Improvements in Tobacco Pipes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 6th June, 1893-Accepted, 8th July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tobacco Pipes.
I, HARRY HODGES of St. Giles Street in the Town and County of Northampton,
Wholesale and Retail Grocer and Provision Merchant, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide a pipe for smoking tobacco and the
like of such construction as shall almost or entirely prevent the absorption of
nicotine or other deleterious matter into the system of the smoker.
In carrying out my invention I form below and extending upwardly around a
considerable portion of the main bowl of the pipe in which the tobacco is placed
an air or smoke chamber and in the upper or tapering part of this chamber I insert
or form the end of the stem communicating with the mouthpiece.
The outer portion of the bowl extends downwardly below the main bowl and
is open at its extremity and threaded or screwed to receive the screw or thread
formed on a detachable bottom or plug which is dished to form a receptacle for
nicotine or the like.
The bottom of the inner bowl is pierced to allow of the nicotine escaping and
being collected in the lower and outer bowl or chamber.
A plug may be fixed in an orifice formed in the plug or lower part of the pipe.
It will be seen that the pipe thus consists of an outer chamber surrounding the
pipe bowl proper the bottom of the said chamber being detachable for the purpose
of cleaning the lower chamber and around the inner bowl and of discharging the
nicotine.
In order that it may not be necessary to frequently unscrew the lower part of
the pipe I may provide the plug before mentioned so that by blowing down the
stem nicotine or the like may be ejected from the lower chamber.
Dated this 6th September 1892.
POPPLEWELL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tobacco Pipes.
I HARRY HODGES of Saint Giles Street Northampton in the County of
Northampton, Wholesale Provision Dealer 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 :-
The object of my invention is to provide a form of tobacco pipe that shall as far
as is possible prevent nicotine or other objectionable matter from passing into the
mouth of the smoker or person using such pipe and for this purpose I construct my
pipe which I prefer to make from wood such as briar as follows reference being
made to the accompanying drawings of which
Figure 1 is an outside view or elevation of an ordinary shaped tobacco pipe
constructed according to my invention.
Figure 2 is a section of the upper part of the said pipe, and
Figure 3 is a section of the lower detached part or plug of the same pipe.
In forming or constructing a pipe of this description I take a block of wood or
other material such as would be used in making a pipe in the ordinary way and I
turn or hollow out the portion A in which the tobacco is placed.
I then cut off the wood, clay or other material at the line marked R—C and

page_text: turn, hollow or form the lower part internally so as to form a space or chamber D
around that portion of the pipe which forms the bowl proper in which the tobacco
is placed.
The lower portion of this part of the pipe as shown in Figure 2 is screwed or
threaded to receive a corresponding screw or thread on the upper part of the
portion of the pipe shown in Figure 3.
I then turn or form a detachable bottom piece or plug (Figure 3) dished or
hollowed to receive the nicotine as shown by E and screwed or threaded so as to
be screwed on to or released from the upper portion of the pipe at will and in this
I may form an outlet F to be stopped by a plug or screw G through which nicotine
or other products may be discharged if desired without the necessity of unscrewing
the bottom part of the pipe. In the lower portion of the bowl proper say HI
make holes or orifices J through which the products of combustion may pass
including of course the smoke and in the upper portion of the chamber D
surrounding the bowl proper I form or insert the end of the drum or tube K
communicating with the mouthpiece of the pipe.
It will be seen that the nicotine may fall into the lower portion of the smoke
chamber surrounding the pipe and be expelled therefrom through the orifice Fon
blowing down the stem, or the lower part of the pipe as shown in Figure 3 may
be unscrewed and so detached for the purpose of thoroughly cleansing the whole.
of the external or surrounding chamber or bowl D of the pipe.
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. In tobacco pipes constructing the bowl in two portions forming separate
chambers the upper one of which containing the tobacco is perforated so that on
the smoke being drawn therefrom into and through the lower chamber the nicotine
and other deleterious products of combustion may collect in and be removed from
the lower portion of the said lower chamber whilst the smoke may pass through
an orifice in the upper part thereof to the mouth of the smoker substantially as
described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
2. The improved method of constructing tobacco pipes substantially as herein-
before described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 5th day of June 1893.
POPPLEWELL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.