IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SMOKING TOBACCO OR OTHER SUBSTANCES, AND AROMATIC OR MEDICINAL HERBS OR PLANTS
Year: 1880

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edwin Powley Alexander at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th September 1880. A com-
munication from abroad by Hyppolito Berrens, of Barcelona, in the Kingdom
of Spain, Chemical Engineer.
EDWIN POWLEY ALEXANDER, of 14, Southampton Buildings, in the County of
Middlesex, Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
FOR SMOKING TOBACCO OR OTHER SUBSTANCES, AND AROMATIC OR MEDICINAL
HERBS OR PLANTS." A communication from abroad by Hyppolito Berrens, of
Barcelona, in the Kingdom of Spain, Chemical Engineer.
This Invention relates to a peculiar construction and arrangement of hygienic
smoking pipe or apparatus for smoking tobacco of all kinds, cigars, and cigarettes,
and aromatic or medicinal and other herbs, plants, or substances, whereby all
injurious and unpleasant effects from smoking are obviated, rendering the improved
pipe specially adapted for use by persons possessing the most delicate and sensitive
constitutions, whilst the most satisfactory results are obtained (according to the
substances employed), of great service in hygiene and therapeutics, at the same
time affording increased comfort and enjoyment to the smoker.
The improved pipe, which may be composed of any suitable material, is so
arranged as that the heat and smoke produced by combustion shall be caused to
descend, and in its descent shall pass through one or more cooling or condensing
chambers, which may or may not contain sponge, coke, or other suitable porous
material, in order to ensure that the smoke, which is drawn through a tube in
connection with the bottom of the condensing chamber (or in the case of using
two or more of such chambers with the bottom of the last or lowest one of the
series), shall enter the mouth in a cool state, and entirely free from all corrosive,
acrid, and other injurious properties which have been neutralized by the passage
of the smoke downwards through the condensing chambers and porous substances
contained therein.
The bowl of the pipe communicates directly from below with a condensing
chamber containing by preference sponge, coke, or other suitable porous material,
to the bottom of which chamber is connected the smoking tube. This chamber is
provided at the bottom or side with a removeable stopper for the introduction or
removal of the porous material. The bowl and condensing chamber or chambers
may be made in one or in separate parts readily detachable, and a special holder

page_text: for a cigar or cigarette may be substituted for the bowl when preferred. One,
two, or more condensing chambers may be disposed vertically, communicating with
each other and with the bowl; or in some cases the bowl and a condensing
chamber may be mounted on a convenient horizontal stand or holder in com-
bination with a receiver, and a second condensing chamber mounted on the same
stand, the smoke passing by an intermediate tube from the bottom of the first
condensing chamber to the receiver on the top of the second condensing chamber,
from the bottom of which the smoke after having been cooled and purified is
finally drawn into the mouth through a tube of any desired length.