US3200822A - Pipe smoker's kit - Google Patents

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Aug. 17, 1965 Filed Oct. 16. 1961 E. D. MEYER PIPE SMOKERS KIT 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR Edgar D. Meyer ATTO R N EY Aug. 17, 1965 E. o. MEYER 3,200,822

PIPE SMOKER'S KIT 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Oct. 16. 1961 FIG. 5

NNNNNN OR United States Patent M 3,2a0,s22 PIPE SMOKERS KIT Edgar D. Meyer, 542 Woodhrook Lane, Wyoming, Ohio Filed Oct. 16, 1961, Ser. No. 145,132 1 Claim. or. 131-243) This invention relates to a pipe smokers kit, and more particularly to a unitary structure within which the pipe smoker will find means to meet all his needs, the necessary instruments being storable within the structure in such a manner that furniture and clothing are protected from deleterious effects. Such deleterious elfects may range from unsightly discoloration by the deposit of ash, to more severe damage which results when burning tobacco is deposited upon furniture or clothing.

While the act of smoking a pipe is a soothing exercise, there is more involved in smoking a pipe than the act of smoking. The empty pipe must be filled with tobacco, the tobacco within the bowl compressed, the tobacco ignited, and the ignited tobacco again compressed because of its tendency to expand upon ignition. Moreover, once the tobacco within the bowl has been smoked, the exhausted charred product must be ejected from the bowl and remaining particles picked out in order that the bowl be ready for the next charge of tobacco. It is in these ancillary acts that the pipe smoker frequently finds sources of irritation. In these acts, a tobacco pouch is generally involved, a variety of tools are used, and a lighter may be used. Irritation may arise because the various tools are not at hand when desired. In addition, once they are used, hot debris from the lighting or cleaning operation may cling to the tool and if thoughtlessly placed in a pocket or upon furniture, it may be injurious to the material with which it comes in contact. These irritations are less likely to arise when the smoker has a fixed place to do his smoking at which location all of his accoutrements are at hand, but smoking away from home base when one or another of the items in question has been forgotten, can be annoying indeed.

It is the primary object of this invention to provide a single, unitary structure within the confines of which the smoker will find means to satisfy all his needs, and within which the various instruments used in pipe smoking, may be stored. Of coequal weight within this object is the contemplation that the act of storing such implements will result in a positive separation of tool and burning tobacco. By such separation, damage to clothing or furniture from burning tobacco, clinging to pipe treating instruments, is prevented.

How this object is to be implemented will become clear through a consideration of the accompanying drawings wherein:

FIG. 1 is a side view of a first embodiment of the kit with the cover open and implements disposed so that the cover may be closed;

FIG. 2 is a side view of the same embodiment seen in FIG. 1, but taken from the other side, illustrating how pick and tamper may be disposed in use;

FIG. 3 is a view at 3-3 of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 shows a kit such as that seen in FIGS. 1-3 with the cover closed, in which the housing includes one form of pouch;

FIG. 5 shows a kit such as that seen in FIGS. 1-3 with the cover closed, wherein the housing includes another form of pouch.

FIGS. l-3 show a first embodiment of the present invention. The kit is embraced within a housing having a base portion 11, within which base portion lighter fluid may be stored. The housing also includes a cover portion 12 hinged to said base portion. A conventional lighter mechanism is mounted atop base portion 11, a

32%,8222 Patented Aug. 17, 19 65 lighter, of course, being an implement useful to pipe smokers. Such lighter mechanism includes flint 13, striker wheel 14 and wick 15, the wick being interconnected with the interior of base portion 11 in a conventional manner whereby lighter fluid may pass to the wick. Wind screen 16 surrounds wick 15, except on one side of the wick where the wind screen is replaced by disk 20 having an aperture 21 therethrough immediately adjacent wick 15. Laminated to disk 20 is a disk of resilient material 22 also having an aperture in registry with aperture 21. In operation, when the wick is alight, the resilient disk may be placed in contact with the bowl of a pipe, and upon inhalation by the smoker the flame at the wick will be concentrated through aperture 21 to reach the tobacco in the pipe as a jet of intense heat.

