US610839A - Tobacco-pipe - Google Patents

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Patented Sept. l3, I898 J. C. WRIGHT.

TOBACCO PIPE.

(Application filed Nov. 16, 1897.)

(No Model.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 610,839, dated September 13, 1898.

Application filed November 16, 1897. Serial No. 658,745. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LJAMES OHIDsEY WRIGHT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tobacco- Pipes; and I do hereby 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 has relation to improvements in tobacco-pipes, its object being to provide a novel and improved tobacco-holding and nicotine-retaining attachment therefor for the purpose of depriving the smoking habit of its injurious effects; and to this end the invention consists in a device of this character embodying certain novel features of construction, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and specifically set forth in the ap pended claim.

In the drawings hereto annexed and forming part of this specification, Figure l is a perspective view of a tobacco-pipe embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same, showing the tobaccoholder and nicotine-retainer. Fig. 8 is a detail perspective view of the tobacco-holder and nicotine-retainer detached. Fig. 4c is a vertical section, and Fig. 5 a plan View of the same.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, A represents a tobacco-bowl of the usual configuration, and B the stem thereof. 1 indicates a reticulated basket comprising the tobacco-holder, which is constructed of woven-wire fabric, and 2 is an annular collar of sheet metal in which the open end of said basket is secured by soldering or otherwise, said collar being adapted to rest upon the rim of the bowl of the pipe and support the basket, as shown. The bottom of this basket consists of a saucer-like receptacle 3, suitably secured, the purpose of which is to catch and retain the nicotine from the tobacco and prevent the same from entering the stem of the pipe and thence to the mouth of the smoker. 4 designates spring-arms secured at one end to the side of the basket or to the annu lar collar 2. The lower free ends of these arms are bent inwardly and are adapted to press firmly against the inner wall of the bowl of the pipe to hold the basket firmly in position. I

When the receptacle 3 becomes filled with nicotine, the basket may be readily removed, cleaned, and replaced.

Owing to the peculiar construction of my improved tobacco-pipe diversified draft is ob tained, producing uniform combustion of the tobacco, which prevents the pipe from going out, necessitating frequent lighting, as in the common form of smokers pipes, while the saucer-like receptacle forming the bottom of the basket prevents the tobacco as well as the nicotine from falling into and clogging the stem.

The advantages of my device are too readily apparent to need explanation, although I desire to state that the chief object is to prevent the nicotine poison of the tobacco from entering the system of the smoker, and thus make this manner of the use of tobacco more enjoyable and healthful.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States,

bowl thereof, of a tobacco-holder and nico' tine-retainer therefor, comprising a Woven wire basket open at both'ends and adapted to hold the tobacco, a flange or collar secured rigidly about the upper end thereof and resting upon the rim of the bowl and holding the basket concentrically suspended therein so that a surrounding circulating-space is af- In a tobacco-pipe, the combination with the

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