Improvements in Tobacco Pipes, Cigar and Cigarette Holders.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 14th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 15th Dec., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tobacco Pipes, Cigar and Cigarette Holders.
I, LAURANCE SEAGER Builder and Contractor of London Road Milton next
Sittingbourne in the County of Kent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows :-
My invention relates to tobacco pipes, cigar & cigarette holders & the like & has
for its object to provide an improved means of cooling & purifying the smoke also
preventing moisture from the mouth passing into the tobacco or the nicotine from
the tobacco into the mouth.
According to my invention I provide a short tube one end to receive the bowl of
the pipe & the other the mouthpiece. Into the tube 1 insert a core made of any
absorbent material such as asbestos. On the outer side of this core I incise a spiral
groove giving it the appearance of an ordinary screw & when inserted into the tube
forms a continuous spiral passage for the smoke.
It will be readily understood that any length core may be used & this being loose
is easily taken out for cleaning or renewing as may be required.
Dated this 16th day of February 1894.
LAURANCE SEAGER,
Sittingbourne.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tobacco Pipes, Cigar and Cigarette Holders.
I LAURANCE SEAGER Builder and Contractor of Milton next Sittingbourne in
the County of Kent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to tobacco pipes, cigar and cigarette holders and the like
and has for its object to provide an improved means of cooling and purifying the
smoke also preventing moisture from the mouth passing into the tobacco or the
nicotine from the tobacco into the mouth.
According to my invention I provide a short tube, one end to receive the bowl
of the pipe and the other the mouthpiece. Into this tube I insert a core made of
any absorbent material such as asbestos. On the outer side of this core I incise a
spiral groove giving it the appearance of an ordinary screw & when inserted into
the tube forms a continuous spiral passage for the smoke.
It will be readily understood that any length core may be used & this being loose
is easily taken out for cleaning or renewing as may be required.
In practice I find it preferable to mount the spiral core in an inner case made of
suitable material that will expand and contract according to the material employed
for the spiral core or filter, a piece of indiarubber or other suitable material may
he used around this inner case to prevent the smoke travelling other than around
this spiral core in preference to its being screwed in position.
By reference to the accompanying drawing my invention will be more readily
understood viz.
Fig. 1. represents an ordinary pipe with its stem in section, a being the bowl of
wood, meerschaum & the like, b. the mouthpiece, c. being 'the stem also of wood,

page_text: meerschaum & the like, d. the tube to receive spiral core or filter & e. the spiral
core or filter which can be made to any length.
Fig. 2. shows a different method of mounting the bowl a to a metal stem c & is
more suitable for ordinary clay pipes.
Similar letters designate similar parts in both figures.
The arrangements shewn in Figs. 1 and 2 clearly indicate the manner in which
the spiral filters are removably and exchangeably fitted in tobacco pipes and the
like, they being moreover so simple as to require no further explanation or
illustration.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what 1
claim is-
1. In tobacco pipes, cigar & cigarette holders & other similar articles the
employment of a spiral filter made from any absorbent material so placed between
the bowl and mouthpiece in such a manner as to prevent the nicotine from the bowl
entering the mouth and the moisture from the mouth entering the bowl substantially
as described and illustrated in Figs. 1. and 2. of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 13th day of November 1894.
LAURANCE SEAGER,