IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES FOR SMOKING
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Alfred Distin, of No. 81, Cranbourn Street,
Leicester Square, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES FOR SMOKING."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Alfred Distin
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 3rd January 1856.
I, WILLIAM ALFRED DISTIN, of No. 31, Cranbourn Street, Leicester Square,
in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES FOR SMOKING " to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in forming the pipe, which may be of clay or other
suitable material, with the body thereof straight, or of other convenient form,
with a reservoir therein for the tobacco, and such reservoir having an opening
at one side or end thereof to admit the supply of tobacco and air, and such.
reservoir having also a passage at the lower end thereof into a cap; there is
also a separate passage from one end of the body of the pipo to the other, and
at the top or upper end thereof there is another cap, with a tube and mouth-
picce, or a tube or aperture to admit a mouth-piece being inserted therein,
and this upper cap is brought down low enough on one side of the body to

page_text: cover the opening to the reservoir, or partially so, as required, when turned
round for that purpose. When, therefore, the pipe is charged with tobacco,
and the same is lighted, the smoke therefrom passes through the passage at
the bottom of the reservoir into the cap, and thence up the other passage into
the other cap at the top of the body, and thence through the tube and mouth-
piece into the mouth; the upper end or top of the body may be formed to
allow the tobacco to be introduced there into the reservoir and air holes in the
body of the pipe; the lower end of the pipe may also be formed for the smoke
to pass through water or other liquid, and thence up the said other passage to
the top cap and mouth-piece.
The details of my Invention may be necessarily varied without departing
from the nature thereof.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Alfred Distin in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 3rd July 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ALFRED DISTIN, of No. 31, Cranbourn Street, Leicester Square, in the County
of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Alfred Distin, Her special licence that I, the said William Alfred
Distin, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said William Alfred Distin, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN PIPES FOR SMOKING," upon the condition, amongst others, that I, the
said William Alfred Distin, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Alfred. Distin, do hereby declare
the nature of my "said Invention, and in what manner- the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the follow-
ing statement, and by reference to the Sheet of Drawings which accompany
this my Specification; and to the figures and letters marked' thereon, and in
each of which Figures the same letters refer to the same parts :-
My Invention consists: in forming by the ordinary means pipes for smoking,
and which may be of clay or other suitable material, with the body-thereof; A,
straight, or of other convenient form; and such, body having-a, reservoir therein,
B, to hold the tobacco which is. intended to; be smoked, and such reservoir
having an opening C at the silo thereof to allow. the, supply of tobacco to be
put into such reservoir and also for the supply of air, and such reservoir having
also a passage or opening D at the lower end thereof into a cap E; there
is also a separate passage from one end of the body of the pipe to the other F,
and at the top or upper part thereof there is another cap G, with a tube or
aperture to admit a mouth-piece being inserted therein; or the end of such
tube may be formed as a mouth-piece; and this upper cap G is brought down
low enough on one side, as shewn in Figures 1 and 4, to close the opening, or
openings, if there be more than one, to the reservoir, or partially so, as required,
when such cap is turned or screwed round for that purpose. When, therefore,
the pipe is charged with tobacco, and the same is lighted and smoked, the
smoke therefrom will pass through the passage D into the cap E, and thence
up the other passage F into the upper cap G, and thence through H, the tube
or neck of the cap G, into the mouth of the person smoking. The caps E and
G, and the tube thereof II, may be of metal, wood, or other suitable material;
the cap E should be so screwed or fixed as to allow it to be turned round or
partially so, and caps E and G may be so screwed or fixed as to allow them to
be removed when required.
By another modification of my Invention, I have one or more smaller
openings than C in the body, merely for the admission of air, and have an
opening or openings into the reservoir at one or both ends thereof, as shown
by the dotted lines in Figure 3, to allow the tobacco to be introduced at
either of such ends; and I have a plug of clay or other suitable material
to screw or fix into such opening or openings, so that the same may be
closed when the tobacco has been put into the reservoir.
Figure 3 shews the body of the pipe in section, and Figures 4 and 5
shew the caps in section. In some cases, I make the passage F much
wider at the upper part, so as to allow an easier current of smoke, and I
also thereby reduce the weight of the pipe.
In-some cases make the

page_text: body and the parts E, G, and H, in one piece, and then I only require
the lower part of the upper cap, videlicet, from the dotted lines at I to J,
merely for the purpose of closing or shutting off the opening C, or other
openings.
I do not claim any of the parts herein-before mentioned taken separately,
but I claim as my Invention the combinations described, with the right to
make all such variations as I may require without departure from the nature
of my Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Alfred Distin, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Third day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
WILLIAM ALFRED DISTIN. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the above-
named William Alfred Distin, in the
presenco of
H. WICKENS,
"Patent" Solicitor,
4, Tokenhouse Yard, Bank,
London.