Year: 1875

page_text: Sealed the 18th February 1876, and dated the 19th November 1875.

page_text: and cool the smoke; the nicotine is collected in the tube, thereby
keeping the pipe clean; and when required, by stopping the mouth of
the bowl and blowing through the stem, the nicotine can readily be
the tube.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred How in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 18th May 1876.
TOM MBI
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
How, of Barnstaple, in the County of Devon, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Alfred How, Her special
license, that I, the said Alfred How, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred How, my executors, admini-
strators, 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 TOBACCO
PIPES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alfred
How, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, on 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 Alfred How, do hereby declare
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is 8
the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that
is to say:-

page_text: The Invention has for its object improvements in tobacco pipes,
whereby the nicotine is provented from passing into the mouth of the
smoker, and the pipe is kept clean and sweet whilst the smoke is
purified and cooled before it passes into the mouth of the smoker. For
5 this purpose I attach to or form the pipe (which may be of any desired
shape) with means for obtaining the objects above mentioned, as
represented in the accompanying Drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side
view, and Figure 2 is an under side view. I connect to the bottom of
the bowl a a tube b, which may be coiled around the bowl or stem, or
O both, as described in my Provisional Specification, or it may be other-
wise arranged; but I prefer to form thereon an enlargement or bulb 61
to receive the nicotine and liquid flowing from the pipe. The outer
end 62 of the tube 6 is formed with a small hole. By these means air
is admitted to the bowl a of the pipe through the tube 6 to purify and
5 cool the smoke; the nicotine is collected in the tube or bulb b, b',
thereby keeping the pipe clean; and when required, by stopping the
mouth of the bowl and blowing through the stem, the nicotine can
readily be blown out of the tube b.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the mode
0 in which I carry the same into effect, I would have it understood, that
what I claim is the attachment to, or forming tobacco pipes with means
for collecting the nicotine, admitting air to the pipe below the bowl
thereof, and enabling the nicotine to be discharged therefrom in manner
substantially as herein shown and described.
5
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred How, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.