An Improved Appliance or Tool for Cleaning Out Tobacco Pipes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Jan., 1895
"Complete Specification Left, 25th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance or Tool for Cleaning Out Tobacco Pipes.
ARTHUR HUGHES CORNWALLIS BURROW Swan Hotel Staines Bridge, Staines,
Middlesex Licensed Victualler do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
A round cup shaped tool or implement i.e. round in shape concave on the inner
side and convex on the outer side, having a hole or aperture in the bottom, on the
outer or convex side a broad slot is cut all round so as to take an india rubber band
which covers nearly all of the outer or convex side.
To use same, the outer or convex side of tool is placed on the top of the bowl of
pipe and the concave side being uppermost is blown through by the person using
same, and the force drives all the foul matter in the bowl and stem of pipe out
through the mouth piece.
Dated this 7th day of January 1895.
ARTHUR HUGHES CORNWALLIS BURROW.
I, ARTHUR HUGHES CORNWALLIS BURROW, of Swan Hotel, Staines Bridge,
Staines, do hereby declare the nature of the said 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 improved appliance for use in freeing the bowls and
stems or tubes of smoking pipes and the like from any accumulation of nicotine or
other juicy matter or the like.
The improved appliance consists, essentially, in a dished, cupped, coned or
equivalently formed part, which may be made of wood, metal or any other suitable
material, and may be turned, stamped or otherwise suitably shaped as most
convenient, and which, as regards its outer side, is so formed as to be adapted to
fit practically air-tight into, or against the end of or around the bowl of the pipe or
end of the smoking tube, and, as regards its inner side, is so formed as to be
adapted at the one end to be placed against the mouth, and at the other end and
intermediate part to concentrate and direct a current of air blown thereinto by the
mouth out through a central aperture into the bowl and throughway of the pipe
stem or tube, thereby effectually expelling all the aforesaid contained foul matter
through the mouthpiece of the pipe."
The improved appliance is illustrated on the accompanying drawings in various
modifications of its construction, but it may be otherwise equivalently formed.
The exact formation of the appliance is not material so long as on its inner or
mouth-side it is conveniently applicable to the mouth and is adapted to concentrate
and direct any air blown thereinto into the central aperture a. It may be plain as
represented in Figs. 1 to 4, (sectional elevations) or may be rifled or grooved
(Fig. 5) (a plan) so as to tend to give a whirling direction to the air blown through.

page_text: The outer or pipe side of the appliance may also be variously formed so long as it
is adapted to fit practically air-tight into, or against the end of, or around the
mouth of the bowl of the pipe or smoking tube. This effect can be most con-
veniently obtained by fitting a broad band 6, of rubber or other suitable material to
a suitably formed recess a³, surrounding such pipe-side of the appliance.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
An appliance for the purpose stated formed and adapted as regards its inner or
mouth side and outer or pipe side substantially in the manner aforesaid.
Dated this 15th day of January 1895.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.