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== Double flue pipe == | == Double flue pipe == | ||
[[File:Falk.jpg|thumb|Double flue pipe, courtesy Doug Valitchka]] | [[File:Falk.jpg|thumb|Double flue pipe, courtesy Doug Valitchka]] | ||
George L. Falk filed the application for this invention/patent on August 25th, 1958. Two years later on September 11th, 1962 the application was granted and expired 17 years later on September 11th, 1979.<ref name="US3053262">https://patents.google.com/patent/US3053262</ref> | |||
<blockquote>This invention relates to smoking pipes and provides a pipe of an improved double flue construction which prevents the saliva from wetting the smoking tobacco, and precludes the noisome taste and smell attendant thereon. The pipe of the invention is distinguished by a simple clean design and is constructed in but two parts, whereby its manipulation is easy and certain and it can he readily and uniformly manufactured at low cost. | <blockquote>This invention relates to smoking pipes and provides a pipe of an improved double flue construction which prevents the saliva from wetting the smoking tobacco, and precludes the noisome taste and smell attendant thereon. The pipe of the invention is distinguished by a simple clean design and is constructed in but two parts, whereby its manipulation is easy and certain and it can he readily and uniformly manufactured at low cost. | ||
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Moreover a substantial proportion-it may be as much as half-of the tobacco is prevented from burning and hence is wasted. The wetting of the tobacco also necessitates frequent relightings of the pipe, which come as interruptions additionally inconveniencing and irritating the smoker. | Moreover a substantial proportion-it may be as much as half-of the tobacco is prevented from burning and hence is wasted. The wetting of the tobacco also necessitates frequent relightings of the pipe, which come as interruptions additionally inconveniencing and irritating the smoker. | ||
The pipe of the invention eliminates this wet heel problem by means of an improved double flue construction whereby the saliva is effectively diverted from the smoke flue and conducted through a drain to a separate well, in and from which it may be separately stored and cleared. With this double flue, separate well construction the obnoxious taste and smell of the saliva-wet tobacco are eliminated, as are the necessity for relighting of and the waste of tobacco, in a wet smoke. Instead, all the tobacco in the bowl burns with natural flavor and smell and `to a dry ash, and upon such complete burning and after the ash is dumped it leaves a dry bowl.<ref> | The pipe of the invention eliminates this wet heel problem by means of an improved double flue construction whereby the saliva is effectively diverted from the smoke flue and conducted through a drain to a separate well, in and from which it may be separately stored and cleared. With this double flue, separate well construction the obnoxious taste and smell of the saliva-wet tobacco are eliminated, as are the necessity for relighting of and the waste of tobacco, in a wet smoke. Instead, all the tobacco in the bowl burns with natural flavor and smell and `to a dry ash, and upon such complete burning and after the ash is dumped it leaves a dry bowl.<ref name="US3053262" /></blockquote> | ||
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== References == | == References == | ||