Improvements in Tobacco Plugs for Charging Pipes, and a Case or Receptacle for Holding them.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 5th June, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 26th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 21st Apr., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tobacco Plugs for Charging Pipes, and a Case or
Receptacle for Holding them.
I JOSEPH FRANCIS PAULIN MASSE of Elm Croft, North Finchley, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This tobacco plug is in the shape of a cone, with its apex removed, and can be
made of any kind of manufactured tobacco whatsoever, so as to fit into and there-
with to fill, charge, stop or replenish a smoking pipe of any material, size shape or
description. The outside wrapper of the plug may be made either of tobacco leaf,
as in the case of cigars or of thin brown paper or other suitable material, as in the
case of cigarettes.
The Petaca case, box, tube or receptacle for the due preservation of the
tobacco plugs, may be made of leather, cardboard, wood or any other suitable
material or metal, of any size, shape or dimension, consisting partially or wholly of
a certain number of compartments and capable of containing conical tobacco plugs
made of manufactured tobacco.
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page_text: (b) The aforesaid plug may be perforated from apex to base, according to the
uses for which it is intended :-If it is intended for exportation by sea, it may be
transfixed through its centre with a straw, as in the case of cigars of Swiss or
Indian origin, so as thereby to mitigate, if not altogether to counteract the injurious
effects exercised by salt air on tobacco;-if it is intended for home consumption,
or for overland exportation, it may be transfixed by the insertion of a penknife,
bodkin or other sharp or pointed instrument, for the purpose of facilitating the
draught.
(c) It is advisable to systematically cleanse the bowl of the smoking pipe, after
using it, and thereby avoid the coking of its inner part, and secure the exact fitting
of the plug in the bowl, by which precaution pipes used for smoking the herein-
referred-to tobacco plug, will not be liable to be burnt or made foul by the
essential oil or moisture that generally accumulates in the process of tobacco
smoking.
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But, in the case of careless or rapid consumers of tobacco, or those smokers,
whose calling, occupation or engagements do not always afford them even such
short space of time, as is requisite, in order to comply with the recommendation
herein made, a tobacco plug may be inserted in the bowl of the pipe, without such
bowl having previously been cleaned out, and even without the base of the plug
being on a level with the mouth or aperture of the bowl. There is no objection to
the base of the tobacco plug projecting by a quarter of, or even half an inch out of
the bowl.
Among the advantages that are to be derived from this invention, the following
may be mentioned:
(a) The replenishing or filling up of a smoking pipe, in an expeditious, uniform,
clean and economical manner.
(6) A saving in tobacco, inasmuch as the apex of the plug, when inserted into
the pipe, does not come within three eighths of an inch, and, in some instances,
within a quarter of an inch of the base of the bowl, it can consequently be kept
álight, and kept from coming into contact with either nicotine or saliva, or with
both, until the tobacco of which the plug is made, is almost entirely consumed.
(c) The preventing, by means of the outside wrapper of the plug and the
frequent cleaning of the inner bowl, of coking, or the bowl from becoming coated
with or charred by cinder of nicotine, tobacco and wood; or such other material as
the pipe or bowl may happen to be made of.
The case, receptacle or box may be made of leather, cardboard, wood, tin or any
suitable material or metal, with or without a frame, and of any size, shape or
dimension, such case, receptacle or box to consist either partially or wholly of a
certain number of compartments, capable of containing conical tobacco plugs,
made of manufactured tobacco, as herein-before fully specified. The approximate
dimensions of the aforesaid case or receptacle are from about 3 inches by
28 inches, to about 5 inches by 3 inches or upwards, according to the size, shape
and number of plugs that are to be enclosed in the herein-before mentioned case
or receptacle, the number of compartments of which the case is to consist, to
measure each from 1 inch by of an inch to upwards.
If it is desired to manufacture a case for holding cigars, cigarettes or loose
tobacco of any kind, by the side of or in addition to tobacco plugs, it will suffice to
manufacture or prepare either the left or the right side of pocket of the case, for
the reception of either cigars, cigarettes or tobacco, or either of them, and the
other side, for the reception of from eight to sixteen tobacco plugs, or such number
of tobacco plugs as the shape of the case will admit of being enclosed.
The advantages attaching to the invention of the herein-before mentioned case,
are the due preservation of the tobacco plugs and the economy and comfort that
accrue to the consumer by its use.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
ith which I am

page_text: acquainted, for the purpose of carrying successfully the same into effect, I desire it
to be fully understood, that I do not strictly confine myself either to the precise
forms, relative proportions or approximate dimensions of the tobacco plugs and the
case or receptacle for holding them herein-before described and set forth, as it
will be readily understood, that the same may be considerably made to vary in
form and manufacture, without departing from the object of my invention. What
I claim is:
First. The shape, form and size of the tobacco plug, for the purpose of being
consumed in the bowl of an ordinary tobacco pipe, and the insertion thereof.
Secondly and lastly. The shape, form and construction of the case or receptacle,
as the best means of preserving the tobacco plug.
In witness thereof, I, the said Joseph Francis Paulin Massé, have hereunto
set my hand and affixed my seal, this Twenty-second day of February, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and ninety-four.
J. F. P. MASSÉ.
Witness:
ALFRED JOHN HENRY TEIL,
Of White Lodge, North Finchley, in the County of Middlesex.