Improvements in Tobacco Pipes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 5th Aug., 1891-Accepted, 5th Sept., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tobacco Pipes.
A communication from the SoCIÉTÉ HYPOLITE VUILLARD & FILS, of Saint
Claude (Jura), in the Republic of France.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
M.I.M.E., do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to a tobacco-pipe which it is intended to introduce under
the name of "Enchantress" and which mainly consists of three parts connected
by the combined action of screwing and wedging. The first part consists of an
ordinary bowl perforated at the bottom and communicating with a wide tube or
stem integral with it. In the lower portion of the bowl is arranged a perforated
piece of meerschaum or other porous and incombustible material which is provided
with inclined openings. The second part is screwed into the length of tube
projecting from the first and constitutes the nicotine collecting chamber. This
tubular piece is closed at the end directed towards the bowl by a plug provided
with one opening extending from end to end. The head of the plug is also provided
with inclined orifices connected with and forming branches of the central opening.
The third and last part which is fitted to the second somewhat after the style of a
wedge or cone forms the stem of the pipe. This part also contains a plug having
a central perforation coinciding with that of the second section and also inclined
orifices branched to such central opening. The plugs of the second and third
sections are placed on the same level with the nicotine receiver. They may be
made of meerschaum or other porous and incombustible material and are adapted
to be readily removed and replaced as they are only held in position by their own
wedging action.
Dated this 10th day of February 1891
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tobacco Pipes.
A communication from the SoCIÉTÉ HYPOLITE VUILLARD & FILS, of Saint
Claude (Jura), in the Republic of France.
1, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
M.I.M.E., 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 a tobacco pipe mainly consisting of three parts connected
by the combined action of screwing and wedging.
This pipe is characterized by the arrangement of a nicotine collecting chamber
comprising removable porous parts adapted to intercept both nicotine and saliva and
to dry the smoke previous to its reaching the mouth of the smoker. These porous
parts are perforated plugs made of any suitable incombustible porous material such
as meerschaum, pipe-clay, baked porcelain, asbestos, slag-wool or the like.
The nicotine reservoir provided with these porous plugs is located in the vicinity
of the bowl of the pipe and connected with the part immediately adjoining the
bowl by screwing or any other suitable means; while to the ordinary stem of the
pipe it is tightly fitted by wedging or the like.

page_text: The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings
in which like letters designate like parts in all figures.
Figure 1 is an elevation of this improved pipe.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal section through the axis of the pipe.
Figure 3 is a section of the nicotine collecting chamber or reservoir, without its
plug.
Figure 4 is a section of the porous plug a adapted to be inserted into the bowl
end of the nicotine reservoir shown and to absorb the moisture emanating from the
tobacco.
Figure 5 represents the porous plug adapted to be inserted into the inner end
of the stem of the pipe.
In the short straight pipe shown in the drawings by way of example, the tubular
portion immediately adjoining the bowl d is provided with an inner screw thread
at e so as to receive the screw threaded portion of the nicotine reservoir g. In
the open end of the reservoir g, to the left in the drawing, is fitted, by means of an
indiarubber washer a', a porous plug a provided with perforations or channels a³ a³,
connecting it with the interior of the reservoir 9.
In the other end of g is tightly fitted the stem h, in the end of which is fitted the
porous plug firmly retained in place by an indiarubber washer.
The plug b is also perforated at 2 and for the passage of the smoke and saliva,
which latter the plug absorbs.
It will be understood that the nicotine chamber or reservoir here described with
the porous plugs a and b, is applicable to existing types of pipes whether with a
straight stem or a curved stem, and whatever the shape of the bowl.
The indiarubber washers or fittings a' and ' may be replaced by similar pieces
of cork or other suitable material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said
invention as communicated to me by my foreign correspondents, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A tobacco pipe having a nicotine collecting chamber or reservoir provided
with removable perforated plugs made of porous incombustible material for the
purpose of absorbing both the tobacco juice or nicotine and the saliva of the
smoker, substantially as described.
2. The tobacco pipe substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawing, comprising a nicotine chamber or reservoir g provided with removable
porous perforated plugs a and b, the whole being fitted together within the portion c
of the stem of the pipe.
Dated this 5th day of August 1891.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.