An Appliance to Facilitate the Lighting of Tobacco Pipes and the like in Boisterous Weather.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Dec., 1893-Accepted, 3rd Feb., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance to Facilitate the Lighting of Tobacco Pipes and the
like in Boisterous Weather.
I WILLIAM CARTER, of 71, Parchment Street, Winchester, in the County of
Hampshire, Wine and Spirit Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an appliance capable of being carried in the pocket, and
which may act as a shield, or guard, when placed upon, around, within, or otherwise
attached to a tobacco pipe, cigar or cigarette to enable a smoker to obtain a light
in the most boisterous weather.
The said appliance may be rectangular, cylindrical, spheroidal, or any shape
desired, and may be made of metal or any suitable metalloid, or partly of metal
and other substances, open at the top and bottom, or bottom only, and with or
without a lid or flap or lids or flaps upon the upper end, the lower end being of
such a size as to fit within or around the pipe bowl which would also permit a cigar
or cigarette to be inserted therein.
The said appliance if of cylindrical or spheroidal form would be preferably
made of thin metal, in any suitable part of which a small hole is formed from
which extends inwardly and in a more or less downward direction a small tube
capable of receiving an ordinary match or vesta, and within the said tube or in
the manner of its construction such provision would be made that the mere
insertion of the match or vesta would be sufficient to cause the ignition of same,
and if the said appliance be placed upon, over or within the bowl of the pipe, or
the cigar or cigarette be placed within the bottom opening of the same previous to
the insertion of the match or vesta as stated a light of the pipe or the like can be
easily obtained in any weather, and to further facilitate this a lid or cover may be
provided, with or without perforations and pivotted, hinged, or otherwise connected
to the body of the appliance, or separate and distinct therefrom.
Or I may construct the said appliance so as to consist of two parallel sides,
binged or otherwise connected to ends capable of collapsing inwardly, so that when
so collapsed, the parallel sides would be very near each other and the whole may
then be carried in the vest pocket. In this method the before mentioned tube for
the reception of the match or vesta may be upon either of the said parallel sides
or upon the central hinges of the collapsible ends and upon either or both of the
said sides a flap may be hinged or otherwise connected, perforated or otherwise,
which may simply or collectively form a cover, for the appliance when expanded
to shut out downdraught, if needed.
The said appliance, of whatever shape, may, if desired, be lined or coated with
asbestos or other non-conductor of heat or with a preparation of slagwool or other
non-combustible substance to prevent the burning of the fingers when the appliance
is in use.
3000

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance to Facilitate the Lighting of Tobacco Pipes and the
like in Boisterous Weather.
I, WILLIAM CARTER of 71 Parchment Street, Winchester, in the County of
Hampshire, Wine and Spirit Merchant, 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 an appliance capable of being carried in the pocket,
and when required, employed as a shield or guard when placed upon, around,
within or otherwise attached to a tobacco pipe bowl, or covering the end of a
cigar or cigarette to enable a smoker to obtain a light in the roughest or most
boisterous weather.
For the purpose of rendering my invention perfectly clear and the manner
of its use well understood I have hereunto appended a sheet of drawings, in
which,
Fig. 1 is an external view of the said appliance when this is circular or of
cylindrical form,
Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same, also showing the manner of its use in
connection with an ordinary pipe bowl.
Figs. 3 and 4 are diagrams of an alternative method of arranging the passage
for the match or vestage, the former being in section, the latter a top or plan
view.
Figs. 5 and 6 are enlarged views of an alternative arrangement of the said
device, by which the same may be folded or collapsed and carried in the vest or
ticket pocket, the former being a plan or top view of the apparatus when
expanded and in use upon the pipe bowl, the latter the same when folded or
collapsed.
