US400966A

US400966A - Combined tobacco-tamp and pipe-stem cleaner

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Publication number: US400966A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-04-09
Anticipated expiration: 1906-04-09

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(NO Model) J. STRAGHAN.

COMBINED TOBACGO TAMP AND PIPE STEM CLEANER. No. 400,966. Patented Apr. 9, 1889.

951 M GHQ anew MIX N. PETERS. Pholo-Llih ngmpher. Washington. D c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH STRACHAN, OF

BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK.

COMBINED TOBACCO-TAMP AND PIPE-STEM CLEANER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,966, dated April 9, 1889.

Application filed June 9, 1888.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH STRACHAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, county of Kings, State of New York, have invented a certain new and Improved Cornbined Tobaceo-Tamp and Pipe-Stem Cleaner, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part hereof.

This invention consists of a device cheap and simple in construction and adapted to be carried in the pocket of the user, which combines the functions of a tobacco-tamp and a pipe-stem cleaner. These features are so combined that the handle of the tamp acts'as a casing and holder for the pipe-stem cleaner, the tamp-button and pipe-stem cleaner being connected together.

When used as a tamp, the device externally consists of a handle and a button at the end of the same, and it is adapted to be used by pressing the button upon the surface of the tobacco in the bowl of a pipe, so as to consolidate the burning tobacco into a compact mass. When the device is used to clean a pipe-stem, the cleaner is pushed out and caused to proj ect from the casin g, and the casing then forms a handle which greatly facilitates the manipulation of the cleaner.

The invention also contemplates so constructing the device that the tamp-button is used to move the pipe-stem cleaner within the casing, and also holds the cleaner in its two extreme positions; but to describe my invention more particularly I will now refer to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an elevation showing my combined instrument in condition to be used as a tobacco-tamp. Fig. 2 is a section of the same, taken on the line 00 00, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an elevation showing the instrument in condition to be used as a pipe-stem cleaner.

The casing a consists of a cylindrical shell, preferably of metal, having a longitudinal slot, a, formed therein, extending from a point near one end of the casing to and through the other end thereof. \Vithin the casing to is fitted a plunger, b, which carries the wire pipestem cleaner 0. This wire is shown doubled and twisted through part of its length, with a loop at its end. vIt can be inserted'within a pipe-stem to remove the fluid or semi-fluid Serial No. 276.602, (No model.)

matter which collects therein, and when a thorough cleaning is desired a cloth can be placed in the loop at the end of the wire.

The disk-shaped button (1 is the tobaccotamp. It has a shank that passes through the slot a, and is pivoted at its inner end in the plunger 5. WVhen the stem-cleaner c is entirely within the casing, or in its extreme inner position, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the button d can be moved to the position in which it is shown in these figuresviz., with its face at right angles to the axis of the easing. When in such position, it is adapted to be used as a tamp, and it also holds the cleaner '0 securely in its inner position, the metal of the casing being forced partly over or the end partly closed, as shown at b, to form a backstop for the plunger 12. The device will generally be carried in the pocket of the user with the parts in this condition, as the cleaner 0 is thereby protected from injury and prevented from soiling the clothing, and also because the tamp is used more frequently than the cleaner. I might here observe that the device is of convenient size to be carried in the vestpocket of the user, among pencils, &c., so that whenever he desires to tamp the tobacco in his pipe he need only take the device from his pocket, perform the operation, and replace it in his pocket. To make the device less bulky when carried in the pocket, I cut a notch, a, at the rear end of the slot a, so that the shank of the button (I may be held therein,

when the face of the button is parallel to the axis of the casing.

\Vhen the device is to be used to clean a pipe-stem, the button (I is moved on its pivotal connection with the plunger 1) into a position at right angles to its previous position, with its face parallel to the axis of the casin g a. The shank of the button (I then slides freely in the slot a, and the cleaner 0 is pushed out to the position shown in Fig. 3, the button (1 acting as a handle to impart motion to the same. The cleaner can be securely held in this extreme outer position by moving the button (I so that its shank engages the notch a (shown in Fig. 1,) at the end of the slot a.

It is obvious that the length of the cleaner 0 is not necessarily limited by the length of the tube, as it may be made of soft wire two and the cleaner thus retained in the casing or three times the length shown, so as to be I cleaner, COIlSlSt'lllg' of a hollow (ijfillldllcfll bent double or treble before being pushed within the tube.

\Ylntt I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters .latent, is:

l. A ('roinbimgd tolmeco-tzunp and pipe-stein eleziner, consisting of a hollow easing having it longitudinal slot formed therein, at tampbutton it one end of the easingof greater dimneier than the easing, and a wire pipe-stem c-leztner sliding within the casing, the tmnpbutton being eonneeted to the pipe -steni elenner, substantially as shown and described.

so as to assume two positions, in one sliding freel3 in the slot and [forming :1 handle for moving the pipe-stein cleaner within the easing and in the other held at the end of the slot and adapted to be used as a tmnp, subsmntinlly as shown and described.

slottml easing, it wire l'iipe-stenl. el'eztner held in a plunger sliding within the easing, and 2t disk-shamed tninp-buttoi'l passing through the slot of. the easing and pivoted to the plunge so as to assume two positions thereon at right angles to (fLCll other, in one sliding freely in the slot and forming at handle for moving the pipe-stein eleztner within the easing and in the other held at the end of the slot and mlnpted to be used as EL tmnp, substantially as shown and deseribed.

1-. A combined tobacco-temp and pipe-stein cleaner, eonsisting ot the hollow ensi ng u, lHLV- ing the slot (1 ZLllCl notches C02 a" formed therein, the looped wire stein-cleaner 0, carried by the plunger I), and the disk-shaped temp-button (7, projecting through the slot of the ens ing and pi Voted to the plunger 11, substantially as shown and desm'ibed.

JOSEPH SIHAUII'AN.

\Vitnesses:

111mm? 1). WILLIAMS, EDWIN SEonR.