IMPROVEMENTS IN TOBACCO PIPES AND APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Homan Price Fonby, of Leeds, in the County of York,
Mechanical Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TOBACCO PIPES
AND APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Homan Price Fenby at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th January 1879.
HOMAN PRICE FENBY, of Leeds, in the County of York, Mechanical Engineer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TOBACCO PIPES AND APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH.'
"
My Invention consists in the improvements hereinafter described in tobacco
pipes and apparatus connected therewith for facilitating the cleaning of the bore of
the said pipes, and ensuring greater comfort and convenience in the smoking
thereof. The principal object of my Invention is to provide a ready means of
removing any obstruction from the bore of the pipe. In carrying my Invention
into effect I provide each pipe with a special cleaning rod, and I form a suitable
groove or tube parallel with the bore of the pipe for the purpose of carrying the
rod when not in use. By preference I place the cleaning rod in a tube of metal,
and fix this metal tube into a groove cut along the under side of the stem of the
pipe. But sometimes I drill a tubular receptacle along the underside of the stem,
and so carry the rod without a metal tube. For curved pipes I make the cleaning
rods flexible.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
tho said Homan Price Fenby in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 19th
July 1879.
HOMAN PRICE FENBY, of Leeds, in the County of York, Mechanical Engineer.
" IMPROVEMENTS IN TOBACCO PIPES AND APPARATUS CONNECTED THEREWITH.'
My Invention consists in providing a ready means of cleaning or removing any
obstruction from the smoke hole of the pipe. For this purpose I provide each pipe
with a cleaning rod, which I place, by preference, under the stem of the pipe in a
groove or channel in the wood or whatever material such pipe may be made of.
I sometimes place a thin metal tube or sheath for the cleaning rod in this groove,
the tube being kept in its place by the mounts or other suitable means. Another
method I adopt is to provide a hole in the pipe stem itself running parallel or nearly
so with the smoke hole.
In the accompanying Drawings, Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of a pipe of my
improved construction with the cleaning rod encased in a tube lying in a groove
along the underside of the stem of the pipe; Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of a pipe
with the cleaning rod lying in a hole parallel with the smoke hole, and made in the
stem of the pipe; Fig. 5 shows a bent pipe with a flexible cleaning rod held in place
by any of the foregoing methods; Fig. 6 shews a pipe with a cleaning rod lying in a
plain groove along the underside of the stem.
A special feature of my Invention is the continuation of the stem of the pipe
beyond the front of the bowl, so as to allow of a cleaning rod being used sufficiently
long to reach into the bowl without removing the mouthpiece.
Having now described my Invention of "Improvements in Tobacco Pipes and
Apparatus connected therewith," and the manner of carrying the same into effect, I
claim as the Invention secured to me by Letters Patent as aforesaid,―
The adaptation of cleaning rods to and in combination with tobacco pipes so as
to be always accessible when required, such rods being partially or completely
enclosed in any of the ways herein before described and shewn and set forth in the
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Homan Price Fenby, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Sixteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-nino.