US761148A - Apparel-attached pipe. - Google Patents

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'PATENTED MAY 31, 1904.

I. G. CLARK. APPAREL ATTACHED PIPE.

APPLICATION FILED PEBJQ, 1904.

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Inventor;

Attorneys.

Patented. May 31, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IRA CLARK, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JOSEPH L. SCHULER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A PARTNERSHIP DOING BUSINESS AS THE SCHULER & CLARK MANUFACTURING CO.

' APPAREL-ATTACHED PIPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent, No. 761,148, dated May 31, 1904.

' Application filed February 19, 1904, Serial No. 194,419 (NO mOdOlJ To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IRA C. CLARK, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of St. Louis-and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Apparel-Attached Pipes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to pipes; and its principal objects are to provide a pipe that may be attached to the wearing-apparel of the smoker when in use; to provide an apparel-attached pipe which may be assembled without the use of solder, rivets, screws, or any fastening means other thanthat provided by the parts; to provide a pipe having the advantages of a long -stemmed pipe without throwing the weight of the pipe upon the teeth and jaws of the smokenand other objects hereinafter more fully appearing. I

My invention consists in the parts and in the arrangements and combinations of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and wherein like symbols refer to like parts wherever they occur, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved pipe. Fig. 2 is a front view showing the stem hung in the clip provided to receive it when not in use. Fig. 3 is a front view with the bowl removed. Fig. 4 is a rear view of the holder of the pipe. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary sectional view of the line 5 5 of Fig. 2. Fig. 6 shows the blank for the cover of the pipe, and Fig. 7 shows the blank for the remainder of the holder.

Theuse of an ordinary pipe when the smoker is at work is very inconvenient. The weight of the pipe must be sustained by the teeth of the smoker, and it necessarily follows every movement of his head, which results in the frequent spilling of ashes. When notin use,

. it is placed in the pocket, which it soils, or

it is laid down and may be lost, stolen, or used by others. My improved pipe is designed to obviate these objections and others.

My improved pipe consists of a holder, a bowl, and a stem. The holder has a bodyplate 1, with integral forwardly-extending resilient bowl-supporting arms 2, a portion of their length being shaped to conform to' Substantially in thevertical medial line of the body-plate is an the shape of the pipe.

integral projection 1' 3, struck up from the body-plate. Above the bowl-supporting arms 2 clips 4, formed by rebent extensions of the body-plate, are provided. AboWl-cover 5 is supported in these clips 4 by means of a downwardly-turned bifurcated flange 6. This flange slips between the clips 4 and the bodyplate. The upper wall of theb ifurcation rests upon the projection 3 on the'body-plate,

and thus limits downward movement.

each side slight projections 7 are struck up in position to rest just below the clips 4when in position, and thus hold the cover in place. The projections '7 are small enough to be forcibly passed between the clips 4 and-the body-plate 1; but it requires a force greater form may be rested upon this tongue and fiiigers 1O rebent thereover. By thisarrangement the pin is secured to the base without the use of solder, rivets, or any fastening means not integral with the base-plate. It is easily removable and, if injured, easily replaceable without the necessity of using any' tools. Above the cover is a stem-supporting clip 11, consisting of a resilient tongue struck up from the base-plate.

- The holder and cover abovedescribed are made from sheet metal and may each be made from an integral piece of metal. The blank for the cover is illustrated in Fig. 6, and the blank for the holder is illustrated in Fig. 7, the portions of the blank from which the various parts are formed being given the same reference-numbers as the parts.

The bowl 12 may have any preferred form as to general outline, ornamentation, and the like. It is provided with a groove 13,in which the bowl-supporting arms 2 rest. At the rear side it is provided with a vertical groove 14 to receive the projection 3 on the body-plate.

This arrangement insure the maintenance of the preferred position of the bowlv1z.,

with the stub-stem projecting parallel with this base-plate. This position is preferred, for the stem will then always lie flat upon the breast of the smoker, whether in use or in the clip 11. A stub-stem 15 is secured to the bowl, and to this a flexible stem 16 is connected. In the opposite end of the flexible stem 16 a suitable mouthpiece 17 is inserted.

In use the holder is pinned to the breast of the smoker. The movthpiece l'? being s all and the flexible stem 16 being light, 'it is as comfortable as a cigarette. The pipe is subjected only to the jars and movements of the smokers trunk, which, are few nd notviolent, so that the spilling of ihe ashes is unlikely.

The pipe may be used with or without the cover, as preferred. 1 The cover is preferably slightly above the top of the bowl, so as to prevent its being fouled by the raisingof the tobacco immediately after i .1 is lighted. When the bowl is removed to be filled, the cover remains on the holder, and thus does not interfere with the filling of the bowl. When not being smoked, the stem m y be hung upon the stem-supporting clip 11, as illustrated in Fig. 2, and the pipe simply left in place.

Obviously-my device is capable of considerablemodification within the scope of my invention, and therefore I do not wish be limited to the specific construction shown and described.

, What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An apparel-attached pipe comprising a holder adapted for attachment to wearing-apparel and provided with means to support a pipe-bowl, a bowl, a flexible stem for said bowl, and means to prevent rotation'of said bowl when in position on said supporting means.

2. An apparel-attached pipe comprising a holder adapted for attachment to Wearing-apparel and provided with forwardly-extending resilient arms and a stem-supportingclip, a bowl having a circumferential vgroove to receive said arms, and a flexible stem forsaid bowl.

3. An'apparel-attached pipe comprising a holder adapted for attachment to wearing-apparel and provided with means to support a pipe-bowl and a forwardly-extending projection, a bowl having a recess in, position to receive said projection when said bowl is in place on said supporting means, and aflexible stem for said bowl.

4. An apparel-attached pipe comprising a holder adapted for attachment to wearing-apparel and provided with means to support a pipe-bowl, a bowl, a flexible stem for said bowl, and a cover for said bowl removably mounted on said holder.

5. An apparel-attached pipe comprising a bowl, a flexible stem therefor, and a holder comprise g a body-plate, integral resilient arms f .n-vardly extending therefrom, a projection substantially in the vertical medial line of said body-plate, and a stem-supporting clip integ; l with said body-plate.

6. A holder comprising a body-plate, an; integral tongue projecting 'rearwardlytherefrom, a fastening-pin the bar of which rests upon said tongue, and fingers integral with said body-plate rebent over said bar, whereby the fastening-pin is secured in position solely by .parts integral with said base-plate.

7. An apparel-attached pipe comprising a bowl, a flexible stem for said bowl, a holder consisting of a body-plate provided with means to support said bowl, a projection substantially in the vertical medial line, and resilient clips extending toward each other from the sides of said body-plate, and a cover for said bowl having a downwardly-extending bifurcated rear flange provided near its lower edge with projections, said flange adapted to be removably inserted behind said clips with said projections thereon immediately below said clips and the upper wall of thebifurcation resting upon said projection upon said body-plate.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, at St. Louis, Missouri, this 16th day of February, 1904.

IRA C. CLARK. In presence of I FRED F. REIsNER, J. B. MEGOWN.

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