Fig. 7 is an elevation of the same device as Figs. 5 and 6, drawn to about its
actual size, and shewn in position upon an ordinary pipe bowl.
b
Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, I carry my invention into effect by constructing of
any suitable metal or metalloid, or partly of metal and other material, or wholly.
of other material, such for instance as briar, bone, ivory, or vulcanite, a case or
chamber A, which may be rectangular in cross section, or in the form of an egg or
sphere, or cylindrical as shewn, the bottom of which is open to permit the said
chamber to be placed upon, within, or surrounding the top of an ordinary pipe
bowl as at Fig. 2. The top of A may be covered by a fixed, portable or hinged
cap B, in which a central hole a is formed to assist convection, and to prevent
downdraught a perforated or partly open diaphragm 6 may be placed in line with
the junction of A and B, and attached to either. In the cylinder, or other shaped
chamber A, a tubular passage C is formed, of such size as to permit the passage
of a match or vesta, and at such an angle, as to point towards the centre of the
pipe bowl C. The inner surface of C may be coated with emery, ground glass or
sand, in order that when a match or vesta is passed therethrough, the said
roughened surface may ignite the same, as shewn at Fig. 2. Or the inner surface
of may be roughened by the means of indents made upon its outer surface. Or
may form an opening in the upper surface of C within A, and cause a springc,
connected to A, to dip into the said opening, and this being roughened upon its
lower surface, the friction between this and the match or vesta when passed
through C, would induce ignition. This arrangement will be understood by the
diagrams Figs. 3 and 4.
I
In Figs. 5 and 6 I illustrate how the said appliance may be constructed so as to
be collapsible and capable of being carried in the vest or ticket pocket. In this
arrangement the appliance consists of two parallel sides D and E, to which are
hinged collapsible ends F and G, these having central hinges d d', so arranged as

page_text: to permit F and G to fold inwardly towards each other, and to either d or d',
preferably the latter, a tube or match or vesta passage C would be fixed, and
coinciding with this, a hole e would be formed by making a division in di and
removing part of the substance of G, as shewn in Fig. 7. To either of the
sides D or E, a cap or cover H would be hinged, provided with a central opening f.
The enlarged view Fig. 5 shows the apparatus expanded, and covering the bowl C',
the cover or lid H being thrown back, but in actual practice the lid H would be
closed as at Fig. 7, before inserting the match through C as at Fig. 5. The
view Fig. 6 shows the apparatus collapsed ready to be carried in the vest or other
pocket.
In this latter arrangement of the apparatus the tube C would be preferably con-
structed as at Figs. 1 and 2, as that shewn by Figs. 3 and 4 would not in most
cases be adaptable.
In either methods of construction described and shewn, the apparatus may be
lined, or coated externally, or both, with asbestos or other non-combustible and
non-conducting material, in order that the fingers may not be burned when holding
the appliance over the bowl of the pipe.
From the foregoing description and by reference to the drawings, it will be
understood that the appliance is equally adaptable for lighting cigars or cigarettes
as pipes, in boisterous weather, in which case of course the appliance would be
placed covering the end of the cigar or cigarette before inserting the match
or vesta.
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.
1st. In an improved appliance for facilitating the lighting of tobacco pipes,
cigars or cigarettes in boisterous weather, the construction and use of a bottomless
chamber A, with fixed, hinged or portable cover B, provided with an aperture a,
and with or without a perforated or partly open diaphram b, and provided with an
internal roughened match or vesta passage C, arranged as at Figs. 1 and 2, or
provided with a roughened spring c as at Figs. 3 and 4, substantially as herein
described and shewn.
2nd. In an improved appliance for facilitating the lighting of tobacco pipes,
cigars, or cigarettes in boisterous weather, the construction and use of a bottomless
collapsible chamber, consisting of parallel sides D E, carrying a lid or cover H,
and hinged to collapsible ends and G, one of which carries an internally
roughened match or vesta passage or tube C, coinciding with a hole e in For G,
the whole when expanded capable of being used as at Figs. 5 and 7, or carried in
the vest or other pocket when collapsed as at Fig. 6, substantially as herein described
and shewn.
Dated this 22nd day of December 1893.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
4, Moorfields, Fore Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.