IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES AND PIPE BOWLS FOR SMOKING."
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Leopold Maas, of the Firm of Mans Brothers,
of Monkwell Street, in the City of London, Merchants, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES AND PIPE BOWLS FOR SMOKING."—"
A communication from abroad by F. Kast, of Vienna, in the
Austrian Empire.
Sealed the 9th November 1875, and dated the 25th May 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Leopold Maas at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
25th May 1875.
I, LEOPOLD MAas, of the Firm of Maas Brothers, of Monkwell Street,
5 in the City of London, Merchants, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES AND PIPE BOWLS FOR SHOKING,"
communicated to me from abroad by F. Kast, of Vienna, in the Austrian
Empire, to be as follows:-
This Invention relates especially to pipes and pipe bowls of
0 meerschaum and other materials capable of being coloured by smoking,

page_text: such as are much esteemed by tobacco smokers, and command a ready
sale in the market.
According to my Invention the ordinary plug or block is dispensed
.with. A lining of cork or other similar substance is fitted or attached
within the bowl, so as to extend therein to any desired height; and I fit 5
into this bowl an inner bowl (perforated at bottom), so that the cork or
similar lining is between the walls of the outer and inner bowls. The
inner bowl which contains the tobacco is best constructed so as to be
· removeable, and for this purpose it is screw-threaded on its outer surface,
so as to correspond with and engage a screw thread or screw-threaded 1
portion formed on the inner surface of the outer bowl.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Leopold Maas in the Great Seal Patent Office on
'the 24th November 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LEOPOLD
MAAS, of the Firm of Maas Brothers, formerly of Monkwell Street, in
the Oity of London, and now of Wood Street Square, in the said City,
Merchants, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Leopold Maas, Her special license
that I, the said Leopold Maas, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Leopold Maas, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES
AND PIPE BOWLS FOR SMOKING," communicated to me from abroad by
F. Kast, of Vienna, in the Austrian Empire, upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Leopold Maas, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or

page_text: A is the outer bowl of the pipe in which is fitted a lining of cork or
other similar substance c at its lower part and extending therein to any
desired height, to which it is required that the pipe shall be coloured by
smoking. In this pipe the ordinary plug or block is dispensed with in
the bowl A, and I insert an inner removeable bowl B, which is screw-
threaded on its outer surface and fits securely to the outer bowl A,
which is tapped on its inside to receive it. The cork or other similar
lining c is placed between the walls of the outer and inner bowls A and
B. The tobacco to be smoked is inserted in the bowl B, which is
provided at bottom with orifices b, so as to communicate with the bore 1
of the stem and the mouth-piece in order that the tobacco may be
smoked.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same may be performed, I declare that I claim, the improve-
ments in pipes and pipe bowls for smoking, in which a lining of cork or
other similar substance is placed between the outer and inner bowls,
substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Leopold Maas, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of October, in
the year One thousand cight hundred and seventy-five.
Witness,
ERNEST DE PASS,
Patent Agent,
68, Fleet Street,
London.
LEOPOLD MAAS. (L.S.)