Improvements in Briar-root, Wooden, Vulcanite, Clay, and all other Tobacco-pipes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 27th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 4th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL
SPECIFICATION..
Improvements in Briar-root, Wooden, Vulcanite, Clay, and all other
Tobacco-pipes.
WILLIAM RICHARDSON, Churchside House, Rainford, near St. Helens, Lancs,
Blacksmith & Tobacco-pipe Mould Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to prevent the passage of nicotine to the mouth
of the smoker of wooden or other pipes. To accomplish this, I have a bowl (or
pipe-head) and a stem (or shank) made of clay which I make specially porous
by mixing with it certain quantities of-say malt-dust, very fine sawdust, or
any other such combustible material which will disappear during the process of
burning in the kiln or furnace, thus leaving the bowl and stem very porous and
therefore of great absorbing power for a liquid, in this case nicotine from the
tobacco, or saliva from the mouth, or a mixture of nicotine and saliva together.
In the case of an ordinary clay pipe, the whole pipe would be made in one
piece in a mould, the end which enters the mouth being tipped or glazed, for
-say about one inch to prevent the porous stein sticking to the lips of the
smoker. In the case of wooden or other pipes I have the said wooden, or other
kind of pipes, made so that I can insert into them, a porous clay bowl & then
a porous clay tube or tubes through the wooden stem, & fitting into the clay
bowl thus forming a porous clay pipe encased in a wooden or any other kind
of tobacco pipe, right from the top of the bowl to the lips of the smoker. The
said clay stem can be made either in one piece, or in sections of straight or
bent tubes, or stems, which can be fitted one into the other according to the
kind of pipe for which it is required-for instance bent tubes for a bent pipe.
The said clay bowl, & clay tubes, on becoming foul or strong through long
smoking can easily be removed and new ones replaced by the smoker at pleasure.
The novelty of my invention is, firstly-the mixture of any combustible
material with clay to cause more porosity, and therefore more absorbing power,
and secondly-in the insertion into wooden or other pipes of a porous clay
bowl & tube or tubes of perous clay the entire length of the pipe as before
described.
Dated this 24th day of December 1892.
WILLIAM RICHARDSON, SENR.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Briar-root, Wooden, Vulcanite, Clay, and all other
Tobacco-pipes.
WILLIAM RICHARDSON, Churchside House, Rainford, near St. Helens, Lancs,
Blacksmith & Tobacco-pipe Mould Maker, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to prevent the passage of nicotine to the mouth
of the smoker of wooden or other pipes. To accomplish this, I have a bowl, or
pipe head, and a stem or shank, made of clay which I make specially porous
by mixing with it certain quantities of say malt-dust, very fine saw-dust, or any
other such combustible material which will disappear during the process of
burning in the kiln or furnace, thus leaving the bowl and stem very porous and
therefore of very great absorbing power for a liquid, in this case nicotine from

page_text: the tobacco, or saliva from the mouth, or a mixture of nicotine and saliva
together. In the case of ordinary pipes, I should make them of the ingredients
before named, and the whole pipe would be made in one piece in a mould, the
end which enters the mouth being tipped or glazed for-say about one inch to
prevent the porous stem sticking to the lips of the smoker. In the case of wooden
or other pipes, I have the said wooden or other kind of pipes made so that I can
insert into them a porous clay bowl, and then a porous clay tube or tubes, through
the wooden stem and fitting into the clay bowl, thus forming a porous clay-pipe
encased in a wooden or any other kind of tobacco-pipe, right from the top of the
bowl to the lips of the smoker. The said clay stem can be made either in one piece,
or in sections of straight or bent tubes, or steins, which can be fitted or socketed one
into the other, according to the kind of pipe for which it is required, for instance
straight stems or tubes for straight pipes and bent tubes for a bent pipe, these
being made air-tight by having small washers, or tubes of rubber, or asbestos,
or such like material placed on the end of the tubes in the sockets. Again I
could encase the said porous pipe all in one piece by having it so moulded as
to fit a wooden or other kind of pipe, by having the said wooden or other kind
of pipe split in half sectioually right through the pipe-bowl to the meeting of
the loop on the lip stem. I affix a small set of hinges invisible from front view
& thus couple the two halves of the bowl & stem so as to open & close. I then
enclose the entire porous clay pipe, & shut, or close, the box-like bowl and
stem, & then I pass the lip stem, or mouthpiece, & hoop specially prepared for
the reception of the thin porous end of the covered stem, the hoop thus securing
the porous pipe with rigidity. Of course I could screw the hoop to the stem
equally as well as simply coupling the hoop & stem, by pushing hoop on to stem.
This form is specially applicable to bent pipes. Another method in which I
could enclose an entire porous pipe, in a wooden or other kind of pipe, would
be to simply cut off the front portion of the pipe bowl, so as to permit the
insertion of the whole portion of the porous pipe, securing the front or wooden
half of bowl by a hinge or catch at bottom of bowl & a hoop or catch at the
top of said wooden or other kind of bowl. I may say that to make the stems
or tubes of the porous pipes as light as possible I have large bores or passages
through same, or, say 3 or 4 or more passages through same. It will easily be
seen that from above descriptions of the various forms of pipes described, that
the porous portions on becoming foul through long smoking can easily be removed
and new ones replaced by the smoker at pleasure.
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. The mixture of any combustible material with clay to cause more porosity,
and therefore more absorbing power, for liquids,-as-nicotine or saliva, or both,
in tobacco pipes.
2. In the insertion into wooden or other pipes of an entire porous clay pipe
as above described.
3. In the insertion of porous bowls & sectious of tubes into wooden pipes as
above described.
4. In the mixture of clay with combustible material-& in the special boring
of stem by having one large bore or 3 or more small bores through the said
stems thus causing extreme lightness, as above described.
Dated this 26th day of September 1893.
WILL. KICHARDSON, JR.,
Agent.