Improvements in Pipes for Smoking Tobacco.
Year: 1890

page_text: COMIUMIE DI MUITIATION.
Improvements in Pipes for Smoking Tobacco.
I, HENRY EDWARD MEYER, of the firm of J. L. Meyer, Sons & Co., of 8,
Lawrence Lane, in the city of London, Merchants, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention (a communication from Raymond Jeantet, of St. Claude, in
the Republic of France, Manufacturer) and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :--
This invention relates to improvements in the construction of pipes for smoking
tobacco, the object being to provide a pipe which can be smoked so that practically
the whole of the tobacco is consumed without its becoming moist, the entrance of
nicotine or the like into the mouth of the smoker being prevented.
In order to effect this I so construct the pipe that the tobacco is lighted at the
lower part or bottom of the pipe-bowl so that the tobacco is burned upwards.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe how it may
be carried into practice by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which-
Figure 1 is a sido elevation, and
Figure 2 a longitudinal section of a tobacco pipe embodying my improvements.
In the said figures a represents the bowl of the pipe, 6 the stem of the pipe and c
the mouth-piece. It will be seen that the bore d of the stem of the pipe does not
as is generally the case enter the pipe-bowl at the bottom, but that it communicates
with the bowl at the top by means of the vertical hole e (clearly shewn in figure 2) in
the thickness of the pipe-bowl.
For the purpose of enabling the tobacco to be lighted from the lower part of the
pipe-bowl, I provide an opening, through the bowl and on a level with the bottom of
the cavity of the bowl; in the drawing this opening is shewn at fand is advan-
tageously bushed or lined with metal g to protect the bowl from burning: h represents
a removable cap of suitable material such as metal, and adapted to fit over the top of
the bowl; is a chain for connecting the cap to the pipe.
By this arrangement to make use of the pipe, the cap h is removed to allow of the
bowl being charged with tobacco, and on the cap being replaced, the pipe is lighted
at the opening and the tobacco will burn from the lower part upwards; the smoke
will pass through the tobacco down the vertical hole e, through the bore d of the
stem and through the mouth-piece into the mouth of the smoker in a dry state. The
bore d of the stem serves as a reservoir for any saliva or moisture which may pass
from the mouth of the smoker and which cannot easily enter the pipe-bowl as is
generally the case.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A pipe for smoking tobacco, having a lighting opening through the bowl at the
lower part thereof, substantially as, and for the purposes, herein before described.
2. In a pipe for smoking tobacco the combination of a lighting hole near the
lower part of the bowl, a removable cover, and a hole communicating from the upper
edge of the bowl with the bore of the pipe stem, substantially as herein before
described.
3. The manufacture and use of the improved pipe for smoking tobacco hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 7th day of February 1890.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.