US35926A - Improvement in tobacco-pipes - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OTTO ERNST, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOBACCO-PIPVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 35,926, dated July 22, 1862.

To all whom t may con/cern,.-

Beit known that I, OTTO ERNST, of the city and State of New York, have invented, made, and applied to use a certain new and useful Improvement in Tobacco-Tubes; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of my said invention, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, wherein Figure 1 is a longitudinal section, and Fig. 2 is an end view.

Similar letters denote the same parts.

My invention consists in a' smoking-tube made of glass, with a sliding glass tube forn1- ing a piston for forcing the tobacco forward as consumed, said glass smoking-tube or pistoirpipe" forming a new article of manufacture.

I am aware that smokingtubes of porcelain, metal, and wood have been made with a piston 5 but the same have not been adapted to the public demand, because they speedily become offensive from the oil of the tobacco pene trating the material and lodging in the pipe, where it cannot be cleaned. By my peculiar construction of glass piston-pipe facility is given for cleaning, and the glass itself can easily be kept clean and the operation of smoking be observed.

In the drawings, a is a tube of glass. b is a perforated cork or other article closing one end of this tubea and forming the slide for the tube c, that passes through the same. This tube c is to be of glass and provided with an enlargement, d, at or near one end within the tube a, and with a properly-shaped end at e to enter the mouth of the smoker.

Tobacco is to be placed in the tube a, as at f, and made sufficiently compact by pressing in the tube o with the end d against said tobacco, and when lighted the tobacco is con.- sumed as usual, except that the mass is forced along from time to time by the piston or end d of the tube c, in order that the re may be at the outer end of the tube a. Each time the tube c should be drawn back, in Order that it may not become obstructed by any pieces of tobacco or other substance drawn into the said tube c.

My tobacco-tube is light, cheap, and portable, and when not in use shuts into a very small compass, and the ashes and fire can always be kept projecting from the end of the tube a by the action of the piston d.-

In place of the tube c sliding through the cork b, said cork' or other suitable packing may slide with the tube c in the tube a. This tube is easily kept clean, and the smoker can see everything in his pipe, so as to remove any obstruction or deposit of oily matter from the tobacco, and the glass is so smooth as not to injure the packing as the piston is moved backward and forward, hence my piston-pipe will remain air-tight.

IVhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The piston pipe or tube formed of glass in the manner specified, and constituting a new article of manufacture for smoking tobacco, as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my signature this 1st day of November, 1861.

OTTO ERNST.

Witnesses:

LEMUEL W. SERRELL, Tiros. GEO. HAROLD.

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