Smoking pipe seasoner

A mount including support means for supporting a smoking pipe therefrom of the type including an upwardly opening bowl and a stem opening and projecting outwardly of the bowl defining a smoke outlet in the outer end of said stem, vacuum generating means supported from said mount and including an inlet and an outlet, passage means including inlet and outlet end portions, said inlet end portion including means for removable sealed communication with said smoke outlet, said outlet end portion being in sealed communication with said inlet, said passage means including filter means disposed therein and ambient air inlet means for admitting ambient air into said passage means, said ambient air inlet means including adjustable valve means operatively associated therewith for variably throttling the admission of ambient air into said passage means through said air inlet means, said passage means defining an enlarged diameter elongated chamber interposed intermediate said inlet and outlet end portions and establishing communication therebetween, said inlet end portion opening into one end portion of said chamber, said filter means including filter material disposed within said chamber intermediate the opposite end portions thereof, and said outlet end portion of said passage means opening laterally into the other end portion of said chamber, said other end portion of said chamber being open, a removable closure for said other end of said chamber, said filter material being replaceable through said open other end portion of said chamber upon removal of said closure, said outlet end portion of said passage means opening laterally into said other end portion of said chamber inwardly of said removable closure, said closure including a threaded bore formed therethrough opending inwardly into said chamber, an adjustable shank threaded through said bore and including an inner end within said chamber, said valve means including a diametrically enlarged head carried by the inner end of said shank, said ambient air inlet means comprising at least one air inlet port formed through said closure spaced from said threaded bore, said head being shiftable, upon outward and inward threaded movement of said shank through said bore, toward and away from a position in covering registry with the inner end of said port in order to variably close and open said port.