AN IM- PROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF TOBACCO PIPES, APPLICABLE ALSO FOR CIGAR AND CIGARETTE TUBES
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Leopold Beral Bertram, of 37, Park Road, New Wands-
worth, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, for the Invention of "AN IM-
PROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF TOBACCO PIPES, APPLICABLE ALSO FOR
CIGAR AND CIGARETTE TUBES."
Sealed the 29th July 1879, and dated the 1st February 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Leopold Beral Bertram at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st February 1879.
⚫ LEOPOLD BERAL BERTRAM, of 37, Park Road, New Wandsworth, in the County
of Surry, Gentleman. "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF TOBACCO
PIPES, APPLICABLE ALSO FOR CIGAR AND CIGARETTE TUBES."
The object of this Invention is to construct pipes or cigar tubes wherein the
smoke is separated from the tobacco oil and nicotine before it passes from the stem
or mouth piece to the mouth of the smoker, in order to prevent the injurious effects
so frequently experienced by smokers in using pipes or cigar tubes of the ordinary
construction.
In order to effect the above I fit or fix in the stem of the pipe or tube a disc of
metal, wood, clay, meerchaum, or other suitable material, the said disc having a
hole therein, into which is inserted a short tube, thus making as it were two
chambers in the said stem or tube, the bottom or lower chamber retaining all or
nearly all the tobacco oil and nicotine, and the smoke (cooled) passing through the
aforesaid small tube to the upper chamber, and thence to the mouth of the smoker
pure and simple.
The aforesaid disc may simply have a hole therein without the small tube, but
I have found the smoking better when the small tube is inserted.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, and of
an Order of the Lord Chancellor, filed by the said Leopold Beral Bertram in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th August 1879.
LEOPOLD BERAL BERTRAM, of 37, Park Road, New Wandsworth, in the County
_of_Surrey._ " AN IMPROVEMENT-IN-THE-CONSTRUCTION OF TOBACCO PIPES, APPLI-
GABLE-ALSO-FOR-CIGAR AND CIGARETTE-TUBES.".
The object of this Invention is to construct_pipes_or_cigar tubes wherein
the smoke is separated from the tobacco oil and nicotine before it passes from the
stem or mouth picce to the mouth of the smoker, in order to prevent the injurious
effects so frequently experienced by smokers in using pipes or cigar tubes of the
ordinary construction. In order to effect the above object I fit or fix in the stem
of the pipe or tube a disc of metal, wood, clay, meerschaum, or other suitable
material, the said dise having a hole therein, into which is inserted a short tube,
thus making as it were two chambers in the said stem or tube, the bottom or lower
chamber retaining all or nearly all the tobacco oil or nicotine, and the smoke
(cooled) passes through the aforesaid small tube to the upper chamber, and thence
to the mouth of the smoker pure and simple. And in order to explain my said
Invention more fully I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the
accompanying Sheet of Drawing, in which Figure 1 shews the outside view of
pipe fitted with my improvement, as shewn by the dotted lines at x; Figure 2
shews the interior of stem of pipe or cigar tube with my improvement adapted
thereto. a is the tube or stem of pipe or cigar tube; b is the disc; c, the small
tube, whereby the two compartments d, e, in the stem a are formed; or the disc
and tube may be formed in one piece, as shewn in Figure 3. When pipes with
this improvement are used the smoke separated from the tobacco oil and nicotine
by the disc b and small tube c arrives in a cooler state than heretofore to the
mouth.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature and object of my said Inven-
tion for "An Improvement in the Construction of Tobacco Pipes, Applicable also to
Cigar and Cigarette Tubes," I would remark in conclusion that what I claim as my
Invention is, fitting the stem of tobacco pipes, cigar, or cigarette tubes with a dise
and tube combined, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Leopold Beral Bertram, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy nine.