US310287A - Chaeles kock - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

0. & H. KOGK.

PIPE CASE.

No. 310,287. Patented Jain. 6,1885.

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INVENTOR 5 M 71/ 0% WITNESSES:

ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES KOOK, OF NE\V YORK, AND HENRY KOOK, OF BROOKLYN, N. Y.

PIPE-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,287, dated January 6, 1885.

Application filed March 28, 1584. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, CHARLES K001i, of the city of New York, county, and State of New York, and HENRY :KOOK, of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved PipeGase, of which the following specification is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates toa pipe-case in which the head that incloses the pipe-bowl may be folded together to occupy less room when the pipe is removed.

The invention consists, principally, in the combination of two sections hinged together, and composed each of a shell and a frame that forms an open head, with a covering which is flexible within said open head.

The invention also consists in the details of construction hereinafter more fully pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of our improved pipe-case. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the frames. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section on the line 00 ac, Fig. 1, with the head folded; and Fig. 4, a section on. the line 3/ y, Fig. 1, with the head folded.

The pipe-case consists of two sections, A, hinged together, as usual. Each section A is com posed, essentially, of two pieces-a skeleton frame, a, and a shell, b-both made of wood or other rigid material. The skeleton frame a is a narrow strip having the outline of the section A. Upon the stem portion of this skeleton frame a is glued or otherwise fastened the shell b, while the head portion is left open, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. To the frame thus formed is attached an inner lining, a, of flannel or similar material, and an outer covering, (1, of thin leather or other ornamental sub stance. Thematerials c d are tightly stretched over the stem, but have a bulge within the skeleton head. I

e is the customary catch for locking the case.

By the construction herein described the stem portion of the pipe-frame is rigid and gives the necessary body and strength to the case. The head portion that incloses the bowl is,on the other hand, only composed of a rigid skeleton, while its body is made from flexible material. As the bowl of a pipe is necessarily its widest portion, the case-head must be made wider than the stem. Therefore, when the pipe is removed from the case, the latter is unnecessarily bulky if its head is rigid. By our construction the body of, the case-head will collapse, as in Figs. 3 and 4, when the pipe is removed, and will then be greatly re duced in width. On replacing the pipe the head of the case will at once resume its proper shape.

Ye claim as our invention- 1. The combination of sections A A, hinged -together,and consisting of shells b and frames a, that form an open head, with covering (1, which is flexible within said open head, sub stantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination of sections A A, hinged together, and consisting of shells b and frames at, that form an open head, with covering 12 and lining c, which are flexible and bulged within said open head, substantially as specified.

CHARLES KOOK. HENRY KOOK.

Witnesses:

F. v. BRIESEN, R0131. H. ROY.

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