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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6418936 | Tobacco pipe A tobacco pipe (10) having a hollow stem (12) threaded to a manifold (20) on top of which a turret (30) is rotatably mounted. Turret (30) is of greater weight than that of manifold (20), so that any one of a plurality of turret magazines (33) remains stat... | 07/16/2002 |
| 4922931 | Portable smoke retention device A smoke retention device having a collapsible chamber and an insert threadable into said collapsible chamber for holding a combustible material. A bag is secured over one end of the chamber and held in place by an elastic band. Valve mechanisms allow the ... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4788988 | Smoking device A smoking device is disclosed whereby smoke and other gases of combustion can be diluted with air to a pre-selected mixture before being inhaled by a smoker. This is achieved by the use of a carbureting tube which can introduce a metered amount of air int... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4569136 | Method and apparatus for gratifying excessive oral needs To satisfy the sucking need present to some degree in all humans, a sucking device having the shape of a smoking pipe has its bowl filled with a consumable liquid which the user withdraws through the stem of the device by sucking on the stem mouthpiece. A... | 02/11/1986 |
| 4480645 | Smoking device A smoking device composed of a tubular body having a one-way valve between an inlet and an outlet which is adapted to permit smoke to flow from the inlet to the outlet and wherein ports are provided between the one-way valve and the outlet so that when sm... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4327748 | Smoking device holder A smoking device holder includes a device receiver secured to a smoking mouthpiece with a hand-operated valve located within the smoking device receiver for the purpose of controlling smoking by adjusting, reducing, or eliminating the smoke consumed by th... | 05/04/1982 |
| 4294267 | Pocket pipe An integral smoking pipe is provided. The pipe includes a burning chamber or bowl, a tobacco storage chamber and a resin collecting chamber or clean-out area. The resin collecting chamber and the burning chamber communicate through one or more common aper... | 10/13/1981 |
| 4250900 | Cigarette filter holders with optional snorkel bypass accessory A cigarette holder that selectively permits a smoker to draw either fully filtered smoke or else unfiltered smoke; the holder including a snorkel tube clipped to an aide of the cigarette holder, a forward end of the snorkel tube being impalled in a side o... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4224953 | Pipe A pipe to be used for smoking with a bowl, where the tobacco being smoked is burned, having three cavities or chambers defined therein. One of the chambers is a burning chamber wherein the tobacco to be smoked is burned, beneath the burning chamber is a s... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4161954 | Smoking apparatus A smoking apparatus comprising a pipe bowl for holding burning smoking material, means for connecting the pipe bowl to a means for containing water, means for drawing smoke from the pipe bowl through water contained in the water-containing means before it... | 07/24/1979 |
| 4133318 | Water pipe A tubular water pipe embodying an electrical heating element in its base operable by use of a momentary on/off switch forming a part thereof and divided into separate chambers. The lower chamber collects smoke of a burning product such as tobacco and the ... | 01/09/1979 |
| 4044781 | Smoking device A smoker's accessory comprising a water pipe having an inhalation chamber and a bowl assembly connected thereto and including a hopper for herb to be smoked and a manually operated valve and bowl cavity member for dispensing a measured quantity of herb to... | 08/30/1977 |
