CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES FOR SMOKING TOBACCO
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Lamb, of the City of Manchester, Tobac
conist, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES FOR
SMOKING TOBACCO."
Sealed the 12th September 1861, and dated the 26th March 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Lamb at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th March 1861.
I, SAMUEL LAMB, of the City of Manchester, Tobacconist, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES
FOR SMOKING TOBACCO," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to prevent the tobacco juice and particles of
tobacco or ashes passing from the bowl to the tube of the pipe. In per-
forming my Invention, an opening is made at the bottom of the bowl com-.
municating with a reservoir, and a passage leads upwards from this reservoir.
to the socket of the tube of the pipe. The passage is made within the body
of the clay or other material of which the pipe bowl is manufactured, and
the socket of the tube is placed at the upper part of the bowl; consequently.
the tobacco smoke, in being drawn from the bowl, passes through the reser-
voir, then
up the side passage, and thence to the tube, and is inhaled into the
mouth perfectly free from oil or juice, or other deleterious matter. The reser-
voir is capable of being removed at pleasure for the purpose of discharging
the contents.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Lamb in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 24th
September 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
LAMB, of the City of Manchester, Tobacconist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Samuel Lamb, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel Lamb,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel
Lamb, 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN PIPES FOR SMOKING TOBACCO," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Samuel Lamb, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, 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 Samuel Lamb, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say) :-
The object of this Invention is to prevent the tobacco juice and particles of
tobacco or ashes passing from the bowl to the tube of the pipe. In per-
forming my Invention, an opening is made at the bottom of the bowl com-.
municating with a reservoir, and a passage leads upwards from this reservoir
to the socket of the tube of the pipe. The passage is made within the body
of the clay or other material of which the pipe bowl is manufactured, and the
socket of the tube is placed at the upper part of the bowl; consequently the
tobacco smoke, on being drawn from the bowl, passes through the reservoir,
then up the side passage, and thence to the tube, and is inhaled into the
mouth perfectly free from oil or juice or other deleterious matter. The reser-

page_text: voir is capable of being removed at pleasure for the purpose of discharging
the contents.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the means pursued by me,
reference being had to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, and to the
figures and letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 is a section through the head of a pipe for smoking tobacco, con-
structed according to my improvements, and Figure 2 is an elevation of the
same. a is the bowl containing the tobacco, and 6 the opening leading from
the bottom of the bowl to the reservoir c; d is the passage for the smoke to
ascend from the reservoir to the stem or tube e, which fits in the socket f; the
lid forming the reservoir c is capable of being easily removed. The head of
the pipe may be made of clay, briar root, or any other suitable material.
From the above Drawing and section of the pipe, it will be seen that the
smoke must first descend into the reservoir, where the grosser parts of it,
namely, nicotine, tar, and moisture will condense; it then ascends the
passage d leading to the stem e of the pipe. This passage being kept dry by
the heat of the burning tobacco in the bowl, will arrest any moisture that may
still be left in the smoke, which then passes on to the mouth pure, delightfully
fragrant, and free from that acridity which so excites the salivary glands, and
causes expectoration. The other advantages of the pipe are, that the whole
of the tobacco is consumed, none being left damp at the bottom of the bowl,
and the flavour of the tobacco is as pleasant at the last as when first
lighted.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, and described the means of
performing the same, I declare that I claim the peculiar arrangement of the
various parts of the pipe head as shewn and described, and particularly the
d contained within the body of the pipe.
side passage
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Lamb, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
SAMUEL LAMB.
(L.B.)