AN IMPROVED TOBACCO PIPE
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexis Picard, of 89, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in
the Empire of France, and of 4, South Street, Finsbury, London, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVED TOBACCO PIPE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexis Picard at the.
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 4th,
October 1856.
I, ALEXIS PICARD, of 89, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of
France, and of 4, South Street Finsbury, London, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention of "AN IMPROVED TOBACCO PIPE," to be as follows,
that is to say:-
This Invention relates to an improved construction of tobacco pipe for
preventing the injurious effects of nicotine when smoking tobacco, and consists
in forming on the under part of the stem of the pipe, about an inch or an inch
and a half from the bowl, a short stem, through which a hole is pierced com-
municating with the bore of the pipe, to which short stem is fixed a reservoir,
composed of clay, glass, caoutchouc, or other suitable material, for receiving
the liquor or nicotine produced in smoking. A ferrule of caoutchouc is fitted
to the stem, if necessary, for fixing the reservoir more firmly. The reservoir
is emptied of the liquor by removing it from the pipe.

page_text: The apparatus or instruments employed in the manufacture of the pipe con-
sist, first, of an improved form of mould for making the bowl; secondly, of
a copper or cast-iron pipe mould, so formed that the reservoir stem is made at
the same time as the pipe, and which stem is afterwards pierced through
with a small piercer; thirdly, of a long wire piercer or spindle, for piercing and
cleaning the stem of the pipe; lastly, of a short piece of wire, rounded at
the top, and fixed to a handle, for forming a mould for the reservoir.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alexis Picard in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
4th April 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXIS
PICARD, of 89, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of France, and of
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Ier
Royal Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Alexis Picard, Her special license that I, the said Alexis Picard, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alexis
Picard, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED TOBACCO PIPE,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alexis Picard, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alexis Picard, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof, reference being had to the annexed Sheet of Drawings, and to the
figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say :-
This Invention consists, first, in constructing tobacco pipes with a reservoir

page_text: upon the stem, for collecting the nicotine (or other injurious substances pro-
duced in smoking tobacco) whereby its injurious effects are in a great measure
prevented; secondly, in instruments for the manufacture of the improved pipe.
In making the pipe, a short stem is formed upon the under part of the
stem of the pipe, about an inch or an inch and a half from the bowl, through
which stem a hole is pierced, communicating with the bore of the pipe. To
this stem is fixed a reservoir, composed of clay, glass, caoutchouc, or other
suitable material, for receiving the liquor containing nicotine, which is pro-
duced in smoking. The reservoir is emptied of the liquor by removing it
from the pipe. A ferrule of caoutchouc is fitted to the short stem, if necessary,
for fixing the reservoir more firmly.
The improved tobacco pipe, and instruments employed in its manufacture,
are shewn in the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
Figure 1 represents a section of the pipe A, composed of the ordinary clay,
or other suitable material. The cast-iron or copper pipe mould is constructed
so that the pipe is formed with a short stem B, which is pierced (by the piercer
Figure 2) with a hole C, communicating with the bore D of the pipe. To
the short stem is fitted the reservoir, shewn in section in Figure 8, the mould
for forming which is represented in Figure 4. Figure 5 is the plunger or
mould for constructing the bowl. Figure 6 represents a view of the complete
pipe with the reservoir attached. The reservoir may be fitted to pipes of all
kinds and dimensions.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that what I claim is,
the mode of constructing tobacco pipes with a reservoir, in the manner and
for the purposes herein-before described, and represented in the annoxed Sheet
of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexis Picard, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
DIGARD
PICARD. (2.5.)