and Stems of Tobacco Pipes.INT FOR CONNECTING TOGETHER THE MOUTHPIECES AND S
Year: 1885

page_text: and Stems of Tobacco Pipes.
I WILLIAM HORTON SHARMAN of 90 Worship Street, Finsbury, in the county
of Middlesex Tobacco pipe mounter, do hereby declare the nature of the said
invention for AN IMPROVED JOINT FOR CONNECTING TOGETHER THE MOUTHPIECES
AND STEMS OF TOBACCO PIPES to be as follows:-
:-
This invention consists in connecting together the mouthpieces and stems of
tobacco pipes by means of a kind of bayonet joint whereby the mouth piece can be
detached from and connected to the stem of the tobacco pipe in a rapid and easy
manner and a tight joint is obtained without risk of the parts becoming loose.
In carrying out my invention I provide the mouthpiece which may be of any
suitable material with a metal boss on which is formed the plug or hollow tube;
on the end of the plug I form a projection or stop; on the stem of the pipe I fix
in the usual way a mount having a recess corresponding with the boss on the
mouthpiece and an inner sleeve or tube; the said sleeve or tube is formed with a
longitudinal slot to allow of the introduction therein of the plug or hollow tube
with its projection; the end of the sleeve or tube is formed with an incline or cam
over which passes the projection on the plug and with a stop to limit the
movement of the same.
By these improvements in order to connect the mouthpiece to the stem of the
tobacco pipe it is simply necessary to pass the plug or hollow tube into the inner
sleeve or tube in the mount and by then partly rotating the mouthpiece the
projection on the plug will pass over the cam or incline and the mouthpiece will
thereby be drawn tightly against the mount so as to form a tight joint.

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and Stems of Tobacco Pipes.
I WILLIAM HORTON SHARMAN, of 90 Worship Street, Finsbury, in the county
of Middlesex, Tobacco pipe mounter, 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 :-
This invention consists in connecting together the mouthpieces and stems of
tobacco pipes by means of a kind of bayonet joint whereby the mouthpiece can be
detached from and connected to the stem of the tobacco pipe in a rapid and easy
manner and a tight joint is obtained without risk of the parts becoming loose.
In carrying out my invention I provide the mouthpiece which may be of any
suitable material with a metal boss on which is formed a plug or hollow tube; on
the end of the plug I form a projection or stop; on the stem of the pipe I fix in
the usual way a mount having a recess corresponding with the boss on the mouth-
piece a an inner sleeve or tube; the said sleeve or tube is formed with
longi slots or holes to allow of the introduction therein of the plug or
holi cube with its projection; one end of the sleeve or tube is formed with an
incline or cam over which passes the projection on the plug and with stops to
limit the movement of the same.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will proceed to
describe the same by reference to the accompanying drawing in which figure 1, is
an elevation and figure 2 a longitudinal section of a tobacco pipe provided with a
joint constructed according to my invention for connecting together the mouth-
piece and stem; figure 3, is an elevation of the mouthpiece and plug or hollow
tube and figure 4 is an end view of the same; figure 5 is a longitudinal section
and figure 6 an end view of the mount; figure 7 is a section on line A, B, of figure 5.
Similar letters in all the figures represent similar parts.
a, represents the mouthpiece of a tobacco pipe of any suitable material and b, is
the metal boss with which the mouthpiece a, is provided; the boss b, is formed on
a plate c, which is fixed to the mouthpiece a, by means of a tube d, formed
therewith and screwed (or otherwise fixed) in the mouthpiece; e, is the plug or
hollow tube formed on the boss b; f, is the projection or stop on the plug or
hollow tube e; g, represents the stem of the pipe and h, is the mount fixed
thereon in the usual way; i, figures 5 and 6 is the recess in the mount h, and
corresponding with and serving to receive the boss b, on the mouthpiece a; j, is
the inner sleeve or tube with which the mount h, is provided and k, k¹, are the
longitudinal slots or holes in the same to allow of the introduction therein of the
plug or hollow tube e, with its projection; l, is the incline or cam on one end of
the sleeve or tube j, over which incline or cam the inner end of the projection f, on
the plug e, passes whereby the two parts of the mount are drawn together so as to
make a tight joint; m and n are the stops formed on the sleeve or tube j, for the
purpose of limiting the movement of rotation of the plug e.
By these improvements in order to connect the mouthpiece a, to the stem g of
the tobacco pipe it is simply necessary to pass the plug or hollow tube
with its

page_text: projection f. through the slot or hole k, into the inner. sleeve or tube j, in the
mount h, the hole ¹ only allowing of the passage of the plug e, itself; by then
partly rotating the mouthpiece, a, towards the right hand the inner end of the
projection on the plug e, will pass over the cam or incline, and the plate c, and
boss b, on the mouthpiece a, will thereby be drawn tightly against the mount h, so
as to form a tight joint as shewn in figures 1 and 2. To disconnect the mouth-
piece and stem of the pipe it is only necessary to turn the former in the opposite
direction to that herein before described when the mouthpiece can be withdrawn.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. In a joint for connecting together the mouthpieces and stems of tobacco pipes
the combination with a mount having an inner sleeve or tube formed with an
incline or cam, of a hollow plug or tube provided with a projection or stop such
as f, adapted to travel over the said incline substantially as and for the purposes
herein before described and represented in the accompanying drawing.
2. The improved joint for connecting together the mouthpieces and stems
of tobacco pipes hereinbefore described and represented in the accompanying
drawing.