IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES USED FOR SMOKING
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES USED FOR SMOKING."-A. communication from
abroad by Adolphe Achille Pathi, Tobacco Merchant, of 13,
Boulevart St. Martin, Paris.
Sealed the 27th November 1868, and dated the 10th June 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville
Clark at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 10th June 1868.
I, ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES USED FOR SMOKING," to be as
follows:-
Cigars are often smoked in a holder resembling a pipe in appearance,
the end of the cigar being placed in the tube or holder. The advantages

page_text: of this mode are that the taste of the tobacco does not enter the mouth,
the cigar is more easily handled, and the smoke is less liable to get in
the eyes.
This Invention relates to an improved pipe made to resemble a cigar
holder containing a partially consumed cigar. In this manner the
resemblance of a cigar is maintained while smoking the pipe. To
effect this I take a pipe of any form or material usually employed, to
the bowl of which I hinge a cover provided with an imitation of a
partially consumed cigar; the bowl is filled in the usual way with the
tobacco to be smoked.
I have shown in the accompanying Drawing an arrangement of cigar
pipe according to this Invention.
a, pipe of any suitable shape and material; b, hinged or other cover
provided with a catch c, this cover is furnished with an imitation
cigar d in a partially burnt condition, the end of which resembling the
cigar ash is perforated for the admission of air for smoking. The
red line position shows the cover and imitation cigar turned down for
the purpose of filling the bowl and igniting the tobacco.
The improvement thus consists in the application to a pipe in the form
of a cover of an imitation cigar partially consumed so as to make it
resemble a cigar holder.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alexander Melville Clark in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 9th December 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COMB, I, ALEXANDER 2
MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
'first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give

page_text: also be used as a cigar holder. I take a pipe of any form or material
usually employed, to the bowl of which I hinger or otherwise fit a
cover provided with an imitation of a partially consumed cigar, the
bowl is filled in the usual way with the tobacco to be smoked.
I have shown in the accompanying Drawing an arrangement of cigar
pipe according to this Invention.
a, pipe of any suitable shape and material; b, hinged or other cover
provided with a catch c, this cover is provided with an imitation lighted
cigar d in a partly burnt condition, the end of which resembling the
cigar ash is perforated for the admission of air for combustion. The red
line position shows the cover and imitation cigar turned down for the
purpose of filling the bowl and igniting the tobacco.
As the apertures in the imitation cigar ash which is made of foil or
other suitable material might supply an insufficient amount of air to the
pipe to produce the combustion of the tobacco contained, I remedy this
possible disadvantage by making grooves or corrugations in the inner
metal tube or lining of the artificial cigar so as to form channels for
conducting pure air to the bowl unmixed with smoke as in the preceding
This air is supplied through perforations made in the artificial
cigar ash corresponding to each of the channels formed by the grooves in
the metal tube or lining.
case.
When the pipe is to be used as an ordinary cigar holder, the upper
part forming the artificial cigar is removed and replaced by a thimble
piece serving to hold the cigar which is smoked in the ordinary way.
The artificial cigar is mounted on the pipe bowl either by a hinge
or bayonet joint so as to enable it to be readily applied or removed.
Having described the nature of this Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I declare that what I claim as improvements in
pipes for smoking to be protected by the herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent is,-
First. The application to pipes of an imitation lighted cigar for the
purpose of simulating a cigar and holder, substantially in the manner
shown and described.

page_text: Secondly. I claim the particular arrangements and mode of fitting
the artificial cigar to the pipe for the purpose of removing it when
desired as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of December,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.
Witness,
JAMES DAISH,
53, Chancery Lane,
London.
A. M. CLARK. (L.S.)