Also mounted adjacent disk 24) are tools useful to pipe smokers. As seen in FIGS. 1-3, such tools are a tamper 23 and a pick 24. Both such elements are pivotably mounted upon plate 25. Tamper 23 is pivoted to plate 25 at pivot point 26, and pick 24 is pivoted to plate 25 at pivot point 27. As will be clear from FIG-S. l-3, disk 20 is mounted upon plate 25. It will be further obvious from such drawings that resilient disk 22 may be laminated to disk 20, such disk structure mounted on plate 25, and tamper 23 and pick 24 also mounted on plate 25, all in a sub-assembly operation. The subassembly may then easily be mounted as a unit within the housing.

As seen in FIG. 1, the implements, lighter, tamper and pick, are disposed in compact fashion so that cover portion 12 may be closed over them. A pivoted finger grip 24 may be mounted on the side of the kit. By gripping such finger grip 29 with the lingers and exerting pressure with the thumb against cover rib 3% the kit cover may be opened with one hand. Finger grip 29 may be hingedly mounted to the side of base portion 11 so that it can be pushed to the inoperative position shown in solid lines in FIG. 3, or operative position as shown in dotted lines in FIG. 3. When such cover is opened with the members disposed as in FIG. 1, tamper 23 is in position to be used. When new it is desired to use pick 24, the pick is swung about its pivot point 27 to the position shown in dotted lines in FIG. 2. Because the head 28 of tamper 23 lies across the path which pick 24 will follow in being swung to operative position, and further because the tamper is pivoted at 26, the tamper will be knocked downwardly out of the way when the pick is swung to operative position.

After use, burning tobacco not infrequently clings to tamper or pick. A user may forgetfully place a conventional tool on a furniture surface after use, and damage to the furniture can result. It will be apparent that when cover portion 12 of the housing is closed over tamper 23 and pick 24, such damage cannot result.

As seen in FIG. 4 housing 10 may include a tobacco pouch portion 32. It is contemplated that in the embodiment shown in FIG. 4, the pouch will be of resilient material which extends over both base portion 11' of housing 10' as well as including pouch 3.2. A slide fastener 33 is provided in pouch 32 to permit the introduction of tobacco into the pouch, and a chute 34 is also present in pouch portion 32 just adjacent the bottom wall 35 of base portion 11'. Upon opening chute 34, tobacco may be conveniently dispensed from pouch portion 32, and because of the location of chute 34 just adjacent bottom wall 35, it is possible to dispense all of the tobacco within pouch portion 32.

FIG. 5 shows another form in which a pouch may be included as a part of housing 10". Base portion 11" of the housing is formed with an undercut body 36, there being a flange 37 at the top of the undercut. A semi- J9 rigid pouch portion 49 may be fitted over such undercut body and retained in position by a friction fit. Tobacco may be both placed Within and dispensed from such a pouch simply by disengaging the pouch portion of housing 10" from base portion of such housing by sliding pouch portion 40 away from skirt 36.

While I have described several specific embodiments of my invention, it will be apparent that changes and modifications may be made therein, and a structure so changed or modified may still fall within the ambit of my invention.

I claim:

A pipe smokers kit comprising a housing, said housing having a reservoir for fuel therein, and hinged cover portion, pipe lighter means within said housing, said pipe lighter means comprising a wick interconnected with said fuel reservoir, ignition means for said wick, and a plate having a first portion and a second portion, said first portion of said plate being of suiiicient extent to cover a pipe bowl during ignition thereof, said plate having an aperture through said first portion, said plate being so mounted within said housing that said aperture is adjacent said wick, a pick pivotably mounted upon said second portion of said plate within said housing, said pick being movable from out-of-use to use position, and a tamper pivotably mounted upon said second portion of said plate within said housing, said tamper being movable from use to out-of-use position, said tamper normally being disposed in use position, and said pick normaliy being disposed in out-of-use position, said pick being pivotably extensible for use, said tamper being so disposed relative to said pick that upon extension of said pick, said pick will come into contact with said tamper and pivotably move said tamper to an out-of-use position, said hinged cover portion of said housing being movable from closed to open position, said pipe lighter means, said pick, and said tamper being exposed for use when said hinged cover portion is in open position, and said pipe lighter means, said pick and said tamper being inside said hinged cover portion of said housing when said hinged cover portion is in closed position.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS SAMUEL KOREN, Primary Examiner.

ABRAHAM G. STONE, JOSEPH S. REICH,

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