Pipe Rack: Leather-Edged Bowl Recesses and a Notched Stem Rail That Lets the Pipes Drain (King, 1904)

"It will be seen that my pipe-rack is of exceedingly simple construction and one which insures the pipes being supported thereon in the correct position to drain moisture from the stem into the bowl."

Cut the base A from a hardwood board to the notebook's length. Mark the egg-shaped recesses B along the front, bore each out with the brace and bit and shape it to an egg with a gouge, so a pipe bowl sits in it.

Cut thin strips of soft calf leather and glue them round the edge of each recess with contact cement, his cushion edging C, so the bowls are not nicked or scratched.

Cut the rack E from the same board and cut a notch e in its front edge opposite each recess, wide enough for a pipe stem, rounded and sanded smooth.

Drill the back edge of the base and the underside of the rail and glue in a row of dowel pins D, holding the rail above the rear edge of the base at the notebook's height.

Set each pipe with its bowl in a recess and its stem in the notch above: the stem slopes down toward the bowl.

**Roland King** of Newport, Rhode Island, US 769,350, dated 6 September 1904, filed 12 May 1903. He claimed "a pipe-rack having a base A, in which are provided one or more egg-shaped recesses ... to receive the bowls of pipes, in combination with a stem-supporting rack E, supported above one edge of the base and provided with notches to hold the pipe-stems". He gives no sizes: the hardwood, calf, all sizes and the number of pipes are ours.