US554744A - Device for cleaning tobacco-pipes - Google Patents

Description

I. B. STURGES. DEVICE FOR CLEANING ToB-Acco PIPES.

(No Model.)

Patented Feb. 18, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IRA B. STURGES, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

DEVICE FOR CLEANING TOBACCO-PIPES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 554,744, dated February 18, 1896.

Application filed December 22, 1894. Serial No. 532,735. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, IRA B. STURGES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Cleaning Tobacco- Pipes; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in that class of tobacco-pipe cleaners which are formed from resilient metal and comprise cutting or scraping portions; and its no'velty will be fully understood from the following description and claims, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of a tobacco-pipe with my improved cleaner in position therein. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the cleaner removed from the pipe. Fig. 3 is an enlarged transverse section taken in the plane indicated by the line a: m of Fig. 1.

Referring by letter to the said drawings, A indicates an ordinary tobacco-pipe having a straight stem B, and 0 indicates my improved cleaner, which is designed and adapted to remove nicotine and other sediment from the bore or passage of the stem B. This cleaner 0 is preferably made from a piece of resilient wire, and it is provided at one end with an eye a, designed to be threaded with raw cotton or other cleaning material, and is bent at its opposite end to form a finger-grasp b, and is slitted longitudinally for an intermediate portion of its length, as indicated by 0, so as to form the cutting or scraping portions d. (Better illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings.) The said cutting or scraping portions d spread or move apart in the manner illustrated in Fig. 3 when the cleaner is turned in the bore or passage of the pipe-stem, and it will therefore be seen that the edges formed by their fiat and curved sides will out or scrape all the nicotine and other sediment from the wall of said bore or passage.

quantity of raw cotton or other cleaning material it is again introduced into the stem and worked to and fro, so as to thoroughly clear the passage or bore. This operation is repeated until the stem is not only clear, but dry, the eye a being threaded with clean cotton before each introduction if necessary.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, the pipe cleaner herein described, formed from a piece of resilient wire and having the longitudinal slot 0, with closed ends at an intermediate point in its length and the cutting or scraping portions cl, formed by the slot 0, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, the herein-described pipe-cleaner, formed from a piece of resilient wire of circular form in cross-section, so as to facilitate its introduction into the stem, and having the longitudinal slot 0, at an intermediate point in its length, and also having the longitudinal cutting or scraping portions cl, formed by the slot 0, and having the contiguous flat sides the said cutting or scraping portions d, being adapted to spread or move apart when the cleaner is turned in the bore or passage of a pipe-stem, so as to enable the edges to scrape the sediment off the wall of the bore of the pipe-stem, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

IRA B. STURGES. Witnesses:

E. G. MASTEN, GEO. I. SARGENT.

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