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Abstract

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 stationary over a chamber (24) in the manifold (20) in their relative rotation, so that smoking tobacco in the aligned magazine (33) with such chamber (24) takes place through the hollow stem (12). A screen (28) seats in a recess 27 of a port (25) of manifold (20) at a sufficient distance from the turret's chamber (24), preventing scorching of screen (28) by a source of flame at/in chamber (24) in the aligned magazine (33). A member (37) is seated in a cavity (38) co-extensive between and within turret (30) and manifold (20), and includes a bearing surface (42) that abuts a bearing surface (41) in turret (30) and includes threads (48) disposed within manifold (20) and threads (49) in turret (30) for fastening turret (30) to manifold (20) in an unbinding manner due to the assembly of abutting bearing surfaces (42, 41). A second set of bearing surfaces (46, 45) are provided in member (37) and manifold (20), respectively. Series of fluted surfaces (50, 52) on peripheries (51, 19) of turret (30) and manifold (20) assists in aligning a magazine (33) with chamber (24). Weight of turret (30) over that of manifold (20) maintains a stationary position between the two during a smoking mode. Pipe (10) is free of clogging and residue that otherwise would adhere to screen (28) due to a wide shelf (34) for the magazines (33).

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