US1231915A - Pipe-holder. - Google Patents

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R. G. LAMB.

PIPE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 11, 1916.

1,231 1 5 Patented July 3, 1917.

RUBEN GEORGE LAMB, OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JAMES Gr. CURTIS, 0F DORGI-IESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

PIPE-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 3, 191W.

Application filed April 11, 1916. Serial No. 90,502.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUBEN GEORGE LAMB, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chelsea, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pipe-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in pipe holders and has for its object to provide an inexpensive, neat and durable holder adapted to inclose a tobacco pipe and to accommodate stems of different lengths.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a pipe holder embodying my invention with the stem inclosing cap shown in one position in full lines and in another position in dotted lines.

Fig. 2 is a plan view illustrating the bowl containing members shown open.

Fig. 3 illustrates a detailed view of the cap and Fig. 4 is a section taken on the line H of Fig. 1.

Like numerals refer to like parts in all views of the drawings.

In the drawings, 5 and 6 represent two pivoted members each being substantially a counterpart of the other and pivotally attached together at 7 The members 5 and 6 embody in their construction a compartment 8 adapted to contain the bowl of a pipe, and a compartment 9 which has communication with the compartment 8 adapted to contain a portion of the stem of the pipe. The design of the bowl portion 8 of said case may be made so as to accommodate a large number of different types of bowls.

The portions of the members 5 and 6, which inclose a portion of the stem of the pipe, are preferably semi-cylindrical so that when the same are closed together as in Fig. 1 or 4 a cylindrical casing will be formed. A tube or cap 10, having an open end 11, and a closed end 12, is adapted to fit, telescopically, the cylindrical portion of the casing which forms the compartment 9 and to be moved longitudinally thereon; for instance, when the cap 10 is in the position shown in full lines, Fig. 1, it will contain and inclose a pipe having a relatively short stem or said cap may be moved outwardly longitudinally of said cylindrical portion of the case to the dotted position illustrated in Fig. 1 and receive and inclose a stem of substantially greater length than that illustrated in clotted lines in Fig. 1.

Furthermore, the cap 10 is adapted to retain the members 5 and 6 in their closed position, the friction of said cap on said members being sufiicient to retain the members in the desired positions relatively to each other. The entire case is constructed preferably of thin metal, so as to be very light and compact and suitable to be carried in the vest pocket.

Furthermore, by employing the cap, as shown, to retain the two members closed no danger of said casing opening will result and thus all danger of fires being caused by placing the pipe with live ashes in the casing and then putting the same in the pocket will be eliminated.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire by Letters Patent to secure is:

A pipe holder comprising two members pivoted together, portions of said. members together forming a bowl shaped compartment adapted to contain the bowl of a pipe and other portions of said members together forming a stem shaped compartment adapted to contain the stem of a pipe, and a cap open at one end adapted to slide upon the stem containing portions of said pivoted members to retain said members closed and to accommodate pipe stems of difierent lengths.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

RUBEN GEORGE LAMB.

Witnesses:

SYDNEY E. TAFT, HATTIE E. STRATTON.

domes of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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