Smokers' Pocket Companion.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Mar., 1596
Complete Specification Left, 9th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 21st Nov., 1995
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Smokers' Pocket Companion.
JOSIAH HOUGH Joiner 43 Neville Road Croydon Surrey do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention consists of 3 items combined in 1 piece, viz.: 1, a scoop cutter
which fits in the bowl of the pipe & cuts out effectively all corrosive matter;
2 a convenient device to loosen the loosen the tobacco in the pipe; and 3, a stopper
to press tobacco in the pipe in lieu of the finger or thumb.
Dated this 14th day of March 1896.
I, JOSIAH HOUGH of 43 Neville Road, Croydon, in the County of Surrey,
Joiner, 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 :-
My invention relates to an improved appliance for the use of tobacco smokers,
and consists of three items or parts so combined as to form one article, viz. (1) a
scoop like portion adapted to fit within any size pipe-bowl, and which by rotation
serves to remove therefrom effectively the corrosive matter that usually forms
therein, (2) a convenient device to be employed for loosening the tobacco in the
bowl and (3) a stopper to be used for pressing down the tobacco in the bowl in lieu
of the finger or thumb as hitherto.
In order that my invention may be fully understood, and its uses more clearly
defined, I have hereunto appended a sheet of drawings of which,
Fig. 1 is a plan view of my said smokers pocket companion as it would appear
when closed and carried in the pocket.
Fig. 2 is a side view of same as it would appear when open, so that either of the
three portions constituting the whole may be used for its respective purpose.
Fig. 3 is a longitudinal central section of the scoop or bowl cleaner detached
from the remainder, while Fig. 4 is a cross section of the same taken upon the
line A B of Fig. 1.
For the purposes of my invention I produce from any suitable metal or other
noncombustible material a preferably hollow or tubular portion A, one end of
which is blocked by a circular disc or button B which serves as a stopper for
pressing down the tobacco in the bowl of a pipe, the opposite end of A being
sharpened or pointed at C, preferably in the form of a pen-nib, which is intended
for use in loosening the tobacco in the bowl, but which may conveniently be used
as a nail cleaner and for other purposes. A portion of A is removed at D, from
the centre of its length or thereabouts to the end C, and at the point E, is provided
with a through rivet, screw or pin which forms a pivot for one end of a metallic
portion F, which for a certain portion of its length a is cylindrical or circular in

page_text: cross section, in order that this part may lie within the pointed end of A as at
Fig. 1. The opposite or free end of F is hollowed out or of scoop like formation
at 6 and is intended for use in cleaning out the bowl and scraping away the
corrosive matter that invariably accumulates therein. The whole when not in use
may be folded together as at Fig. 1 and carried in the vest or other pocket.
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,
1st. In an improved pocket companion for the use of smokers, the combination
of a hollow or partly hollow portion A, pointed or sharpened at one end C, and
provided at its opposite end with a disc or button B, the said portion A being cut
away at D, and has pivotally connected thereto as at E, a scoop like portion F,
substantially as and for the purposes herein described and shewn by the accom-
panying drawings.
2nd. In an improved device for the use of smokers, the combination of a pipe
bowl cleaner such as F, a tobacco stopper such as B, and a device such as C for
loosening the tobacco in the bowl, the whole arranged to fold together as at Fig. 1,
substantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 9th day of October 1896.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1 Broad Street Buildings, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.