IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES FOR SMOKING TOBACCO
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Juckes, of Newgate Street, in the City of
London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES FOR SMOKING
TOBACCO."
Sealed the 1st November 1860, and dated the 4th June 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Juckes at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 4th June
1860.
I, JOHN JUCKES, of Newgate Street, in the City of London, do hereby
5 declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PIPES FOR SMOKING
TOBACCO," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in pipes for smoking tobacco.
For these purposes the passage through the stem of a pipe is formed in such
manner as to pass not only into the bowl, but also directly through the lower
0 part of the bowl, in order to facilitate the cleaning of such passage, and the
outer end near the bowl is, when the pipe is in use, stopped by a suitable plug
or cover.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Juckes in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th
December 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
JUCKES, of Newgate Street, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign. did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Juckes, Her special licence that I, the said John Juckes,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
John Juckes, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time, and at all times thereafter, during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PIPES FOR SMOKING TOBACCO," upon the condition (amongst others) that I.
the said John Juckes, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Juckes, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in pipes for smoking tobacco.
For these purposes the passage through the stem of a pipe is formed in such
manner as to pass not only into the bowl, but also directly through the lower
part of the bowl, in order to facilitate the cleaning of such passage, and the
outer end near the bowl is, when the pipe is in use, stopped by a suitable plug
or cover.
The Drawing shows & pipe constructed as above described. a is the passage
through the stem of the pipe, which is continued through the lower part of
the bowl, as shewn, and the end of the continuation of the passage is when
the pipe is in use stopped by a plug b. When it is desired to clean the

page_text: passage through the stem the plug 6 is removed, and the passage may then be
cleaned by passing a small brush along it, or it may be cleaned by drawing
some cotton through it; the cotton being threaded through the hole by means
of a long needle.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Juckes, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Third day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
JNO. JUCKES. (LS.)