Improvements in Tobacco Stoppers, Forming a Useful Combination.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 5th July, 1889-Accepted, 10th Aug., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tobacco Stoppers, Forming a Useful Combination.
I, CHARLES SCOTT SNELL of Culver Park Saltash Cornwall Engineer and Designer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to produce a Stopper which shall also serve some
other convenience that will ensure it being always an advantage to carry on the
person, and for this purpose I make it of an convenient metal and its head in a
similar flat enlarged form to the shell of a revolver cartridge (excepting the percussion
arrangement) and preferably having the sides of the cylindrical portion rendered
flexible by side slits or longitudinal corrugations.
This forms an excellent point protector for a black lead pencil and may be readily
transferred to the reverse end of the pencil. In either position it is particularly
convenient for pressing down the tobacco in a pipe by reason of the increased
diameter given to the head beyond that of an ordinary black lead pencil and when
nickel-plated or otherwise finished off forms a handsome and convenient article to
carry about.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tobacco Stoppers, Forming a Useful Combination.
I, CHARLES SCOTT SNELL of Culver Park Saltash Cornwall, Engineer and Designer,
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 this Invention is to produce a Stopper which shall also serve some
other convenience that will ensure it being always an advantage to carry on the
person; and for this purpose I make it of any convenient metal and its head in a
similar flat enlarged form to the shell of a revolver cartridge (excepting the percussion
arrangement) and preferably having the sides of the cylindrical portion rendered
flexible by side slits or longitudinal corrugations.
The better to explain my meaning reference is made to the accompanying Drawings
in which Fig. 1 is an elevation of a complete articlo constructed in accordance with
my invention showing also the manner of using the same and other Figs. show
constructional details.
In Fig. 2 the head is formed by a separate shell, in Fig. 3 a disc or button is
soldered on and in Fig. 4 the tube is swelled to embrace a disc or washer. Fig. 5
shows the whole in one piece with a pad of cork, rubber or other soft material in
the head for protecting the pencil point. Fig. 6 shows a corrugated cylindrical
portion and Fig. 7 illustrates the shell cut at an angle for use in loosening or
stirring up the tobacco in a pipe.
Tobacco Stoppers constructed in accordance with this invention form excellent
point protectors for pencils and may be readily transferred to the reverse end of the
pencil. In either position it is particularly convenient for pressing down the
tobacco in a pipe by reason of the increased diameter given to the head beyond that
of an ordinary pencil and when nickel plated or otherwise finished off it forms a
handsome and convenient article to carry about.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is;
1st. The construction or arrangement and combination of the parts of a Tobacco
Stopper, substantially as and for the advantages herein described, in reference to and
shown in the accompanying Drawings.
2nd. The combination forming a Tobacco Stopper and pencil point protector
substantially as and for the advantages herein described in reference to and shown
in the accompanying Drawings.
D
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1000
C. SCOTT SNELL.