US1373849A - Tobacco-pipe and cigar and cigarette holder - Google Patents

Description

A. WEBBER.

TOBACCO PIPE AND CIGAR AND CIGARETTE HOLDER.

APPLICATlON FILED APR.13, 1920.

1,373,849. Patented Apr. 5, 1921.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

j Patented A r. 5, 1921.

Application filed April 13,1920. Serial No.'373,665.

pipes and holders with improved, simple and inexpensive means whereby saliva and accumulated tobacco juices are positively maintained out of contact with the tobacco in the bowl of the pipe or holder, thereby keeping the tobacco dry, enabling the whole of it to be smoked to a dry ash and greatly economizing the consumption of the same, where by the stem of the pipe or holder is. kept perfectly clear from small pieces of tobacco and from ash and therefore does not become stopped up, and whereby, owing to the tobacco being maintained dry, the inside of the bowl or pipe or holder does not become crusted or coated with a hard deposit difficult to remove.

The invention refers to tobacco pipes and cigar and cigarette holders'of the kind in which it has been proposed to provide a partition or false bottom supported upon an annular ledge formed inside of the bowl of the pipe or holder and disposed above a chamber in said bowl.

The present invention provides a pipe or holder of the kind referred to, and is distinguished in that the partition or false bottom is non-perforated, non-absorbent and removably supported upon the ledge, that the latter extends inwardly and is undercut in such manner that it serves to restrain saliva and nicotin collected within the chain her and to prevent it moving into contact with the tobacco in the pipe or holder when the latter is laid on its side, and that the under side of the partition or false bottom or the upper surface of the ledge is or are formed with grooves or air passages to insure a draft through the pipe.

The invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the bowl and integral stem portion of a tobacco pipe constructed in accordance with a convenient manner of carrying out the inven tion. V r

Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

r F ig. 3 is a detail tion or false bottom.

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. l of a modified method of carrying out the invention.

Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation on a line at right angles to the plane'of Fig. 4, but

plan view of the p'arti-' with the partition or false bottom removed 7 from the bowl. I Fig; 6 is a plan of the pipe shown in Fig. at, and I 4 7 Fig. 7 is a detail plan view'of the partition or false bottom shown in Figs. 4; and 6. Similar parts in all of the figures are designated by like reference letters.

Thus,'in carrying out theinvention the bowl 4 of the pipe is formed with a hori zontal, inwardly extending, annular flange or ledge 0 undercut at 0 and disposed above a chamber (Z communicating with the bore 6 in the stem 7". A disk, partition or false bottom it, preferably'made of the same material as the bowl of the pipe, but which may be made of any non-absorbent material other than that of the pipe if desired, is of a diameter slightly less than that of the bore of the bowl, and is fitted within the bowl a to removably rest upon the flange 0. In the modified form of the pipe, Figs. 4 to 7 the bowl a of the pipe is formed with a horizontal or transverse, undercut, annular groove 25 disposed above the flange or ledge c and the chamber (Z. Two longitudinal grooves gare formed down the bore of the pipe bowl from the mouth of same to the annular groove 5. The disk, partition or false 7 bottom it is fitted within the bowl (1 to removably rest upon the. flange or ledge o and in alinement with the annular groove 6, as shown in Fig. 4:. Two lugs or projections 5 are formed on the periphery of the disk h and adapted to engage within the grooves b and g in the bowl a.

When it is desired to use the modified form of pipe the disk 7?, is slid into position down the'bore of the bowl (4 to rest upon the flange or ledge c, theprojections i being caused to slide within and down the grooves 9. When in position upon the flange or ledge 0 the disk in can be prevented from accidentally falling out of the bowl, or being otherwise dislodged from its correct position, by partially turning it in its own plane to cause the projections 2' thereon to move out of alinement with the lower ends of the grooves g and engage under the upper shoulder of the annular groove 6, as indicated in Fig. 6. Reoesses is formed inthe disk It facilitate the turning of the latter by means of a suitable tool, but the fit of the disk within the annular groove is sufficiently loose to enable it to be turned with the tip of the finger without the employment of a tool.

The hole Z formed through the flange or ledge 0 may be of various diameters accord ing to requirements. The stem 7 may be screw threaded as at m, formed with an enlarged tapered bore, or otherwise suitably shaped for the attachment thereto of the mouthpiece of the pipe. The chamber (Z may be filled with cotton or wool or other absorbent material.

lVith the constructions of tobacco pipe above described, saliva entering the bore a of the stem 7 is collected within the chamber .(l which, in conjunction with the in wardly extending fiangeor ledge 0, positively prevents said saliva reaching the to bacco disposed in the bore of the bowl and above the disk It, so that said tobaccois maintained perfectly 'dry with the result that it can be wholly consumed to a dry ash,

the consumption of tobacco is economized to a very great extent, the insideof the bowl does not become coated and caked with a hard deposit necessitating the use of a penknife or otherinstrument in well-known manner, and a sweet, clean dry and considerably prolonged smoke can be obtained by the use of the pipe. The disk it prevents small pleces of tobacco being drawn 1nto or entering the bore a and, in con unctlon with moisture therein, choking up the pipe.

free passage of air and smoke around said disk into the bore 6 ofthe stem 7", the grooves 7), when'provided, assisting the draft of the pipe. and consumed the charge of tobacco in the bowl, all he need do is to shake out any collected saliva and nicotin through the stem in the manner usual with ordinary pipes, and blow through the pipe to discharge the tobacco ash or dust, and this without removing the disk It; As will be appreciated, the bowl of the pipe does not have to be violently knocked or scraped to remove unconsumed, wet and useless tobacco. Should the disk accidentally fall out of the bowl or be- After the smoker has used the pipe come dislodged it is an easy matter to replace it in its correct position.

It will be appreciated that the invention produces a pipe or holder with which the objects and advantages desired are obtained without in any way interferring with or complicating the construction of the stem or mouthpiece of same as is often the case with many forms of pipes or holders here tofore made or proposed, and that a perfectly free and unobstructed stem bore is provided.

What I claim is 1. A tobacco pipe having the bowl divided by an annular ledge providing restricted communication between the bowl portions and opposite sides of the ledge, and an imperforate non-absorbent partition removably supported on said ledge as a support for the tobacco.

2. A. tobacco pipe having the bowl divided by an annular ledge providing restricted communication between the bowl portions and opposite sides or" the ledge, and animperforate non-absorbent partition 'remor-' ably supported on said ledge as a support for the tobacco, there being air passages formed between the ledge and partition.

A tobacco holding elementthrough which smoke is to be drawn from the burning tobacco. comprising a saliva chamber divided from, a tobacco chamber by an annular ledge, and an imperforate non-absorbent partition adapted to rest on said hereunto

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