Improvements in Plugs for Tobacco Pipes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 17th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 9th Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Plugs for Tobacco Pipes.
RICHARD HEATON 37 Canterbury Street Blackburn Blacksmith JAMES
ANDERTON SUTCLIFFE Globe Works Blackburn Sheet Metal Worker, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
We make a hollow plug of metal or other convenient material in the form of an
inverted thimble. In the centre of the lower base or end we stamp or otherwise
arrange a hollow tube to project up the centre of the plug to a height level with
the top. We fit a perforated end or cover into the top or open end of the plug the
centre part of such cover being sunk or hollowed upwards to allow space for the
hollow tube projecting from the base of the plug. The action is as follows. When
the plug is placed in the base of the pipe bowl & the latter filled with tobacco &
the tobacco lighted the smoke is drawn through the perforations & the lid of the
plug & down the centre tube into the smokers mouth any moisture coming from
the tobacco remains in the plug which also prevents moisture from the passage in
the stem of the pipe coming in contact with the tobacco & the latter is therefore
kept dry & may be entirely consumed.
Dated this 16th day of January 1893.
JAMES ANDERTON SUTCLIFFE.
RICHARD HEATON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Plugs for Tobacco Pipes.
We RICHARD HEATON Blacksmith 37 Canterbury Street Blackburn, and
JAMES ANDERTON SUTCLIFFE Sheet Metal Engineer Globe Works Blackburn,
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 an improvement in plugs for tobacco pipes which
prevents nicotine entering the mouth & also prevents any moisture coming from
the mouth down the stem of the pipe & coming in contact with the tobacco thereby
causing the tobacco to have to be wasted.
By the use of this said invention every particle of tobacco can be consumed to
ashes. The mode of construction is as shewn by Figures 1 and 2. We make the
plug of brass tin, copper or any other suitable material which is stamped in the
form of a taper dish as shewn at A. The centre part at the bottom is pressed
upwards so as to form a cone on the inside of the taper dish as shewn at B. The
lid as shewn at C is perforated & we make these lids so as to fit either inside or
outside the taper dish. In the centre of this lid a. small pap is formed which fits
directly over the top of the cone as shewn at O. The smoke & the nicotine pass
through the holes in the lid & into the plug the nicotine remaining in the plug but
the smoke rises again & passes through under the pap in the lid & down the hole
in the centre of the cone & enters the smokers mouth quite pure.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion & in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
1st. A hollow-plug fitted with a perforated lid and having a central cone open

page_text: 2nd. In tobacco pipes the use and employment of a hollow plug substantially as
above described and set forth in the drawings annexed.
October 16th 1893.
RICHARD HEATON.
JAMES ANDERTON SUTCLIFFE.