L. C, WALKER, Pipe, No. 46,959, Patented March 21, 1865,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LUTHER C. WALKER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND. TOBACCO PIPE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 46,959, dated March 21, 1865.

To all vion, it may concern, and intimately mingle with each other. This Beit known that I, LUTHER C. WALKER, of temporary retention of the smoke within the the city and county of Baltimore, in the State chamber C allows more time for the nicotine of Maryland, have invented certain new and to be deposited in its receptacle D, and thus useful Improvements in -Pipes; and the injurious element of the smoke is in a - I do hereby declare the following to be a full great measure freed from the latter before it and exact description of the same, reference enters the mouth. being had to the accompanying drawings, mak The channel b, instead of opening at the ing part of this specification, in which end of the pipe-stem B, opens at top, as shown Figure 1 is a central longitudinal section of at b, the end being closed to prevent the in a smoking-pipe illustrating my invention. Fig. gress of spittle from the mouth. Directly be 2 is a section in the line aca. low the opening b', through which the smoke Similar letters of reference indicate corre is drawn into the mouth, is formed a cavity or sponding parts in the two figures. receptacle, b, which receives any spittle which The objects of this invention are, first, to may perchance enter the opening b, and any provide novel means for preventing the smoke nicotine which comes up through the channel from passing in a direct course from the bowl b with the smoke. The chamber b thus ex to the mouth; and, secondly, in a peculiar cludes nicotine from the mouth and prevents provision for excluding spittle or saliva from spittle from entering the channel b, which in the stem-channel and preventing the nicotine other pipes is a source of great annoyance to from entering the mouth of the smoker. the smoker in interfering with the draft and To enable others skilled in the art to which superinducing the formation of a liquid mix my invention appertains to fully understand ture of exceedingly disagreeable taste, which and use the same, I will proceed to describe is liable to be drawn into the mouth with each its construction and operation. draft of Smoke. In the accompanying drawings, A represents Having thus described my invention, the the bowl, and B the stem, both of which may following is what I claim as new therein and be made of any suitable material. The chan desire to secure by Letters Patent: nel b of the stem leads into a chamber, C, at 1. The converging apertures at a, in combi the bottom of which is fixed a receptacle, D, nation with the chamber C and channel b, the for the nicotine, in customary manner. whole being arranged as set forth. C. a. are the apertures or perforations through 2. Forming a pipe-stem with a channel, b, Which the Smoke is drawn from the bowl to Opening at the upper side of the stem, as at the chamber C. These apertures at a enter b', instead of at the end, substantially as de the chamber C at a point somewhat below the scribed. terminus of the channell, and hence the smoke 3. Providing the mouth-piece of a pipe-stem is broken and momentarily arrested in its With a cavity, b, in the manner and for the course before passing into the channel b to purpose explained. be conducted to the mouth. The said aper LUTHIER C. WALKER, tures a C also converge in such a way that the Witnesses: two currents of Smoke drawn through them C. C. ISAACS, are caused to collide within the chamber C, EDWD. McCANN,