US1170465A - Tobacco-pipe. - Google Patents

Description

A. H. STRONG.

TOBACCO PIPE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. I9, I9I4. l

Patented Feb. I., 1916.

TOBACCO-PIPE.

, Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented lFeb. 1, 1916.

Appucauon mediamente 1a, 1914. serial No. 872,997.

,To all @einem t may concer/n Beit known that I, Anania H. STRONG, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, and residing at West Brighton,

county of Richmond, and State of New York, have invented a certainnew and useful Improvement in Tobacco-Pipes, of which the following is a specication.

The present invention relates to tobacco pipes and .the object .of myinvention is to A provide a pipe ofnovelconstruction, having among other features of advantage, a bowl lining of novel character which serves to' ameliorate the unpleasant flavor of the pipe when new, and by reason of its ready removability and its inherent characteristics, facilitates the effective cleaning of the pipe.

In the accompanying drawings, F igure'l is a longitudinal section through a pipe in which my invention is embodied 1n one form; Fig. 2 is a dropped and broken perspective ofthe elementswhich form the pipe bowl; and Fig. 3 is a plan of the blank from which the absorbent wafer is formed.

As is well known to smokers, the ordinary wooden-bowl pipe is objectionable when new by reason of the unpleasant fumes which are given off by the wood of the pipe bowl when the pipe is first smoked. It is not until the pipe has been well aged or broken in and the 'interior of the pipe bowl substantially carbonized and the surfaces of the passages through which the smoke is led to the mouth piece impregnated by smoke or tobacco juices, that comfortable enjoyment ,of the pipe is attained. To obviate this y'defeet I now proposeto provide the bowl with thoroughly cleaned without dangery of injury to the crust and yet at the same time is absorbent of the tobacco juices and con.

sequentlyfull flavored. `Preferably the lining is so secured in position as to be readily removable for cleaning or renewal.

In the form here shown the present pipe comprises a bowl portion 5 with an oifset stem 6 longitudinally bored to receive the mouth piece 7, through the assage 8 `in which communication is esta lished with the well 9 at the bottom of the bowl. The interior of the bowl is bored'out through the major part of its depth to abnormal diameter at 10 leaving however a shoulder 11 in the lower portion thereof to Vform a seat.l

Upon the latter rests a metallic disk 12 perforated to permit the assage of smoke therethrough. A cylindrlcal section ofcarbon tubing 13 rests upon. the upper face of the disk 12 and forms a lining for practically the entire depth of the bowl. It is held in position by a screw cap 14, the central aperture of which. is substantiallyv identical in diameter with the internal diameter of the tube section 13. The shoulder 15 of the screw cap rests upon the upper end of the'tube 13 and the threaded engagement 16 between the-pipe bowl 5 and thescrew cap 14 enables the latter to bescrewed down with aclamping action upon the carbon 13 so that the latter is held in position.

The internal diameter of the recess 10 in the pipe bowl preferably exceeds the overall diameter of the carbon tube 13 and thusv :this space the tube would soon become practicall cemented to the pipe bowl by the permeating sticky juices o the tobacco and thus .prevent-the'ready removal of the tube for cleaning. Positioning offsets 18, 19, may be provided however to engage the tube snugly at top and bottom and thus hold the same accurately in register with the central aperture in the screw` cap and the walls of the well 9. i

I have found it advantageous to provide an absorbent in the'well 9 'and a convenient form of this is shown in the wafer 20 located beneath the screen 12. This wafer 20 may not only serve to take up the nicotin from the tobacco, but also may act as a vehicle for an antiseptic, a perfume or flavoring matter adapted to be freed under the conditions existing when the pipe is smoked. As here shown the wafer 20 is shaped as a disk of less diameter than the interior of the well but underlying the holes in the screen 12 and supported through downwardly struck legs 21 which rest in the bottom of the well. The wafer 19 may be readily thrown out and replaced after the cap 14 is unscrewed and the tube 13 and screen12 lifted out.

The pipe is particularly useful in connection with tobacco which is marketed in cartridge form so that a charge. may be bodily inserted in the pipe bowl ready for smoking. Such cartridges cannot ordi- ,narily bevused., since the inner face of the pipe bowl soon becomes roughened 'and more or vless irregular by reason of the charring and caking of the burnt rtobacco against the sides of the pipe bowl and thi's crust cannot be removed 'without aiecting, the flavor of the pipe. The present pipe bowl may be scrapedy clean readily and Without injury to` the flavor of the pipe, so that its inner face is kept .Smooth and l`'perfectly cylindrical. Tho tobacco cartridges may be slipped easil into position thereinand the screen 12 'a fords a bottom against which the cartridge may be firmly pressed down vwhile at the same time preventing its entry into the pipe well 9 and thus the clogging ofthe draft passage 8 leading to the mouth piece.

In the particular ipe here shown I have made the stem straig t so that core 22 of the mouth piece 7 may be extended completely to the well'9 of the pipe bowl. This prevents the leakage of the tobacco juices at the joint 23 between the pipe stein and thethis may be done economically, since the tube sections can be produced as a standard article at very low cost.

I claim as my invention i- 1. A tobacco pipe having a bowl portion,

a removable carbon tube section forming a liningtherefor, and a retainlng cap overlying said tube 'section and engaging said pipe bowl to hold said lining in position therein,

said -tube section being spaced from the surrounding walls of the bowl throughout at' least the major portion of its depth.v

2. A tobacco pipe having a wooden bowl portion shouldered adjacent the bottom of the bowl well, a screen supported on said shoulder, a tubular carbon Alining resting freely at its lower end on said screen, anda wooden retalning ring shouldered on lts 1nner face to engage the upper end of said tubular linn and having a threaded engagement with the body of the bowl, the inner diameter of said ring being substantially the same as that of said lining and registering vtherewith in the assembled condition of the parts.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ARCHIE H. STRONG.. Witnesses:

L. H. GROTE, IVILLIAM ABBE.

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