US2101740A

US2101740A - Corncob smoking pipe

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Publication number: US2101740A
Application number: US698699A
Authority: US
Inventors: Hirschl Harry
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1933-11-18
Filing date: 1933-11-18
Publication date: 1937-12-07
Anticipated expiration: 1954-12-07

Description

Dec. 7, 1937. H. HIRSCHL CORNCOB SMOKING PIPE Filed Nov. 18, 1953 Iiweaafirr: Maria Hiram,

Patented Dec. 7, 1937 v e r 9 w Harry Hirschl,

Washington, Mo.

Application November 18, 1933, Serial No. 698,699

1 Claim.

This invention pertains to novel and improved tobacco smoking pipes, and is especially designed with the view of providing a broken in corn cob pipe bowl possessing a pleasing, attractive, novel and ornamental finish.

The prime object of the invention is to provide a simple, economical and durable smoking pipe having a corn cob pipe bowl possessing a charred or burnished broken in inner surface that will furnish a sweet, pleasant and agreeable smoke when first used, and which will not produce the disagreeable taste, flavor or odor which usually emanates from the use of a corn cob pipe bowl in its natural condition and before it has been properly broken in by a series of smokes.

Another object of the invention is to provide a smoking pipe having a corn cob pipe bowl the outer natural roughened and recessed surface of which is properly charred or burnished; the recessed portions are then filled in with plaster of Paris; then the outer surface is polished and varnished, the burnt, charred or burnished and darkened outside surface showing up between the plaster filling, while the entire inner surface of the bowl is properly charred or burnished and smoothed, after which said inner surface is swabbed with an aromatic extract or liquid, thereby producing an improved darkened outside and inside finish with a pleasing, attractive, and ornamental finish. A further object of the invention is to provide a novel type of smoking pipe having acorn cob pipe bowl possessing meritorious features not heretofore known in this particular art.

The foregoing and such other objects as may appear from the ensuing description are attained by the combination and arrangement hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and more specifically set forth in the claim appended hereto, it being understood that slight changes in the precise form, proportions and minor details of the invention may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention. 9

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification it will be seen that:

I Figure 1 is an elevation of the improved smoking corn cob pipe embodying my invention.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the corn cob pipe bowl and stem, showing the inner surface of the corn cob pipe bowl in its natural condition.

Figure 3 is a longitudinal section of the bowl and stem, showing the inner surface of the bowl in its burnished, smoothed and finished condition, and

Figure 4 is an elevation of a slightly modified form of my invention.

In the embodiment of my invention as illustrated it will be seen that the numeral l designates the outer surface of a corn cob pipe bowl in its finished condition, 2 indicates the inner surface of the bowl in its natural condition, showing a fuzz, fibres and unevenness over its surface, while the numeral 3 shows the entire inner surface of the corn cob bowl in its finished charred or burnished and smoothed condition and ready for use.

As shown in Fig. l of the drawing, it will be perceived that a stem 4 of wood or other suitable material is snugly and properly fitted to the bowl, the outer surface of said stem being suitably ornamented, and to the outer end of said stem is fitted a mouth piece 5 of any suitable material or color, thereby producing a new and novel article i of manufacture of a meritorious nature, constituting a serviceable product possessing an attractive and ornamental appearance.

It is understood by all smokers of corn cob pipes that there is a disagreeable green taste or flavor experienced when a pipe of this type is smoked in its natural condition, and that the pipe smokes sweetest after it is broken in and that heretofore such pipes had to be broken in 'by the burning of tobacco, thereby singeing, charring or carbonizing the inner surface of the bowl which required a series of smokes, hence we have eliminated these objectionable features by burnishing its entire inner surface and then mopping or swabbing said surface with an agreeable aromatic extract or liquid, thus furnishing a product that produces a sweet, pleasant and agreeable smoke when first used.

It will be readily obvious that the type of pipe, such as hereinbefore described and as shown in the accompanying drawing, constitutes a new and novel product of an ornamental appearance; that it is economical and durable, and that it is so finished as to. furnish a sweet broken in smoke during its first use.

In the formation of the type of corn cob pipe bowl shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 of the drawing its outer surface in its natural condition is somewhat roughened with fuzz, fibres, and forms an 'uneven and recessed outer face which is first subjected to a projected flame which burns off the fuzz, fibres and uneven portions from its surface; the recesses formed about its surface are then filled in smoothly with plaster of Paris or other suitable material, and said outer surface is then properly varnished and polished, thus providing an attractive appearance and finish to the said surface, while its entire inner surface is also provided with a charred or burnished and smoothed finish. In the slightly modified form of pipe'of a more economical nature, such as shown in Fig. 4, the outer surface of the corn cob pipe bowl 6 is simply properly charred or burnished and said surfaceis .then varnished to prevent the charred surface from coming off and thereby staining or soiling anything during the transit of the pipes or their use, and to the said bowl is suitably and properly fitted a plain reed stem 1 from a single piece which also constitutes a mouth piece, while its entire inner surface is charred or burnished and smoothed in the manner shown by Fig. 3 of the drawing.

It will be understood that charred and burnished are used as equivalents in the pipe art.

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

A smoking pipe of the character described having a corn cob bowl formed in its natural condition provided with a charred or burnished, polished and varnished ornamental exterior sur-, face, and a completely charred or burnished and smoothed inner surface having thereon a coating of an aromatic liquid.

' HARRY I-IIRSCHL.