention into practice 1 form indentations, serrations, ribs,
grooves or furrows upon the wood or material of which the pipe is made and
arrange them in parallel rows in the first instance either horizontally vertically,
obliquely, circularly or elliptically and afterwards diagonally or rectangularly across
one another so as to present a surface sufficiently roughened to allow of a match
lucifer or vesuvian being ignited by friction thereon. Or I may form a recess in
the bowl or stem of a pipe and insert therein a plate of brass nickel or other metal
provided upon its outer surface with such indentations, serrations, ribs grooves or
furrows. Or I may form a series of undulated or wavy lines arranged in parallel
directions and traversed or not by similar lines running at right angles or obliquely
thereto and in order that my invention may be more fully understood, I have shewn
the same in the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 illustrates my invention as
applied to a pipe of the well known bull dog pattern Fig. 2 showing a similar
application to a pipe provided with a long stem Fig. 3 is an under side view
illustrating a modification of my invention.
As shown in Fig. 1 the bowl 6 of the pipe is furnished upon a portion of its
upper circular edge with a roughened surface M. formed of a series of ribs arranged
parallely in one row and traversed diagonally by another row of ribs. In Fig. 2 a
plate p is inserted in a recess r of the stem of the pipe and this plate is furnished
with serrations S formed thereon in any suitable manner or I may manufacture a
pipe with a flat surface under its stem and form therein serrations grooves and
the like. A piece of material such as is used for igniting safety matches may be
likewise glued or otherwise affixed upon such flat part. In the first place a smoker
can conveniently strike a match used for igniting the pipe upon the edge of the
bowl a practice often resulted to by smokers with ordinary pipes, that is with pipes
not so provided with a roughened surface, which showed the want of the latter, as
the unevenness of the ordinary surface of the pipe is not sufficiently prominent
to permit of a light being procured by rubbing thereon a match lucifer or
vesuvian.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
Providing the bowl or stem of tobacco pipes with a roughened surface for the
purpose of igniting thereon matches, lucifers, or vesuvians, substantially as described
and for a purpose set forth.
4000
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.