US529046A - Article or accessory for smokers use - Google Patents

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(ModeL) l R; SJPEABODY. ARTICLE 0R ASOBSSORY FOR SMOKERS USE.

No. 529,046. I Patented Nov. 13, 1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT SINGLETON PEABODY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

ARTICLE OR ACCESSORY FOR SMOKERS USE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 529,046, dated November 13, 1894.

Application filed May 11, 1894. Serial No. 510,847. (Modem To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT SINGLETON PEABODY, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pen nsyl- Vania, have invented a new and useful Article or Accessory for Smokers Use, of which the following is a specification.

The principal object of my present invention is to provide a neat, attractive, efficient, and comparatively inexpensive device adapted for application to tobacco pipes or cigars in order to cause the same to smoke freely and pleasantly and to this end my invention consists of a casing provided with an air outlet leading to the tobacco, an air inlet discharging in said shell or casing and a light body confined between the inlet and outlet as-is hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

The nature, characteristic features, and scope of my invention will be more fully understood from the following descriptiontaken n connection with the accompaning draw mgs forming part hereof, and in which Figure 1, is a perspective View of a device embodying features of my invention, and showing the same in application toa tobacco p pe. Fig. 2, is a transverse sectional view of the same. Fig. 3, is a sectional View taken on the line 33 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4, is a view illustrating a transverse section through a device embodying a modification of my invention. Fig. 5, is a sectional View taken on the line 55 of Fig. 4. Fig. 6, is a view illustrating my invention in application to a cigar, and Fig. 7, is a sectional view taken on the line 7-7 of Fig. 6.

Referring to the drawings, 1, is a casing or shell which may be of any ornamental or preferred configuration, and which is provided with an air-inlet 2, and with a reticulated air-outlet 3, adapted to be placed or fitted to the top of the bowl 4, ofthe pipe in any convenient or preferred manner. This casing or shell 1, may be provided with an ornamental handle, as illustrated in Fig. 1, having projections as 5 and 6, which may be used to clean out the pipe bowl. However, the handle may be omitted and the casing applied to the bowl 4, of the pipe in any convenient or required manner, for example, by

means of depending spring legs or feet, as shown in Fig. 4.

Within the casing is located a movable device, which when it moves produces jarring or vibration of the casing and of the object to which the latter is applied. As shown in Figs. 2, 3, 6, and 7, this device comprises a wheel 7, resembling a turbine wheel, revolubly mounted between-suitable supports 8, and interposed in the path of the incoming draft or current of air. As illustrated in Fig. 4, this movable device comprises a ball or other light body 9, afforded a range of motion in the air-inlet 2, which may, for this purpose be enlargedas at 10, and provided with a transversely ranging bar or stop pin 11, for preventing the escape of the ball or light body 10. In either case, the movable body serves to interrupt the draft or current of air entering the inlet 2, and to break it up into intermittent or interrupted drafts or currents, and also to vibrate or shake the casing and article to which it is applied whereby the tobacco is loosened and permitted to burn freely.

The mode of operation of the hereinabove I described device is as follows: When it is. necessary or desirable to revive the fire in the pipe-powl 4, the casing 1, is placed on top of the pipe-bowl 4, in such manner that air may not enter thelatter except through the openings of the reticulated air-outlet 3. The smoker then smokes in the ordinary manner with the result that air is drawn into the casing or shell 1, through the air-inlet 2, and this entering current of air, is broken up or interrupted by revolving the wheel7, or by shifting the movable body 9, and the broken up or intermittent currents traverse the respective openings of the air-outlet 3. Moreover the movements of the parts 7 and 9 jar the pipe and thus loosen the tobacco. Under these circumstances, the currents of air entering the pipe-bowl are distributed uniformly throughout the loosened contents thereof, and the intermittent or interrupted nature of these currents to tobacco is to burn freely and to omit volumes of smoke without any undue or unusual exertion on the part of the smoker.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art to which my invention appertains that modifl cations may be made in details. For example, the air-outlet 3, may be adapted to fit over the lighted end of a cigar, as shown in Fig. 6, without departing from the spirit thereof. Hence I do not limit myself to the precise construction and arrangement of parts, herenabove set forth and illustrated in the drawlngs, but

Having thus described the nature and ob ects of my present invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patcut, is-

1 A tobacco pipe accessory comprising, a casing or shell provided with an air inlet and with a reticulated air-outlet leading to the tobacco and havinga movable ball interposed between the air inlet and outlet and operated by the incoming draft to automatically break break up the air currents and jar and loosen the tobacco, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto 3c signed my name.

ROBERT SINGLETON PEABODYI Witnesses:

ANDREW B. CAMPBELL, A. B .STOUGHTON.

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