An Hygienic Device for Pipes and Cigar or Cigarette Holders.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Hygienic Device for Pipes and Cigar or Cigarette Holders.
I, GUSTAVE DUBUISSON, of 35, Rue Henri Maus, Brussels, in the Kingdom of
Belgium, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to pipes and cigar and cigarette holders and has for
its object the construction of a device which can be readily cleaned and can
also be reduced to a portable form.
To carry my invention into effect I take a glass tube and provide at one end
thereof means for the holding of the bowl portion of a tobacco pipe or a cigar
or cigarette. At the other end I provide means for guiding the suction tube
which is adapted to slide within the glass tube, the inner end of the latter being
fitted with a piston so as to make a sliding air-tight joint in the glass tube.
By pushing in and pulling out the suction pipe the piston effectually cleans the
glass tube from nicotine and other impurities deposited during smoking.
A further advantage is that when the tube is pulled out, the length of the
smoke passage is increased and the smoke is cooled to a greater extent during
its passage from the one end to the other. On the other hand when the tube is
pushed in the pipe cigar or cigarette holder is of short length and can be con-
veniently carried in the pocket, and also after each use and collapse the interior
of the tube is cleaned automatically by the piston.
Dated this 30th day of January 1899.
FELL & JAMES,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.
An Hygienic Device for spesialgal
I, Gustave Dubuisson, of 35, Rue Henri Maus, Brussels, in the Kingdom of
Belgium, Gentleman, 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:―
This invention relates to pipes and cigar and cigarette holders and has for
its object the construction of a device which can be readily cleaned and can
also be reduced to a portable form.
To carry my invention into effect I take a glass tube and provide at one end
thereof means for the holding of the bowl portion of a tobacco pipe or a cigar
or cigarette. At the other end I provide means for guiding the suction tube
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page_text: which is adapted to slide within the glass tube, the inner end of the latter being
fitted with a piston so as to make a sliding air-tight joint in the glass tube.
In order that my invention may be the better understood I now proceed to
describe this hygienic arrangement in relation to the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 illustrating its application to cigar or cigarette holders and Figure 2
to pipes.
The device consists of short tubes D (D) and E (E) which engage with the
two ends of a glass tube A. (A¹).
One of the short tubes D (D¹) serves to receive the cigar or cigarette (Figure 1)
or the stem C of the pipe F (Figure 2) the other short tube E (E¹) guides a
suction tube B (B) which carries, on the left end a piston C, C¹, which moves
air-tight in the tube A A¹.
In Figure 1 the tube B is illustrated as pushed in the tube A, and in Figure 2
the tube B is shown as nearly pulled out.
It will be seen that the pushing in and pulling out of the tube. B. (B) in; the
tube A (A) will effectively clean the tube A (A) from nicotine and impurities
during smoking, by the rubbing of the piston C (C¹) on the inner wall of such
tube.
A further advantage of this arrangement is that when the tube B₁ has been
pulled out, as shown in Figure 2, the smoke passes through nearly twice the
length of the. tube A¹ and can cool in consequence before being inhaled. On
the other hand when the tube B is pushed in as shown in Figure 1, the cigar
holder or pipe is of short length and can be conveniently carried in the pocket.
It should be further mentioned that after each use of a pipe or cigar holder
constructed according to this invention, the interior of the tube is cleaned auto-
matically by the piston when the suction tube is pushed into the smoke tube.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1st. A hygienic arrangement for pipes and cigar or cigarette holders consisting
of a smoke pipe A (A¹) held between two short tubes D (D¹) and E (E¹) of which
one D (D) is designed to receive the cigar or stem of the pipe and the other
to guide a suction tube B (B1), the latter carrying at its inner end a cleaning
piston C (C) which is adapted to clean the smoke tube A (A¹) from the impurities
and nicotine deposited during smoking, when the tube B (B¹) is pushed into the
smoke tube, substantially as described.
2nd. The arrangement and construction of a hygienic device for pipes and cigar or
cigarette holders, substantially as described and illustrated in and by the accom-
panying drawings.
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FELL & JAMES,
Agents for the Applicant.