Tobacco smoking pipe

A tobacco smoking pipe having a smoking chamber for receiving a plug of tobacco to be smoked and a pipe stem connected to said smoking chamber so that tobacco smoke can be drawn therethrough to the mouth of the smoker, said pipe comprising:

• tobacco magazine means communicating with said smoking chamber for storing a supply of tobacco to be smoked,
• means by which to move an amount of tobacco from the supply thereof in said magazine into said smoking chamber,
• tobacco cutting and transporting means having at least one side wall and a cutting and transporting surface formed at an end of said side wall to define an interior, said cutting and transporting means being dimensioned to travel through said smoking chamber in order to cause said cutting and transporting end surface to both cut off a plug of the tobacco that has been moved from said magazine into said cutting chamber and transport said tobacco plug to a location in said smoking chamber that is separated from the location of the connection of said pipe stem to said smoking chamber, said cutting and transporting end surface having at least one smoke intake port extending therethrough through which tobacco smoke can be drawn, and
• a plug member removably positioned at the interior of said cutting and transporting means and associated therewith to establish a space at the interior of said cutting and transporting means, said space extending at least between the smoke intake port of said cutting and transporting end surface and the connection of said pipe stem to said smoking chamber, so that burning tobacco ash that is drawn through said intake port from the tobacco plug can be retained in said space until said plug member is removed from the interior of said cutting and transporting means in order to permit the removal of the burnt tobacco ash and the cleaning of said cutting and transporting means interior.