Pipe with storage chamber and method of making same
OwnerRobert C. Furlowinventor
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Abstract
A pipe having an internal storage chamber is formed from a single block of wood. A peg located in the passageway between the storage chamber and a smoking bowl has the dual function of permitting the feeding of tobacco and modulating the air mixture for cooler smoking. A method of making the pipe by a sequence of drilling and routing steps.
Claims8
A smoking pipe comprising a unitary, integral wood construction having a bowl, a smoking passage means connected to said bowl, an internal storage chamber, passage means extending to the exterior wall of said pipe and connecting said chamber to said bowl, and means in said passage means to permit the feeding of tobacco which may be stored in said chamber to said bowl and to modulate the air mixture to said bowl.
A method of making a unitary, integral smoking pipe with a storage chamber from a single block of wood, comprising the steps of forming a smoking bowl in said block, drilling a stem hole to said bowl, drilling a second hole to said bowl, drilling a third hole to intersect said second hole, introducing a rotating drill bit in said third hole and by a relative rocking and rolling motion cutting an internal storage chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.